25 Smartest People Alive | Existive (2014) (2 of 5)

Part 2 of 5 of the 81-min countdown of the 25 Smartest People of 2014. Online rankings:

Contents

#20. Bill Gates | 1:12
#19. Jurgen Mimkes | 2:31
Social Newton | Explanation | 2:50
Gates | Thermodynamic potential | Explanation 3:49
#18. Stephen Wolfram | 8:41
#17. Thomas Wallace | 9:50
#16. Terrence Tao | 11:26

Smartest person criterion:

Second tier smartest person existive (alive) top potential candidates, in the #26-100 ranked range:

IQ ranking methodology:

List curator Libb Thims’ genius ranking credentials:

See also:

Know of missing candidates, suggestions, and or objections, post a comment.

“Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius. Genius regards genius with respect — even with enthusiastic admiration.”
— Edgar Poe (1848), Marginalia

[anonymousanonymous]

@HumanChemistry101 Link to the background music, please?

[garydikarev]

really confused why you have a background speaker playing a short loop of electronic music?  its annoying and distracting ... not to mention very low quality sounding :)

[silvialogan]

I feel number compared to those geniuses in the video.

[sherlockholmeslives.]

'We are such insignificant creatures on a minor planet orbiting a very average star in the outer suburbs of one of a hundred, thousand, million galaxies, that it is difficult to be in a God that would notice us, let alone care about us!' 

         Stephen Hawking   (   b.1942   )
         It may go on to mention this quote in this programme.

'If one speaks the truth, one is sooner or late found out.'

          Oscar Wilde   (   1854  -  1900   )


                         I have always known the scale of our place in the universe. In the Methodist church at Wheelock, Sandbach, Cheshire, at the age of about 9 or 10 I told my mother "I don't believe in God!"


         Cheers -  Mike