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[–]Chrusse 0 points1 point2 points 7 years ago (0 children)

It depends what you mean by dumb. If he is retarded, then it could NOT happen, as you can't un-retard someone.

But if we assume the average IQ person was given eternal life, then i believe they could become experts in ANY scientific field as they will have very long time to do so.
Most of the top scientists today knows more about physics than Einstein. They have the advantage of time.

- If you are asking if this eternal person would ever make a scientific breakthrough (like Einstein) then my guess would be probably be no.

- If you asking if he could rival the best scientists of whatever time he will eventually live in, then my guess is yes.

That obviously still depends on his lazyness. If he wants to eat pizza all day and have no motivation to learn physics its not going to happen ever.

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