'Immortality is my goal': 11-year-old boy gets bachelor’s degree in physics
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11-year-old Laurent Simons from the Belgian coastal town of Ostend has just received his bachelor’s degree in physics from the University of Antwerp.
Laurent Simons, a kid from the Belgian coastal town of Ostend, has just graduated from the University of Antwerp with a bachelor's degree in physics, making him the world's second-youngest graduate.
Eleven-year-old Simons only took a year to complete his bachelor’s degree, which usually takes at least three years.
In a conversation with the Dutch daily De Telegraaf, Simons said that, "I don't really care if I'm the youngest." "It's all about getting knowledge for me."
"This is the first puzzle piece in my goal of replacing body parts with mechanical parts," Simons said.
"Immortality" is his goal, the child prodigy said.
"I want to be able to replace as many body parts as possible with mechanical parts.I’ve mapped out a path to get there. You can see it as a big puzzle. Quantum physics – the study of the smallest particles – is the first piece of the puzzle," he said.
To solve that puzzle, he said, "I want to work with the best professors in the world, look inside their brains, and find out how they think."
He completed his high school education in just 1.5 years and received his high school diploma at the age of eight.
Last year, he became interested in classical mechanics and quantum physics, and he quickly became obsessed with knowing everything he could about them.
He then placed all of his other projects on hold in order to focus only on this.
(With inputs from agencies)