Tom Lake: TAMPA — Michael Rodeman, a growing boy who has not eaten breakfast, would very much like to harvest the wind. He might build a water-powered car, if he knew anything about cars, and he is working on the mystery that confounded Albert Einstein. • Michael thinks many barriers would fall if he could prove Einstein's Theory of Everything. We could sail from one galaxy to another. We could read minds. We could even teleport.
Michael would need to teleport 1.9 miles to get from his house, in a rough part of town called Jackson Heights, to Middleton High School, which is, in some ways, his actual home. • He stays there 10 to 15 hours a day, practicing math whenever he can, hoping it will be enough to earn him a spot next fall at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. At MIT he could become a theoretical physicist, like Einstein or Stephen Hawking, and maybe then he could unlock his own Theory of Everything. • Maybe then he wouldn't be so poor. Maybe then he could impose a new order, clean and rational, on the improper fraction that has been his life.
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