I hope he is eventually encouraged to go into medical research, rather than physics. (Not because it's so terrible to be wrong in a theory about the Big Bang, but because who cares and we need the smartest people working on life extension, please.)
New discoveries in theoretical physics may someday have major utility payouts. My main reason for dropping physics is that there's not much marginal utility in another smart person going into physics.
I thought this may be of interest to the LW community. Jacob Barnett is a 12-year old male who taught himself all of high school math (algebra through calculus), has a currently scored math IQ of 170 (for what that's worth) and is currently on track to become a researcher of astrophysics. His current major news worthy claim-to-fame (aside from being really young): The Big Bang Theory is currently incorrect (I believe the article states he has something about a lack of carbon in the model), and he's planning to develop a new theory.
I haven't learned anything serious in physics, so I have nothing to note on his claim. I realize the news article cited puts him claim fairly generally, so I'll ask this: Can someone explain how elements are generally modeled to have formed from the big bang? And is there anything that it Jacob may be missing in the current literature?