Baby step: plumb the depths of astrophysics.
My favorite part of the story is the "slow" start. They sure had him pegged wrong, didn't they?
It will be interesting to see what he contributes when he's more fully developed. Right now he seems to be motivated in large part by egotism (nothing wrong with that if it keeps him striving, and geniuses in the past have certainly had their share of big egos), and doesn't seem to have actually produced anything new of note, but he's only 12! As long as he keeps pushing himself, he may do
spectacular things. I wonder if he'd be even better served in the short term at a different university.
