White holes, anti-matter: theoretical science at age 13

Many of us are unfortunate enough to struggle with finding our passions in life, often switching majors as students and career paths as adults. For one local student, however, these predicaments seem to be behind him. Daniel Webster, 13, of Timberwood Middle School, has found his passion at quite an early age – science.

His interest in science originated from the colorful space books that many of us view as children, but Daniel decided to take this curiosity a step further. According to Daniel, he began reading “five to six books a week, a process almost equivalent to osmosis.” His newborn enthusiasm for science led him to ask himself, “What if I, Daniel Webster, at the age of 13, wrote and published my own science book?” So, he said, “One day I logged into my school email and started typing all the facts I knew.”

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