The Importance of Theory in Physics

How is theoretical physics managed to attract such high IQ people it's interesting. If you have a good brain why would you not spend a lot of time with them and then you're going to be very curious about those things so there's this huge selection thing happening all the time I think where anybody who has access to even a very mediocre US level education if they're above some threshold in ability will be exposed to these questions. People like Feynman and Einstein and Hawking they're very lionized so if you were a smart kid why wouldYou not spend some time thinking about these things do you think I've gone to another topic would it be possible to use gene editing on like on adults to