OLD AGE AND TOLERANCE

I HAVE NOTICED THAT WHEN YOU ARE OLD YOU HAVE EITHER A LOT OF TOLERANCE AND AN OPEN MIND OR  INTOLERANCE AND NO ONE CAN TELL YOU ANYTHING.

WELL   I SEE MOST FOLKS AS BABIES  EXCEPT THOSE  PEOPLE WITH A TOLERANCE AND  RESPECT FOR EVERYONE. AND THEY ARE BABIES TOO EXCEPT THEY KNOW IT.

WE ALL WANT TO HAVE THINGS OUR WAY WHICH IS JUST TO BE THE MOST COMNFORTABLE ACCORDING TO OUR THOUGHTS OF WHAT IS COMFY. THE GROWN UPS KNOW YOU CANT AND ADJUST THE BABIES CRY AND HAVE TANTRUMS.

I LIKE RELATIONSHIPS WITH YOUNG PEOPLE BECAUSE THEY KNOW WHAT IS GOING ON IN PLACES I KNOW NOT. THEY TEACH ME NEW THINGS. LIKE FOR INSTANCE, THOSE YOUNG TEENS WE MET DIDNT THINK WE HAD HEARD OF THE BEATLES. I RELAIZED THEY HAD JUST DISCOVERED THEM AND THE BEATLES HAD LIVED WAY BEFORE THEY WERE BORN SO FINDING THEIR MUSIC WAS A NEW THING TO THEM. AND THOUGHT IT MIGHT BE FOR US AS WELL.

THSES ARE KIDS BORN IN THE 90'S DAD AND I ARE  FROM THE THIRTIES AND OUR KIDS WERE FROM THE 50'S AND 60'S  OUR GRAND CHILD IS OF THE 80'S AND SO IT GOES.  EACH NEW GENRATION SEES A NEW BUT ONLY WHAT THEY DISCOVER.

AS OLD FOLKS WE BRING HISTORY ALIVE TO THEM. THEY BREING NEW   DISCOVERIES TO US WHEN WE MISS THEM.

LAST NIGHT I VISITED A SITE ON A NEW ROCKET SENT INTO SPACE  CALLED THE GLAST 

The mission of the GLAST telescope is to find rapidly sources of deep-space gamma rays. One way it will do it is to use a big thick block of rather ordinary plastic that is wrapped to be light-tight with photomultiplier tubes inside. Plastic has the interesting property of converting high-energy photons like gamma rays into lower-energy photons that we can see. The photomultiplier tubes capture the faint light pulse that each gamma ray will produce in the plastic block, render the pulse into an electronic 'count', and monitors their rate. When the rate suddenly goes up, it is hoped that means that a gamma-ray burstar has been detected. A signal is sent within one second to Earth, and other telescopes automatically and immediately are commanded to point to the gamma-ray burstar 'spot' spot in the sky.

 

Understanding gamma rays and their sources in space are believed to hold great promise for advancement of particle physics and astrophysics. We live in exciting times!

 

THIS LETTER WAS SENT TO ME BY ONE OF THE SCIENTISTS AT STANFORD WHHO IS MY EMAIL BUDDY  HE  KEEPS ME APPRISED OF NEW  PROJECTS HE WORKS ON AND I AM SO PROUD TO HAVE HIM AS A FRIEND. WE LEARN BEST WHEN WE LSITEN,  NOT ALL EMAIL BUDDIES ARE PERVERTS SOME ARE GREAT PEOPLE  WE COULD NEVER HAVE MET IF NOT FOR THE COMPUTER AND THE INTERNET. ADD TO THAT THAT WE ANSWERED WHEN THEY CONTACTED US. WE DID NOT BLOCK THEM FROM     A N EMAIL RELATIONSHIP. THIS YOUNG MAN IS INHIS 50'S AND HAS A FATHER IN PA IN HIS 90'S  HE IS OF MY SONS' GENERATION. HE IS A PHYSICIST.

I HAVE SO MANY FRIENDS DUE TO HAVING OPENED MY MIND TO LISTEN TO THEM. I CONSIDER THESE GIFTS OF THE INTERNET AND GIFTS FROM REAL LIFE . ONLY BY OPENING YOUR MIND TO NEW POSSIBILITIES CAN YOU LEARN AFTER YOU GRADUATE.