Notes

       Breakfast and the paper early. The four Gilkey Windows men are here working – upstairs windows go in first. The cat is in Carol’s walk-in closet with food, drink, and litter box. Last night you realized that readers’ had made blog comments but some were in an Asian language. Your sister and daughter among others also left notes but you have not really read them and taken them to heart yet. – Amorella.

         I did see them once, perhaps a few months ago or longer but all I saw was the Asian script and assumed they really weren’t notes, at least not notes for this blog. I don’t know the code logic of how the blogs work. I tried to read about code for a general understanding and background some years ago, but again, too much for me. Also, the directions say I can post the comments, which is fine, at least the English, but I am not sure how it will affect the blog’s background presentation, so for now, I am not going to do so.

         The Gilkey men are moving faster than you expected. All the windows will be in and the inside cleaned before they leave today; Wednesday, the outside work will be completed so they don’t interfere with the concrete workers who are coming tomorrow to tear out the front walk and replace it. And, on Wednesday Natorp’s will be here to plant the new tree, a seventeen foot red maple, in the short, higher back woods where you took out several young ash trees last year. A busy week. Post for now. Later, we will continue work on scene ten. – Amorella.

          Doug G. sent you a note which you edited as such:

Dick,

… Just learned from Dr. Leon Lederman, the Nobel prize winning physicist, on a special on fundamental particles that that an elementary particle like an electron is a point particle and has no size and occupies no volume in space. The same is true for quarks. They have zero radius. I can not grasp how something that has no volume and occupies no space can make neutrons and protons which do occupy space and are what we are made of!

Doug

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         I have never heard of a “point particle”. I agree with Doug – ‘How can something that has no volume and occupies no space make neutrons and protons which do occupy space and are the fundamental material that makes up our physical existence?’

         Post, and meanwhile I will see what we can do with this within the book. – Amorella.