Two years ago, I sent my son an email. He called me up to discuss it tonight.

[NNadir]

Two years ago I emailed him to say that he really shouldn't go to his university unless he knew all about the Kirkendall effect.

Apparently he didn't read it until now.

It appears he finished his lab work and written reports and posters on his summer internship at ORNL and was so bored doing nothing he decided to read emails with papers his old man sent him over the last two years.

He told me he has never had to consider the Kirkendall effect, despite my advice that he had to know it to start his university education, but expects he will have to do so soon.

He then wanted to know why I had a strange dark obsession back then with telling him all about the Peng-Robinson equation. I asked him why people he knows insist on using the Beattie-Bridgeman equation instead.

Then we argued about peritectics.

Little brat!

Then he made me jealous by telling me about his visit to the IHFR and the cadmium lined neutron beam tube.

I'm driving him home this weekend, ten hours in the car, not counting breaks. It will be like heaven. I love that boy, I mean, that young man, and it's not only because he's smarter than I will ever be or have been, but for many other reasons, too many to count.

I probably do not deserve all this joy.

[nolabear]

1. Yeah you do. You sowed. Enjoy the reaping.

[fierywoman]

3. Perfectly put! And I bet you did a lot of weeding, here and there, now and again ...

[DonaldsRump]

2. You have a great son, and you're a great parent! n/t

[Demovictory9]

4. are you inventing words here?

[backtoblue]

5. LOL

It's the TooSmartForMe effect

[NNadir]

6. No, they're all real. I just don't get to talk all that much about them, and having someone...

...to share them with fills my heart with joy. I am just so pleased that my son ran with these things, and loves them as much as I do.

I don't think that happens to many people. (My oldest son is an artist, and I often have no idea what he's talking about, so I know the feeling.)

It's esoteric stuff.

[Turbineguy]

7. Nice

Very Nice.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

8. That is just beautiful, my dear NNadir!

As nolabear said, You sowed, now enjoy the reaping.

You have earned it!

[dawg day]

9. One of my fondest memories is driving across country to Seattle

With my son to take him to grad school. I realized while it was happening I'd probably never again have so much time with him.

[JohnnyRingo]

10. I'm sorry, but what language is that you're speaking?

You shot this post right over my head, but congratulations. I think.

[MFM008]

11. Now explain

Schrodinger's cat .....🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈

[NNadir]

14. Well, I tried to explain this to MY cat.

I told her that the reason that Schroedinger's cat ended up in a box with a vial of cyanide was a result of clawing the furniture. It didn't work.

Despite having a brain the size of a walnut, she knows an empty threat when she hears one.

[MFM008]

16. Exactly

[lillypaddle]

12. It appears

the apple didn't fall far from the tree!

[MrScorpio]

13. OK, if you say so.

[Laffy Kat]

15. At least you two seem to speak the same language.

My son just finished his undergrad in physics while I struggled with ninth grade algebra.

[NNadir]

17. In many ways that's more impressive, although...

...my son told me that now that he knows a lot more science, looking back, many of my discussions and demonstrations sucked.

I can relate to your situation though, since my oldest son is an artist and self taught computer programmer.

I have trouble drawing a straight line and I have no idea what my boys are talking about when they talk about coding and data structures.

The last time I wrote a program it was on a DOS machine.