question:  In Chapter one, what is the significance of describing Mr. Taylor as not having aged much?
context: YOUNG READERS Atom Mystery 11 CHAPTER ONE It was only a dream. Eddie Taylor would like to have finished it, but the bar of morning sunlight poking in under the window shade pried his eyes open. Still, one clue is as good as another when it comes to hunting uranium ore, I guess. He washed hurriedly, knowing that even if he missed a spot or two, he was fairly safe. He plastered some water on his dark-red hair, pushed a comb through it, and shrugged as it snapped back almost to its original position. Get at it right away, and you’ll still have time to hunt your uranium. In fact, anything having to do with atomic science excited him. You couldn’t have a father who was head of the atomic-science department at Oceanview College without picking up a little knowledge along the way. Eddie knew that a radioisotope was a material which had been “cooked” in an atomic reactor until it was “hot” with radioactivity. When carefully controlled, the radiation stored up in such isotopes was used in many beneficial ways. One reason for asking that particular question was to keep from prying deeper into the subject of the radioisotope. His father usually volunteered any information he wanted known, so Eddie stuck to questions which could and would be answered. At the speed atomic science is moving today, we simply can’t afford to waste time. The best way to get there was by rowboat across Moon Bay, and that was too long a row to be starting now. Besides, there were plenty of other places around the outskirts of Oceanview where likely looking rock formations invited search with a Geiger counter. They had been ever since Eddie’s family had moved to Oceanview and his father had become head of the college’s atomic-science department. Teena’s father was chief engineer for the Acme Aviation Company, one of the coast town’s largest manufacturing concerns. 22 “Oh, yes, it’s fun, Mother,” Teena replied, wrapping wax paper around a sandwich.
output:  It provides a contrast for later in the story, when Mr. Taylor is described as looking aged and wary after the isotope is stolen.
options:  It provides the notion that Mr. Taylor is a fun, understanding, and competent professor.  It provides the notion that despite Mr. Taylor’s dangerous job, the radioactivity hasn’t aged him a day.  It provides a contrast for later in the story, when Mr. Taylor is described as looking aged and wary after the isotope is stolen.  It provides a contrast against Mr. Ross, who is described as older and balding.