I don't!
The closest I come to rocking at physics, is the kind of rocking that is usually accompanied by hand-flapping, spinning around in situ, jumping up and down, and vocal stimming!
The math side of things lets me down where physics is concerned. To be totally honest, I have no crowbegotten idea how I managed to pull that off.
I don't really enjoy physics, although I do like reading up on quantum mechanics, particle physics in particular. I don't pretend to myself that I have a paki in hell's chance of ever becoming competent physicist
My interests are, as far as the scientific disciplines go, both inorganic and organic chemistry, mycology (self taught since I was 4 years old, used to take my dad out, when I was still too little to go out to the woods on my own, to go mushroom hunting. Identifying, reagent-testing (a great many fungi have specific color changes on exposure to certain chemicals, for instance, The destroying angel, Amanita virosa, gives a yellow coloration on treatment with potassium
hydroxide solution, whereas the very similar looking Amanita verna, it looks very like the destroying angel, pure, eerie white, big sack-like baggy volva, white spore print, large ring on the stem, or the white color morph form of the death cap, A.phalloides looks to the do not, and likewise, all fungi containing the lethal, slow acting, agonizing poisons,the amatoxins, react when subjected to the Meixner test, which involves taking a piece of paper with a high lignin content, such as newspaper, marking; with pencil, two circles, one for the sample and one with no mushroom to serve as a control, then mashing some cap tissue thoroughly into one circle, really working the juice into the test spot. Then adding a couple of drops of concentrated hydrochloric acid to both the sample spot and the blank control.
Leave for 20 minutes or so, preferably out of direct sunlight. If the fungus sample contains amatoxins or phallotoxins it will react and form a blueish-violety halo around the sample. Due to a rxn with the indole ring, which forms the core of the cyclic peptide hepatotoxins found in many Amanitas, along with some others, like members of the genera Lepiota, Conocybe, Galerina and a couple of others. Although it will also cross react 100% with fungi containing the psychedelics psilocybin, psilocin, bufotenine, etc. All indolic compounds (tryptamines to be exact)
And of course, there are, for the lucky hunt, psychedelic mushrooms to be had, as well as medicinal ones (and in the case of the fly agaric, Amanita muscaria, as long as it is prepared properly, both psychotropic, sedative, calming, antianxiety, pain-relieving and endurance boosting/tonic effects, and a delicious spice, when powdered and added to meat dishes, it brings out the 'umami' flavour, as the orientals term it, the 5th basic taste, that of savoury, meatyness, like monosodium glutamate as a food additive, and if first boiled, the water thrown away, then boiled once more, again throwing the water away, then it can be cooked and used as food)
Its a great hobby, always enjoyed it, going out into the woods, to relax, hike, maybe takes some AMT, or another psychedelic, bring either some weed, or a synthetic cannabinoid with me, and one of my pipes to smoke with, a bottle of coke, few beers etc. set off at first light in the morning, and probably not come home until about 3am. Hopefully with several bags full of the most delicious mushrooms you've ever eaten.
Free food, and truly delicious in many cases, shop-bought generic white Agaricus spp. I actually don't like, other than when put into my special home-cooked steak chilli, to soak up flavour, add more textures etc., perhaps my tastebuds are jaded, but they just couldn't even compare, not in the slightest, to the delights of my favourites, such as giant puffball cutlet, fried in batter, morels (I can't have a proper chilli without morels in it!:D!), wild chanterelles, parasols, wild cep (porcini, as the fancy resteraunts call them, Boletus edulis, aka the penny bun), fried larch boletes/slippery jacks (two fairly similar tasting and to a degree, appearing bolete-like mushrooms in the genus Suillus)
Or hedgehog fungi, which have spines on the bottom rather than gills, or the pores found on Boletes and their allies.
Oh my...I am almost drooling just thinking of some of the wild mushroom meals I have had. I so have to go out hunting again soon
Fried wild oyster mushrooms in butter, with grilled bacon....truly a treat. Best of all, none costs a single penny.
Other scientific disciplines that are favourites of mine, are molecular biology, cognitive neuroscience, medicine, pharmacology, biochemistry.
I want to get more into genetics. I read a lot, but don't have the equipment to actually start creating my own transgenic organisms at home. I'd like to a lot, buying the kit is too expensive though, but I could build it myself. I just have to get round to it. Stuff like a thermal cycler for PCR (polymerase chain reaction, used for amongst other things, gene sequencing, and amplifying DNA), an electrophoresis chamber (for separating DNA/RNA by differential speeds of migration along a gel matrix induced by an electric current), gene gun (basically uses inert metal dust coated in DNA, to literally blast genes into cell cultures, sort of like a gene shotgun
), and an electroporator (uses electric pulses to open transient holes into cells, whence DNA, RNA etc can be made to enter and make itself at home)
And a centrifuge, amongst other things. All those should be doable as home built engineering projects.
I will get to see a neurologist, already have seen one time ago, but they didn't find anything, as the shit usually has to hit the fan at just the right time, I.e when they are running tests to look for it. Not like its likely to happen on command.
Also had a sleep study run, MRIs (can't have another MRI though, I've got metalwork in my face, piercings I can't take out
)
Got a referral just recently to see the neurologist. The last time, I stayed several days/nights in the hospital, on a ward, while tests were run, I only got to speak to the neurologist/see him in the flesh though for all of 10 minutes, if that. Upon which he dismissed it as a tic.
Sorry....no. Tics do not cause myoclonus, sometimes going all the way to full blown myoclonic seizures, nor memory loss (and I wonder if the wrist drop that suddenly appeared, although getting better now, and has appeared once before, with no prior injury, in the other arm. This time it was near complete paralysis of the hand and wrist, muscle weakness in the forearm and loss of sensation in the affected areas, might have something to do with it)
