[Xogroroth (OP)]

Greetings, everyone.

Before anything:
Belated Happy Old Year and New Year!!!
May all your and their dreams come true, may the best life can ever offer be on your paths (Pure Happiness, True Love, Real Friendhip, Euphoric joy, ... ), now, and immer more ...
... and then some ...

I am Belgian, 51, married now 28 years with my very first and only love, 4 daughters in between 20 and 26, and a son that finally found his way home of 10.
Had several accidents:
1976: Run down by a car that kicked me at 70kmph. Went head first into the wind-shield, thrown up, fell on my head...
Besides a head with cuts covered and bleeding like crazy, right upper leg broken. Became totally colour blind in the last bump with my head on the ground. Since I am living in a black'n'white movie ... That was it.
1985: Hit by bus, flew 7 meters before hitting the ground. Black and blue, still around.
1991: Crushed between 2 trucks with a car. Drove a First Gen Buick Regal '75, 5.7L V8. Car reduced to Mini sice (trunk was bend all the way to over my head, engine sat on passenger seat), fire dept. needed 3 hours to free me: got out unscathed.
1994: Truck hit me driving a motorcycle. Motorcycle tot totalled and shredded: Dragged me 60 meters onwards. I had nothing (had the insane luck I could grab his bumper: the left front wheel was about 2 cm from my head "wheeling on").
1999: BASF Antwerp: 30m fallen without any form of slowing, onto the concrete. I seem to be either quite tough, extremely lucky, or even more unwanted in heaven and hell.
6 Massive heart attacks.
1 Cerebral infarction, 2 weeks after my last heart attack.
So, I have been through a few things ... which have altered my perspective on certain things.
Though quite very cripple, I do not complain, I take the pain gladly, knowing, it could have been far worse ...
I do notice quite a bit of amnesiac holes in my once superb long-term memory, sadly, which frustrates me enormously.

Additionally: I have both severe Asperger's and severe ADHD (the ADHD in my case "overrules" my Asperger's: I am extrovert, very open-minded and social) for which I still, at 51, take 3x30mg DexAmphetamine combined with 3x40mg Rilatine Modified Release ... without I would be crawling the ceiling, a bit like in horror movies, lol.

Now, WHY do I tell you all this?
Well ... I am suffering from the Asperger's (not all is clear to me what is clear to others, and vice versa, which can cause confusion), ADHD (I lose quite a bit of "incoming data", which hampers me. The DexAmphetamine and Rilatine does help a bit.)
My Asperger's makes me binary in mindset:
There is no nuance, only 0-1, yes-no, black-white.
This is quite normal for Aspies and Auties, in my case this is very prominent.

I also live in "my own reality":
I care not for colour, origin, language, religion, sexual preference/identity, ... .
To me the whole universe has only 2 species:
The ones I like: benign, kind, respectful, friendly, tolerant, understanding beings.
The ones I do not like: The unkind, disrespectful, unfriendly, intolerant, ignorant, biased, ... beings.
Simple.   
I like simple, heheheheh.

Everything science and technology interests me, but my life is mostly dominated by music of all sorts, origins, ages, ... , with the grand exception of Modern and Experimental Jazz, or Germanesque Schlager music.
Even though I have serious insomnia, I'll never have the time to get through all of it.
There's just TOO much of all that interests me ... .
I could use three more lives to get around. 
And probably STILL not gotten through all of it, lol.

I am quite philosophical, and not by choice, it seems to be baked into my core being:
It literally just happens, uncontrollably.
Which leads me to a few questions, as well as ideas (which may seem quite very far out of the box, yet, logic and rational is still the main rule and controller).

Which brings me to my questions:
One already is solved by accident:
I saw where I can post ideas for discussion.

Another is: where could I find a good all-round science fields dictionary?
This may sound strange, but my brain is not what it once was, and I often find myself looking for a specific word, which is more and more happening, sadly.
So, please, bear with me ... I do my best to be understandable.

Well, that's it for this small post.
Hope you enjoyed it, and that we can become friends.

If you have any questions, do ask, please.
No need to hesitate or hold back: my life is an open book.
IF they are more "personal", PM these.
I'll respond honestly and as fast as I can.

Kindest regards to all:
"Moi". 

[alancalverd]

I have an old copy of the Academic Press Dictionary of Science and Technology, first published about 30 years ago. The technology will have moved on a lot but most of the underlying science is still good - and you can get this huge and very impressive book for about £35 from an online retailer that sounds like a South American river - other sources are available!

[Maxxx17]

Hi all. Nice to meet you.

[Eternal Student]

Hi all.

   There probably should be a clearer and easier to find section where people can introduce themselves.   Of course, that would be only if they want to and everyone should be aware that disclosing information online is their own choice and at their own risk.
    Anyway, I'm sorry you weren't all welcomed in some way and I'm also sorry that I hadn't seen this post before I'd replied to another post from Xogroroth. 
   
Best Wishes.