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Irreversibility tattoo
A tattoo of the Clausius inequality (as derived from the Papin engine, below right), the underlying function of the Lewis inequality for natural processes:
 \Delta G < 0  \,
the governing equation of human existence, on a man's hand, holding both a new and burnt match, Papin engine (small)indicative of the arrow of time; where “the hand represents the capacity of the human mind to analyze and understand natural phenomena, such as the power and imperative of irreversibility.” [4]
Hmolpedia (eoht.info) or Encyclopedia of Human Thermodynamics, Human Chemistry, and Human Physics (see: etymology), a ‘two cultures’ encyclopedia, is a work-in-progress collectively-written online compendium of 2,350+ articles on the study of the application of the hard sciences of thermodynamics, chemistry, and physics to the analysis of human existence.

“I have just recently found out about the EoHT—a truly marvelous project! I did not think that it could be possible for someone to be able to conduct such a demanding project, but the result itself proves it is possible. Thank you for Hmolpedia.”
— Croatian physicist and mechanical engineer | social Gibbs free energy theorist [1]

The core Hmolpedia subject is human thermodynamics (branches: 35+), a subfield of animate thermodynamics, inclusive of topics connected to the thermodynamical study of human existence, behavior, and reactivity, as viewed through the laws, inequalities, and moral symbols of thermodynamics, namely those aspects of daily human movement quantified by: heat, work, energy, entropy, Gibbs free energy, activation energy, coupling, irreversibility, extent of reaction, bond energy, spin, and factors, tending to be quantified as conjugate variable pairs.

The "backbone" of Hmolpedia is the HT pioneers (495+) timeline-table, a chronological listing of the thinkers to have applied thermodynamics to questions of human existence. A good thematic intro to the site is HMS pioneers page (120+), thinkers to have utilized human molecular logic (hmolscience), namely viewing people as individual abstract ‘molecules’ (or particles), such as found in the sub-branch subjects of: human chemistry (HC), human physics (HP), and human thermodynamics (HT); a connective subject is human mathematics (HM). Secondary Hmolpedia backbone pages are the HC pioneers (50+), HP pioneers (40+), and HM pioneers (5+) time-tables; see also: people database (800+). Good utility-pages include: symbols, equations, new pages, member index, objectives, FAQ, and homework problems. Hmolpedia currently draws about 55,000+ (school year) to 35,000+ (summer) page views per month, with an annual growth rate of 100.3% (in terms of visits) since the site's 2007 launch. [2] See also: why is this site here?

Human PV work (f)
An alpha molecule depiction of pressure-volume boundary (personal space) expansion work (PV work), quantified by the formula dW = PdV, from the 2004 film Mean Girls, of a system transforming from state one to state two.

A good visual introduction, representative of hmolscience concepts, is that of human reaction pressure volume work W, a central human thermodynamics calculation, as depicted adjacent (a scene from the 2004 film Mean Girls). In this differential change, the alpha female (human molecule), flanked by two beta females, enter a room, which thus acts to trigger a transformation reaction and correlative volume increase dV in personal space, a volume increment quantified by the product of surface element (d-sigma) and displacement element dn, worked by a variant of human social pressure P, or social force per unit area, directed radially outward from the alpha female, the type of force being the electromagnetic force (exchange force). The amount of human PV work for his differential change of social interaction is thus calculated by the following integral:

-------- W = \int_{V_1}^{V_2} PdV \,

which quantifies the work done by the system on going from an initial state (1) to a final state two (2), the magnitude of this work measured in SI units of joules.

One overarching aim of Hmolpedia is to slowly become the Internet's #1 go-to site for information on "thermodynamics", the science of the relationship between heat Q and work W. Hmolpedia is a #4 top thermodynamics site, according to TopSite.com. [3]


We are but complicated molecules (no boarder)
A CPK-style synthesis of man "from hydrogen to human" diagram, made by Canadian designer Shawn LaPaix (2005), depicting of the standard model of human existence: namely that 13.7 billion years ago (big bang), hydrogen atoms formed (from subatomic particles); 4.7 billion years ago (nebular hypothesis) the sun-earth system formed; 150,000 years ago, in the East African Rift Valley, the "human molecule" formed (see: evolution timeline), comprised of about 22-26 types of hydrogen atom derivatives, called elements, two decades ago the Internet formed (1991), and in 2000 the human molecular formula was calculated by Sterner and Elser.
For a hard science of study of human existence, Hmolpedia is a place for collaboration on HMS-related topics such: entropology, molecular evolution tables, dissipative structures, chaos, Maxwell's demon, drive, free will, morality, good vs evil, theories of existence, love the chemical reaction, Prigoginean thermodynamics, the history of thermodynamics, the defunct theory of life, etc.

The various branches of HT, such as psychodynamics, economic thermodynamics, anthropological thermodynamics, political thermodynamics, sociological thermodynamics, history thermodynamics, business thermodynamics, religious thermodynamics, philosophical thermodynamics, hierarchical thermodynamics, political thermodynamics, government thermodynamics, war thermodynamics, among others, as listed in adjacent dropmenu.

Cliff notes
The following table gives a cliff notes version of the "core" structure of the Hmolpedia, namely those who model human existence using chemical thermodynamic reaction mechanism formulations, viewed in the big picture structure of the dynamics of the universe.

All three individuals, shown below, Johann Goethe (theory conceived: 1799 [age 50; theory published: 1809 [age 60]), William Sidis (theory conceived: 1916 [age 18]; theory finished: 1920; theory published: 1925), and Christopher Hirata (theory conceived: 1996-2000 [circa age 16]; theory published: 2001-2007 [circa age 23]), each independently assigned with a very rare ceiling range intelligence (IQ=225+), each independently (see: Thomas Kuhn on scientific revolutions) arrived at the same essential theory, namely describing humans as animate chemicals or human molecules, the former (Goethe) and the latter (Hirata) defining people symbolically, as generic attached or bonded chemicals, using Bergman chemical symbol notation, i.e. A and B or X and Y being single humans; AB or XY being chemically bonded humans (see: Torbern Bergman), and human existence in terms of chemical thermodynamic formulation, using the variables chemical affinity A, entropy S, or equilibrium constants K,
respectively.

Both Goethe and Hirata can be classified, using a very rare epitaph, as "human chemical thermodynamicists", namely scientists who study interacting humans, from the reactive systems, chemical thermodynamics (or affinity chemistry) point of view, specifically viewing individual people as human molecules or human chemicals that form and break chemical bonds (see: human chemical bond) to each other.


IQ 225+ human chemical thermodynamicists (and their models)



Goethe (75px)
Johann Goethe
(1809) (age 50)

“My idea for the new novella is to portray social relationships and their conflicts symbolically:

 A + B \rightarrow AB \,

[and] the moral symbols used in the natural sciences are the elective affinities discovered and employed by the great Bergman.”




 A = T \Delta S - \Delta H \,
Elective Affinities (H.M. Waidson translation)

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William Sidis
(1920) (age 18)

“The second law of thermodynamics must date from some sort of great collision out of which the present universe evolved. Our theory of the origin of life is that there is no origin, but only a constant development and change in form.”
Primordial soul

Christopher Hirata (small)
Christopher Hirata
(2000) (age 16)
“For many of us, thermochemistry was our first science which involved nontrivial mathematics:

 X + Y \leftrightarrow XY \,

It seems appropriate, therefore, to apply thermochemistry to relationships.”



 -K_B T \ln K_{eq} = \Delta E + P \Delta V - T \Delta S  \,
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Goethe publishing his theory in his 1809 Elective Affinities, which he considered his greatest book, Sidis in his 1925 The Animate and the Inanimate, the only publication he ever felt confident enough to use his real name, versus pseudonyms as used in all his other publications, and Hirata in his circa 2000-2005 article “The Physics of RelationshipsExternal link icon (c), which he described as "an old favorite from my bachelor days" (pre-2006) and labeled (possibly for appearance sake) as a fun "compilation of worthless applications of physics and mathematics to relationships".

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How: can I help?
The Hmolpedia is built on the framework of a Wetpaint wiki. Wetpaint is essentially like Wikipedia, albeit more functionable, meaning that each (unlocked) page can be edited by anyone. If, subsequently, you are familiar with how "wikis", meaning quick-edit software, work and with the theories, terms, conceptions or ideas, e.g. entropy and life, of those HT pioneers, who have thermodynamically theorized about the process of human activity, then first start an account (or contribute anonymously), second give the practice page or sandbox a test run to see how the editing tools work, and then help out in the following areas:

One of the best ways to help is simply by skimming the Hmolpedia weekly digest email newsletter and then comment back on the piqued items (articles, videos, images, etc.) of interest in thread posts.

Thermodynamics: library
The core of the Hmolpedia is American electrochemical engineer Libb Thims' growing collection of 320+ thermodynamics books, from which terms, factoids, equations, theory, history, trivia, biographies, derivations, overviews of famous publications, and references, etc., are slowly uploaded, wiki-style, online:

A to Z of Thermodynamics






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EoHT cover (Jul 2010)
Pierre Perrot’s 1998 A to Z of Thermodynamics dictionary servers as a back-bone and model template to many of the Hmolpedia articles.
Some of the core books in Libb Thims' 300+ thermodynamics book collection: the three most germane to human thermodynamics being: (1) Clausius' 1865 Mechanical Theory of Heat, (2) Gibbs' 1876 Equilibrium on the Heterogeneous Substances, and (3) Lewis' 1923 Thermodynamics and the Free Energy of Chemical Substances.
Online manuscript construction and discussion
Draft cover of possible future hardcover multi-volume:
Encyclopedia of
Human Thermodynamics.


Spotlight thinkers
The following are key thinkers with significantly interesting and theoretically deep points of views to be investigated and studied—nearly all of whom derived their existence explanation theories and models, independently, straight from the hard sciences (chemistry, physics, and thermodynamics):

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Léon Winiarski (1865-1915)
Antonio Portuondo 75
Antonio Portuondo
(1845-1927)
Gustave Hirn 75
Gustave Hirn (1815-1890)
Hauriou 75
Maurice Hauriou
(1856-1929)
Enrique Serrano 75
Enrique Serrano
(1845-1918)
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Eduard Sacher
(c.1830-c.1910)
Henry Adams 75
Henry Adams (1838-1918)
Wilhelm Ostwald 75
Wilhelm Ostwald (1853-1932)
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Georges Guillaume
(c.1904-c.1974)
Francis Edgeworth 75
Francis Edgeworth (1845-1926)
Frederick Rossini 75
Frederick Rossini (1899-1990)
Erwin Bauer 75
Erwin Bauer
(1890-1938)
Arthur Iberall 75
Arthur Iberall (1918-2002)
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Jeffrey Wicken (1942-c.2000)
Adriaan de Lange 75
Adriaan de Lange (1945-)
Henry Carey 75
Henry Carey (1793-1879)
Nicolas Rashevsky 75
Nicolas Rashevsky
(1899-1972)
Mehdi Bazargan 75
Mehdi Bazargan (1907-1995)
Pitirim Sorokin 75 new
Pitirim Sorokin
(1889-1968)
Spiru Haret 75
Spiru Haret (1851-1912)
Ed Stephan 75
Ed Stephan
(1939-2008)
Sture Nordhom 75
Sture Nordholm (1944-)
Jeremy Adler 75
Jeremy Adler (1947-)
Teresa Brennan 75
Teresa Brennan
(1952-2003)
Jurgen Mimkes 75
Jurgen Mimkes (1939-)
Wallace 75
Thomas Wallace
(c.1937-)
Robert Lindsay 75
Robert Lindsay (1900-1985)
John G. Stewart 75
John Q. Stewart (1894-1972)
Ettore Majorana 75
Ettore Majorana (1906-1938)


| “No human investigation can be called real science if it cannot be demonstrated mathematically.”
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Leonardo da Vinci (c.1490), Italian polymath

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References
1. Croatian physicist, comment to site creator Sadi-Carnot (13 Apr 2009).
2. (a) Google Analytics (Nov 2011).
(b) EoHT.info (traffic rank) - Alexa.com.
3. Top Thermodynamics Sites (top site #4) - TopSite.com.
4. (a) Irreversibility (photo) - Flickr.
(b) Irreversibility – Flickr (Italian → English).
External links
EoHT.info – AboutUs.org.
EoHT (keywords traffic) – SearchAnalytics.Compete.com.
Best editable/collaborative sites – AboutUs.org.
EoHT (favorite link) – FriendFeed.com.
Encyclopedia of Human Thermodynamics - Matei.org.
Encyclopedia of Human Thermodynamics | Facebook (Spanish).


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“The time may come when human affairs may be described no longer by words and sentences, but by a system of symbols or notation similar to those used in algebra or chemistry … then it may be possible, as Adams suggests, to invent a common formula for thermodynamics and history.”
William Thayer (1918), American historian

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GGladyshev Relaxation 3 Jul 14 2011, 1:19 PM EDT by Anonymous
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I think that should be an article in EoHT : "Time of relaxation of evolutionary processes". This will avoid the confusion with the terminology and any concepts.
One of the definitions for a thermodynamic system: “Relaxation - the process leading to the establishment of thermodynamic equilibrium in macroscopic thermodynamic systems. It should be taken into account that the equilibrium state can be determined by a large number of parameters, and the processes of achieving equilibria with respect to different parameters can go in different ways and at different rates. Relaxation is quantitatively characterised by the relaxation time.“
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GGladyshev Science 1 Jan 5 2011, 3:59 PM EST by Sadi-Carnot
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Libb,
You have written many notes and articles. I believe that you don’t use the viewpoints of “holism”. Is this correct? Strange! I used conceptions of reductionism, holism and synergy in my works in different branches of science during my life.
Georgi
Holism: http://www.thefreedictionary.com/holism
“The theory that living matter or reality is made up of organic or unified wholes that are greater than the simple sum of their parts.”
Holism in science: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holism_in_science
“Holism in science, or Holistic science, is an approach to research that emphasizes the study of complex systems. This practice is in contrast to a purely analytic tradition (sometimes called reductionism) which aims to gain understanding of systems by dividing them into smaller composing elements and gaining understanding of the system through understanding their elemental properties. The holism-reductionism dichotomy is often evident in conflicting interpretations of experimental findings and in setting priorities for future research.”
Synergy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synergy
“Synergy, in general, may be defined as two or more agents working together to produce a result not obtainable by any of the agents independently.”
See your reductionism: http://www.humanthermodynamics.com/JHT/Life_-_a_Defunct_Scientific_Theory.pdf
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GGladyshev Science 0 Jan 5 2011, 3:28 PM EST by GGladyshev
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Libb,
I wrote about your strange conceptions! I believe these views are not consistent with modern science. However, as I think, you want to discuss my theory. Now we are not talking about my theory. Your form of discussion is not acceptable for me! I think that you do not want to improve your views. I said to you about some contradictions. Do as you wish.
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