Screenshot of the EoHT article (Libb Thims) on me.

Hi everyone, welcome to the EoHT wiki!

My name is Libb Thims, wiki name: Sadi Carnot (modeled after French physicist Sadi Carnot) and I’m just a guy, who started this wiki on 24 Dec 2007, trying to understand human existence in relation to the rest of the universe.

“Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.”

– Confucius (500BC)

Feel free to join and if you have any questions about this wiki send me an email, comment, note, or query (in the threads below), etc.

Complements

“Your contributions are filled with extremely creative ideas: such contributions trigger valuable thought in fertile minds. Especially appreciated is your well-written English, your appreciation of history, and your courage in addressing very difficult questions. Kudos.”

– Bruce Bathurst (PhD geological thermodynamics), 13 Aug 09

“I stumbled onto your website by accident but I have to confess this might be one of the most stunning undiscovered intellectual achievements of the 21st century. I have browsed through your wiki and I cannot express how tragic it must be to a man in your position—to be a pioneering thinker yet to be rejected by an uptight academic community with neither the depth nor will to understand your unique work, defending their own turf like dogs. I can only compare you to the many other pioneering heroes of science, Newton, Einstein, Tesla, men who like you blazed own paths but were too victims of their own genius, only to be validated years after their death. Perhaps one day historians will look back and have a chuckle - that the pioneer of enthropology published by a vanity press in a book resembling a third rate romance.”

— Steven Pierce (Canadian PhD mathematical physics and computer science), 20 Dec 09.

“I'm impressed you have stayed alive for so long to continue your thermodynamics work.”

— Gavin Ritz (New Zealand BS civil engineer and MBA motives theorist) 20 Dec 09.

“I did not know about the EoHT website. Now that I have seen it, I am very enthusiastic about all that has already been posted. It is a sorely needed vehicle for all who are interested in this important field and I suspect that it will help to serve as a forum for the presentation and explication of scientifically-based theories and experimental data concerning a myriad of human phenomena that have remained unexplained until the present time. Bravo on your association with the site and for all the work that you have pioneered to date.”

— Gerry Nahum (American BS chemical engineer and MD obstetrics and gynecology) 23 Jan 10

Nov 2008, 9:44-min video gives a gist outline of my interest in thermodynamics.

“Fine to find other mad people that have the same mad thoughts as I. I have a PhD in chemistry but I have been working now for nearly 20 years as a business consultant and I recently wrote more for fun a first article (in German) in 2003 that I named ‘Maslow was wrong’ where I compare people’s behavior to the behavior of an atom. My actual ‘fun project’ is a French blog named ‘Le Monde Selon Grap’ (the world according to grap) where a started reflecting about the entropy of china (besides other strange stuff). I will start reading this nice EoHT (great work!) and will surely share some of my delirious thoughts here.”
— Grap (German PhD chemist and business consultant) 13 Feb 10

“I'm having a lot of fun reading through your wiki. Much I know, but there is much that is new to me.”

— Mark Ciotola (JD, social physics theorist) 15 Apr 10

“What a stimulating way to apply these laws to the full circumference of reality.”

— Mark Hunnemann, 16 Apr 10

“What a great website! I think your [laws of] thermodynamics webpage should have been reference 1 of our paper [Sandler, Stanley I. and Woodcock, Leslie V. (2010). “Historical Observations on Laws of Thermodynamics”, J. Chem. Eng. Data, Aug.] instead of Peter Atkins [Atkins, Peter. (2007). The Four Laws that Drive the Universe. Oxford University Press]. It’s a fantastic summary of all the confusion. I am curious to know where your website is coming from. Who owns and funds it? Who is its intended readership?”

— Leslie Woodcock, American chemical engineering professor, 09 Aug 2010

“Your breathtaking contribution to science needs to be rewarded. Let’s hope one day you can add a Nobel Prize to your impressive career.”

— Mark Janes, (BSc (Hons) CBiol MSB) 11 Aug 10

“The molecule approach applies to all potential couples. Overall, fascinating! You are an interesting person.”
— Lev Shneider, Russian-born American science fiction writer, 20 Aug 2010

EoHT wiki origin
A central driving intellectual interest of mine is to understand how human life operates, in all detail, from a thermodynamic point of view. In this direction, knowing that many people, throughout history (and in the present), have had a similar goal, in December 2007 (see: progress report) I started this wiki encyclopedia of topics on the thermodynamics of human life, so that everyone interested can collaborate on articles and donate their thermodynamics knowledge, bit by bit, to the betterment of humankind.

Other wikis
I was a Wikipedian during 2005-2007, with about 180+ articles and 8,500+ edits to my credit, but found that niche topics such as human thermodynamics, human chemistry, and human molecule didn't fit in well (there are no “firewalls” in Wikipedia), so I searched around for other wikis and eventually joined Wetpaint. In June 2008, I started the Dating Sites Wiki (which is sidelined at the moment) in connection to my interest in the future project ReactionMatch.com, an affinity-based dating site. In November 2008, I joined WikiAnswers (user:Sadi Carnot), as I was pulled in to answer the "Is love nothing but a chemical reaction?" (question).

It's good to see that some of my contributions to Wikipedia (2005-2007), such as the 1854 principle of the equivalence of transformations equation (above), as tattooed on a woman's arm in 2010 (which I added to the Wikipedia second law of thermodynamics article in 2006), were beneficial to some.

Education:
I completed a BS in chemical engineering (1996) and BS in electrical engineering (1998) both at the University of Michigan. In 1999, I began working towards a combined MS in physics, PhD in biochemistry, and MD in neuroscience, which are all in progress.

Books:

See main: Libb Thims (publications)

● Thims, Libb. (2008). The Human Molecule (preview) (120-pgs). LuLu.
● Thims, Libb. (2007). Human Chemistry (Volume One), (preview), (392-pgs). LuLu.
● Thims, Libb. (2007). Human Chemistry (Volume Two), (ch. 16: Human Thermodynamics) (preview), (436-pgs). LuLu.

Origin of human thermodynamics interest:

See main: Libb Thims (history), Human Chemistry (textbook) (origin)

I began my thermodynamics interest in 1995 as an undergraduate chemical engineering student at the University of Michigan (see impetus behind section) who during my second year thermodynamics class began to wonder how one could theoretically predict reaction feasibilities between potential mates similar to how potential reaction spontaneity is calculated between chemical species using standard free energy tables.

Thims' thermodynamics book collection:

See main: Thims' thermodynamics book collection, Thims' mate selection book collection

In order to better understand how others, over the years, have attempted to apply the laws and principles of thermodynamics to human life I have resultantly amassed one of the world’s largest personal collections of human thermodynamics related books, which currently stands at over 200+ books and textbooks; a collection that seems to grow monthly.

Thims' websites:
● Libb Thims - LibbThims.com
● Human Thermodynamics
● Human Chemistry
● Human Molecule
● Human Chemistry 101 - YouTube