In science, Libb Thims (c.1975-), see: anagram, is an American chemical engineer, electrical engineer, and thermodynamicist known for his work and research in the development of the newly emerging sciences of human chemistry, the study of reactions between human molecules, and human thermodynamics, and the study of energy, work, and heat aspects of systems of human molecules. Thims' central research, which began in circa 1995, has been to elucidate, quantitatively, how the basic, multi-year human reproduction reaction (relationship, sex, and offspring), which 85% of people go through, can be energetically predicted, via free energy determinations:

G = H – TS

as quantified using the spontaneity criterion (ΔG < 0), which states that spontaneous chemical reactions must show a decrease in Gibbs free energy over the extent of the reaction, i.e. the summation of the enthalpic (ΔH) and entropic (–TΔS) factors involved in the system interaction must show a decrease in value over time, if the reaction or process is to be universally favored. This dissection of human interactions can also be expressed via the relation between the chemical affinity A or the force of reaction existent between reacting species to Gibbs free energy change ΔG:

A = – ΔG

as proved in 1882 by German physicist Hermann Helmholtz in his "The Thermodynamics of Chemical Processes", and applied to the modeling of human relationships by German polymath Johann Goethe in his 1809 Elective Affinities. In sum, in order to understand love in the context of relationships and how one correctly chooses who to love, one has to be able to measure enthalpy ΔH and entropy ΔS changes involved in human activity? The specific human chemical equation, which Thims originally began to mediate on is the following pair of human mating reactions:

Thims maintains one of the world's largest thermodynamics book collections (some of which are shown the photo).

M + FA → BA

M + FB → BB

where M is one male, FA is a hypothetical female, FB is a second hypothetical female, BA is a child product of the first pairing, and BB is a child product of the second pairing. To rule to determine which reaction should be chosen, is that the reaction most energetically favored (exergonic) will be the one that shows the most decrease in Gibbs free energy G over time in the extent of the reaction.

The use of chemical equations to model human reactions, to note, is a very deep subject. The fact that only eight people, in history (see human chemical reaction history), are known to used chemical equations, such as above, to model human processes, such as colloquial love the chemical reaction motto, exemplifies this.
The dimension of time, in this example, being the difference between the initial "state" of the reaction, or day in which the pair first begin to react, and the final state of the reaction, signified as the day, some 15 or more years later, at which point the offspring product begins to detach from the parental structure, going of on its own.

On the protocol of Einstein keeping pictures of Faraday, Newton, and Maxwell (as well as a plaster bust of Goethe) in his study, Thims keeps photos of Willard Gibbs (16), Johann Goethe (16), Rudolf Clausius (18), Gilbert Lewis (15), Isaac Newton (18), Hermann Helmholtz (17), and James Maxwell (16), numbers being the age at which each person entered college, on the wall of his study.

The spontaneity rule itself is relatively simple, quantified by the following simple equation: ΔG < 0. It is the understanding of quantities that compose free energy:

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namely internal energy U, pressure P, volume V, temperature T, and entropy S, among other facts (such as chemical potential μ, external forces, gravity, free energy coupling, etc.), however, which, invariably, require a new field of research and conceptual understanding, where people are defined technically as boundaried "systems of human molecules", a subject never rigorously done before, in spite of the fact that over 300-people have published views on the theoretical application of thermodynamics to human activity.

An example of the difficulties encountered, in synthesizing this application, is the understanding of the "end state" (15 or so years after first sex), of the ordering of the system of humans, involved in the process of a human reproduction reaction (sex), such as above, which, in mechanism, is defined more exactly as a double displacement reaction (double elective affinity) of the form:

M + F → M≡F + Child

It is at this point, that the subject of chemical / physics nature of the human bond "M≡F" becomes a central subject of study, one that has never been done before. Nearly two-thirds of the 2007 textbook Human Chemistry, written by Thims, was devoted to the elucidation of the nature of human chemical bonds considered purely as a chemical bond. [1]

2008 video by Libb Thims on his interest in thermodynamics in relation to the predictions of human chemical reactions via the spontaneity criterion.

In any event, pairing feasibility can be understood via chemical thermodynamics, namely by the fundamental equation characterizing the relation between affinity A and free energy G change:

A = – ΔG

in conjunction with the spontaneity criterion rule defining spontaneous reactions:

ΔG < 0

In short, whichever mating reaction actuates a greater negative change in the Gibbs free energy, where G is a function of enthalpy and entropy:

ΔG = ΔH – TΔS

will be more energetically-favored and less prone to divorce (debonding). Beyond this, there are complicating issues associated with the quantification of external forces, chemical potential factors, gravity, equilibrium effects, system boundary issues, free energy coupling, enthalpy-entropy compensation, etc., factors that each effect human chemical reactions. Thims is currently interested in trying to understand how the Gibbs fundamental equation, in which the change in energy U of a system can be written as the product of an intensive and an extensive parameter:

where Xi is an intensive quantity, such as pressure or temperature, and Yi is an extensive quantity, such as volume, can be applied to a human social system.

Overview
▬▬▬See main: Libb Thims (history) and Human Chemistry (textbook) (origin)
Thims' central interest, which began as a chemical engineering student in 1995, has been to understand how human relationships work or operate energetically according to the science of chemical thermodynamics, in particular human chemical reaction prediction using the logic of spontaneity as embodied in free energy tables, in conjunction with theories and studies done in evolutionary psychology.

The essential moment occurred while in a senior level thermodynamics class at the University of Michigan. During this course, he began to wonder if anyone had ever applied the logic of chemical reaction prediction, as embodied in standard thermodynamic tables of free energies, enthalpies, and entropies, to the extrapolative prediction of human chemical reactions, such as between potential intimate pairs in reproductive reactions?

The seed behind the puzzling question of mate selection, however, had existed in Thims’ mind prior to his chemical engineering studies. At one point, years earlier, Thims’ had drawn up an tabular spread-sheet of the nineteen top females that he had dated, each of whom he could potentially marry (many of which had openly stated that they were in love with him), listing each girlfriend at the horizontal and attributes or mating desireabilities on the vertical, each attribute with an associated weighting factor, and attempted to theoretically or logically determine who would be in his best interest to marry. This type of analysis, however, led to indeterminate results. Sometime in and after 1995, Thims began to apply chemical thermodynamics to the problem, and began to see through the haze in circa 2001.

Human Chemistry (2007)	The Human Molecule (2008)

In 2002, in efforts to coordinate writings on the thermodynamic study of human life, Thims founded the Institute of Human Thermodynamics, a non-profit, educational-minded, global network of human thermodynamicists. In 2005, Thims started the Journal of Human Thermodynamics, ISSN 1559-386X, a place for publication of articles on the thermodynamics of human life. In 2007, Thims and Russian physical chemist Georgi Gladyshev started the Encyclopedia of Human Thermodynamics. Thims also maintains one of the world's largest thermodynamics book collections.

In September 2007, building on the shoulders of Johann von Goethe, with his 1809 Elective Affinities, and American navel engineer William Fairburn, with his 1914 booklet Human Chemistry, Thims published Human Chemistry (Volume One) and Human Chemistry (Volume Two), the world's first-ever standardized textbook on human chemistry (824-pages). [1] One of the first to apply Thims' human chemistry to practical application was American social scientist Satch Ejike who, in his 2008 book Find a Good Man and Keep Him, presented a physical science based guide to help informed modern single women find a man.

In March of 2008, Thims published his second book The Human Molecule, a short outline of the historical development of the conception of the human being as an individual ‘molecule’, i.e. "human molecule". Thims ideas on human thermodynamics and human molecules, to note, were developed in a duplicate manner, but independent, to those of American historian Henry Adams (1910) and English physicist Charles Galton Darwin (1952).

Thims and Russian physical chemist Georgi Gladyshev discussing human thermodynamics in front of the Wrigley Field Building, Chicago (12/16/07).

Gladyshev and Thims

See main: Gladyshev and Thims

Of significant influence to Thims, was the work of Russian physical chemist Georgi Gladyshev. [2] In particular, sometime between 2002 to 2004, during which Thims began to undertake the project of writing a short book on the subject of "human thermodynamics", Thims had come across a number of individuals who seemed to be using a similar logic, in certain respects, to his own, including: Ilya Prigogine, John Avery, Jing Chin, David Hwang, and Gladyshev, among others. In this group, Gladyshev seemed to be the closest competion in that he was using a fully-rigorous Gibbs free energy based thermodynamic approach to the evolution of life.

Education
Thims completed a BS in chemical engineering (1996) and BS in electrical engineering (1998) both at the University of Michigan. [4] In 1999, Thims began working towards a combined MS in physics, PhD in biochemistry, and MD in neuroscience, which are all in progress.

Thims lecturing in 2010 on human thermodynamics to bioengineering students, standing adjacent to pictures of Clausius, Gibbs, and Lewis, authors of the founding texts at the core of human thermodynamics.	Thims explaining how the Papin engine relates to human chemical affinities, Gibbs free energy, and morality.

Citations, conferences, and lectures

See main: Libb Thims (citations)

Thims' work and theories, beginning in 2006, have been referenced, cited, and discussed in several journal articles, magazines, conferences, symposiums, and meetings.

In April 2010, Thims gave his first one-hour guest lecture, as shown adjacent, entitled "An Introduction to Human Thermodynamics", to a local Chicago university bioengineering thermodynamics class.

In 2010, Martin Gardiner, of the Annals of Improbable Research, the group that administers the Ig Nobel Prizes aiming to spotlight research that makes people laugh and then think, ran a four-part, three-day article on Thims, entitled “I Am Not A Molecule”, subtitled 'Inside the IoHT', discussing topics such as Thims' 2008 book The Human Molecule, the Human Chemistry 101 video lectures on the human molecule, the Institute of Human Thermodynamics, the Journal of Human Thermodynamics, among other topics. Gardiner considers the subject of the chemistry and thermodynamics of human molecules to be an emergent intellectual development. [5]


Awards/Memberships
The following are various awards or memberships given to Thims:

● Awarded: G. Brymer Williams Academic Scholarship (chemical engineering) of $1000 (University of Michigan).
● Elected in 2006 as member-correspondent of the International Academy of Creative Endeavors. [3]
● Awarded the 2008 medal Order of Mikhailo Lamonosov (adjacent), National Committee of social - public premium, Russia, N 104 (148).
● Elected as founding chairman of the Transcience Society (2009), Delhi, India.

Side projects
YouTube's Human Chemistry 101 channel was started in 2008 by Thims, scheduled as a semi-weekly educational video series on the science of "human chemistry", or the chemistry of human interactions.

Prototype logo for a possible future beta-stage thermodynamic-matching dating site ReactionMatch.com.

Thims is currently involved in the algorithm development of the 2012 beta-stage, science-based pair-matching site ReactionMatch.com (logo shown below), motto: “matching affinities in love the chemical reaction”. Other related dating/matching sites, by comparison, are slowly being categorized by Thims at the new DatingSitesWiki.

Publications

See main: Libb Thims (publications); Working papers

The core precept of human thermodynamics, arrived at by many after several years of study of thermodynamics applied to human existence, e.g. Henry Adams, Pierre Teilhard, C.G. Darwin, etc., is the understanding that when viewing a “system” of people, as in a society (social system), one is actually viewing a system of "human molecules", no different than any other system of reactive molecules attached to substrate.

The following is the 2008 book The Human Molecule (120-pages) by Thims, readable via DocStoc.com, a book functioning as basic starting point for those interested in human thermodynamics:

References 1. (a) Thims, Libb. (2007). Human Chemistry (Volume One), (preview). Morrisville, NC: LuLu. (b) Thims, Libb. (2007). Human Chemistry (Volume Two), (preview). Morrisville, NC: LuLu. (c) Press release: World’s first-ever textbook on the Chemistry of Love - September 27, 2007, 3:00 EST (PR.com) (d) The entire writing project took 18-months and 14-days to complete. 2. (a) Gladyshev, Georgi, P. (1978). "On the Thermodynamics of Biological Evolution", Journal of Theoretical Biology, Vol. 75, Issue 4, Dec 21, pp. 425-441. (b) Gladyshev, Georgi, P. (1997). Thermodynamic Theory of the Evolution of Living Beings. Commack, New York: Nova Science Publishers. 3. List category: “Leading representatives of foreign science” (English) (Russian) – International Academy of Creative Endeavors. 4. (a) Libb Thims: chemical engineering degree (diploma) – University of Michigan. (b) Libb Thims: electrical engineering degree (diploma) – University of Michigan. 5. (a) Gardiner, Martin. (2010). “Inside the IoHT: I am not a molecule (parts 1, 2, 3, 4)”, Improbable Research, Jun 04-06. (b) Martin Gardiner (about) – Improbable.com. (c) Thims, Libb. (2008). The Human Molecule, (preview) (Google Books). Morrisville, NC: LuLu. (d) Libb Thims | What’s Hot – Regator.com.

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