Patrissia CuberosIn hmolscience, Patrissia E. Cuberos (c.1965-) (DN:4±) is a Colombian-born British writer noted for her The Thermodynamics of Love, a three-part one of a three-part trilogy (part I: The Secret Life of a God, part II: Diary of an Ex-Goddess; part III: The Physics of Romance), a seeming mixture of literature thermodynamics and quantum philosophy, wherein she applies chemistry (marginally), thermodynamics, and supposedly physics (third volume), to the explication of relationship dynamics, via a fictional story, as a seeming emotional catharsis to better find resolution or understanding with her own historical course of four marriages and four children; a seeming mixture of Carl Sagan, Jean-Paul Sartre, existentialism, and quantum indeterminacy, interlaced with a thematic two-sided god-questioning discourse.

Overview
In 2000, Cuberos began writing her manuscript for The Thermodynamics of Love, the abstract of book one, The Secret Life of a God, published on 31 Jan 2015, is as follows: [1]

“We live in a world of relationships: from chemical bonds to boy meets girl, to families and societies, to the laws that govern the cosmic order. The trilogy is a typical love story. Indeed, boy meets girl and a relationship develops, but we all know that as Woody Allen says ‘Sooner or later everything turns to sh*t.’ In other words, in most relationships, the initial dynamic exchange of heat-energy soon becomes the dreaded lukewarm entropy, harbinger of heat death. However, the physics that seem to doom David and Kate’s relationship to the thermodynamic trap, might be able to help them to transform it into the everlasting loop of energy exchange they have always dreamed of: a superconductive love unmarred by friction from guilt, fear and resentment. Their quest will force them to challenge, and eventually transcend their all too human feelings of inadequacy, the apparently inevitable limitations of time, and the hazy, illusory lines between dream and reality, life and death.”

The work and philosophical underpinnings were inspired by a mixture of the belief that thermodynamics govern relationships, but that there is the possibility for self-directed change via something akin to the quantum indeterminacy ideas in Danah Zohar’s 1990 The Quantum Self: Human Nature and Consciousness Defined by the New Physics. [2]

Cuberos' The Thermodynamics of Love is similar, in some conceptual sense, to David Hwang's 2001 article "The Thermodynamics of Love", albeit more structured on Prigoginean thermodynamics, rather than Gibbsian thermodynamics (Hwang's version), and interlaced with the addition of quantum indeterminacy ideas, and also lacking the human chemical reaction theory. Cuberos states that she was aware of Hwang's article, via Hmolpedia (circa 2009), after already working on her first novel for several years; then re-discovering it again in early 2015 after the publication of her first novel. (Ѻ)

On 20 Jul 2015, Cuberos published book two, Diary of an Ex-Goddess, the synopsis of which is as follows: [3]

“Some people need to die in order to live. Kate is one of them… Kate has met David again, but she is now a very different person: a survivor. After all, as a fallen goddess, she has learnt the hard way that beauty is like paper wings to a firebird, dangerous and ephemeral. If there is any chance of re-kindling the love that they once shared, she hopes that this time it won’t be thermodynamically determined. It must end differently. Then, like a phoenix she must rise from the ashes of depression into the dawn of self-love: the magic key to true, reciprocated love.”

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Education
Cuberos states that her scientific background is that of a layperson's understanding of things; a self-education style of knowledge accumulation.

Religion | Beliefs
Cuberos was raised as a Catholic, in a very Catholic country, and attended a very strict school led by nuns. Cuberos’ father, of note, was an atheist, whom she saw as the “paradigm of virtue”, which presented her with an intellectual conflict, being that the nun’s told her that “atheists go to hell when they die.” The nuns thought her to fear god, and that pleasure, happiness, and sexual pleasure were not to be pursued. At age 14, however, Cuberos began to read outside of her faith, e.g. works of the mystics, and states that it took 20 years to expunge many of these early religious indoctrination beliefs out of her head; specifically:

“Prisoner as I was of the fear of god, or perhaps of the god of fear, it took me 20-years to free myself from the clutches of the terrifying images imprinted in my mind by my early education, and to enter fearlessly into the worlds of religious exploration. I live entrenched into what I currently perceive as my reality. I am as happy as I can be. I have the universal freedom to believe anything and to doubt everything, and I exercise those two basic human rights to the best of my ability.”

Her 2015 statement on god is as follows: “I don't know if god exists, but I am sure god, if there is one and whatever or whoever god is, god believes me.” [1] This, together with her atheism-inclination towards her father, would seem to situate her at Dawkins number: 4-5, approximately. The following would be her seeming agnostic's creed (see: atheist's creed), so to say:

“I believe in myself, in the goodness of existence, and I believe in love. Like Dante in The Divine Comedy (Ѻ), I believe in universal love: ‘the love that moves the sun and the other stars’.”
— Patrissia Cuberos (2015), The Thermodynamics of Love (§:The Author and Religion, loc. 2731)

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Glossary
Cuberos includes a glossary key terms employed in her trilogy, including: absolute zero, action at a distance (non-locality principle), arrow of time, autopoiesis (Humberto Maturana and Francisco Varela’s 1972 theory), butterfly effect, big bang, biophoton (Fritz-Albert Popp’s experiment), black hole, bon savage (Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s natural man concept), bosons, Cartesian, causal determinism, change of state, chaos theory, complex system, conservation of energy, Copenhagen interpretation, dark energy, dark matter, Rene Descartes, determinate state, determinism, field theory, dissipative structures, dualism, dynamical system, eco-system, energy, entanglement, entropy, equation, fermions, Ludwig Feuerbach, friction, Herbert Frohlich, Frohlich-Prigogine system, relativity, graviton, gravity, grand unification theory, heat, heat death, Werner Heisenberg, indeterminate state, irreversibility, causality (law of causality), Magdeburg hemispheres, materialism, mechanics, M-theory, multiverse, Isaac Newton, Newtonian mechanics, Newton’s clockwork universe, non-linear system, observer’s paradox (wave function collapse), paradox, parallel universes (William James' 1895 term), particle/particle-like (wave particle duality), periodic table (chemistry), phase, photon, predeterminism, Ilya Prigogine, quantum indeterminacy, quantum mechanics, quantum numbers, quantum paradox (Schrodinger’s cat), quantum state, quantum superposition, relational holism, resistivity (electric current), Sadi Carnot, Erwin Schrodinger, self-organized systems, singularity, sophism, speed of light, state, statistical (state quantification), superconductivity, superconductors, super-string, supersymmetry, system, theory of everything, thermodynamics, uncertainty principle, and wave function.

The book also contains a religion and mythology glossary, with terms from Hinduism, e.g. Brahma and Saraswati, Buddhism, e.g. eightfold path, karma, samsara, etc., Greek mythology, e.g. phoenix, Prometheus, etc., Islam, e.g. Sufism.
Heat = Passion (labeled)
Ben Biddle’s 2013 “Heat = Passion” coffee napkin idea sketch of innovation being like a chemical reaction; which similar to Cuberos’ 2015 ideas of equating love and passion with heat (see adjacent quote). [4]

Quotes
The following are noted quotes:

“Like my protagonists, I wrestled throughout all my young years with the thermodynamic nature of my relationships. All of them seemed to be doomed. When I started writing this novel, fourteen years ago, I hadn't found a solution. I seemed to be condemned by physics or stupidity, to have unsatisfactory relationships. But I am not easily defeated.”
— Patrissia Cuberos (2015), The Thermodynamics of Love (§:Scientific Inspiration, loc. 2668)

“If we equate love and passion to heat, it is often the case that on those first passionate encounters: heat runs or is transferred from the hotter to the colder body. Once the two bodies reach the same temperature, the dynamic energy exchange stops, the inevitable entropy takes its toll, and heat death threatens to smother the once vigorous flame.”
— Patrissia Cuberos (2015), The Thermodynamics of Love (§:Scientific Inspiration, loc. 2688)

References
1. Cuberos, Patrissia E. (2015). The Thermodynamics of Love: the Secret Life of a God (Ѻ) (§:The Author and Religions, loc. 2704-31). Amazon Media.
2. (a) Zohar, Danah. (1990). The Quantum Self: Human Nature and Consciousness Defined by the New Physics. New York: William Morrow and Company.
(b) Danah Zohar – Wikipedia.
3. Cuberos, Patrissia E. (2015). The Thermodynamics of Love: Diary of an Ex-Goddess (Ѻ). Amazon Media.
4. (a) Biddle, Ben. (2013). “Innovation is Like a Chemical Reaction” (Ѻ), May 15.
(b) Thims, Libb. (2014-15/16). Chemical Thermodynamics: with Applications in the Humanities (97-page version: pdf of 800-pages estimated total) (Biddle “Heat = Passion” diagram, pg. ix). Publisher.
(c) Cuberos, Patrissia E. (2015). The Thermodynamics of Love: the Secret Life of a God (Ѻ) (§:Scientific Inspiration, loc. 2688). Amazon Media.

External links
● Patrissia Cuberos (about) – The Science of the Improbable, WordPress.com.
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