The EoHT wiki home page (eoht.info) is the central hub and entry portal for the collective beta-stage Encyclopedia of Human Thermodynamics (EoHT), launched in December 2007, a small but growing compendium of 980+ articles (sitemap) on the science of human thermodynamics or topics connected to the thermodynamical study of human existence or activity (life), as viewed through the laws of thermodynamics, namely those aspects of daily human movement quantified by heat, work, energy, and entropy. [1]

“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 the EoHT.”

— New Member (physicist), comment to site creator Sadi-Carnot, April 13, 2009. [2]

The most popular EoHT article is IQ: 200+; the core of the site is the HT pioneers page; and a key table is symbols. The EoHT wiki, in more detail, is a place for community collaboration on HT and related sub-topics such as human chemistry, human molecules, psychodynamics, thermodynamic evolution, economic thermodynamics, anthropological thermodynamics, political thermodynamics, sociological thermodynamics, cessation thermodynamics, history thermodynamics, business thermodynamics, religious thermodynamics, philosophical thermodynamics, hierarchical thermodynamics, entropology, molecular evolution tables, dissipative structures, chaos, Maxwell's demon, drive, free will, theories of existence, love the chemical reaction, among others.

Thermodynamics News (more)

How: can I help?
Wetpaint is essentially like Wikipedia. Hence, if you are somewhat 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 activty, then:

1. Start an account (or contribute anonymously).
2. Give the Practice page or Sandbox a test run to see how the editing tools work.
3. Start articles or stubbies on these topics (e.g. see: list of articles to write).
4. Add related references and material to existing articles.
5. Add related video clips or lectures, e.g. from YouTube (or make your own).
6. Help organize (or add to) the 500+ photos in the Photo Gallery
7. Make a vizu poll, e.g. see the Greatest Thermodynamicist of All Time? poll.
8. Join in with comment, discussion, cleaning, and or editing of these articles.
9. Donate used thermodynamics books (see: donation section).

Video Spotlight

Laplace's demon (1814) meets Maxwell's demon (1867)

Why: join this wiki?
One might ask: why should I join this wiki? A good question:

One reason might be that you are curious about how the laws of thermodynamics relate to human existence. Another reason might be that you enjoy sharing your knowledge (and learning along the way)! Also, join and you will receive the EoHT Weekly Digest Newsletter, mailed out at the end of every week summarizing all the new articles (~12 per week), videos, and discussions, etc., added within the last week. Once joined, post intuitive comments to other EoHT members in the article threads. A significant contribution of new members is the simple act of adding new references (articles and books) to existing articles, which helps to facilitate the learning process. Also by commenting on newly made articles, in the threads below each article, points of improvement are quickly noticed. In any event, come one, come all, and share your information.

Who: will like using this site?
If you are student of, have a degree in, or a professor of either: chemical engineering, physical chemistry, thermodynamics, physics, mechanical engineering, biophysics, etc., or are a general scientific theorist or philosopher about existence or human function in the context of the universal scale, then you would likely be inclined to use or join this site.

European schools of thermodynamics

Do: add to articles on the founders of thermodynamics

See main: Founders of thermodynamics

Add biographies or tidbits on those who helped to lay out the groundwork for the science of heat, such as Herman Boerhaave, William Cullen, Joseph Black, James Watt, Antoine Lavoisier, Benjamin Thomson, Joseph Fourier, Robert Mayer, James Joule, etc.,

Add to the biographies of those whose discussions, theories and publications worked to initiate the science of thermodynamics, notably Sadi Carnot, Émile Clapeyron, William Thomson, Hermann Helmholtz, William Rankine, Rudolf Clausius, James Maxwell, August Horstmann, Ludwig Boltzmann, Willard Gibbs, Walther Nernst, Theophile de Donder, Fritz Haber, Max Planck, Gilbert Lewis, Edward Guggenheim, etc.

Add: bits to articles on human thermodynamics pioneers

See main: Human thermodynamics pioneers

Add to the biographies and theories of those thermodynamicists, physicists, scientists, philosophers and writers who, in some way or another, have published or professed their views on aspects of the thermodynamic operation of human life, including: Gustave Hirn (1869), Henry Adams (1910), Frederick Soddy (1921), Carl Jung (1928), Leslie White (1943), C.G. Darwin (1952), Thomas Pynchon (1960), Ilya Prigogine (1977), Georgi Gladyshev (1978), Kenneth Bailey (1990), Libb Thims (1995), David Hwang (2001), Jing Chen (2002), Ingo Müller (2002), John Avery (2003), Octavian Ksenzhek (2007), Richard Hughes (2008), among others.

How: do I start a new page?

See also: Wetpaint Central Help

To start a new page, first play around with the practice page, then use the search box to see if the article exists, and (if it does not exist) then start the article by following the instructions in the following link: "how to start new page?"


Spotlight: articles
The following are recently found, fascinating, individuals (a collection updated periodically) with very curious theories and points of view; shown here to give an in-the-spotlight or highlight of each individual or article: [3]

Person	Contribution	Person	Contribution
Georg Helm (1851-1923)	His 1887 book The Doctrine of Energy, argued that energy and entropy was all that was need to uniform physics and contained an appended final chapter on the extension of the energy principle to social theory and economics.	Léon Winiarski (1865-1915)	Taught a course called “social mechanics”, at the University of Geneva (1894-1900), where he applied the dynamics of Italian mathematician Joseph Lagrange and the thermodynamics of German physicist Rudolf Clausius in sociology and economics; theorizing on concepts such as "aesthetic energy" among others.
Yevgeny Zamyatin (1884-1937)	Explained the Russian revolutions of 1905 and 1917 in the language of thermodynamics. Wrote the 1921 novel We from the human particle point of view focused on the connection between entropic mechanism, evolutionary vitalism, and revolution; also, due to synesthesia, described the “color of entropy”.	Helge Kragh (1944-)	His recent, well researched and referenced, 2008 book Entropic Creation: Religious Contexts of Thermodynamics and Cosmology, discusses the history of the extensive use of thermodynamics, particularly entropy, in religion (religious thermodynamics).

Visit: the world famous EoHT human evolution timeline

See main: Evolution timeline, Evolution, Evolutionary thermodynamics, etc.

The EoHT timeline, the Internet's longest horizontally-scrolling human evolution timeline, shows the main steps in the mechanism from assembly of subatomic particles 13.7-billion-years ago to the synthesis of the modern human. New links or intermediates in the connective timeline mechanism, from big bang to the formation of humans, are added periodically (the timelime evolves to). Help us add missing links in the mechanism. Also, on the evolution timeline page a musical scrolling timeline video can be watched. A June 2009 crop of the timeline is shown below:



Read: interesting books, articles, and working papers

See main: Working papers

The EoHT wiki is place to read newly developing articles that others have written as well as to post working human thermodynamics related papers (or short books) of your own work (or favorite authors) for others to read, discuss, and critique. Embedded readable articles can be added to any EoHT page, article, or biography. The following, for instance, is the 2008 book The Human Molecule (120-pages) by American chemical engineer Libb Thims, readable via DocStoc.com, shown as an example:

References
1. (a) Stats: EoHT.info gets roughly 5,500 visits (12,000 page views) per month and has a US Alexa rank of 880,000 and a global Alexa ranking of: 2,800,000 (May 09).
(b) Source: Google Analytics.
2. Note: quote commentator is a published, decade-long, researcher on the entropy, free energy, and thermodynamics of social systems.
3. Post a note in the threads (below or on the discussion page) if you have a suggestion for a new spotlight article.
4. (a) Irreversibility (photo) - Flickr.
(b) Irreversibility – Flickr (Italian → English).

External links
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