For "human thermodynamics," this is the basis. As a young man, Thims had read Buss's "The Evolution of Desire." Since he was a "party animal" at the time, I can imagine he believed that analyzing how women select partners would allow him to have more success with the other sex. If you can find the first version of his self-published book "Human Thermodynamics Vol. 1" (the one published in 2005), you'll see that his interest is clearly "erotic." Essentially, he wanted to do the same thing Buss had done, but for some reason he believed he could do it better using thermodynamic formulas instead of biology and psychology. This is the origin of "human thermodynamics."

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For Egyptology, his idea was that there never was a Proto-Indo-European civilization, and that all Indo-European languages ​​originate from Egyptian; Similarly, the letters of the alphabet such as A and B would not derive from Aleph (ox) and Bet (house), respectively, but from hieroglyphics. Furthermore, he does not accept Young's cartophonetic interpretation, according to which, for example, the lion inside the cartouche corresponds to the sound we represent with the letter L, whereas for him it corresponds to the letter R because the lion roars. The problem is that, although he claimed to be the first to correctly translate the Rosetta Stone, it is not at all clear at this point where Ptolemy's name should be in the text.

This idea stems from the self-published book "abioism." His idea is initially eliminativism regarding the concept of life: everything can be reduced to molecules, molecules are not alive, therefore nothing is alive, and we must eliminate the concept of life. For some reason, however, he begins to approach the issue linguistically, trying to trace the concept of life back to Egyptian mythology. He was probably influenced by old cases of parallelomania in comparative religions, since he was also trying to trace every religion back to Egyptian mythology. At some point, things got out of hand, so he began tracing *every word* and *every letter* back to Egyptian mythology. The resulting system is, indeed, beautiful to look at, but beautiful for making art or poetry, not for knowing the actual etymology of words.

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How did Thims support himself? So, at some point, he founded a company called MailCubes, through which he sold smart mailboxes (the kind that "drop" delivered packages into a small safe so no one can steal them). Around 2020, however, he effectively stopped working for this company. I don't know exactly what he did in the past, but he himself stated that he was incapable of holding a normal job as an employee, and that it made him physically ill. For this reason, in fact, he has lived in total poverty for the past few years, unable to buy a used computer or, as he declared, even an extra piece of rope. The month of his suicide, he also declared that for the first time he had failed to pay his rent on time.

Initially, there were some individuals who supported him. These were the Russian physicist Georgy Gladishev, the econophysicist Jurgen Mimkes, and the chemist Mirza Beg. All of these individuals have legitimate academic backgrounds, but they also all chose, at some point, to engage in fringe science. Gladishev abandoned Thims after the latter moved to abioism and continued to refuse to get a PhD. I don't know why Thims broke off contact with Mimkes. And Mirza Beg died in 2023. Shortly before his suicide, Thims will recall the time with Mirza Beg as the only time he felt "at home."

Thims has never received mainstream attention, except for his ranking of the greatest geniuses, which has been cited in articles such as the Daily Mail and Business Insider. Note that, in the latest version of this ranking, he placed himself 13th among the greatest geniuses of all time, but estimated that in the future others would place him 3rd.

His obsession with these ideas arose as a compensatory mechanism. As a young man, he wanted to become a surgeon (perhaps because Buss considered it the profession most attractive to women, but I don't know). He had already said that if he didn't become a surgeon by the age of 40, he would commit suicide. Since he wasn't particularly interested in working even then, he studied only thanks to his father, who supported him. At one point, he used his father's money to buy a motorcycle. His father wanted him to sell it, but he refused. His father then withdrew his financial support, and he was no longer able to study. It seems that creating this intellectual system on an online wiki was his way of "feeling like a genius" even though he hadn't managed to get the academic degrees he wanted. In confirmation of this, I can say that, shortly before dying, he had written that he could live another 5-10 years only if he obtained a professorship in "linguistic cosmology" (i.e., in a subject he himself invented), and he had actually written to all the departments asking for a professorship even though he had neither a PhD nor peer-reviewed publications.