Burkhard Heim

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Burkhard Christian Ludwig Alexander Heim (born February 9, 1925 in Potsdam , † January 14, 2001 in Northeim ) was a German physicist . In a failed experiment he sustained life-threatening injuries, which he survived severely disabled . His main work is the attempt at a unified field theory , which should bring quantum physics into harmony with the theory of relativity. Heim did not publish a rigorous elaboration of his theory, however. It has not been discussed in the physical literature.

Life

Burkhard Heim was born as the son of the bank clerk Heinrich Heim (* 1890, † 1964) and his wife Marie, b. Warneboldt (* 1896; † 1985) born. In 1943 he passed the Abitur in Berlin, then he did the Reich Labor Service and in October of the same year he was drafted into the Wehrmacht . He was later assigned to manufacture explosives for the Chemisch-Technische Reichsanstalt . In the course of this activity he lost both hands in an explosion in May 1944, which is why the Krukenberg sculpture was used on him. Heim suffered severe hearing impairment as a result of the accident and he was almost completely blind . After several operations, he began to study chemistry at the University of Göttingen in 1946 with the support of his family and in 1949 to study theoretical physics . In 1950 he married Gerda Hildegard Elisabeth Straube (* 1922, † 2006), a former concert singer.

His thesis ( hydro- and thermodynamic and spectroscopic studies of the Filamentensystem of NGC 1952 ) wrote home about the physical processes in the Crab Nebula -Supernova ( SN 1054 ) and received in 1954 his Diploma in physics with Professors Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker and Richard Becker . He then worked in CF von Weizsäcker's research group at the Max Planck Institute for Physics in Göttingen. However, he soon left this to work on a general field theory in which all physical fields were uniformly described as dynamic properties of geometric structures.

In 1958, Burkhard Heim and Helmut Göckel founded the “Research Institute for Dynamic Contrabary and Astronautics”. V. “, whose management he took over. After Heim had fallen out with Göckel, the association was dissolved in 1964 and the "German Research Institute for Force Field Physics and General Cosmology e. V. “based in Northeim. In September 1971, the Heim couple took Ingrid Hartung (* 1940; † 2011) into the family as an adopted daughter.

Until 1996, Heim worked on his own standardized field theory in isolation from the scientific community. He died on January 14, 2001 after a long illness.

theory

Heim had been working on a theory for the formation of gravitational waves since the late 1940s . Heim tried to build a test arrangement together with the aircraft engineer Hans-Dietrich Goslich, which he called the “contrabator”. With this experimental set-up, Heim wanted to absorb electromagnetic centimeter waves, convert them into gravitational waves and thus influence gravity. An article published in Spiegel magazine in 1958 mentions "gravity experts" who were of the opinion "that Heim overestimated the effectiveness of his arrangement many million times over". In addition, the article criticizes that he “has not even succeeded in substantiating his theories plausibly”.

The parts of the theory published by Heim himself are incomplete and contradictory. Attempts by his colleague and successor Walter Dröscher to rigorously present the theory were judged by the mathematician Gerhard W. Bruhn to be useless for an extension of the general theory of relativity , since it assumes a flat instead of curved space-time .

In 2009 an article in popular science magazine New Scientist mentioned Heim as a marginal physicist whose ideas have never been peer reviewed and are rejected as incomprehensible by most modern physicists.

Burkhard Heim's approaches play no role in physical research. Walter Dröscher and Jochem Häuser presented Heim's theory or an extension (Extended Heim Theory) since 2003 at several engineering conferences in the USA, e.g. B. the Joint Propulsion Conferences of the AIAA and the SPESIF and STAIF conferences.

Others

In the late 1950s, the artist Jean Cocteau painted a fresco in a hall of the Terre et Cosmos exhibition in Paris and called it the “Inner Eye of Home”.

The Icelandic composer Jóhann Jóhannsson released a piece entitled Melodia (Guidelines for a Space Propulsion Theory based on Heim's Quantum Theory) on the album Fordlandia in 2008 .

In April 2011, the fire brigade recovered 35 kg of chemicals (including red phosphorus and magnesium powder ) from the basement of Burkhard Heim's former home in Northeim.

Works

  • The principle of the dynamic double baria. In: Missiles - magazine for devices, equipment and accessories in the aerospace industry. Flugweltverlag, Wiesbaden 1959, pdf online ( Memento from March 13, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  • Burkhard Heim: Suggestion of a way of a uniform description of the elementary particles. In: Journal of Nature Research A . 32, 1977, pp. 233-243 ( PDF , free full text).
  • Post-mortem conditions? The televariant area of ​​integral world structures. Resch, Innsbruck 1980, ISBN 3-85382022-0 .
  • The cosmic space of human experience. Resch, Innsbruck 1982, ISBN 3-85382022-0 .
  • The elementary process of life. Resch, Innsbruck 1982, ISBN 3-85382023-9 .
  • Elementary structures of matter: Unified structural quantum field theory of matter and gravitation. 2 volumes. 3. Edition. Resch, Innsbruck 1998 and 1996. ISBN 3-85382-008-5 and ISBN 3-85382-036-0 .
  • Walter Dröscher, Burkhard Heim: Structures of the physical world and their non-material side. Volume 3. Resch, Innsbruck 1996, ISBN 3-85382-059-X .
  • Walter Dröscher, Burkhard Heim, Andreas Resch : Introduction to Burkhard Heim's "Uniform Description of the World". With term, formula and general register. Volume 4. Resch, Innsbruck 1998, ISBN 3-85382-064-6 .

literature

  • Gerda Heim: Memories of the physicist Burkhard Heim. Resch, Innsbruck 2002, ISBN 3-85382-073-5 .
  • Horst Willigmann: Outline of Heim's theory. Resch 2002. ISBN 978-3-8538-20728 .
  • Wolfgang Ludwig: The extended unified quantum field theory by Burkhard Heim. Resch, Innsbruck 2002, 4th edition, ISBN 3-85382-063-8 . Online version (PDF; 2.8 MB)
  • Illobrand von Ludwiger : Burkhard Heim, The life of a forgotten genius. Scorpio, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-942166-09-6 .
  • Illobrand von Ludwiger: Our 6-dimensional world: Scientific understanding of magic, mysticism and alchemy. Complete Media, Munich / Grünwald 2012, ISBN 978-3-8312-0390-1 .
  • Illobrand von Ludwiger: The new worldview of the physicist Burkhard Heim: Immortal in the 6-dimensional world. Complete Media, Grünwald, Kr. Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-8312-0394-9 .
  • Arnim Bechmann : Approaches to Burkhard Heim's Uniform Description of the World. Approximations and conjectures. Edition Zukunft, Barsinghausen 2014, ISBN 978-3-89799-259-7 .

Audio book

  • The new worldview of the physicist Burkhard Heim (original lecture recordings). Complete Media, Grünwald 2006, ISBN 3-8312-6128-8 . (Running time 4:40 h)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Illobrand von Ludwiger: Burkhard Heim - The life of a forgotten genius. Scorpio, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-942166-09-6 , p. 6.
  2. ↑ MG Millis, Progress in Revolutionary Propulsion Physics, 61st International Astronautical Congress, 2010, page 5. Available on Arxiv (PDF; 1.2 MB).
  3. ↑ I. v. Ludwiger: On the death of the physicist Burkhard Heim. 2001, archived from the original on April 8, 2004 (p. 5).;
  4. ↑ Andreas Resch: Burkhard Heim (1925 - 2001)
  5. ↑ I. v. Ludwiger: On the death of the physicist Burkhard Heim. 2001, archived from the original on April 8, 2004 (p. 6).;
  6. ↑ Ludwiger, 2010, p. 186
  7. ↑ Ludwiger, 2010, pp. 240 and 291 f.
  8. ↑ Ludwiger, 2010, p. 356
  9. ↑ I. v. Ludwiger: On the death of the physicist Burkhard Heim. (pdf, 436 kB) 2001, archived from the original on April 8, 2004 .;
  10. ↑ a b I. v. Ludwiger: On the death of the physicist Burkhard Heim. 2001, archived from the original on April 8, 2004 (p. 3f).;
  11. ↑ The anti-gravity. In: Der Spiegel. No. 20, 1958, pp. 58-60
  12. ^ Gerhard W. Bruhn on the further development of the home theory by Dröscher and Hauser
  13. ↑ Bonus technology: Hyperspace In: New Scientist, Engage the x drive: Ten ways to traverse deep space. P. 3 (December 21, 2009)
  14. ↑ AIAA posts aiaa.org; ADS harvard.edu; SPESIF ‐ 2010  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ; STAIF 2005  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. aip.org; AIAA research award for Professor Dr. Jochem houses idw-online.de, accessed on February 4, 2014@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / proceedings.aip.org  @1@ 2Template: Toter Link / proceedings.aip.org  
  15. ↑ Kelvin F. Long: Deep space propulsion - a roadmap to interstellar flight. Springer, New York 2012, ISBN 978-1-4614-0606-8 , p. 295 @ google books ; Marc G. Millis, et al .: Frontiers of propulsion science. American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Reston 2009, ISBN 978-1-56347-956-4 , pp. 218-221, pdf overview
  16. ↑ Ludwiger, 2010. P. 220 ff.
  17. ↑ Fordlandia on Jóhann Jóhannsson's website, accessed December 19, 2016.
  18. ^ Northeim: Fire brigade got chemicals from abandoned house hna.de, accessed on February 20, 2012
personal data
SURNAME Heim, Burkhard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Heim, Burkhard Christian Ludwig Alexander (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German explosives technician, physicist
DATE OF BIRTH February 9, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Potsdam
DATE OF DEATH January 14, 2001
Place of death Northeim