About Burkhard Heim

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Burkhard Heim: Introduction

The physicist Burkhard Heim was a severely handicapped person (blind, hard of hearing, handless). Therefore, it was impossible for him to work within a team at an institute. Nevertheless, in 1954 (after he left the Max-Planck-Institute in Göttingen) he privately performed the difficult calculations for Einstein’s unified field theory and fulfilled Einstein’s dream after decades of lonely work: a complete geometrical description of all forces and a formula for the masses of all elementary particles. The mass formula was programmed, and the spectrum of masses was printed in 1982 by physicists at DESY (Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron), Hamburg. This formula yields all known and some unknown masses of elementary particles and resonances on account of the knowledge about the internal dynamics of geometrical structures, without introducing Higgs-bosons or perturbation calculations.
Until now, Heim’s unified field theory must be considered the most successful one, since in physics there are no better results for the properties of elementary particles as long as physical properties of strings cannot yet be determined. Therefore, it should be checked by specialists. Since this theory requires exceptional mathematical knowledge, Heim’s theory is only accessible to few theorists. But the many results of this theory which correspond with experiments, in our opinion, justify all efforts of a preoccupation with it – contrary to many other modern theoretical ideas.
Today most physicists do not know Burkhard Heim (other than in the late 1950s). The reason is that Heim has waited for too long to publish his books and did not care much for a representation of his manuscripts which is sufficient to modern standards. Also, the leading physicists with whom Heim collaborated (for instance the professors Pascual Jordan, Hamburg, and Richard Becker, Göttingen), deceased long ago.
Therefore, no physicists believe that a scientist who worked privately and not at an institute could realize such a significant work. Nobody reads his books and no one of the particle physicists takes care of the mass formula. One rather believes in the correctness of the established standard models and attempts to confirm these by scattering experiments, or at least to get new insights from them, paying a lot of money.
If Heim’s theory would only correctly predict the interior of elementary particles, would explain the geometrical reasons for all particle-properties and would answer astrophysical basic questions, it would be essential only for physicists – an important theory among several others. But Heim’s theory describes a world view which, in addition, is also of great importance for everybody. According to Heim, the mass spectrum is only describable within a world of six dimensions (three real and three imaginary). Therefore, also we humans must live in a world with six dimensions. The two additional dimensions are not – like in Kalzua-Klein theories – curled up in small areas, but they are in principle verifiable domains of the world. But they are not measurable by physical instruments and have an informational character since they describe qualitative aspects (meanings) of material organizations. That is the reason why Heim in the last years of his life developed an extended formal logic to describe quantitative as well as qualitative aspects uniformly. Only in this way it was possible to formalize biological and psychological processes (like consciousness) in a 6-dimensional manifold, and therefore also non-physical events. This will have exceptionally far-reaching consequences for all fields of science.

Until 2008, there was a research group Heim Theory consisting of scientists some of which had collaborated with Heim. Among those was, above all, Dipl.-Phys. Illobrand von Ludwiger (1937–2023). The goal was to call other physicists’ attention to this theory by suitable presentations of Heim’s works. The research group has dissolved due to advanced age and death of its members. Today, we operate a mailing list to facilitate academic exchange about Heim Theory.

Heim’s Worldview

Until 2001 a mysterious physicist lived in Germany who in the 1950s had achieved fame for a short time, but then continued working in obscurity. Only rarely did he lecture at congresses, and it was not before the 1980s that he published his work in two comprehensive volumes. The message he wanted to communicate is so difficult to understand that his work has scarcely been read. And yet, the system developed by him seems to mean a greater revolution than Einstein’s, as it directly affects human beings and their personal destinies.

If you ask physicists for their opinion about Burkhard Heim, you will hear judgments such as “misfit, odd loner, dubious dreamer, weirdo”, but also “the new Einstein, Germany’s Stephen Hawking, an ingenious thinker, someone who should be nominated for the Nobel Prize.” So which is true?

The first thing you will note is that the positive opinions have been uttered by those physicists who have known Burkhard Heim personally or have studied his work. By contrast, all critical judgments have come from physicists who have neither known Heim nor examined his work.

In the 1980s Burkhard Heim claimed to have found what Einstein and his successors have been looking for in vain to this day: a mass formula for all elementary particles and the explanation of their qualities by dynamic geometric structures.

That sounds incredible, as nobody thinks a physicist not integrated in the academic life capable of such an achievement. But Heim’s mass formula was already programed and analyzed by physicists at the Deutsche Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY – German Electron-Synchrotron) in 1981 – with convincing results.

However, since nobody was able to understand the theoretical derivations of the formulas without prior familiarization, the DESY-physicists were stunned, but kept silent about this sensation and awaited the judgments of structural theorists and relativity theorists on the theory. As early as 2004 did the spokeswoman of DESY answer a journalist’s question as follows:

“The few people who have known Heim and some leading scientists have unequivocally come to the opinion that the mass formula is in any case an enormous personal achievement, especially considering his handicap. However, all of them hold the view that it is much too complicated, so that even very good theorists would need to occupy themselves with this theory for at least one year in order to be able to evaluate it.”

This is not about analyzing or defending Heim’s mass formula, but the present text shall give the readers the opportunity to form their own opinion about Burkhard Heim. For that purpose, Heim’s own words will be cited as often as possible. Wherever certain technical terms are used which are only known to physicists, such terms will be commented on, so that the reader will be able to follow Burkhard Heim’s explanations.

A theory that leads to the geometrical description of matter seems very reliable. – Other theories, such as String Theory, Loop-Quantum Gravity or the Standard Modell of particle physics, on the other hand, cannot reveal anything about the geometric structure of elementary particles of matter that has been proven in experiments. Thus, Heim’s system has proven correct – as measured by results. The philosophical consequences for us humans are enormous, as even qualitative aspects of matter, such as learning processes and consciousness, can be described by an aspectual logic newly developed by Heim. Heims occupation with the theory of elementary particles forced him, due to the 2 additional dimensions that had become mathematically necessary and which proved to be of organising kind, to integrate qualities into the total description of worldly events in a formal-logical way. Therefore, he had to develop a more general logic than the Aristotelic one. That is the subject of the present text…

Following the discovery of an additional 700 unpublished pages of manuscripts in Heim’s legacy, this text, which had already been written at that time, was supplemented by a number of citations taken from those manuscripts.