Help Fund a Burkhard Heim Postdoc
Burkhard Heim’s work belongs to the most unusual and at the same time least explored theoretical bodies in recent physics. Although his writings cover gravitation, elementary particle theory, cosmology, structural theory, and later methodological expansions reaching into syntrometry, a large part of his work remains internationally inaccessible. Many texts exist only in German, are historically difficult to place, or survive in a form that makes systematic scientific study difficult.
The goal of this project is therefore clear: to fund a full-time postdoctoral research position devoted professionally and academically to the work of Burkhard Heim. This position is meant to help bring more of Heim’s theory into a contemporary academic language, evaluate it systematically, make it internationally accessible, and gradually move parts of it toward peer-reviewed publication. The work is intended to include not only translation and editorial clarification, but also theoretical evaluation, mathematical reconstruction, international collaboration, and scholarly communication.
Why now?
Burkhard Heim is still known mainly within a small circle of dedicated readers and interpreters. At the same time, interest is growing in a serious reconstruction of his work: historically, mathematically, logically, and physically. If this work is to be carried out with the necessary depth, continuity, and professionalism rather than only in fragmented voluntary form, it requires a dedicated academic position over a longer period. That is the purpose of this effort.
It is hard not to regret that such a step was not taken much earlier. The scholarly development of Burkhard Heim’s work has been overdue for a long time. In truth, what is needed is not merely a single position, but ultimately a whole team of people in professional academic roles — with expertise in physics, mathematics, logic, philosophy. One postdoctoral position cannot solve that task in full. But it can be a decisive beginning: a first institutional step toward moving Burkhard Heim out of the marginal condition of isolated individual efforts and toward the conditions required for serious, lasting, and internationally connected research.
Institutional setting
The project is situated in the environment of Wetsus. Wetsus describes itself as a European centre of excellence for sustainable water technology and maintains an established research environment with university partners, ongoing projects, and scientific publications. Particularly relevant here is the Applied Water Physics theme, which investigates fundamental properties of water and its interactions with electric, magnetic, and electromagnetic fields.
The project is being carried out in close cooperation between Wetsus and the Cosmic Water Foundation. Prof. Dr. Elmar C. Fuchs, Program Manager at Wetsus, is also Chairman of the Cosmic Water Foundation and part of the new Heim Theory workgroup. The Cosmic Water Foundation emerged as a daughter organization or spin-off from the wider Wetsus environment and brings together activities especially at the interface of fundamental research, interdisciplinary questions, and scientific-cultural communication.
This institutional framework matters because it shows that the proposed work is not conceived as an isolated private initiative, but as a project that can be anchored in a real scientific environment. The goal is to work through Burkhard Heim’s corpus systematically in a professional context and to open it to broader international discussion.
This institutional setting matters because it shows that the proposed work is not conceived as an isolated private initiative, but as something that can connect to a real research environment. The aim is to work through Burkhard Heim’s corpus in a professional academic context and to open it to broader international discussion.
What the postdoc will do
The planned postdoctoral position is intended in particular to:
- bring Burkhard Heim’s writings into clear academically usable language,
- translate, evaluate, and systematically reconstruct central parts of the corpus,
- organize publications and workshops,
- foster international collaboration,
- and gradually place relevant parts of Heim’s work into a broader scientific context.
This is explicitly not meant as a merely archival or editorial exercise. It is meant to create the basis on which Heim can be discussed in a form that is readable and examinable for present-day scholars beyond a small specialist circle.
Funding
For this project, part of the financial framework is already secured. According to the fundraising documents, Wetsus has already secured 75% of the required funding. To make the project fully possible, €140,400 over four years are still needed, which corresponds to €35,100 per year.
On this website, we state the goal clearly as the funding of a postdoctoral position. The existing fundraising documents still use somewhat mixed wording (postdoc or PhD), but for the further communication of this project, the postdoctoral position should stand clearly at the center.
Why Support Makes a Difference Here
Supporting this project means more than preserving historical material. It makes possible the professional scientific study of a body of work that would otherwise remain only partially accessible. The planned work is intended to unite translation, reconstruction, publication, and international opening. In this way, Burkhard Heim’s theory has the chance not merely to be archived, but to be reopened in a serious scholarly form.
Through the close connection with Wetsus and the embedding in the Cosmic Water Foundation, the project gains both scientific credibility and a form of communication that remains interdisciplinary and publicly accessible.
According to the fundraising documents, supporters will receive regular project updates, a final report with results and impact analysis, the option of named or anonymous acknowledgment in publications and events, as well as invitations to presentations or symposia.
Contact
Gerrit Oudakker
Wetsus Ambassador
for the Cosmic Water Foundation
Email: g.oudakker@cosmicwaterfoundation.com
General email: info@cosmicwaterfoundation.com
Wetsus: European centre of excellence for sustainable water technology
Applied Water Physics at Wetsus: Research theme
Additional ways to help
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