Heim Theory is not a single model, nor is it limited to one particular physical hypothesis. Over several decades, Burkhard Heim pursued a much broader theoretical program extending from gravitation, spacetime and elementary particles to discrete geometry, logic, biological organization, psyche, and the conditions under which scientific knowledge itself is formed.
The physical part of this program represents only one level of the larger project. In Elementary Structures of Matter and related works, Heim attempted to describe matter and gravitation geometrically within an extended world structure. In the later published Syntrometric Maximentelezentrik, the scope widens further: not only physical structures but also the conditions of description, different logical and qualitative aspects, and hierarchical forms of organization become part of the investigation.
The following pages introduce these levels step by step. Wherever possible, the website distinguishes clearly between Burkhard Heim’s own work, historical developments by the former Heim Theory working group, present-day mathematical reconstructions, and new hypotheses building on Heim’s ideas.
For a first introduction, the most useful starting points are Mathematics and Logic, Syntrometry, the Mass Formula, and the Glossary. This part of the website is currently being expanded. Further sections are being developed on the physical architecture of Heim Theory, the organization and origin of life, and Heim’s ideas concerning psyche, consciousness, and the human being.
Mathematics and Logic
This page presents Heim’s scientific program at a foundational level. Its focus lies on the role of mathematics as the precise language of the quantifiable external world, on the scope and limits of ordinary two-valued logic, and on Heim’s insistence that the conditions of knowledge themselves must become part of methodical reflection.
Syntrometry
Syntrometry is one of the most demanding and unusual parts of Heim’s work. It is concerned not only with physics in the narrower sense, but with a more general structural doctrine of cognition, aspect-dependence, order, and relation. This page introduces Heim’s original work and also explains more recent English studies and developments.
Mass Formula
The mass formula is one of the best-known and most frequently discussed parts of Heim Theory. It belongs to Heim’s attempt not merely to catalogue elementary particles empirically, but to determine their masses from a deeper geometrical and structural order. This page brings together the principal documents and offers an initial overview of their theoretical setting.
Glossary
Heim’s work employs its own conceptual language, and many of its terms are demanding even for readers already familiar with physics or philosophy. The glossary is intended to help place central terms such as metron, selector, syntrometry, televariance, polymetry, or mass formula in a concise and clear way. It is meant as a conceptual guide through the website.
