Burkhard Heim

Burkhard Heim
Born	February 9, 1925 Potsdam
Died	January 14, 2001 (aged 75) Northeim
Nationality	Germany
Fields	Physicist
Known for	Heim theory

Burkhard Heim (February 9, 1925 – January 14, 2001) was a German theoretical physicist. He devoted a large portion of his life to the pursuit of his unified field theory, Heim theory. One of his childhood ambitions was to develop a method of space travel, which contributed to his motivation to find such a theory.

During World War II, Heim was conscripted into the air force. However, a previous essay about explosives led to his working briefly in a chemical laboratory as an explosives technician, instead. An explosion in the laboratory caused by the mishandling of unstable compounds left him with debilitating handicaps. The accident left him without hands and mostly deaf and blind when he was 19, forcing him to use Krukenberg hands. Illobrand von Ludwiger claims this to be a terrorist assassination attempt, for which Heim saved the assassins life by "forgiving him". Neither name nor motivation of the claimed assassin nor details of the "forgiving" and how this saved his life are given.

His behavior subsequently became progressively eccentric and reclusive. Eventually, he retreated into almost total seclusion, concentrating on developing and refining his theory of everything.

A large proportion of the 76 years of Heim's life was spent on theoretical physics and the formulation of his Heim theory.

In 1943 Heim met Heisenberg, who was involved in German atom bomb research at that time, and told him of his plan to use chemical implosion to facilitate an atomic explosion. This design was based on his idea he developed for a 'clean' hydrogen bomb when he was 18. Heisenberg was impressed by Heim's knowledge, but thought the approach would be impractical.

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