The Crumbling Paradigm – Part Five
The New Scientific Messiah
Thomas Kuhn has pointed out that “almost all the men who achieve these fundamental inventions of a new paradigm have been either very young or very new to the field whose paradigm they change.” 1
Isaac Newton was in his early twenties when he first expounded his revolutionary theories at Cambridge. Albert Einstein was twenty-six when he published the three papers that revolutionized the science of physics. However, despite the early age at which they made their initial scientific contributions, it was only many decades later that the full impact of their revolutionary ideas was officially recognized.
As amazing as it may seem, there is every sign that the new scientific messiah has arrived, and has laid down the mathematical foundation for the new paradigm. This revolutionary genius, however, has thus far been barely recognised by the scientific community.
The name of this latter day Einstein was Burkhard Heim. Like Einstein, Heim was of German descent, and like all the great scientific innovators of the past, he formulated his revolutionary ideas while he was in his early twenties.
It was in 1949, when he was just 24 years old, that the young Heim began to speculate on the theoretical nature of matter, and the possibility of realising the Einsteinian dream of unifying the known forces of the universe into a single mathematical theory.
Energy and Mass
Heim began by considering the correlation between energy and mass, and was immediately struck by the similarities that existed in the equations describing gravity and centrifugal force. In both of these inertial forces, their mathematical expression required mass (m) to be divided by distance (r).
It was evident to Heim that the total mass of any object in nature must therefore consist of two distinct parts. The major part of an object’s mass was the sum of the actual constituents of matter that made up that object.
Yet, since every object in nature generated a gravitational field of energy around it, and since Einstein had proved via his famous formula (E=mc2) that energy was simply another form of matter, Heim realised that the energy of the gravitational field excited by any object could be reduced to mass as well.
Because the amount of energy contained in any gravitational field varied according to the size of an object, as well as to the distance from the centre of that object, it was obvious that the mass of any object was inextricably linked with distance.
Heim thus concluded that the true mass of any object in the universe was the actual mass of the visible object, plus a smaller field mass, which was the equivalent mass of its gravitational field.
Gravity and Electromagnetism
Heim then turned his attention to the forces of electromagnetism and gravitation. It had long been known that electricity and magnetism were separate but related parts of a unified force called electromagnetism.
Because of this, every moving electrical field generated a magnetic field that manifested at right angles to the electrical field. Similarly, any change in a magnetic field generated an electrical field at right angles to it. It was this ability of a moving magnetic field to produce an electromotive force that was the basic principle of the electric generator.
Just as in the theory of electromagnetism, that provided for twin fields which manifested at right angles to each other, so Heim derived from first principles a mathematical theory that linked gravity to a unique field of its own, that existed at right angles to the gravitational field.
Heim called this new field a “mesofield”. The mesofield was to gravity therefore, what the magnetic field was to electricity. It was that field of energy that would be created by a moving gravitational field, and which then manifested at right angles to the gravitational field.
It was a theoretical consequence of Heim’s mathematical theory, that by manipulating the mesofield, it would be possible to create a gravitational field at right angles to it. Heim’s theory thus provided for the first time in history, a scientific basis for the creation and manipulation of a gravitational field of energy.
The corollary also applied, and that was by manipulation of the mesofield generated by any physical object, it would be possible to suspend the gravitational force surrounding that object, thereby rendering it weightless within our space-time continuum.
A New View of Reality
Starting with this as an initial hypothesis, Heim then began to evaluate the nature of matter in mathematical terms. He used for this purpose a mathematical device called a tensor.
By means of a tensor, various terms can be reduced to a mathematical relationship that remains constant under specific conditions. These terms may then relate equally to any subject matter without affecting the mathematical validity of the tensor.
Heim succeeded in deriving an energy-density-tensor that was able to define the true nature of matter and energy. Using this tensor, Heim discovered that it would take thirty-six mathematical terms to define completely the nature of physical reality. Since thirty-six terms formed a matrix of six multiplied by six, this suggested to Heim that physical reality consisted of six dimensions.
In the development of this energy-density-tensor, Heim found that it was necessary for three dimensions to be “real” or space-like, and three dimensions to be “imaginary” or time-like. This did not mean that the imaginary dimensions did not exist, but that they existed independently of the “real” dimensions.
In deriving his six-dimensional energy-density-tensor, Heim was able to combine all the known forces of physics into a single unified theory.
Heim found that when he excluded the gravitational terms from his energy-density-tensor, he was left with the Faraday tensor of electromagnetic equations, and when he extracted the electrical and magnetic terms, he was left with Einstein’s gravitational tensor of relativity.
What he had succeeded in achieving was the enduring goal of physical science. He had combined the field theories of gravitation and electromagnetism into a single theory. Heim’s unified field theory was not only the dream of science fulfilled, but it formed the mathematical basis for an entirely new view of reality.
This revolutionary theory promises to transform the whole of science. Heim’s theory is, in fact, the scientific breakthrough that links the realm of matter with that of mind in a revolutionary mathematical embrace. It holds out the promise of becoming the foundation of a new scientific paradigm.
A World of Six Dimensions
Although Heim had succeeded in deriving a mathematical formula that described the structure of physical matter, he was obliged to speculate as to what these six dimensions might actually represent in the world of common experience.
Heim’s dimensions were divided, as has been noted, into three “real” dimensions that were physical, and three “imaginary” dimensions that were non-physical.
The three “real” dimensions were material and could be perceived directly by the human senses. These were the three physical dimensions of length, breadth and height. The three “imaginary” dimensions, on the other hand, could not be discerned by the senses.
This meant that although matter and life were subject to these three imaginary dimensions, humanity had no means of sensing them directly. They could only be inferred from sensory information. The first of these imaginary dimensions was the dimension of time itself.
In seeking to find an interpretation of the second imaginary dimension, Heim was attracted to an ancient idea drawn from Aristotelian philosophy. Aristotle taught that every creature and every object in the universe possessed a quality of “entelechy”, based on the Greek word Telos, meaning a goal or perfection.
According to Aristotle, entelechy was that vital force that acted within every organism directing its life and growth, and which aimed constantly towards perfection. Entelechy, therefore, referred to the actualisation of potential. It was the evolutionary drive that animated all of nature, and which might also be called the Cosmic Life Force, or, for those who preferred, the God Force.
It was this creative force of life, striving for perfection, that Heim defined as the second non-material dimension. Under the influence of this force, Heim predicted that molecules of matter would organise, wherever possible, into living systems of successively higher orders of complexity.
Entropy and Negative Entropy
The third imaginary dimension, according to Heim, served to control the direction and extent of this organising force.
Heim determined that this force would manifest in one of two ways. Its influence would either direct the flow of energy from chaos into order, or else it would reverse itself, in which case the flow of energy would change from order into chaos.
Now the process of change from order to disorder is a well-established principle in physics, where it is referred to as “entropy”. Heim predicted, however, that it was essentially this same force that was at work in the generation of organic life, by creating order out of disorder. Heim referred to this creative process, which was the opposite process of entropy, as “negative entropy”.
We can easily see the process of entropy at work if we heat water to a high temperature. If we now stop this heating process, the heat in the water will slowly dissipate into the surrounding air until a uniform temperature of water and air is attained. This loss of energy, or the process from order to disorder, is what scientists call the action of entropy.
When we look at the field of biology, however, we find that this process is reversed. Here, the organism acts in such a way as to achieve order out of disorder. We can see this organizing process at work when a seed is planted in the ground.
As the seed germinates, it sends out tiny root hairs into the surrounding soil. Through these root hairs, the seed acquires molecules from the soil. Using the DNA molecule as its blueprint, it makes replicas of its cells from these molecules obtained from the soil, and assembles them in greater and greater quantities. In this way the seed grows into a plant by taking random sources of energy from the soil and ordering them according to a particular pattern of expression.
This process of creating order out of random energy, said Heim, was simply the reverse process of entropy. In the manifestation of the universe, therefore, these twin aspects of entropy and negative entropy were constantly acting in unison together.
The life principle functioned by generating order out of chaos, and by manifesting in energy as a particular pattern of expression. When the co-coordinating force of negative entropy subsided, it was replaced by that of entropy, in which case the organism decomposed into random constituents of energy.
In terms of Heim’s theory, therefore, a clear distinction can now be drawn between the processes of “life” and “death”. Life represents that manifestation of the Cosmic Life Force operating in its creative expression (negative entropy). Death represents this same force operating in its destructive phase (entropy).
Under this theory, the exact moment of birth or death can be precisely established. Birth is that moment when the creative phase begins, or when the process of entropy ends, and death is that moment when this process reverses itself.
To summarise, therefore, Heim defined the three non-material or negative dimensions in the following way. The first of these dimensions was time. The second was “entelechy”, the evolutionary force that was constantly striving for perfection. The third of these non-spatial dimensions governed the direction in which this force operated.
In its creative expression, it created order out of disorder (negative entropy), and in its destructive phase (entropy), the energy that had previously been held together in a particular pattern of expression, now resolved itself once more into its primal source.
The Role of the Quantum
It should be noted that the interpretation of Heim’s energy-density-tensor needs to be treated quite independently from the mathematics involved, which rests upon legitimate, although complex, mathematical equations involving all six dimensions.
Heim’s Unified Field Theory of Matter and Gravitation is a theory that is rooted in quantum theory. However, it carries the principle of the quantum farther than any physicist had hitherto suspected.
It was Max Planck who discovered that the energy of heat was not radiated in an unbroken linear fashion, but was emitted in the form of tiny, individual lumps of action. Planck called each separate lump of action a quantum. Einstein extended Planck’s discovery further, by declaring that all forms of energy were propagated or absorbed in the form of these discrete particles or quanta.
Heim’s quantum field theory carries the influence of the quantum to its ultimate extent, for his energy-density-tensor demands that all six dimensions must be quantised. It is therefore necessary to quantise not only the three physical dimensions of space, but the three “imaginary” dimensions as well.
Heim’s theory requires that space itself be composed of a multitude of tiny quanta of area. Heim has christened each individual quantum of area a “metron”. Similarly, time is quantised, and can only take place in multiples of individual quanta of time called “chronons”.
Finally, the two remaining imaginary dimensions are considered by Heim to function in multiples of discrete particles known as “gravitons”. Heim did not assume that gravitons travelled at a speed similar to that of electromagnetic particles, but left open the possibility that gravitons could in fact be super-luminal particles, that is, particles travelling faster than the speed of light.
Because his mathematics had to cater for each basic quantum of nature, it was necessary for Heim to invent a totally new mathematical calculus, before formulating his unified quantum field theory. In this respect, Heim has had to do what Isaac Newton himself had done in formulating his own revolutionary ideas some three centuries earlier.
From Theory to Practice
Having deduced his comprehensive theory, Heim’s next task was to see whether his theory was actually representative of the physical universe.
He found that the substitution of a few quantum integers into his mathematical equations did, in fact, lead to valid physical results. By substituting these integers into his formulae for the masses of elementary particles, Heim found that he was able to predict the masses of all known elementary particles to an accuracy of eight decimal places.
In addition, he was able to explain the internal structure of elementary particles, including such aspects as their quantum numbers and spin, as well as their average lifetimes. Heim’s revolutionary theory went far beyond the micro-world of sub-nuclear particles, however, for it provided dramatic new insights into the macro-world of astronomy as well.
For example, it explained the sizes of galactic clusters. It also gave new meaning to the “red-shift” effect, whereby the frequencies of light observed by astronomers from distant stars and galaxies were shifted towards the red side of the visible spectrum of light.
According to Heim’s theory, the gravitational field exerted by any astronomical body would reach its limit at a certain point in space. At that limit, Heim’s mathematics indicated that the force of gravity would reverse itself, and repel instead of attract.
This explained why galactic clusters did not interact gravitationally to form higher orders of matter, but remained separate in space. Light approaching a gravitational field from outside would be repelled. In overcoming this repulsion, the light would give up a certain amount of its energy.
This loss of energy would require the frequency of the light from the distant source to decrease, and this would appear to observers as if its frequency had shifted to the red end of the spectrum – the well-known phenomenon of the “red-shift.”
As we have seen, astronomers have interpreted this shift to the red end of the light spectrum as a Doppler effect, and it is this interpretation that is the basis of the theory of the Big Bang.
If Heim is correct in this new explanation of the red-shift of light, it would add yet another nail in the coffin of the long-accepted theory of the Big Bang. Clearly, astronomers educated in the ways of the existing scientific paradigm, will resist this challenge to their accepted ideas to the death.
In addition to the foregoing, Heim’s theory went on to provide an understanding of the elementary processes of life, the after-death state, and accounted for such things as psychological and paranormal phenomena.
According to his theory, the non-physical dimensions are the realms of what we have come to call Psi phenomena. Heim predicts that once it is possible to create a mesofield within the laboratory, the emergence of this field will be accompanied by spontaneous paranormal phenomena.
In terms of theory, therefore, it is now possible to talk of creating Psi phenomena in the laboratory under rigidly controlled conditions, in a way that can be validated by mathematical analysis.
In a further extension of his theory, Heim indicates that the actual manifestation of physical matter in the universe is ordered by an underlying non-physical pattern, that exists in the non-material dimensions. It is this non-material pattern that controls the form that any particular manifestation will take.
Based on this new view of life, every organic creature grows by means of the underlying pattern relative to that species. It is this underlying pattern (that Harold Burr has called the L-field) that governs the physical characteristics of every creature.
Before a physical body can be formed, there must first be created its non-physical counterpart. Under the direction of this blueprint, and driven by the Cosmic Life Force, the body is then formed through the acquisition of energy through the process of negative entropy, and by building new cells according to the presiding pattern of the field.
This underlying pattern in all created life also holds out new possibilities for the healing arts. The process of healing, therefore, may well resolve itself into a matter of applying suitable amounts of energy to this underlying pattern, in order to restore the creature to its former “healthy” state.
The governing blueprint of the non-physical pattern will then apply that energy to restore the organism to its fully functioning form. Heim’s theory thus not only justifies paranormal (psychic) healing, but opens up miraculous new possibilities of healing.
It is hardly possible at this time to speculate about the potential applications of Heim’s revolutionary Field Theory. It is safe to say, however, that it will not only change our understanding of the world and of ourselves, but it will also allow us to manipulate matter in ways that now seem to be impossible.
If it succeeds in becoming the new scientific paradigm, it will herald an age of technological marvels that beggar description. The magic of this new description of reality will be truly dazzling. In that era scientists will discover that they possess the power to transform space and time itself.
Heim’s Remarkable Life
The fact that a scientific theory capable of offering such a rich cornucopia of worldly wonder actually exists today will seem unbelievable to many, especially as scientists have long believed that this crowning intellectual achievement could occur only through the combined efforts of entire armies of scientists, operating in unison together.
Yet it is no less incredible than the character of the man himself. Burkhard Heim was not only a man of unique talents, but he was the beneficiary (or victim – depending on how one chooses to look at it) of an amazing twist of fate.
He was born on February 9, 1925, in the city of Potsdam near Berlin. As a boy his early interest lay in the field of chemistry, and it was in this discipline that he first excelled. At the age of sixteen he invented a device that led to his being seconded to the Chemical-Technological State Establishment in Berlin.
It was there, in May1944, while conducting a laboratory experiment, that the teenaged Heim was involved in an accidental explosion that almost cost him his life. He was severely injured in the blast, and as a legacy of this explosion, lost both his hands. In addition, he was blinded in one eye, and left with only partial hearing.
Incredibly, Heim was undaunted by this devastating setback, and continued to pursue his studies in chemistry. After several years, however, he developed an interest in theoretical physics, and in 1954 was awarded his Master’s degree (diploma) in physics at the University of Gottingen in Lower Saxony.
Even before he was granted this degree, Heim had begun to develop his revolutionary ideas. His first major opportunity to present them to the scientific community came at the Second International Aeronautical Congress at Innsbruck, Austria, in 1952.
While most of those attending this conference confined their papers to the problems of post-war aeronautics, Heim stunned the assembled gathering by presenting a theoretical paper in which he advanced the idea that it was possible to travel in space by harnessing the power of the mesofield.
This was of course a time when even the idea of space flight seemed an improbable dream. The very thought that people might actually be able to travel to other planets and stars, and might do so by means of a force that was then still unknown, and unfounded, seemed so absurd that the ideas of the handicapped physicist were rejected with disbelief and scorn.
It proved to be a salutary experience. Having been rebuffed on this occasion, Heim vowed that he would only present his ideas before his colleagues when he had conducted a complete review of the mathematical proofs that his new theory demanded.
Heim’s Mathematical Proofs
This was a process that was to take him a quarter of a century to complete. It was not until 1979 that the first volume of his work entitled Elementarstrukturen der Materie (Elementary Structures of Matter) was published. It was followed five years later by a second volume. 2, 3
These two volumes were devoted primarily to the revision of the mathematical proofs required by his revolutionary theory. Because for Heim all aspects of nature needed to be quantised, it was necessary to rework all the existing mathematical theorems by replacing the old continuous functions by new functions which depended on finite steps. Apart from this major work, Heim was content to confine himself to occasional articles and reports. 4, 5, 6
It is amazing that a man burdened by such physical handicaps was able to overcome these incredible difficulties, and to persist to the point where he was successful in formulating his revolutionary theory. Yet the daunting turn of destiny seems in retrospect to have been the deciding factor in his ultimate success.
For just as Beethoven was able to compose his greatest symphonies by withdrawing to an inner world of isolation imposed by his deafness, so Heim’s devastating injuries that so severely hampered his physical expression, nevertheless allowed him the opportunity to absorb himself in an inner world of thought, divorced from outer distractions.
In this he was assisted by the dedicated services of his wife, who was able to transcribe the ideas that Heim dictated to her, and which became the foundation of his published works.
Heim’s Unified Quantum Field Theory of Matter and Gravitation
Heim’s Unified Quantum Field Theory of Matter and Gravitation stands today as a supreme intellectual achievement, perhaps without parallel in the entire history of science.
In the past, many decades were to elapse before the theories of other solitary geniuses of science were recognised by their colleagues. The mathematical genius of Isaac Newton was not recognised in his own lifetime.
It was a fate that was equally true of Heim, for he died on January 14, 2001, without seeing his new theory vindicated by his peers. One wonders how long we may have to wait before the world of science is ready to consider Heim’s revolutionary ideas.
Although Heim has provided the indispensable framework for the new scientific paradigm, by laboriously charting those mathematical theorems that are necessary for its validation, the idea of a six-dimensional universe itself was not unique to Heim. Other scientists, such as the British physicist Weston Wells, have expounded similar ideas.
It was the result of a series of personal discussions with Wells that led Sir Victor Goddard, a senior commander in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War, to make the following prediction in his book Flight to Reality, which was published in 1975.
“Materialists employing mathematics see no merit, yet, in any six-dimensional continuum of normal consciousness, embodying three exclusive measurements of space, and three of time. Someday, I prophesy, they will.” 7
References
1 Thomas Kuhn, “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions”, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1970, p. 90.
2 Burkhard Heim, “Elementarstrukturen der Materie”, (Elementary Structures of Matter) Vol I, Resch Verlag, Innsbruck, 1979.(Revised edition published in 1989).
3 Burkhard Heim, “Elementarstrukturen der Materie”, Vol II, Resch Verlag, Innsbruck, 1984.
4 Burkhard Heim, “Der Kosmische Erlebnisraum des Menschen”, (The Cosmic Experience-Space of Man) in Imago Mundi, Vol IV, 1975, Resch Verlag, Innsbruck.
5 Burkhard Heim, “Der Elementar-prozess des Lebens”, (The Elementary Process of Life) in Imago Mundi, Vol VI, 1977, Resch Verlag, Innsbruck.
6 Droscher, W., and Heim, B., “Strukturen der physikalischen Welt und ihrer nichtmateriellen Seite”, (Structures of the Physical World and its Non-Material Aspect) Resch Verlag, Innsbruck, 1996.
7 Victor Goddard, “Flight Towards Reality”, Turnstone, London, 1975, p. 135.
