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=== 2000s === Heim died in Northeim in 2001 at age 75. In 2004, the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) awarded the winning paper in the nuclear and future flight field to a retired Austrian patent officer named Walter Dröscher and Jochem Häuser, a physicist and professor of computer science at the University of Applied Sciences in Salzgitter, Germany. They turned the theoretical framework of Burkhard Heim into a proposal for an experimental test for a propulsion device that is thought to theoretically be able to travel at rates faster than the speed of light. Hans Theodor Auerbach, a theoretical physicist and colleague of Heim has stated that, "As far as I understand it, Heim theory is ingenious," and, "I think that physics will take this direction in the future". In 2008, the AIAA Nuclear and Future Flight Propulsion Technical Committee published the following statement:
Much research was conducted this year on the investigation of the experimental basis of the existence of gravity-like fields that cannot be described by conventional gravitation; that is, by the accumulation of mass. Investigations emphasized a geometrized approach termed Extended Heim Theory, which extends Einstein's idea of geometrization of physics by employing the additional concepts of Heim.
== Life and health == Heim had to undergo a series of at least 50 operations after a laboratory explosion that resulted in the loss of both of his hands. He had found that intense concentration on the study of Einstein's relativity theory had helped him control the pain in his arms mentally and physically. The loss of his hands and serious reduction of his eyesight apparently resulted in Heim acquiring an eidetic, acoustic memory. He was said to rarely forget a formula if he heard it recited, and he was said to be able to learn a language in a matter of days. He married a former concert singer from Prague in 1950 named Gerda.
== Heim theory == Heim theory was proposed by Heim in 1957 as an attempt to develop a theory of everything in theoretical physics. The theory claims to bridge some of the disagreements between quantum mechanics and general relativity. The theory has received little attention in the scientific literature and is regarded as being outside mainstream science but has attracted some interest in popular and fringe media. Heim attempted to resolve incompatibilities between quantum theory and general relativity. To meet that goal, he developed a mathematical approach based on quantizing spacetime. Heim's theory also predicts the existence of two hypothetical neutrinos, which have been shown not to exist by experiments at the Large Electron–Positron Collider.
== References ==
== External links ==
=== Biographies === Posdzech, Olaf. "Burkhard Heim, a biography". Posdzech, Olaf. "Über Burkhard Heim" (in German). The above in original German. Illobrand, Ludwig. The New World View Of The Physicist Burkhard Heim
=== Magazine articles === New Scientist article Cisco, T. A. (18 February 2006). "Testing Heim's theories". New Scientist. Vol. 189, no. 2539. p. 27. One of the subsequent letters to the New Scientist Editor "Welcome to Mars express: only a three hour trip". The Scotsman. 5 January 2006. Retrieved 7 July 2015.
=== Blog articles === fathercrow (13 January 2006). "Sci-Fi: The Flame of Infinite Possibility". WORDS OF FIRE, INK OF BLOOD. Retrieved 7 July 2015.
=== Institutions researching fields in which Heim had an interest === "Forschungskreis Heimsche Theorie". Archived from the original on 20 July 2015. Retrieved 7 July 2015.