1940s In 1943, Heim met
Werner Heisenberg, a
German physicist involved in
atom bomb research, and told him of his plan to use a form of chemical
implosion to facilitate an atomic explosion. This
design was based on an 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. It was the first time the idea of gravitational, electromagnetic, weak, and strong forces were treated as distortions of their proper
Euclidean metrics in a higher-dimensional space. A brief description of Heim's lecture was recorded in the proceedings of the Society for Space Research. In 1954, he began to study under
Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker in
Göttingen. The news about Heim's contract was published during a period of increasing
United States gravity control propulsion research (1955 - 1974). Sample calculations for an expedition from the surface of the Earth to the surface of the planet
Mars appeared at the end of Heim's progress report. In November 1957, Heim delivered a lecture about his propulsion theory to the
German Society for Rocket Technology and Space Travel in Frankfurt. According to von Ludwiger, a German author known for his publication on
UFOs, an audiotape of Heim's presentation had been prepared for shipment to America. Heim discussed "the principle of the dynamic "Kontrabarie," examining how a field drive would be more effective than the best chemical drive for rockets." These papers remained ambiguous on the fundamental concepts underlying his theory of the field drive, likely the calculations on the extra fields of his field theory remained unsolved. These calculations were only performed a few years later. It included the methodology for calculating the mass spectrum of
elementary particles. Pursuant to recommendations by
Werner Heisenberg's successor,
Hans-Peter Dürr, Heim published his unified field theory summary the following year in an article entitled "Recommendations of a Way to a Unified Description of Elementary Particles" in the Max Planck Institute journal
Zeitschrift für Naturforschung (Journal of Natural Research). This was the first publication of his theory in a peer-reviewed scientific journal.
1980s In 1982, Heim's mass formula was programmed on a computer at the German Electron Synchrotron
DESY in Hamburg with the assistance of some resident scientists. 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==