Holm Gero Hümmler
German nuclear physicist and skeptic (born 1970) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Holm Gero Hümmler (born September 22, 1970) is a German nuclear physicist and skeptic, living in Bad Homburg, near Frankfurt am Main.
Holm Gero Hümmler | |
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 Holm Gero Hümmler, 2017 | |
| Born | September 22, 1970[1][2] |
| Nationality | German |
| Alma mater | Goethe University Frankfurt, Technical University of Munich, University of Hagen |
| Occupation(s) | Physicist, consultant |
| Website | https://quantenquark.com/holm-huemmler/ |
Biography
Hümmler was born in Hanau. He studied physics[1][2][3][4][5] and meteorology[1][2][5][6] at Goethe University Frankfurt, together with economy at University of Hagen.[1][2][5] He was active in politics while at university.[7] While working on his diploma thesis he spent several months at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland.[1][2][4][6] He completed his PhD at Technical University of Munich in 2000.[4] He also worked at Max Planck Society, physics department.[1][2][4][6] Hümmler describes his field of physics as being between nuclear physics and particle physics.[7]
He participated in the STAR experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider in Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York.[1][4][6] He left science in 2001 and first worked for Boston Consulting Group.[2] In 2007 he founded Uncertainty Managers Consulting. The company specializes in numerical models for business planning, mainly for the Pharmaceutical and Healthcare sector.[3]
He lives and works in Bad Homburg,[8] near Frankfurt am Main.
Skepticism
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Perspective
Hümmler has been active in the German skeptics' group GWUP since 1990s.[1] He was a regional spokesman and convenor for the Frankfurt area.[3] He first became interested in skepticism after reading about the European Skeptics Congress.[7] For several years he was an editor of The Skeptiker magazine.[9] He now investigates pseudoscience claims mostly from the areas of pseudo-physics, business esoterics, conspiracy theories,[2][3] supernatural claims in martial arts,[2][3][6][9] alleged UFO encounters,[5][6][9] weather effects,[5][9] biological influence of radiation,[5] misuse of physics terminology in pseudoscience, especially in Quantum Theory and Theory of Relativity,[9] debunking free energy theories[9] and quantum healing[3].
Hümmler appears in media as a GWUP expert commenting on conspiracy theories, such as chemtrails.[3] In 2008 he investigated the abilities of Shaolin monks on the Galileo Mystery TV show.[3]
In a German Physik Journal, an official journal of the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft, which is the world's largest organization of physicists, Hümmler wrote an article calling physicists to take a stand against the esoteric abuse of science.[10]
His first book, Relativer Quantenquark, was published in April 2017. It deals with pseudo-physical claims in esoterics and alternative medicine, but it also explains the basics of quantum mechanics and relativity.[11][12] As of July 2017, Hümmler is working on a new book.[7]
Hümmler is an author of the science blog quantenquark.com.[3] He was a speaker at the 17th European Skeptics Congress in Wrocław, Poland, where he presented a speech titled Relative Quantum Nonsense: Don't be Fooled by False Physics.[3]
Publications
- Tachyonen: Schnelles Geld mit schnellen Teilchen – oder ohne? Ein missbrauchter Begriff der Physik (Tachions: Quick money from quick particles – or not? A misused physical concept.) Skeptiker 4/2002, p. 154, doc file[permanent dead link]
- Tachyonen, Felder, Freie Energie – wie die Esoterik die Begriffe der Physik missbraucht (Tachions, fields, free energy – misused physical concepts) (lecture PDF notes)
- Chemtrails – Zwischen Meteorologie und Verschwörungstheorie (Chemtrails between meteorology and conspiracy theory) Skeptiker 2/2006, pp. 48–55, PDF file
- Das Geheimnis des Kung Fu (The secret of Kung-fu) Skeptiker 3/2006, pp. 112–120
- Erdbebenmaschinen Das HAARP – Experiment und die Verschwörungstheoretiker (HAARP experiment and conspiracy theorists) Skeptiker 3/2011, pages 108 – 116
Books
- Relativer Quantenquark. Kann die moderne Physik die Esoterik belegen? (Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2017) ISBN 978-3662538289
- Verschwörungsmythen. Wie wir mit verdrehten Fakten für dumm verkauft werden. (Hirzel, 2019) ISBN 978-3777627809
- with Ulrike Schiesser: Fakt und Vorurteil. Kommunikation mit Esoterikern, Fanatikern und Verschwörungsgläubigen. Springer Berlin 2021, ISBN 978-3662632086
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