Holm Gero Hümmler

Holm Gero Hümmler
Holm Gero Hümmler, 2017
Born September 22, 1970[1][2]
Hanau, (Germany)[1][2]
Residence Bad Homburg vor der Höhe, (Germany)[2][3]
Nationality German
Alma mater Goethe University Frankfurt,
Technical University of Munich,
University of Hagen
Occupation Physicist,
consultant
Website http://quantenquark.com/holm-huemmler/

Holm Gero Hümmler (born September 22, 1970 in Hanau) is a German nuclear physicist and skeptic, living in Bad Homburg, near Frankfurt am Main.

Biography

Hümmler 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

Holm Gero Hümmler at SkepKon 2017 conference in Berlin

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, page 154, DOC file
  • 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, pages 48 – 55, PDF file
  • Das Geheimnis des Kung Fu (The secret of Kung-fu) Skeptiker 3/2006, pages 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 978-3-662-53828-9

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 "Dr. Holm Gero Hümmler". Archived from the original on July 19, 2017. Retrieved 2017-07-19.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 "autor". Relativer Quantenquark. Esoterik, Bullshit und Spekulatives unter dem Mäntelchen der modernen Physik. Archived from the original on 2018-06-13. Retrieved 2018-06-13.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 "Holm Gero Hümmler". 17th European Skeptics Congress. European Council of Skeptical Organisations. Archived from the original on July 19, 2017. Retrieved 2017-07-17.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 Hümmler, Holm Gero. "Dr. Holm Gero Hümmler – Science". Archived from the original on July 18, 2017. Retrieved 2017-07-18.
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Who is Who Dr. Holm Hümmler" (in German). Gesellschaft zur Wissenschaftliche Untersuchung von Parawissenschaften e.V. Archived from the original on May 27, 2017. Retrieved 2017-07-18.
  6. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "DR. HOLM HÜMMLER". SKEPKON. DIE KONFERENZ FÜR WISSENSCHAFT UND KRITISCHES DENKEN (in German). Gesellschaft zur wissenschaftlichen Untersuchung von Parawissenschaften. Archived from the original on July 19, 2017. Retrieved 2017-07-19.
  7. 1 2 3 4 "TheESP - Ep. No. 084 - Holm Gero Hummler" (podcast). The European Skeptics Podcast. Retrieved May 23, 2018.
  8. ↑ Hümmler, Holm Gero. "Dr. Holm Gero Hümmler – personal homepage". Archived from the original on July 18, 2017. Retrieved 2017-07-18.
  9. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Hümmler, Holm Gero. "Dr. Holm Gero Hümmler – Skepticism". Archived from the original on July 19, 2017. Retrieved 2017-07-19.
  10. ↑ "Relativer Quantenquark. Physikerinnen und Physiker sollten Stellung gegen den esoterischen Missbrauch ihrer Wissenschaft beziehen" (pdf). Physik Journal (04/2015): 3. ISSN 1617-9439.
  11. ↑ Hümmler, Holm Gero (2017). Relativer Quantenquark. Kann die moderne Physik die Esoterik belegen?. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg. ISBN 978-3-662-53828-9.
  12. ↑ Bernd Harder (March 29, 2017). "Ab jetzt lieferbar: Das Buch "Relativer Quantenquark" von Holm Gero Hümmler". GWUP. Die Skeptiker (in German). Gesellschaft zur wissenschaftlichen Untersuchung von Parawissenschaften. Archived from the original on July 17, 2017. Retrieved 2017-07-19.
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