Niemz worked as head of the Optical Spectroscopy department at the Fraunhofer Institute for Physical Measurement Techniques (IPM) in Freiburg until 1999. In 2000, he has been appointed the Chair of Medical Engineering/Biomedical Engineering at Heidelberg University, settled as a full professor at the Medical Faculty of Mannheim. Since then, Niemz has been director of the Mannheim Biomedical Engineering Laboratories (MABEL), a joint venture of Heidelberg University and the Mannheim University of Applied Sciences. His research focuses on light and matter, biosignals, and the foundations of physics. He was the first scientist worldwide to apply ultrashort laser pulses to dentistry for a pain-free treatment of caries.[1]
Niemz formulated a new theory of relativity ("Euclidean relativity"),[2] which is currently in peer review: All energy moves through 4D Euclidean space (ES) at the speed of light. Absolute ES is experienced as a relative Euclidean spacetime (EST): Each object experiences its 4D motion through ES as proper time and the other three axes as proper space. EST is symmetric in all four axes. Spacetime in Albert Einstein's theory of relativity is not symmetric in space and time. EST is a natural spacetime because its coordinates (proper space and proper time) are measured by and thus inherent in all rulers and clocks. Euclidean relativity solves several fundamental mysteries of cosmology and quantum mechanics, such as the nature of time, time's arrow, the Hubble tension, dark energy, the wave–particle duality, non-locality, and the baryon asymmetry.
Philosophical and Religious Thoughts
Niemz also addresses a new branch of mortality research, the so-called near-death experiences. With his scientific novel Lucy mit c (Books on Demand, 2005), he became well known to a wide audience for comparing near-death experiences with effects in Albert Einstein's theory of relativity. Niemz comes up with a new, physical explanation of near-death experiences: The so-called searchlight effect makes us perceive a dark tunnel with a bright light at the other end.[3] Light itself is cosmic memory and provides the life review that is frequently reported by the dying.[4]
Markolf Niemz after a reading in Davos, Switzerland (2017)
Niemz' novel Lucy mit c was the first self-published book ever to appear on the German non-fiction bestseller list Gong. Lucy im Licht (Droemer, 2007), the second volume of his Lucy trilogy, and Bin ich, wenn ich nicht mehr bin? (Kreuz, 2011) also turned into German bestsellers. With the royalties of his Lucy trilogy, Niemz founded the charitable and non-profit foundation Stiftung Lucys Kinder.[5] The foundation is committed to ensuring that children from the poorest countries in this world also have access to love and understanding.
In his book Seeing Our World Through Different Eyes (Wipf & Stock, 2020), Niemz invites us to understand the world through the Eastern concept of Advaita (in English: non-duality). Many terms that we conceive as opposing (space and time, being and becoming, chicken and egg, creator and creation) would actually be two sides of the same coin. In his book Wie geht leben? (Allegria, 2021), Niemz goes even one step further and solves the duality. He replaces nouns with verb forms. Viruses, bacteria, and cancer cells would primarily be processes rather than objects: an informing ("vir-ing"), an acting ("bacteri-ing"), and a miscommunicating ("cancer-ing"). Niemz even conceives us human beings and God as verb forms. By doing so, he closely follows Alfred North Whitehead and his philosophy of organism.
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