Mathias Hüfner

The author studied physics at the University of Leipzig, Germany, from 1964 to 1970. He graduated by Gerhard Brunner at the local Institute for Radioactive Isotopes of the former Academy of Sciences of the GDR.

He then worked until 1978 at the concern Carl Zeiss Jena in the analytical metrology section on the processing of optical measuring devices and software for spectral analysis. He later moved to the Technical Faculty of the Friedrich Schiller University Jena as an assistant in the team of cybernetics and experimental design. He studied non-numerical mathematics, computer science, and other engineering sciences, received his doctorate in this topic in 1983, and worked in technological research and teaching.

After the social change in the area of the former GDR, the author, after obtaining several additional qualifications, began a freelance teaching position in the field of computer science, which he practiced until he reached retirement age in 2008. As a pensioner, he started working as a freelance physicist, and he got contacts all over the world. Above all, Halton Arp and Paul Marmet, Benoît Mandelbrot, and Gerald Pollack have had a lasting influence on the author's thinking.

As a supporter, he finally found his way to the Thunderbolts, a small avant-garde community of scientists and engineers working on a new understanding of the cosmos. Even if not all of the ideas represented there, some of which have a mythological background, are fruitful, the author, with the basic understanding of physics he acquired in Leipzig, was able to separate the fruitful from the sterile ideas and merge the former into a new paradigm of physics. In 2019 and 2020 he published his first book in English and German entitled "Modern Astrophysics Meets Engineering". Another book followed in 2022 entitled "Dynamic Structures in an Open Cosmos". He also maintains a website http://mugglebibliothek with papers, books, and YouTube movies on the non-academic paradigm of the Electric Universe.