Telepolis is the name of a
GermanGermany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium,...
InternetThe Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standardized Internet Protocol Suite to serve billions of users worldwide...
magazine, published by the
Heinz Heise VerlagHeinz Heise is a German publishing house. It was created in Hanover in 1949 as an address and telephone directory publisher, then later expanded to include magazines and loose leaf collections...
since the beginning of 1996. It was founded by
journalistA journalist is a person who practises journalism, the gathering and dissemination of information about current events, trends, issues, and people while striving for viewpoints that are not biased.Reporters are one type of journalist...
s Armin Medosch and Florian Rötzer and deals with privacy, science, culture, internet-related and general politics and media.
Telepolis received the European prize for online journalism in the category "investigative reporting" in 2000 for its coverage of the
EchelonECHELON is a name used in global media and in popular culture to describe a signals intelligence collection and analysis network operated on behalf of the five signatory states to the UK-USA Security Agreement...
project; in 2002, it received the Online Grimme prize.
It periodically releases special issues, the first printed edition (01/2005) being on "Aliens - how researchers and space travellers want to uncover their presence." One of the articles in this edition, perhaps the most daring, described the so-called
theory of everythingThe theory of everything is a putative theory of theoretical physics that fully explains and links together all known physical phenomena. Initially, the term was used with an ironic connotation to refer to various overgeneralized theories...
(TOE) proposed by
Burkhard HeimBurkhard Heim was a German theoretical physicist. He devoted a large portion of his life to the pursuit of his unified field theory, Heim theory. One of his childhood ambitions was to develop a method of space travel, which contributed to his motivation to find such a theory.During World War II,...
and its alleged applications to spacecraft propulsion.
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Telepolis is the name of a
GermanGermany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium,...
InternetThe Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standardized Internet Protocol Suite to serve billions of users worldwide...
magazine, published by the
Heinz Heise VerlagHeinz Heise is a German publishing house. It was created in Hanover in 1949 as an address and telephone directory publisher, then later expanded to include magazines and loose leaf collections...
since the beginning of 1996. It was founded by
journalistA journalist is a person who practises journalism, the gathering and dissemination of information about current events, trends, issues, and people while striving for viewpoints that are not biased.Reporters are one type of journalist...
s Armin Medosch and Florian Rötzer and deals with privacy, science, culture, internet-related and general politics and media.
Telepolis received the European prize for online journalism in the category "investigative reporting" in 2000 for its coverage of the
EchelonECHELON is a name used in global media and in popular culture to describe a signals intelligence collection and analysis network operated on behalf of the five signatory states to the UK-USA Security Agreement...
project; in 2002, it received the Online Grimme prize.
It periodically releases special issues, the first printed edition (01/2005) being on "Aliens - how researchers and space travellers want to uncover their presence." One of the articles in this edition, perhaps the most daring, described the so-called
theory of everythingThe theory of everything is a putative theory of theoretical physics that fully explains and links together all known physical phenomena. Initially, the term was used with an ironic connotation to refer to various overgeneralized theories...
(TOE) proposed by
Burkhard HeimBurkhard Heim was a German theoretical physicist. He devoted a large portion of his life to the pursuit of his unified field theory, Heim theory. One of his childhood ambitions was to develop a method of space travel, which contributed to his motivation to find such a theory.During World War II,...
and its alleged applications to spacecraft propulsion. (
Heim theoryHeim theory is a non-mainstream collection of ideas about the fundamental laws of physics proposed by Burkhard Heim, and further developed by Walter Dröscher and Jochem Häuser.. Most of their original work and the subsequent theories based on it have not been peer reviewed. Heim attempted to...
is not part of mainstream physics, and few physicists would describe it as a TOE.) Others deal with
SETISearch for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence is the collective name for a number of activities people undertake to search for extraterrestrial life. SETI projects use scientific methods to search for electromagnetic transmissions from civilizations on distant planets...
and exobiology.