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Paperback: 319 pages
Publisher: Doubleday Books; Reprint edition (19 Aug. 2008)
Tipler acknowledges that he is a 'Physics Fundamentalist'.
Using the principles of five fundamental physical laws: quantum mechanics, the Second Law of Thermodynamics, general relativity, quantum cosmology and the Standard Model of Particle Physics, he validates several 'Christian' contentions which were hitherto in the domain of miracles. Namely the Incarnation, the Virgin Birth of Jesus, and the Resurrection.
Using an arresting blend of scientific and mathematical logic, Tipler also throws profound light on the Omega Point, God as the cosmological singularity, the problem of evil, and the co-existence of divine determinism and human free will. Never before have I encountered such stunning implications of the multiverse paradigm that emerges from quantum mechanics.
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Few men could be more qualified than Tipler, Professor of Mathematics and Physics (joint appointment), to explain the physics of God. Tipler's Ph.D. is in the field of global general relativity (the same rarefied field of Penrose and Hawking). John Wheeler wrote that "Frank Tipler is widely known for important concepts and theorems in general relativity and gravitation physics" in the Foreword to The Anthropic Cosmological Principle (1986) by cosmologist Prof. John D. Barrow and Tipler, which was the first book wherein Tipler's Omega Point Theory (OPT) was described.
An atheist since the age of 16, Tipler only again became a theist circa 1998 due to advancements in the OPT that came after his book The Physics of Immortality (1994; PoI), which concentrates on the OPT.
Physicist Prof. David Deutsch (inventor of the quantum computer and winner of the Institute of Physics' Paul Dirac Prize for his work) defends the physics of the OPT in his excellent book The Fabric of Reality (1997).
Tipler's present book (PoC) is a simplified exposition of his OPT, while giving an update to the latest findings of the OPT since Tipler's previous book, PoI. PoC is very much intended for a popular audience, and far less technical details are given than in PoI (which is quite technically advanced, particularly in the Appendix for Scientists, and is quite an intellectually rigorous treasure-trove in everything from the physics of Artificial Intelligence, perfect emulations of humans via computer, the inherent multiverse nature of quantum mechanics, and much more).Read more ›
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Even if it's all nonsense, Frank J Tipler is a writer as talented a Philip K Dick. The man deserves some respect and I'm puzzled why respect hasn't come his way.
The only other comparable thinker is Ray Kurtzweil. Ray Kurtzweil has swept death under the carpet, as do the top scientists (tho I'm not claiming Kurtzweil is a top scientist), so he is respected.
The denial of death is obviously necessary for humans to strive and to invent, but I wonder, what's the use of pretending that who've discovered the 'God particle', when in reality, you will be dead in a few years time? Only if you ignore death can you waste time with billion dollar accelerators. This is fine too, however, the end of your life will happen before the universe fizzles out.
Tipler's heresy is that he doesn't just write about the heat death of the universe, rather, he talks about our death, yours and mine, so, yes, he embraces death and death is a real thing, so he's laughed at by the sceptics. I must say, Tipler isn't gloomy about dying and his other book, The Anthropic Principle, is a work of genius and hints at the apparent lunacy of his other works. But the sceptics won't touch the Anthropic Principle because it is more valid than the Physics of Christianity, but the latest Tipler work is predicated on the first, more valid, book.
I watch the sceptics, like Laurence Krauss and Michael Shermer, on You Tube and if you just watch, from an objective stance, it's more ideology than honest investigation. I like the sceptics but the top sceptics are mostly careering and their real passion resembles people stuck in a loop. You notice this loop by watching 20 years of Michael Shermer You Tube.Read more ›
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My title says it all really. The Tomb of Mary really is the tomb of Mary - similarly the tomb of Jesus; the Turin Shroud really is Jesus' burial cloth, as well as being the holy grail, there really was a star of Bethlehem, etc etc. This hangs by more threads than there are in the Turin Shroud.
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