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James Redford, author of "The Physics of God and the Quantum Gravity Theory of Everything", Social Science Research Network (SSRN), Sept. 10, 2012 (orig. pub. Dec. 19, 2011), 186 pp., doi:10.2139/s... (more)
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I'm a non-physicist trying to understand Frank Tipler's ideas about "The physics of Immortality". What could I do to have a deeper understanding?
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Hi, James Coons. You wrote:

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The problem Tipler didn't address with his arguments against black hole evaporation is what about mini- black holes. There certainly doesn't seem to be any known prohibition in physics with forming mini-black holes which would evaporate in seconds. This would seem to completely defeat his whole argument.
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In actuality, physicist and mathematician Prof. Frank J. Tipler has addressed this matter. As I wrote in my commentary on the 2007 debate between Profs. Tipler and Lawrence M. Krauss:

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24:04 min:sec ff.: Imposing unitarity avoids the spacetime infinities of quantum field theory, since if there were not a cut-off to the energies of quantum field theory then miniature black holes would be created and quickly evaporate, thereby violating unitarity. 25:12 min:sec ff.: This energy cut-off mechanism also means that some misnomered "constants" increase with cosmic time. ...

... 2:03:26 h:min:sec ff.: Krauss states that the Standard Model of particle physics produces nonsense answers when pushed to high enough energies, as does Quantum Electrodynamics (QED). However, as Tipler previously pointed out in his presentation, imposing unitarity avoids the spacetime infinities of quantum field theory, since if there were not a cut-off to the energies of quantum field theory then miniature black holes would be created and quickly evaporate, thereby violating unitarity. Krauss also gives the infinities of quantum field theory as a reason for thinking that new forms of physics will be required at higher energy scales. However, this mechanism to the energy cut-off also allows the energies to gradually scale to infinity during the collapse phase of the universe (the energies only become actually infinite at the cosmological singularity), which means that there is no need for new physics at higher energy scales.
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James Redford, "Video of Profs. Frank Tipler and Lawrence Krauss's Debate at Caltech: Can Physics Prove God and Christianity?", alt.sci.astro, Message-ID: jghev8tcbv02b6vn3uiq8jmelp7jijluqk[at sign]4ax[period]com , July 30, 2013. https://groups.google.com/forum/... , http://archive.is/a04w9 , http://webcitation.org/6IUTAMEyS
#23110480 · 30 Nov 2013 6:24 PM
I'm a non-physicist trying to understand Frank Tipler's ideas about "The physics of Immortality". What could I do to have a deeper understanding?
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Hi, James Coons. You wrote, "Most physicists including Hawking no longer believe that Black Hole evaporation violates unitarity."

Regarding proposed solutions to the black hole information issue, all except for Prof. Frank J. Tipler's Omega Point cosmology share the common feature of using proposed new laws of physics that have never been experimentally confirmed--and indeed which violate the known laws of physics--such as with Prof. Stephen Hawking's paper on the black hole information issue which is dependent on the conjectured String Theory-based anti-de Sitter space/conformal field theory correspondence (AdS/CFT correspondence). (See S. W. Hawking, "Information Loss in Black Holes", Physical Review D, Vol. 72, No. 8 [Oct. 15, 2005], Art. No. 084013, 4 pp.)

For much more on these matters, see my following article:

James Redford, "The Physics of God and the Quantum Gravity Theory of Everything", Social Science Research Network (SSRN), Sept. 10, 2012 (orig. pub. Dec. 19, 2011), 186 pp., doi:10.2139/ssrn.1974708. http://ssrn.com/abstract=1974708 , http://archive.org/download/TheP... , http://sites.google.com/site/phy...

Regarding the debate between Profs. Frank J. Tipler and Lawrence M. Krauss, see the below resource wherein I give detailed commentary on said debate. In this resource are six sections which contain very informative videos of Tipler explaining the Omega Point cosmology and the Feynman-DeWitt-Weinberg quantum gravity/Standard Model Theory of Everything (TOE), which are mathematically required by the know laws of physics (i.e., the Second Law of Thermodynamics, General Relativity, and Quantum Mechanics). The seventh section therein contains an audio interview of Tipler. I also provide some helpful notes and commentary for some of these videos.

James Redford, "Video of Profs. Frank Tipler and Lawrence Krauss's Debate at Caltech: Can Physics Prove God and Christianity?", alt.sci.astro, Message-ID: jghev8tcbv02b6vn3uiq8jmelp7jijluqk[at sign]4ax[period]com , July 30, 2013. https://groups.google.com/forum/... , http://archive.is/a04w9 , http://webcitation.org/6IUTAMEyS

As I stated in a concluding comment regarding the Tipler and Krauss debate:

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Since the Omega Point/Feynman-DeWitt-Weinberg quantum gravity/Standard Model Theory of Everything (TOE) is mathematically required by the known laws of physics, of which said physical laws have been confirmed by every experiment to date, the only way Krauss could have actually argued against Tipler is to argue that the known laws of physics might be wrong. But because those physical laws have been confirmed by every experiment to date, there exists no rational reason to think that they are wrong. Hence, Krauss's irrelevant arguments (or bare assertions, as Krauss also engaged in) against Tipler were unavoidable, since Krauss set himself a logically-impossible task.
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#23001281 · 27 Nov 2013 11:51 PM
I'm a non-physicist trying to understand Frank Tipler's ideas about "The physics of Immortality". What could I do to have a deeper understanding?
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...t, see my aforesaid article belowarticle:

James Redford, "T...
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Hi, James Coons. Regarding physicist and mathematician Prof. Frank J. Tipler himself not believing in his own Omega Point Theory, that was before the Omega Point cosmology was formulated as a mathematical theorem. For the details on that, see Sec. 2: "History of the Omega Point Cosmology", pp. 5 ff. of my following article. At that time Tipler was still an atheist.

The Omega Point cosmology was formulated as a mathematical theorem in 1997, and since that time Prof. Tipler has been a theist. And due to the triune structure of the Cosmological Singularity (of which Trinity is deselective of all other major religions), Tipler is also now a Christian. For that and many more details on how Tipler's Omega Point cosmology precisely matches the cosmology described in the New Testament, see my aforesaid article belowarticle:

James Redford, "The Physics of God and the Quantum Gravity Theory of Everything", Social Science Research Network (SSRN), Sept. 10, 2012 (orig. pub. Dec. 19, 2011), 186 pp., doi:10.2139/ssrn.1974708. http://ssrn.com/abstract=1974708 , http://archive.org/download/TheP... , http://sites.google.com/site/phy...

Further, in the below resource are six sections which contain very informative videos of Prof. Tipler explaining the Omega Point cosmology and the Feynman-DeWitt-Weinberg quantum gravity/Standard Model Theory of Everything (TOE), which are mathematically required by the know laws of physics (i.e., the Second Law of Thermodynamics, General Relativity, and Quantum Mechanics). The seventh section therein contains an audio interview of Tipler. I also provide some helpful notes and commentary for some of these videos.

James Redford, "Video of Profs. Frank Tipler and Lawrence Krauss's Debate at Caltech: Can Physics Prove God and Christianity?", alt.sci.astro, Message-ID: jghev8tcbv02b6vn3uiq8jmelp7jijluqk[at sign]4ax[period]com , July 30, 2013. https://groups.google.com/forum/... , http://archive.is/a04w9 , http://webcitation.org/6IUTAMEyS
#22940831 · 26 Nov 2013 6:05 PM
I'm a non-physicist trying to understand Frank Tipler's ideas about "The physics of Immortality". What could I do to have a deeper understanding?
Comment added.
Hi, James Coons. Regarding physicist and mathematician Prof. Frank J. Tipler himself not believing in his own Omega Point Theory, that was before the Omega Point cosmology was formulated as a mathematical theorem. For the details on that, see Sec. 2: "History of the Omega Point Cosmology", pp. 5 ff. of my following article. At that time Tipler was still an atheist.

The Omega Point cosmology was formulated as a mathematical theorem in 1997, and since that time Prof. Tipler has been a theist. And due to the triune structure of the Cosmological Singularity (of which Trinity is deselective of all other major religions), Tipler is also now a Christian. For that and many more details on how Tipler's Omega Point cosmology precisely matches the cosmology described in the New Testament, see my aforesaid article below:

James Redford, "The Physics of God and the Quantum Gravity Theory of Everything", Social Science Research Network (SSRN), Sept. 10, 2012 (orig. pub. Dec. 19, 2011), 186 pp., doi:10.2139/ssrn.1974708. http://ssrn.com/abstract=1974708 , http://archive.org/download/TheP... , http://sites.google.com/site/phy...

Further, in the below resource are six sections which contain very informative videos of Prof. Tipler explaining the Omega Point cosmology and the Feynman-DeWitt-Weinberg quantum gravity/Standard Model Theory of Everything (TOE), which are mathematically required by the know laws of physics (i.e., the Second Law of Thermodynamics, General Relativity, and Quantum Mechanics). The seventh section therein contains an audio interview of Tipler. I also provide some helpful notes and commentary for some of these videos.

James Redford, "Video of Profs. Frank Tipler and Lawrence Krauss's Debate at Caltech: Can Physics Prove God and Christianity?", alt.sci.astro, Message-ID: jghev8tcbv02b6vn3uiq8jmelp7jijluqk[at sign]4ax[period]com , July 30, 2013. https://groups.google.com/forum/... , http://archive.is/a04w9 , http://webcitation.org/6IUTAMEyS
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#22677814 · 20 Nov 2013 6:48 PM
Assuming the christian god was real, omnipotent and omniscient what effe...
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For the answers to your questions regarding the laws of thermodynamics, ...
#22677559 · 20 Nov 2013 6:43 PM
I'm a non-physicist trying to understand Frank Tipler's ideas about "The...
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... interview of Tipler. A number of these videos are not otherwise online. I also provide som... (view context)
To learn about physicist and mathematician Prof. Frank J. Tipler's Omega Point cosmology, which is a proof (i.e., mathematical theorem) of God's existence per the known laws of physics (viz., the Second Law of Thermodynamics, General Relativity, and Quantum Mechanics), and the Feynman-DeWitt-Weinberg quantum gravity/Standard Model Theory of Everything (TOE), which is also required by the known laws of physics, see my following article:

James Redford, "The Physics of God and the Quantum Gravity Theory of Everything", Social Science Research Network (SSRN), Sept. 10, 2012 (orig. pub. Dec. 19, 2011), 186 pp., doi:10.2139/ssrn.1974708. http://ssrn.com/abstract=1974708 , http://archive.org/download/TheP... , http://sites.google.com/site/phy...

Additionally, in the below resource are six sections which contain very informative videos of Prof. Tipler explaining the Omega Point cosmology and the Feynman-DeWitt-Weinberg quantum gravity/Standard Model TOE. The seventh section therein contains an audio interview of Tipler. A number of these videos are not otherwise online. I also provide some helpful notes and commentary for some of these videos.

James Redford, "Video of Profs. Frank Tipler and Lawrence Krauss's Debate at Caltech: Can Physics Prove God and Christianity?", alt.sci.astro, Message-ID: jghev8tcbv02b6vn3uiq8jmelp7jijluqk[at sign]4ax[period]com , 30 Jul 2013 00:51:55 -0400. https://groups.google.com/forum/... , http://archive.is/a04w9 , http://webcitation.org/6IUTAMEyS
#22677314 · 20 Nov 2013 6:38 PM
I'm a non-physicist trying to understand Frank Tipler's ideas about "The...
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To learn about physicist and mathematician Prof. Frank J. Tipler's Omega...
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