Societal Sadomasochism

[JamesRedford]

Tipler's Omega Point (and The Physics of Christianity) attracted critical acclaim such as:

"It is a masterpiece of pseudoscience" - George Ellis
"I am tempted to describe Tipler's new book as nonsense—but that would be unfair to the concept of nonsense" - Lawrence Krauss
"I began to wonder if the book could be a subtle, hilarious hoax. Sadly, it is not." - The Strange Case of Frank Jennings Tipler, Review by Martin Gardner for the Skeptical Inquirer

Had you been paying attention, you would have already known that criticisms of physicist and mathematician Prof. Frank J. Tipler's Omega Point cosmology are already covered in Sec. 4: "Criticisms of the Omega Point Cosmology", pp. 26-28 of 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, https://archive.org/download/ThePhysicsOfGodAndTheQuantumGravityTheoryOfEverything/Redford-Physics-of-God.pdf , https://purl.org/redford/physics-of-god , https://sites.google.com/site/physicotheism/home/Redford-Physics-of-God.pdf .

The foregoing article concerns Prof. 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 physical laws. The Omega Point cosmology has been published and extensively peer-reviewed in leading physics journals. The article further details how Tipler's Omega Point Theorem uniquely conforms to, and precisely matches, the cosmology described in the New Testament, while also addressing the societal implications of said Omega Point cosmology.

Regarding Prof. George Ellis's criticism, to date the only peer-reviewed paper in a physics journal that has criticized Prof. Tipler's Omega Point cosmology has been in 1994 by physicists Ellis and Dr. David Coule (see G. F. R. Ellis and D. H. Coule, "Life at the end of the universe?", General Relativity and Gravitation, Vol. 26, No. 7 [July 1994], pp. 731-739). In the paper, Ellis and Coule unwittingly gave an argument that the Bekenstein Bound violates the Second Law of Thermodynamics if the universe collapses without having event horizons eliminated. Yet in order to bring about the Omega Point, event horizons must be eliminated, and Tipler cites this paper in favor of the fact that the known laws of physics require the Omega Point to exist.

In his review (see Lawrence Krauss, "More dangerous than nonsense", New Scientist, Vol. 194, No. 2603 [May 12, 2007], p. 53) of Prof. Tipler's book The Physics of Christianity (New York: Doubleday, 2007), Prof. Lawrence M. Krauss repeatedly commits the logical fallacy of bare assertion. Krauss gives no indication that he followed up on the endnotes in the book The Physics of Christianity and actually read Tipler's physics journal papers. All that Krauss is going off of in said review is Tipler's mostly nontechnical popular-audience book The Physics of Christianity without researching Tipler's technical papers in the physics journals. Krauss's review offers no actual lines of reasoning for Krauss's pronouncements. His readership is simply expected to imbibe what Krauss proclaims, even though it's clear that Krauss is merely critiquing a popular-audience book which does not attempt to present the rigorous technical details.

Ironically, Krauss has actually published a paper that greatly helped to strengthen Tipler's Omega Point cosmology. Some have suggested that the current acceleration of the universe's expansion due to the positive cosmological constant would appear to obviate the Omega Point. However, Profs. Krauss and Michael S. Turner point out that "there is no set of cosmological observations we can perform that will unambiguously allow us to determine what the ultimate destiny of the Universe will be." (See Lawrence M. Krauss and Michael S. Turner, "Geometry and Destiny", General Relativity and Gravitation, Vol. 31, No. 10 [Oct. 1999], pp. 1453-1459.)

As pointed out with Ellis and Coule's criticism, this isn't the first time that this ironic outcome has befallen critics of Tipler's Omega Point cosmology. So when Tipler's critics actually do real physics instead of issuing bare assertions and nihil ad rem cavils, they end up making Tipler's case stronger. Ironic though it is, nevertheless that's the expected result, since the Omega Point cosmology is required by the known laws of physics.

Concerning Martin Gardner's review of Profs. John D. Barrow and Tipler's book The Anthropic Cosmological Principle (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986), notice that Martin Gardner never states any error on Tipler's part within said review. However, I do find the below exchange between Tipler and Gardner to be quite telling; it transpired from Gardner's aforesaid review of Barrow and Tipler's book. Note Gardner's two-word reply to Tipler.

* Frank J. Tipler, reply by Martin Gardner, "The FAP Flop", New York Review of Books, Vol. 33, No. 19 (Dec. 4, 1986), http://www.nybooks.com/articles/4946 , https://webcitation.org/67Fw7SAdg . In reply to Martin Gardner, "WAP, SAP, PAP, & FAP", New York Review of Books, Vol. 33, No. 8 (May 8, 1986), https://archive.is/QXsv3 , https://webcitation.org/6c7ZmxVbU .

[JamesRedford]

James,

I do find it interesting that Shamanic cultures around the world have ways of contacting what they believe to be a spirit world of beings - be it through trances or drugs. However, the beings they do contact are not always evil, but also good. And the beings they contact are always based on the spiritual beliefs and environment they find themselves in. Shamanic cultures in Mongolia will contact 3- eyed Eagles while Amazonian cultures will contact Jaguars etc.. In Vajrayana Buddhism they will contact various past Buddhas.

The best explanation for this is that shamans are schizoids as Dr. Robert Sapolsky suggests, prone to hearing voices etc, and will interpret these voices and beings they see under trance within the cultural milieu of their society. Normal people through the use of drugs, trances, can also access these schizo states as you mention.

Dr. Sapolsky also says and I believe him, that Jesus was a schizoid. The demons he heard were symptoms of his schizoid personality and he interpreted these voices as demons from his religious heritage.

Actually, Jesus Christ is the least schizophrenic person recorded in history.

I should let you know here, I'm a part-time collector of irony.

As Julian Jaynes observed, mankind is coming out of a condition of schizophrenia in its evolution from the animalistic mental state. The average human today still suffers from an extreme form of schizophrenia, but because almost everyone suffers from this extreme form of schizophrenia, it goes largely unremarked. There have been some studies on it, such as the Milgram experiment, but this form of extreme schizophrenia that the average human is under is unremarkable because virtually everyone suffers from it. This is the cause of, e.g., the wars based upon lies whose obvious falsity are available for almost everyone to easily review.

Now by saying "extreme schizophrenia", obviously those type of schizophrenics we see today who actually hear voices are a far more extreme example of schizophrenia. Though the average human's form of schizophrenia is still an extreme form of schizophrenia, because it is due to this form of average (yet still extreme in its consequences) schizophrenia that we have all the wars, the mass-murders and the genocides. It is only due to people's ability to hold mutually-contradictory viewpoints which allows such horrors. Because doesn't every culture and society view themselves as good people? Naturally, of course.

The mind of man is still utterly coitioned. And due to that, with the very advanced technology coming up, our ass is grass.

But, as I told you: I am a collector of irony. What technology slaughtered, it will revive.

Though it will revive to glory those who it finds made its own existence possible. Those who worked against its existence may not fare so well.

[Lennon]

James,

Why do chimpanzees war?  Is it because they are schizophrenics hearing voices? Or is it as agreed upon by anthropologists that they were over mate-poaching , access to resources and revenge?

War exists not because we are schizoids, but because it was evolutionary advantage ( resources/mates) and those vestiges still remain in the human psyche. Although the world is more peaceful now than ever - see Steven Pinkers new book.

[Mammal]

James, lengthy repetitions of pseudoscience don't make any of it any more believable. Tell you what, we can try to nitpick some of the core claims and attempt to discuss evidence for those. What would it be though? I simply don't have the stomach for all...that. A while back we had to endure lenghty threads of this kind of thing. I think there may be more suitable forums for it...this one is about what could reasonably be believed.

[JamesRedford]

James,

Why do chimpanzees war?  Is it because they are schizophrenics hearing voices? Or is it as agreed upon by anthropologists that they were over mate-poaching , access to resources and revenge?

War exists not because we are schizoids, but because it was evolutionary advantage ( resources/mates) and those vestiges still remain in the human psyche. Although the world is more peaceful now than ever - see Steven Pinkers new book.

I never said or suggested anything even approaching what you are talking about. I'm talking about sapient beings called humans' ability to hold mutually-contradictory viewpoints and to not see what it is that too upsets them to see.

Nor is modern human war conducted for the reasons you suggest. See sociologist Lloyd deMause's work on psychohistory regarding this matter. As a little introduction:

* "Lloyd DeMause Psychohistorian owl.postle.net", Elmer Postle ( youtube.com/user/elmerpostleowl ), Oct. 30, 2007, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDkjZufERag .

Although the actual case of the matter is even far worse than what DeMause speaks about, that of societal suicide. See my originating post of this thread for details on that.

[JamesRedford]

James, lengthy repetitions of pseudoscience don't make any of it any more believable. Tell you what, we can try to nitpick some of the core claims and attempt to discuss evidence for those. What would it be though? I simply don't have the stomach for all...that. A while back we had to endure lenghty threads of this kind of thing. I think there may be more suitable forums for it...this one is about what could reasonably be believed.

God's existence is a mathematical theorem within standard physics. Standard physics is the known laws of physics, viz., the Second Law of Thermodynamics, General Relativity, and Quantum Mechanics. These aforestated known physical laws have been confirmed by every experiment conducted to date. Hence, the only way to avoid Prof. Tipler's Omega Point Theorem is to reject empirical science. As Prof. Stephen Hawking wrote, "one cannot really argue with a mathematical theorem." (From p. 67 of Stephen Hawking, The Illustrated A Brief History of Time [New York, NY: Bantam Books, 1996; 1st ed., 1988].)

Prof. Tipler's said Omega Point cosmology has been extensively peer-reviewed and published in a number of the world's leading physics and science journals, such as Reports on Progress in Physics (the leading journal of the Institute of Physics, Britain's main professional organization for physicists), Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (one of the world's leading astrophysics journals), the International Journal of Theoretical Physics (a journal that Nobel Prize in Physics winner Richard Feynman also published in), and Physics Letters, among other journals.

For much more on Prof. Tipler's Omega Point cosmology and the details on how it uniquely conforms to, and precisely matches, the cosmology described in the New Testament, see my following article, which also addresses the societal implications of the Omega Point cosmology:

* 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, https://archive.org/download/ThePhysicsOfGodAndTheQuantumGravityTheoryOfEverything/Redford-Physics-of-God.pdf , https://purl.org/redford/physics-of-god .

[Lennon]

James,

Why do chimpanzees war?  Is it because they are schizophrenics hearing voices? Or is it as agreed upon by anthropologists that they were over mate-poaching , access to resources and revenge?

War exists not because we are schizoids, but because it was evolutionary advantage ( resources/mates) and those vestiges still remain in the human psyche. Although the world is more peaceful now than ever - see Steven Pinkers new book.

I never said or suggested anything even approaching what you are talking about. I'm talking about sapient beings called humans' ability to hold mutually-contradictory viewpoints and to not see what it is that too upsets them to see.

Nor is modern human war conducted for the reasons you suggest. See sociologist Lloyd deMause's work on psychohistory regarding this matter. As a little introduction:

* "Lloyd DeMause Psychohistorian owl.postle.net", Elmer Postle ( youtube.com/user/elmerpostleowl ), Oct. 30, 2007, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDkjZufERag .

Although the actual case of the matter is even far worse than what DeMause speaks about, that of societal suicide. See my originating post of this thread for details on that.

DeMause is another fringe theorist whose ideas are not taken seriously

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Psychohistory

[Lucian]

James,

Why do chimpanzees war?  Is it because they are schizophrenics hearing voices? Or is it as agreed upon by anthropologists that they were over mate-poaching , access to resources and revenge?

War exists not because we are schizoids, but because it was evolutionary advantage ( resources/mates) and those vestiges still remain in the human psyche. Although the world is more peaceful now than ever - see Steven Pinkers new book.

I never said or suggested anything even approaching what you are talking about. I'm talking about sapient beings called humans' ability to hold mutually-contradictory viewpoints and to not see what it is that too upsets them to see.

Nor is modern human war conducted for the reasons you suggest. See sociologist Lloyd deMause's work on psychohistory regarding this matter. As a little introduction:

* "Lloyd DeMause Psychohistorian owl.postle.net", Elmer Postle ( youtube.com/user/elmerpostleowl ), Oct. 30, 2007, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDkjZufERag .

Although the actual case of the matter is even far worse than what DeMause speaks about, that of societal suicide. See my originating post of this thread for details on that.

DeMause is another fringe theorist whose ideas are not taken seriously

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Psychohistory

That’s a bit too simplistic an analysis, really,

[Mammal]

James, lengthy repetitions of pseudoscience don't make any of it any more believable. Tell you what, we can try to nitpick some of the core claims and attempt to discuss evidence for those. What would it be though? I simply don't have the stomach for all...that. A while back we had to endure lenghty threads of this kind of thing. I think there may be more suitable forums for it...this one is about what could reasonably be believed.

God's existence is a mathematical theorem within standard physics. Standard physics is the known laws of physics, viz., the Second Law of Thermodynamics, General Relativity, and Quantum Mechanics. These aforestated known physical laws have been confirmed by every experiment conducted to date. Hence, the only way to avoid Prof. Tipler's Omega Point Theorem is to reject empirical science. As Prof. Stephen Hawking wrote, "one cannot really argue with a mathematical theorem." (From p. 67 of Stephen Hawking, The Illustrated A Brief History of Time [New York, NY: Bantam Books, 1996; 1st ed., 1988].)

Prof. Tipler's said Omega Point cosmology has been extensively peer-reviewed and published in a number of the world's leading physics and science journals, such as Reports on Progress in Physics (the leading journal of the Institute of Physics, Britain's main professional organization for physicists), Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (one of the world's leading astrophysics journals), the International Journal of Theoretical Physics (a journal that Nobel Prize in Physics winner Richard Feynman also published in), and Physics Letters, among other journals.

For much more on Prof. Tipler's Omega Point cosmology and the details on how it uniquely conforms to, and precisely matches, the cosmology described in the New Testament, see my following article, which also addresses the societal implications of the Omega Point cosmology:

James, I see you are obsessed with this matter of pseudoscience. Your e-footprint runs wide. By dishing out the same BS again as you did above and throwing in a bit of quote mining just strengthen the smell of this being nothing but a publicity stunt aimed at the gullible.

To the point. You have to actually substantiate some of your claims. Saying "God's existence is a mathematical theorem within standard physics" is as false as saying Thor exists because thunder exists. Point me to the mathematical theorem that concludes with a proof of God's existence. What God? Tipler's Omega Point is not a mathematical theorem afaik, it is a cosmology hypothesis. And yes, it has been reviewed and extensively criticised.

And no, I have absolutely no intention to read your online papers concerning CRAP (to borrow from Gardner). If you want to engage with the forum, I suggest that you make meaningful claims and clearly substantiate each of them, not just bundle them together in one big unwarranted assertion as you did here.

[JamesRedford]

James,

Why do chimpanzees war?  Is it because they are schizophrenics hearing voices? Or is it as agreed upon by anthropologists that they were over mate-poaching , access to resources and revenge?

War exists not because we are schizoids, but because it was evolutionary advantage ( resources/mates) and those vestiges still remain in the human psyche. Although the world is more peaceful now than ever - see Steven Pinkers new book.

I never said or suggested anything even approaching what you are talking about. I'm talking about sapient beings called humans' ability to hold mutually-contradictory viewpoints and to not see what it is that too upsets them to see.

Nor is modern human war conducted for the reasons you suggest. See sociologist Lloyd deMause's work on psychohistory regarding this matter. As a little introduction:

* "Lloyd DeMause Psychohistorian owl.postle.net", Elmer Postle ( youtube.com/user/elmerpostleowl ), Oct. 30, 2007, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDkjZufERag .

Although the actual case of the matter is even far worse than what DeMause speaks about, that of societal suicide. See my originating post of this thread for details on that.

DeMause is another fringe theorist whose ideas are not taken seriously

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Psychohistory

RationalWiki is a fringe project of antitheists.

[JamesRedford]

James,

Why do chimpanzees war?  Is it because they are schizophrenics hearing voices? Or is it as agreed upon by anthropologists that they were over mate-poaching , access to resources and revenge?

War exists not because we are schizoids, but because it was evolutionary advantage ( resources/mates) and those vestiges still remain in the human psyche. Although the world is more peaceful now than ever - see Steven Pinkers new book.

I never said or suggested anything even approaching what you are talking about. I'm talking about sapient beings called humans' ability to hold mutually-contradictory viewpoints and to not see what it is that too upsets them to see.

Nor is modern human war conducted for the reasons you suggest. See sociologist Lloyd deMause's work on psychohistory regarding this matter. As a little introduction:

* "Lloyd DeMause Psychohistorian owl.postle.net", Elmer Postle ( youtube.com/user/elmerpostleowl ), Oct. 30, 2007, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDkjZufERag .

Although the actual case of the matter is even far worse than what DeMause speaks about, that of societal suicide. See my originating post of this thread for details on that.

DeMause is another fringe theorist whose ideas are not taken seriously

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Psychohistory

That’s a bit too simplistic an analysis, really,

Further, your previous post quoted above demonstrates that you know nothing of substance regarding Julian Jaynes's bicameralism. Chimpanzees are at the pre-bicameral stage.

[JamesRedford]

James, lengthy repetitions of pseudoscience don't make any of it any more believable. Tell you what, we can try to nitpick some of the core claims and attempt to discuss evidence for those. What would it be though? I simply don't have the stomach for all...that. A while back we had to endure lenghty threads of this kind of thing. I think there may be more suitable forums for it...this one is about what could reasonably be believed.

God's existence is a mathematical theorem within standard physics. Standard physics is the known laws of physics, viz., the Second Law of Thermodynamics, General Relativity, and Quantum Mechanics. These aforestated known physical laws have been confirmed by every experiment conducted to date. Hence, the only way to avoid Prof. Tipler's Omega Point Theorem is to reject empirical science. As Prof. Stephen Hawking wrote, "one cannot really argue with a mathematical theorem." (From p. 67 of Stephen Hawking, The Illustrated A Brief History of Time [New York, NY: Bantam Books, 1996; 1st ed., 1988].)

Prof. Tipler's said Omega Point cosmology has been extensively peer-reviewed and published in a number of the world's leading physics and science journals, such as Reports on Progress in Physics (the leading journal of the Institute of Physics, Britain's main professional organization for physicists), Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (one of the world's leading astrophysics journals), the International Journal of Theoretical Physics (a journal that Nobel Prize in Physics winner Richard Feynman also published in), and Physics Letters, among other journals.

For much more on Prof. Tipler's Omega Point cosmology and the details on how it uniquely conforms to, and precisely matches, the cosmology described in the New Testament, see my following article, which also addresses the societal implications of the Omega Point cosmology:

James, I see you are obsessed with this matter of pseudoscience. Your e-footprint runs wide. By dishing out the same BS again as you did above and throwing in a bit of quote mining just strengthen the smell of this being nothing but a publicity stunt aimed at the gullible.

To the point. You have to actually substantiate some of your claims. Saying "God's existence is a mathematical theorem within standard physics" is as false as saying Thor exists because thunder exists. Point me to the mathematical theorem that concludes with a proof of God's existence. What God? Tipler's Omega Point is not a mathematical theorem afaik, it is a cosmology hypothesis. And yes, it has been reviewed and extensively criticised.

And no, I have absolutely no intention to read your online papers concerning CRAP (to borrow from Gardner). If you want to engage with the forum, I suggest that you make meaningful claims and clearly substantiate each of them, not just bundle them together in one big unwarranted assertion as you did here.

"I have absolutely no intention to read your online paper[]". Because of course, my following "Physics of God" article is possessed by demons that will impiously and indecently violate your delicate mind. Mustn't do that. The extreme and horrific vulgarity of it all!

* 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, https://archive.org/download/ThePhysicsOfGodAndTheQuantumGravityTheoryOfEverything/Redford-Physics-of-God.pdf , https://purl.org/redford/physics-of-god .

Physicist and mathematician Prof. Frank J. Tipler's Omega Point cosmology is a proof (i.e., mathematical theorem) demonstrating that sapient life (in the form of, e.g., immortal superintelligent human-mind computer-uploads and artificial intelligences) is required by the known laws of physics (i.e., the Second Law of Thermodynamics, General Relativity, and Quantum Mechanics) to take control over all matter in the universe, for said life to eventually force the collapse of the universe, and for the computational resources of the universe (in terms of both processor speed and memory space) to diverge to infinity as the universe collapses into a final singularity, termed the Omega Point. Said Omega Point cosmology is also an intrinsic component of the Feynman-DeWitt-Weinberg quantum gravity/Standard Model Theory of Everything (TOE) correctly describing and unifying all the forces in physics, of which TOE is itself logically forced by the aforesaid known physical laws.

Prof. Tipler's Omega Point cosmology has been peer-reviewed and published in a number of the world's leading physics and science journals.[1] Even NASA itself has peer-reviewed his Omega Point Theorem and found it correct according to the known laws of physics (see below). No refutation of it exists within the peer-reviewed scientific literature, or anywhere else for that matter.

Below are some of the peer-reviewed papers in physics and science journals and proceedings wherein Prof. Tipler has published his Omega Point cosmology. (The below papers, in addition to many other articles by Tipler on the Omega Point cosmology, are also available in the following archive: Frank-J-Tipler-Omega-Point-Papers.zip , 26712158 bytes, MD5: 6e5d29b994bc2f9aa4210d72ef37ab68, https://webcitation.org/6GjhT6t52 , https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B7k4r80YepnxNjNOX2x0XzBOV00/edit .)

* Frank J. Tipler, "Cosmological Limits on Computation", International Journal of Theoretical Physics, Vol. 25, No. 6 (June 1986), pp. 617-661, doi:10.1007/BF00670475, bibcode: 1986IJTP...25..617T, https://webcitation.org/64KHgOccs . First paper on the Omega Point cosmology.

* Frank J. Tipler, "The Sensorium of God: Newton and Absolute Space", bibcode: 1988nnds.conf..215T, in G[eorge]. V. Coyne, M[ichal]. Heller and J[ozef]. Zycinski (Eds.), "Message" by Franciszek Macharski, Newton and the New Direction in Science: Proceedings of the Cracow Conference, 25 to 28 May 1987 (Vatican City: Specola Vaticana, 1988), pp. 215-228, LCCN 88162460, bibcode: 1988nnds.conf.....C, https://webcitation.org/69Vb0JF1W .

* Frank J. Tipler, "The Omega Point Theory: A Model of an Evolving God", in Robert J. Russell, William R. Stoeger and George V. Coyne (Eds.), message by John Paul II, Physics, Philosophy, and Theology: A Common Quest for Understanding (Vatican City: Vatican Observatory, 2nd ed., 2005; orig. pub. 1988), pp. 313-331, ISBN 0268015775, LCCN 89203331, bibcode: 1988pptc.book.....R, https://webcitation.org/69VaKG2nd .

* Frank J. Tipler, "The Anthropic Principle: A Primer for Philosophers", in Arthur Fine and Jarrett Leplin (Eds.), PSA 1988: Proceedings of the 1988 Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, Volume Two: Symposia and Invited Papers (East Lansing, Mich.: Philosophy of Science Association, 1989), pp. 27-48, ISBN 091758628X, https://webcitation.org/69VarCM3I .

* Frank J. Tipler, "The Omega Point as Eschaton: Answers to Pannenberg's Questions for Scientists", Zygon: Journal of Religion & Science, Vol. 24, No. 2 (June 1989), pp. 217-253, doi:10.1111/j.1467-9744.1989.tb01112.x. Republished as Chapter 7: "The Omega Point as Eschaton: Answers to Pannenberg's Questions to Scientists" in Carol Rausch Albright and Joel Haugen (Eds.), Beginning with the End: God, Science, and Wolfhart Pannenberg (Chicago, Ill.: Open Court Publishing Company, 1997), pp. 156-194, ISBN 0812693256, LCCN 97000114, https://webcitation.org/5nY0aytpz .

* Frank J. Tipler, "The ultimate fate of life in universes which undergo inflation", Physics Letters B, Vol. 286, Nos. 1-2 (July 23, 1992), pp. 36-43, doi:10.1016/0370-2693(92)90155-W, bibcode: 1992PhLB..286...36T, https://webcitation.org/64Uskd785 .

* Frank J. Tipler, "A New Condition Implying the Existence of a Constant Mean Curvature Foliation", bibcode: 1993dgr2.conf..306T, in B[ei]. L. Hu and T[ed]. A. Jacobson (Eds.), Directions in General Relativity: Proceedings of the 1993 International Symposium, Maryland, Volume 2: Papers in Honor of Dieter Brill (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1993), pp. 306-315, ISBN 0521452678, bibcode: 1993dgr2.conf.....H, https://webcitation.org/5qbXJZiX5 .

* Frank J. Tipler, "Ultrarelativistic Rockets and the Ultimate Future of the Universe", NASA Breakthrough Propulsion Physics Workshop Proceedings, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Jan. 1999, pp. 111-119; an invited paper in the proceedings of a conference held at and sponsored by NASA Lewis Research Center, Cleveland, Ohio, Aug. 12-14, 1997; doi:2060/19990023204, Document ID: 19990023204, Report Number: E-11429; NAS 1.55:208694; NASA/CP-1999-208694, https://webcitation.org/5zPq69I0O , https://pdf-archive.com/2013/09/29/tipler-ultrarelativistic-rockets/tipler-ultrarelativistic-rockets.pdf . Full proceedings volume: https://webcitation.org/69zAxm0sT .

* Frank J. Tipler, "There Are No Limits To The Open Society", Critical Rationalist, Vol. 3, No. 2 (Sept. 23, 1998), https://webcitation.org/5sFYkHgSS .

* Frank J. Tipler, Jessica Graber, Matthew McGinley, Joshua Nichols-Barrer and Christopher Staecker, "Closed Universes With Black Holes But No Event Horizons As a Solution to the Black Hole Information Problem", arXiv:gr-qc/0003082, Mar. 20, 2000, http://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0003082 . Published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 379, No. 2 (Aug. 2007), pp. 629-640, doi:10.1111/j.1365-2966.2007.11895.x, bibcode: 2007MNRAS.379..629T, https://webcitation.org/5vQ3M8uxB .

* Frank J. Tipler, "The Ultimate Future of the Universe, Black Hole Event Horizon Topologies, Holography, and the Value of the Cosmological Constant", arXiv:astro-ph/0104011, Apr. 1, 2001, http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0104011 . Published in J. Craig Wheeler and Hugo Martel (Eds.), Relativistic Astrophysics: 20th Texas Symposium, Austin, Texas, 10-15 December 2000 (Melville, NY: American Institute of Physics, 2001), pp. 769-772, ISBN 0735400261, LCCN 2001094694, which is AIP Conference Proceedings, Vol. 586 (Oct. 15, 2001), doi:10.1063/1.1419654, bibcode: 2001AIPC..586.....W.

* Frank J. Tipler, "Intelligent life in cosmology", International Journal of Astrobiology, Vol. 2, No. 2 (Apr. 2003), pp. 141-148, doi:10.1017/S1473550403001526, bibcode: 2003IJAsB...2..141T, https://webcitation.org/5o9QHKGuW . Also at arXiv:0704.0058, Mar. 31, 2007, http://arxiv.org/abs/0704.0058 .

* F. J. Tipler, "The structure of the world from pure numbers", Reports on Progress in Physics, Vol. 68, No. 4 (Apr. 2005), pp. 897-964, doi:10.1088/0034-4885/68/4/R04, bibcode: 2005RPPh...68..897T, http://www.math.tulane.edu/~tipler/theoryofeverything.pdf . Also released as "Feynman-Weinberg Quantum Gravity and the Extended Standard Model as a Theory of Everything", arXiv:0704.3276, Apr. 24, 2007, http://arxiv.org/abs/0704.3276 .

* Frank J. Tipler, "Inevitable Existence and Inevitable Goodness of the Singularity", Journal of Consciousness Studies, Vol. 19, Nos. 1-2 (2012), pp. 183-193, https://webcitation.org/69JEi5wHp .

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, in which the above August 2007 paper was published, is one of the world's leading peer-reviewed astrophysics journals.

Prof. Tipler's paper "Ultrarelativistic Rockets and the Ultimate Future of the Universe" was an invited paper for a conference held at and sponsored by NASA Lewis Research Center, so NASA itself has peer-reviewed Tipler's Omega Point Theorem (peer-review is a standard process for published proceedings papers; and again, Tipler's said paper was an *invited* paper by NASA, as opposed to what are called "poster papers").

Zygon is the world's leading peer-reviewed academic journal on science and religion.

Out of 50 articles, Prof. Tipler's 2005 Reports on Progress in Physics paper--which presents the Omega Point/Feynman-DeWitt-Weinberg quantum gravity/Standard Model Theory of Everything (TOE)--was selected as one of 12 for the "Highlights of 2005" accolade as "the very best articles published in Reports on Progress in Physics in 2005 [Vol. 68]. Articles were selected by the Editorial Board for their outstanding reviews of the field. They all received the highest praise from our international referees and a high number of downloads from the journal Website." (See Richard Palmer [Publisher], "Highlights of 2005", Reports on Progress in Physics website, ca. 2006, https://webcitation.org/5o9VkK3eE , https://archive.is/pKD3y .)

Reports on Progress in Physics is the leading journal of the Institute of Physics, Britain's main professional body for physicists. Further, Reports on Progress in Physics has a higher impact factor (according to Journal Citation Reports) than Physical Review Letters, which is the most prestigious American physics journal (one, incidently, which Prof. Tipler has been published in more than once). A journal's impact factor reflects the importance the science community places in that journal in the sense of actually citing its papers in their own papers.

For much more on these matters, see my above-cited article "The Physics of God and the Quantum Gravity Theory of Everything" in addition to my below website:

* Theophysics: God Is the Ultimate Physicist, http://theophysics.freevar.com , http://theophysics.epizy.com , http://theophysics.host56.com .

The only way to avoid the Omega Point cosmology is to reject the aforestated known laws of physics, and hence to reject empirical science: as these physical laws have been confirmed by every experiment to date. That is, there exists no rational reason for thinking that the Omega Point cosmology is incorrect, and indeed, one must engage in extreme irrationality in order to argue against the Omega Point cosmology. As Prof. Stephen Hawking wrote, "one cannot really argue with a mathematical theorem." (From p. 67 of Stephen Hawking, The Illustrated A Brief History of Time [New York, NY: Bantam Books, 1996; 1st ed., 1988].)

Additionally, we now have the quantum gravity Theory of Everything (TOE) required by the known laws of physics and that correctly describes and unifies all the forces in physics: of which inherently produces the Omega Point cosmology. So here we have an additional high degree of assurance that the Omega Point cosmology is correct.

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Note:

1. While there is a lot that gets published in physics journals that is anti-reality and nonphysical (such as String Theory, which violates the known laws of physics and has no experimental support whatsoever), the reason such things are allowed to pass the peer-review process is because the paradigm of assumptions which such papers are speaking to has been made known, and within their operating paradigm none of the referees could find anything crucially wrong with said papers. That is, the paradigm itself may have nothing to do with reality, but the peer-reviewers could find nothing fundamentally wrong with such papers within the operating assumptions of that paradigm. Whereas, e.g., the operating paradigm of Prof. Tipler's 2005 Reports on Progress in Physics paper and his other papers on the Omega Point Theorem is the known laws of physics, i.e., our actual physical reality which has been repeatedly confirmed by every experiment conducted to date. So the professional physicists charged with refereeing these papers could find nothing fundamentally wrong with them within their operating paradigm, i.e., the known laws of physics.

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In the below resource are six sections which contain very informative videos of physicist and mathematician Prof. Frank J. Tipler explaining the 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. The seventh section therein contains an audio interview of Tipler.

* 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@4ax.com , July 30, 2013, https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/alt.sci.astro/KQWt4KcpMVo , https://archive.is/a04w9 , https://webcitation.org/6IUTAMEyS .