James Redford

Hi, Andrew. You wrote, "Usually it takes the crackpots longer to get to the invented nonsense words. You managed to use one as the second word of your post. Impressive!"

"[C]onsentaneity" is an actual word in English. Nor did I invent it. The following is from John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner (Eds.), The Oxford English Dictionary (Oxford, UK: Clarendon Press, 2nd ed., 1989), ISBN 0198611862, LCCN 88005330:

""
consentaneity

(kənsɛntəˈniːɪtɪ)

[f. L. consentāne-us: see next and -ity.]

The quality of being consentaneous.

1798 W. Taylor in Monthly Rev. 521 The intuitive consentaneity of superior minds. 1878 Dowden Stud. Lit. 127 There is an entire consentaneity of thought and feeling.
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Also, within the field of physics, the only sensible definition of a "crackpot" is one who rejects the known laws of physics or who promotes theories which violate said physical laws. Under this rational definition of what a "crackpot" is within the discipline of physics, those who reject physicist and mathematician Prof. Frank J. Tipler's Omega Point cosmology are crackpots, since it 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 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 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.

Prof. Tipler's Ph.D. is in the field of Global General Relativity, which is the field created by Profs. Stephen Hawking and Roger Penrose during the formulation of their Singularity Theorems in the 1960s. Global General Relativity is General Relativity applied on the scale of the entire universe as a whole, and is the most elite and rarefied field of physics. Tipler is also an expert in quantum field theory (i.e., Quantum Mechanics combined with special-relativistic particle physics) and computer theory.

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/downloa... , https://purl.org/redford/ph... .

Cat got your tongue, Bim Sherwood? Not even a word. Telling.

That's what the entirety of empirical science is, Niels Holst: noticing correspondences between observed phenomena and explaining them with a causal theory that matches observations.

Your error, Holst, is that you are taking for granted that Christianity is false. You are taking for granted that the Messiah, Yeshua, did not resurrect Himself from death; that He does not have power over life and death.

Your extreme skepticism on this issue is unwarranted. God's existence is a mathematical theorem within standard physics, i.e., the known laws of physics (viz., the Second Law of Thermodynamics, General Relativity, and Quantum Mechanics). And the aforesaid known physical laws allow for God to perform miracles via the Principle of Least Action. Further, standard physics tells us that God exists as a Trinity: the Final Singularity (i.e., the Omega Point), the All-Presents Singularity (which exists at all times at the edge of the multiverse), and the Initial Singularity (i.e., the beginning of the Big Bang). These three distinct aspects to which perform different physical functions in bringing about and sustaining existence are actually one singularity which connects the entirety of the multiverse: the Cosmological Singularity, of which consists eternally of three hypostases in a homoousian triune, i.e., three distinct entities of the same substance (ousia).

Christian theology is therefore preferentially selected by the known laws of physics due to the fundamentally triune structure of the Cosmological Singularity (which has all the haecceities claimed for God in the major religions) within the Omega Point cosmology, which is deselective of all other major religions. And given God's ability to perform miracles, it is perfectly allowed within standard physics for God to Incarnate and resurrect Himself in order to save the world. Indeed, we should actually expect such an event to occur within human history in order to give mankind knowledge of God in enough degree so as to give them confidence in the human project as the Jaynesian gods of old grew ever-more silent; to impart a conception of God as omnibenevolent and rational as opposed to the ever-bickering and insane Jaynesian gods, hence encouraging the systematic study into the physical world as a world that ultimately makes sense; to imbue a necessary social ethic upon mankind in enough degree so that mankind could rise up and create societies leading to our present technological time; and to give mankind the promise of immortality and salvation, thereby again giving humans assurance in the human endeavor as the old Jaynesian gods went silent.

For the historical reliability of Jesus Christ's bodily resurrection and the untenability of theories which deny his resurrection, see:

* Prof. William Lane Craig, "Contemporary Scholarship and the Historical Evidence for the Resurrection of Jesus Christ", Truth: A Journal of Modern Thought, Vol. 1 (1985), pp. 89-95, http://webcitation.org/69KC... , https://archive.is/8ypeB , http://megalodon.jp/2016-04... .

For more on the historicity of Jesus Christ's resurrection, see William Lane Craig, Reasonable Faith: Christian Truth and Apologetics (Wheaton, Ill.: Crossway Books, 3rd ed., 2008), Ch. 8: "The Resurrection of Jesus", pp. 333-404, particularly pp. 360 ff.

Regarding the Christ myth theory, virtually all the items which the Christ myth theorists claim as facts which show the parallels of Christianity with earlier pagan religions are completely fabricated modern claims that can't be found in the historical record. For an excellent discussion on this, see the following video:

* "The Christ Myth - Was Jesus a Pagan Copycat? - J. P. Holding", godlogicscience (YouTube), Oct. 29, 2013, https://youtube.com/results... , https://myspace.com/philoso... , http://bethelchristianfello... .

The above video is an interview of James Patrick Holding (editor of Shattering the Christ Myth: Did Jesus Not Exist? [Maitland, Fla.: Xulon Press, 2008], http://amazon.com/dp/160647... ) by Dr. Craig Johnson on the topic of the Christ myth theory. See also the below resources regarding the Christ myth theory on J. P. Holding's website:

* "Were Bible stories and characters stolen from pagan myths?", Tekton Education and Apologetics Ministry, http://www.tektonics.org/co... .

* "Did Jesus exist?", op. cit., http://www.tektonics.org/je... .

For a great deal more regarding how the known laws of physics in the form of physicist and mathematician Prof. Frank J. Tipler's Omega Point cosmology uniquely conform to, and precisely match, the cosmology described in the New Testament, 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, https://archive.org/downloa... , https://sites.google.com/si... .

Additionally, in the below resource are different sections which contain some helpful notes and commentary by me pertaining to multimedia wherein Prof. Tipler explains the Omega Point cosmology and the Feynman-DeWitt-Weinberg quantum gravity/Standard Model TOE.

* 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/f... , https://archive.is/a04w9 , http://webcitation.org/6IUT... .

You speak in empty slogans, Niels Holst, such as with your "dogma" platitude. It provides no useful, actionable information. If the Omega Point Theorem is a false theorem, then simply provide the disproof to it.

Hi, Niels Holst. Reality isn't predicated on what you fail to see. The point of that quote from my "Physics of God" article is that physicist and mathematician Prof. Frank J. Tipler's Omega Point cosmology--of which is logically required by the known laws of physics (viz., the Second Law of Thermodynamics, General Relativity, and Quantum Mechanics)--uniquely conforms to, and precisely matches, the cosmology described in the New Testament. The two different resurrection events is just one of many such examples of this that I detail throughout my said article.

You go on to state, "Besides you neglect the obvious: There could be no good explanation." Prof. Tipler's Omega Point cosmology is the explanation. The aforesaid known physical laws have been confirmed by every experiment to date. Hence, the only way to avoid the 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].)

In consentaneity with Scott Adams's above February 11, 1996 Dilbert comic strip, physicist and mathematician Prof. Frank J. Tipler's Omega Point cosmology, which has been published and extensively peer-reviewed in leading physics journals, 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 (viz., 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 mathematically forced by the aforesaid known physical laws. For the details on that, see my following article, which also addresses the societal implications of the foregoing: 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/downloa... .

It's good to see mention made of physicist and mathematician Prof. Frank J. Tipler in this present article by Adam Becker.

Prof. Tipler's Omega Point cosmology, which is a proof of 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 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 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.

Prof. Tipler's Ph.D. is in the field of Global General Relativity, which is the field created by Profs. Stephen Hawking and Roger Penrose during the formulation of their Singularity Theorems in the 1960s. Global General Relativity is General Relativity applied on the scale of the entire universe as a whole, and is the most elite and rarefied field of physics. Tipler is also an expert in quantum field theory (i.e., Quantum Mechanics combined with special-relativistic particle physics) and computer theory.

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), orig. pub. Dec. 19, 2011 (since updated), doi:10.2139/ssrn.1974708.

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Regarding Global Warming, I am very much in support of it. The Earth is colder than it should be to support maximal life. There are poles on the Earth where it is too cold for almost anything to grow, but there is no place that is too hot for massive amounts of plants and animals to thrive (due to mountain-ranges extracting moisture from the air, there are deserts where it is too dry for life to thrive, but that also applies to cold areas). Further, carbon dioxide is plant-food. Plants require it in order to live. And the higher the CO_2 concentration, the faster-growing, larger, more robust, and more disease-resistant plants are. Hence, for farming, the higher the yield per units of input there will be. The real horror and tragedy would be if another Ice Age came upon us, as there would be a massive portion of lifeforms killed-off thereby (humans, also). So too, it is already known from the prehistoric ice-core samples that CO_2 does not drive the Earth's warming and cooling cycles, but rather CO_2 rises in response to the Earth warming, due to the oceans releasing dissolved CO_2 (as with gases, more gas is driven out of solution the higher a liquid's temperature is). And hence also, there cannot be any runaway-heating effect due to increased levels of CO_2, or else it would have already occurred, i.e., there could never be the Ice Age cycles. Indeed, there were many times in the Earth's past when CO_2 was much higher than at present. During those times one had megaflora (and also megafauna eating it) which the higher CO_2 levels allowed, but no runaway-heating.

Hi, Hawkeye Trader. It is the humans who are the extraterrestrials. The human species will use advanced technology to transform their bodies, becoming immortal, superintelligent gods. These posthumans will found Heaven on Earth and leave terra firma to create the New Heavens. For more on that, see my following article:

* James Redford, "Immortality via Technology", Medium, July 18, 2018, https://medium.com/@jamesre... , https://archive.is/8bwZV .

The ancient alien hypothesis along with the idea of current intelligent extraterrestrial visitations has been pushed hard by certain sectors of the corporate media. However, a species powerful enough to cross stars--let alone galaxies--wouldn't come to Earth as humanoid creatures in ponderous starships, but rather would use extreme nanotechnology. If they were malicious and wanted to seize the Earth, they would fall to the ground as microscopic dust, infect our craniums, and we'd all be brain-dead before we hit the ground. It would be lights-out before any human even knew that anything had occurred.

For more on the extreme rarity of extraterrestrial intelligence--such that we are only likely to encounter intelligent aliens during the collapse phase of the universe--see the following papers by physicist and mathematician Prof. Frank J. Tipler:

* 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/61s... . Also at arXiv:0704.0058, Mar. 31, 2007.

* Frank J. Tipler, "Additional Remarks on Extraterrestrial Intelligence", Quarterly Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 22 (Sept. 1981), pp. 279-292, bibcode: http://adsabs.harvard.edu/a... .

* Frank J. Tipler, "A Brief History of the Extraterrestrial Intelligence Concept", Quarterly Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 22 (June 1981), pp. 133-145, bibcode: http://adsabs.harvard.edu/a... .

* Frank J. Tipler, "Extraterrestrial Intelligent Beings do not Exist", Quarterly Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 21 (Sept. 1980), pp. 267-281, bibcode: http://adsabs.harvard.edu/a... .

This sounds like good news, Micah Redding. I hope the conference goes well. For those who would like to know more regarding Christianity's relation to transhumanism, see my following article: James Redford, "Immortality via Technology", Medium, July 18, 2018, https://medium.com/@jamesre... , https://archive.is/8bwZV .

The major social media outlets that have censored Alex Jones are de facto front-companies of the US government, along the lines of the CIA's former Air America airline. Besides their business deals with governments, they work hand-in-glove with the major governments in censoring. For the near complete control the US government exercises over the corporate media outlets, see my following article:

* James Redford, "The Major Media Is Owned by the US Government", PrisonPlanet Forum, Feb. 19, 2013, https://forum.prisonplanet.... , https://archive.is/RPkrO .

Regarding Google's control by the US government, see Julian Assange's below article and my August 29, 2013 reply to Assange therein:

* Julian Assange, "Google and the NSA: Who’s holding the ‘shit-bag’ now?", The Stringer, Aug. 24, 2013, http://thestringer.com.au/g... , https://archive.is/VWQ94 .

Alex Jones is far more correct in the information he presents than the professional liars of the de facto state-owned media. Jones documents serious and horrific mass-murderous crimes of the US government against its own citizens; and the mass-murderous genocidal wars based upon lies, such as the 2003 invasion of Iraq. To give one crucial instance, for irrefragable physicochemical proof that the 9/11 attacks were an inside job by the US government--i.e., via the use of large quantities of thermite in the case of the collapse of the three destroyed World Trade Center towers--see pp. 75-84 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/downloa... , https://purl.org/redford/ph... .

The foregoing article concerns physicist and mathematician Prof. Frank J. Tipler's Omega Point cosmology and the Feynman-DeWitt-Weinberg quantum gravity/Standard Model Theory of Everything (TOE). However, it also analyzes the societal implications of said, particularly the implications of the exponential advancement of technology and hence also the coming radical life-extension technologies (i.e., transhumanism) in light of a world dominated by a callous oligarchy.

See above.

Hi, Eric. Your reading-comprehension is in need of improvement. Perhaps you should inquire with your local elementary schools to see if they offer remedial reading courses to the general public. Vis.:

* 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, https://web.archive.org/web... , https://webcitation.org/5nx... .

Out of 50 articles, Prof. Tipler's above 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/5o9... , 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.

Hi, Jonathan Pearce. I already addressed your and Aaron Adair's faulty criticisms of mathematician and physicist Prof. Frank J. Tipler's Star of Bethlehem thesis here: "Comments on: Jonathan MS Pearce, 'Frank Tipler refuted on his Star of Bethlehem thesis by Aaron Adair', Debunking Christianity, Aug. 7, 2012", http://webcitation.org/70Ka... , http://www.freezepage.com/1... .

Also, keep in mind that 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/downloa... , https://purl.org/redford/ph... .

Hi, everyone. Thank you for your interest in my above-cited article. The latest version of it can be found here:

* James Redford, "Jesus Is an Anarchist", Social Science Research Network (SSRN), Dec. 4, 2011 (orig. pub. Dec. 19, 2001), 60 pp., doi:10.2139/ssrn.1337761, https://archive.org/downloa... .

Very much complementary to my foregoing article, see also my following one pertaining to physicist and mathematician Prof. Frank J. Tipler's Omega Point cosmology and the Feynman-DeWitt-Weinberg quantum gravity/Standard Model Theory of Everything (TOE), which is a proof (i.e., mathematical theorem) of God's existence per standard physics:

* 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://purl.org/redford/ph... .

Hi, everyone. Thank you for your interest in my above-cited article. The latest version of it can be found here:

* James Redford, "Jesus Is an Anarchist", Social Science Research Network (SSRN), Dec. 4, 2011 (orig. pub. Dec. 19, 2001), 60 pp., doi:10.2139/ssrn.1337761, https://archive.org/downloa... .

Very much complementary to my foregoing article, see also my following one pertaining to physicist and mathematician Prof. Frank J. Tipler's Omega Point cosmology and the Feynman-DeWitt-Weinberg quantum gravity/Standard Model Theory of Everything (TOE), which is a proof (i.e., mathematical theorem) of God's existence per standard physics:

* 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/downloa... .

Hi, Micah Redding. Thank you for your interview with Ilia Delio. For those who would like the 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), see my following article on physicist and mathematician Prof. Frank J. Tipler's Omega Point cosmology, of which article also addresses the societal implications of the Omega Point cosmology and details how it uniquely conforms to, and precisely matches, the cosmology described in the New Testament: 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/downloa... . This article further concerns the Feynman-DeWitt-Weinberg quantum gravity/Standard Model Theory of Everything (TOE), which is also required by said known physical laws. Tipler's Omega Point cosmology has been published and extensively peer-reviewed in leading physics journals.

At 34:24 min:sec into this interview, the discussion turns to physicist and mathematician Prof. Frank J. Tipler. Physicist Prof. Lawrence M. Krauss incorrectly states that he destroyed Tipler in a debate. However, Krauss's rebuttals to Tipler in that debate consisted of irrelevant arguments and bare assertions. One can view a video of this 2007 debate in the following resource, wherein I also give commentary on it:

* 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/f... , https://archive.is/a04w9 .

Prof. Krauss is a particle physicist. Whereas Prof. Tipler is not only an expert in quantum field theory (i.e., Quantum Mechanics combined with special-relativistic particle physics) but also an expert in Global General Relativity and computer theory. Global General Relativity (which is General Relativity applied on the scale of the universe as a whole) is the field created by Profs. Roger Penrose and Stephen Hawking during the formulation of their Singularity Theorems, and it is the most elite and rarefied field of physics.

Prof. Tipler's Omega Point cosmology is a mathematical theorem per the known laws of physics (viz., the Second Law of Thermodynamics, General Relativity, and Quantum Mechanics), of which have been confirmed by every experiment to date. Hence, the only way to avoid the 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 Omega Point cosmology has been published and extensively peer-reviewed in leading physics journals. It 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 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.

The Omega Point final singularity has all the unique properties (quiddities) claimed for God in the traditional religions. 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/downloa... , https://purl.org/redford/ph... .

I thank Prof. Marcia Bartusiak for her present review of Peter Watson's book Convergence. Although she states that physicist and mathematician Prof. Frank J. Tipler's Omega Point cosmology (i.e., his "views on the 'physics of immortality.'") is "not yet ready for prime time". However, it is a mathematical theorem per the known laws of physics (viz., the Second Law of Thermodynamics, General Relativity, and Quantum Mechanics), of which have been confirmed by every experiment to date. Hence, the only way to avoid the 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].) Moreover, his Omega Point cosmology has been published and extensively peer-reviewed in leading physics journals. For much more regarding Tipler's Omega Point cosmology, and the Feynman-DeWitt-Weinberg quantum gravity/Standard Model Theory of Everything (TOE), which is also required by the aforesaid known physical laws, see my following article, which additionally 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.