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Frank Tipler - The Omega Point
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Dr. Frank Tipler discusses "The Omega Point", a theoretical future event in which the entirety of the universe spirals toward a final point of unification, and offers insights into the relationship between thermodynamics and information.

Th term "Omega Point" was originally invented by the French Jesuit Catholic priest Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, who framed it in theological terms, but Tipler's model is based on physics and computation.

Tipler's theory began in a series of articles in the late 1980s, later summarized the 1994 book "The Physics of Immortality". Tipler's proposed that in the far distant future, all matter will converge to an infinite point at the end of a closed universe, which is the Omega Point.

Dr. Frank Tipler is a mathematical physicist and cosmologist, holding a joint appointment in the Departments of Mathematics and Physics at Tulane University.

Dr. Tipler has a Bachelors in Physics from MIT and a PhD from the University of Maryland, with postdoctoral work under the distinguished physicists John Archibald Wheeler, Abraham Taub, Rainer Sachs, and Dennis Sciama. He became an associate professor in mathematical physics in 1981 and a full professor in 1987 at Tulane University, where he has been a faculty member ever since.

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    Thank you very much, Timothy Ventura, for this interview of physicist and mathematician Prof. Frank J. Tipler. For those who would like more on this topic, see my following article: James Redford, "The Physics of God and the Quantum Gravity Theory of Everything", Social Science Research Network, Sept. 10, 2012, doi:10.2139/ssrn.1974708, https://archive.org/download/ThePhysicsOfGodAndTheQuantumGravityTheoryOfEverything/Redford-Physics-of-God.pdf , https://purl.org/redford/physics-of-god . My foregoing article concerns 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 the known laws of physics (viz., the Second Law of Thermodynamics, General Relativity, and Quantum Mechanics). Tipler's Omega Point cosmology has been extensively peer-reviewed and published in a number of the world's leading physics and science journals.

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