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Why the Acceptance of the Known Laws of Physics Requires Acceptance of
the Omega Point Theory

based on articles by Prof. Frank J. Tipler; see:

F. J. Tipler, "The structure of the world from pure numbers," Reports
on Progress in Physics, Vol. 68, No. 4 (April 2005), pp. 897-964.
http://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, April 24, 2007.
http://arxiv.org/abs/0704.3276

Frank J. Tipler, "Intelligent life in cosmology," International
Journal of Astrobiology, Vol. 2, Issue 2 (April 2003), pp. 141-148.
http://geocities.com/theophysics/tipler-intelligent-life-in-cosmology.pdf
Also at arXiv:0704.0058, March 31, 2007.
http://arxiv.org/abs/0704.0058

Frank Tipler, "The Omega Point and Christianity," Gamma, Vol. 10, No.
2 (April 2003), pp. 14-23.
http://geocities.com/theophysics/tipler-omega-point-and-christianity.html

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Astrophysical black holes (i.e., trapped surfaces) almost certainly
exist, but Hawking [1] and Wald [2] have shown that if black holes are
allowed to exist for unlimited proper time, then they will completely
evaporate, and a fundamental quantum law called "unitarity" will be
violated. Unitarity, which roughly says that probability must be
conserved, thus requires that the universe must cease to exist after
finite proper time, which implies that the universe is closed and has
the spatial topology of a 3-sphere [3]. The Second Law of
Thermodynamics says the amount of entropy--the amount of disorder--in
the universe cannot decrease, but Ellis and Coule [4] and Tipler [5]
have shown that the amount of entropy already in the cosmic microwave
background radiation (CMBR) will eventually contradict the Bekenstein
Bound near the final singularity unless there are no event horizons,
since in the presence of horizons the Bekenstein Bound implies the
universal entropy S is less than or equal that constant (i.e., the
Bekenstein Bound) times the radius of the universe squared, and
general relativity requires the radius of the universe to go to zero
at the final singularity. If there are no horizons then the
gravitational shear energy due to the collapse of the universe itself
will increase to infinity much faster than the radius of the universe
going to zero at the final singularity [5,6]. The absence of event
horizons by definition means that the universe's future c-boundary
(causal boundary) is a single point [7], call it the Omega Point.
MacCallum [8] has shown that a 3-sphere closed universe with a single
point future c-boundary is of measure zero in initial data space
(i.e., infinitely improbable acting only under blind and dead forces).
Barrow [9,10], Cornish and Levin [11] and Motter [12] have shown that
the evolution of a 3-sphere closed universe into its final singularity
is chaotic. Yorke et al. [13,14] have shown that a chaotic physical
system is likely to evolve into a measure zero state if and only if
its control parameters are intelligently manipulated. Thus life (which
near the final state, is really collectively intelligent computers)
almost certainly must be present arbitrarily close to the final
singularity in order for the known laws of physics to be mutually
consistent at all times. Misner [15,16,17] has shown in effect that
event horizon elimination requires an infinite number of distinct
manipulations, so an infinite amount of information must be processed
between now and the final singularity. The amount of information
stored at any time diverges to infinity as the Omega Point is
approached, since the total entropy of the universe (i.e., S) diverges
to infinity there, implying divergence of the complexity of the system
that must be understood to be controlled.

During life's expansion throughout the universe, baryon annihilation
(via the inverse of electroweak baryogenesis using electroweak quantum
tunneling) is used for life's energy requirements and for interstellar
travel. In the process, the annililation of baryons forces the Higgs
field toward its absolute vacuum, thereby cancelling the positive
cosmological constant and forcing the universe to collapse [6,18].

References:

[1] S. W. Hawking, "Breakdown of predictability in gravitational
collapse," Physical Review D, Vol. 14, Issue 10 (November 1976), pp.
2460-2473.
[2] Robert M. Wald, Quantum Field Theory in Curved Spacetime and Black
Hole Thermodynamics (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994), ISBN
0226870251, Section 7.3, pp. 182-185.
[3] John D. Barrow, Gregory J. Galloway and Frank J. Tipler, "The
closed-universe recollapse conjecture," Monthly Notices of the Royal
Astronomical Society, Vol. 223 (December 1986), pp. 835-844.
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1986MNRAS.223..835B
[4] 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.
[5] Frank J. Tipler, The Physics of Immortality: Modern Cosmology, God
and the Resurrection of the Dead (New York: Doubleday, 1994), ISBN
0198519494, Appendix C: "The Bekenstein Bound," pg. 410. Said Appendix
is reproduced in Frank J. Tipler, "Genesis: How the Universe Began
According to Standard Model Particle Physics," arXiv:astro-ph/0111520,
November 28, 2001, Section 2: "Apparent Inconsistences in the Physical
Laws in the Early Universe," Subsection a: "Bekenstein Bound
Inconsistent with Second Law of Thermodynamics."
http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0111520
[6] Frank J. Tipler, "Intelligent life in cosmology," International
Journal of Astrobiology, Vol. 2, Issue 2 (April 2003), pp. 141-148.
http://geocities.com/theophysics/tipler-intelligent-life-in-cosmology.pdf
Also at arXiv:0704.0058, March 31, 2007.
http://arxiv.org/abs/0704.0058
[7] S. W. Hawking and G. F. R. Ellis, The Large Scale Structure of
Space-Time (London: Cambridge University Press, 1973), ISBN
0521200164, pp. 217-221.
[8] Malcolm A. H. MacCallum, "On the mixmaster universe problem,"
Nature--Physical Science, Vol. 230 (March 1971), pp. 112-3.
[9] John D. Barrow, "Chaotic behaviour in general relativity," Physics
Reports, Vol. 85, Issue 1 (May 1982), pp. 1-49.
[10] John D. Barrow and Janna Levin, "Chaos in the Einstein-Yang-Mills
Equations," Physical Review Letters, Vol. 80, Issue 4 (January 1998),
pp. 656-659. Also at arXiv:gr-qc/9706065, June 20, 1997.
http://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9706065
[11] Neil J. Cornish and Janna J. Levin, "Mixmaster universe: A
chaotic Farey tale," Physical Review D, Vol. 55, Issue 12 (June 1997),
pp. 7489-7510. Also at arXiv:gr-qc/9612066, December 30, 1996.
http://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9612066
[12] Adilson E. Motter, "Relativistic Chaos is Coordinate Invariant,"
Physical Review Letters, Vol. 91, Issue 23, Art. No. 231101 (December
2003), four pages. Also at arXiv:gr-qc/0305020, December 7, 2003.
http://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0305020
[13] Troy Shinbrot, Edward Ott, Celso Grebogi and James A. Yorke,
"Using chaos to direct trajectories to targets," Physical Review
Letters, Vol. 65, Issue 26 (December 1990), pp. 3215-3218.
[14] Troy Shinbrot, William Ditto, Celso Grebogi, Edward Ott, Mark
Spano and James A. Yorke, "Using the sensitive dependence of chaos
(the 'butterfly effect') to direct trajectories in an experimental
chaotic system," Physical Review Letters, Vol. 68, Issue 19 (May
1992), pp. 2863-2866.
[15] Charles W. Misner, "The Isotropy of the Universe," Astrophysical
Journal, Vol. 151 (February 1968), pp. 431-457.
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1968ApJ...151..431M
[16] Charles W. Misner, "Quantum Cosmology. I," Physical Review, Vol.
186, Issue 5 (October 1969), pp. 1319-1327.
[17] Charles W. Misner, "Mixmaster Universe," Physical Review Letters,
Vol. 22, Issue 20 (May 1969), pp. 1071-1074.
[18] F. J. Tipler, "The structure of the world from pure numbers,"
Reports on Progress in Physics, Vol. 68, No. 4 (April 2005), pp.
897-964, Section 11. "Solution to the cosmological constant problem:
the universe and life in the far future."
http://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, April 24, 2007.
http://arxiv.org/abs/0704.3276

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To find out what physicists have found out about God, read about
mathematical physicist Prof. Frank J. Tipler's Omega Point Theory (of
which first appeared in book-form in The Anthropic Cosmological
Principle [1986] co-written by leading astrophysicist Prof. John D.
Barrow along with Tipler, and of which said book received almost
universal praise by the science media) in the below short Wired
article:

Frank J. Tipler, "From 2100 to the End of Time," Wired.
http://geocities.com/theophysics/tipler-from-2100-to-the-end-of-time.html

The above article is the best short, popular-level introduction to the
Omega Point Theory.

For more on the technical reasons why the known laws of physics
require that the universe end in the Omega Point, see:

F. J. Tipler, "The structure of the world from pure numbers," Reports
on Progress in Physics, Vol. 68, No. 4 (April 2005), pp. 897-964.
http://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, April 24, 2007.
http://arxiv.org/abs/0704.3276

The above paper also demonstrates that the correct quantum gravity
theory has existed since 1962, first discovered by Richard Feynman in
that year, and independently discovered by Steven Weinberg and Bryce
DeWitt, among others. But because these physicists were looking for
equations with a finite number of terms (i.e., derivatives no higher
than second order), they abandoned this qualitatively unique quantum
gravity theory since in order for it to be consistent it requires an
arbitrarily higher number of terms. Further, they didn't realize that
this proper theory of quantum gravity is consistent only with a
certain set of boundary conditions imposed (which includes the initial
Big Bang, and the final Omega Point, cosmological singularities). The
equations for this theory of quantum gravity are term-by-term finite,
but the same mechanism that forces each term in the series to be
finite also forces the entire series to be infinite (i.e., infinities
that would otherwise occur in spacetime, consequently destabilizing
it, are transferred to the cosmological singularities, thereby
preventing the universe from immediately collapsing into
nonexistence). As Tipler noted, "It is a fundamental mathematical fact
that this [infinite series] is the best that we can do. ... This is
somewhat analogous to Liouville's theorem in complex analysis, which
says that all analytic functions other than constants have
singularities either a finite distance from the origin of coordinates
or at infinity."

When combined with the Standard Model, the result is a Theory of
Everything (TOE) correctly describing and unifying all the forces in
physics.

The leading quantum physicist in the world, Prof. David Deutsch
(inventor of the quantum computer [being the first person to
mathematically describe such a device and the first to formulate a
specifically quantum computational algorithm], for which work he won
the Institute of Physics' 1998 Paul Dirac Medal and Prize), defends
Frank Tipler's Omega Point Theory in Chapter 14: "The Ends of the
Universe" in his excellent book The Fabric of Reality, of which
extracts from the chapter are available below with Frank Tipler's
replies to it:

David Deutsch, extracts from Chapter 14: "The Ends of the Universe" of
The Fabric of Reality: The Science of Parallel Universes--and Its
Implications (London: Allen Lane The Penguin Press, 1997), ISBN
0713990619; with additional comments by Frank J. Tipler.
http://geocities.com/theophysics/deutsch-ends-of-the-universe.html
http://www.math.tulane.edu/~tipler/physicist.html

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Physics Books Featuring the Omega Point Theory

In Order from Newest to Oldest

Frank J. Tipler, The Physics of Christianity (New York: Doubleday,
2007), ISBN 0385514247. Chapter I and excerpt from Chapter II:
http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780385514248&view=excerpt
Chapter I also available here:
http://www.math.tulane.edu/~tipler/Chapter_1._Introduction.doc

David Deutsch, The Fabric of Reality: The Science of Parallel
Universes--and Its Implications (London: Allen Lane The Penguin Press,
1997), ISBN 0713990619. Extracts from Chapter 14: "The Ends of the
Universe," with additional comments by Frank J. Tipler:
http://geocities.com/theophysics/deutsch-ends-of-the-universe.html

Frank J. Tipler, The Physics of Immortality: Modern Cosmology, God and
the Resurrection of the Dead (New York: Doubleday, 1994), ISBN
0198519494. 56-page excerpt:
http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780385467995

John D. Barrow and Frank J. Tipler, Foreword by John A. Wheeler, The
Anthropic Cosmological Principle (Oxford: Oxford University Press,
1986), ISBN 0198519494. Excerpt from Chapter 1:
http://www.dhushara.com/book/quantcos/anth/anth.htm

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Various Articles by Prof. Frank J. Tipler

A Non-Exhaustive List, in Order from Newest to Oldest

Below are search resources for finding physics articles by Prof. Frank
J. Tipler:

Smithsonian/NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS) search for articles by
Tipler:
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-abs_connect?sim_query=YES&ned_query=YES&author=Tipler%2C+Frank&nr_to_return=800
University of Nottingham mirror search:
http://ukads.nottingham.ac.uk/cgi-bin/nph-abs_connect?sim_query=YES&ned_query=YES&author=Tipler%2C+Frank&nr_to_return=800

arXiv.org search for articles by Tipler:
http://arxiv.org/find/all/1/au:+Tipler/0/1/0/all/0/1?per_page=100
xxx.lanl.gov mirror search:
http://xxx.lanl.gov/find/all/1/au:+Tipler/0/1/0/all/0/1?per_page=100

Google Scholar search:
http://scholar.google.com/scholar?num=100&q=author:f-tipler

Below are links to various articles by Prof. Frank J. Tipler:

Frank Tipler, "Postmodern Physics: Colleges Fail to Teach Basics--Even
in Physics!," Clarion Call (John William Pope Center for Higher
Education Policy), May 16, 2007.
http://www.popecenter.org/clarion_call/article.html?id=1843

Frank J. Tipler, "The Value/Fact Distinction: Coase's Theorem Unifies
Normative and Positive Economics," Social Science Research Network
(SSRN), January 15, 2007. http://ssrn.com/abstract=959855

Maurice J. Dupré and Frank J. Tipler, "The Cox Theorem: Unknowns And
Plausible Value," arXiv:math/0611795, November 26, 2006.
http://arxiv.org/abs/math/0611795
http://www.math.tulane.edu/~dupre/COX17.pdf

Frank J. Tipler, "What About Quantum Theory? Bayes and the Born
Interpretation," arXiv:quant-ph/0611245, November 23, 2006.
http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0611245

F. J. Tipler, "The Star of Bethlehem: a Type Ia/Ic Supernova in the
Andromeda Galaxy," Observatory, Vol. 125 (June 2005), pp. 168-174.
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2005Obs...125..168T Also available here:
http://math.tulane.edu/~tipler/starofbethlehem.pdf

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

Frank Tipler, "The Omega Point and Christianity," Gamma, Vol. 10, No.
2 (April 2003), pp. 14-23.
http://geocities.com/theophysics/tipler-omega-point-and-christianity.html
Note that the foregoing version corrects character formatting errors
of the versions available here:
http://web.archive.org/web/20031113125255/http://home.worldonline.nl/~sttdc/tipler.htm
http://home.worldonline.nl/~sttdc/tipler.htm
http://home.tiscali.nl/~sttdc/tipler.htm For the version in Dutch, see
"Het Punt Omega en het christendom," Gamma, Jrg. 10, Nr. 2 (April
2003), pp. 14-23.
http://web.archive.org/web/20040205030349/http://home.worldonline.nl/~sttdc/jrg10_nr2_p1423.htm
http://home.tiscali.nl/~sttdc/jrg10_nr2_p1423.htm

Frank J. Tipler, "Intelligent life in cosmology," International
Journal of Astrobiology, Vol. 2, Issue 2 (April 2003), pp. 141-148.
http://geocities.com/theophysics/tipler-intelligent-life-in-cosmology.pdf
Also available here:
http://math.tulane.edu/~tipler/intelligentlife.pdf See also here:
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2003IJAsB...2..141T Also at
arXiv:0704.0058, March 31, 2007. http://arxiv.org/abs/0704.0058

Frank J. Tipler, "Refereed Journals: Do They Insure Quality or Enforce
Orthodoxy?," Progress in Complexity, Information, and Design (PCID),
Vols. 2.1 and 2.2 (January-June 2003).
http://www.iscid.org/papers/Tipler_PeerReview_070103.pdf
http://www.iscid.org/boards/ubb-get_topic-f-10-t-000059.html
http://www.iscid.org/pcid/2003/2/1-2/tipler_refereed_journals.php
http://www.iscid.org/frank-tipler.php Also published as Chapter 7 in
Uncommon Dissent: Intellectuals Who Find Darwinism Unconvincing,
edited by William A. Dembski, Foreword by John Wilson (Wilmington,
Delaware: ISI Books, 2004), ISBN 1932236309.

Giulio Prisco, "Interview with Frank J. Tipler," Transhumanity,
November 2, 2002. http://www.transhumanism.org/index.php/th/more/312/
http://web.archive.org/web/20021124063944/http://transhumanism.com/2002/tipler0201.shtml

Frank J. Tipler, "Genesis: How the Universe Began According to
Standard Model Particle Physics," arXiv:astro-ph/0111520, November 28,
2001. http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0111520 See also "Frank J. Tipler,
Diagrams," Theophysics:
http://geocities.com/theophysics/tipler-diagrams.html

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, April 1, 2001.
http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0104011 Published in Relativistic
Astrophysics: 20th Texas Symposium, Austin, TX, 10-15 December 2000,
edited by J. Craig Wheeler and Hugo Martel (Melville, N.Y.: American
Institute of Physics, 2001), ISBN 0735400261
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2001AIPC..586.....W ; and in AIP
Conference Proceedings, Vol. 586 (October 15, 2001), pp. 769-772.
http://link.aip.org/link/?APCPCS/586/769/1

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, March 20, 2000.
http://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0003082 Published in Monthly Notices of the
Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 379, Issue 2 (August 2007), pp.
629-640. http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2007MNRAS.379..629T

Frank J. Tipler, "Deus Ex Silico--A physicist explains why God is in
the chips," Wired, Issue 8.01, January 2000.
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.01/god_pr.html
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.01/god.html

Frank J. Tipler, "From 2100 to the End of Time," Wired.
http://geocities.com/theophysics/tipler-from-2100-to-the-end-of-time.html
http://www.math.tulane.edu/~tipler/wired.html

Rochelle M. Pereira, Craig C. Westerlandy and Frank J. Tipler, "Black
Holes in Spherically Symmetric Dust-Filled Closed Universes," May 11,
1999. http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/308864.html
http://www.math.tulane.edu/~tipler/tipler/blackholes.pdf
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1999ApJ...511..546T

Frank J. Tipler, "How Far Out Must We Go to Get into the Hubble
Flow?," Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 511, No. 2, Part 1 (February 1,
1999), pp. 546-549.
http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/ApJ/journal/issues/ApJ/v511n2/38990/38990.web.pdf
http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/ApJ/journal/contents/ApJ/v511n2.html
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1999ApJ...511..546T

Frank J. Tipler, "There Are No Limits To The Open Society," Critical
Rationalist, Vol. 3, No. 2 (September 23, 1998).
http://www.eeng.dcu.ie/~tkpw/tcr/volume-03/number-02/v03n02.html
http://www.eeng.dcu.ie/~tkpw/tcr/volume-03/index.html
http://geocities.com/theophysics/tipler-there-are-no-limits-to-the-open-society.html

Frank J. Tipler, "Does Quantum Nonlocality Exist? Bell's Theorem and
the Many-Worlds Interpretation," arXiv:quant-ph/0003146, March 30,
2000. http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0003146 Previously released as
"Quantum Nonlocality Does Not Exist: Bell's Theorem and the
Many-Worlds Interpretation," February 13, 1998.
http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/160930.html

Frank J. Tipler, "Newtonian cosmology revisited," Monthly Notices of
the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 282, Issue 1 (September 1996),
pp. 206-210. http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1996MNRAS.282..206T

Anthony Liversidge, "Frank Tipler--physicist--Interview," Omni, Vol.
17, Issue 1 (October 1994), pp. 89 ff.
http://geocities.com/theophysics/tipler-omni-interview.html
http://web.archive.org/web/20050114180111/http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1430/is_n1_v17/ai_15831830/print
http://myweb.lmu.edu/tshanahan/HN-TiplerTXT.html

Frank J. Tipler, "Sophistry and illusion" (originally entitled "God in
the Equations"), Nature, Vol. 369, No. 6477 (May 1994), pg. 198; a
review of Kitty Ferguson, The Fire in the Equations: Science, Religion
and the Search for God (London: Bantam Press, 1994).
http://geocities.com/theophysics/tipler-sophistry-and-illusion.html
http://www.math.tulane.edu/~tipler/nature.god.gif
See also here: http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1994Natur.369..198T

Frank J. Tipler, "The ultimate fate of life in universes which undergo
inflation," Physics Letters B, Vol. 286, Issues 1-2 (July 23, 1992),
pp. 36-43. http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1992PhLB..286...36T

Frank Tipler, "Is it all in the mind?," Physics World, Vol. 2, No. 11
(November 1989), pp. 45-47; a review of Roger Penrose, The Emperor's
New Mind: Concerning Computers, Minds, and the Laws of Physics
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989).
http://physicsworldarchive.iop.org/index.cfm?action=summary&doc=2%2F11%2Fphwv2i11a28%40pwa-xml

Frank J. Tipler, "The Omega Point as Eschaton: Answers to Pannenberg's
Questions for Scientists," Zygon, Vol. 24, Issue 2 (June 1989), pp.
217-253.
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1467-9744.1989.tb01112.x

Frank J. Tipler, "More on Olbers's Paradox," Journal for the History
of Astronomy, Vol. 19, Pt. 4 (November 1988), pp. 284-286; a review of
Edward Harrison, Darkness at Night: A Riddle of the Universe
(Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1987).
http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1988JHA....19..284H See also
here, although note that this page links to a PDF file which is
missing a page from the article:
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1988JHA....19..284H

F. J. Tipler, "The Omega Point Theory: A Model for an Evolving God,"
in Physics, Philosophy and Theology: A Common Quest for Understanding,
edited by Robert J. Russell, William R. Stoeger and George V. Coyne
(State of the Vatican City: Vatican Observatory, 1988), ISBN
0268015767, pp. 313-331.
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1988pptc.book.....R
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1997pptc.book.....R

F. J. Tipler, "Johann Mädler's Resolution of Olbers' Paradox,"
Quarterly Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 29, No. 3
(September 1988), pp. 313-325.
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1988QJRAS..29..313T

Frank J. Tipler, "The Anthropic Principle: A Primer for Philosophers,"
PSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science
Association, Vol. 1988, Vol. Two: Symposia and Invited Papers (1988),
pp. 27-48.
http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0270-8647(1988)1988%3C27%3ATAPAPF%3E2.0.CO%3B2-L
http://cat.inist.fr/?aModele=afficheN&cpsidt=11820660

Frank J. Tipler, "Olbers's Paradox, the Beginning of Creation, and
Johann Mädler," Journal for the History of Astronomy, Vol. 19, Pt. 1
(February 1988), pp. 45-48.
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1988JHA....19...45T

Frank J. Tipler, "Achieved spacetime infinity," Nature, Vol. 325, No.
6101 (January 15, 1987), pp. 201-202.
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1987Natur.325..201T

John D. Barrow, Gregory J. Galloway and Frank J. Tipler, "The
closed-universe recollapse conjecture," Monthly Notices of the Royal
Astronomical Society, Vol. 223 (December 15, 1986), pp. 835-844.
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1986MNRAS.223..835B

Frank J. Tipler, reply by Martin Gardner, "THE FAP FLOP," New York
Review of Books, Vol. 33, No. 19 (December 4, 1986).
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/4946 In reply to Martin Gardner, "WAP,
SAP, PAP, & FAP," New York Review of Books, Vol. 33, No. 8 (May 8,
1986). http://www.nybooks.com/articles/5121

Frank J. Tipler, "The Structure of the Classical Cosmological
Singularity," Origin and Early History of the Universe; Proceedings of
the Twenty-Sixth Liege International Astrophysical Colloquium, Liege,
Belgium, July 1-4, 1986 (A88-14376 03-90). Cointe-Ougree, Belgium,
Universite de Liege, 1986, pp. 339-359; Discussion, pp. 360-361.
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1986LIACo..26..339T

Frank J. Tipler, "Cosmological Limits on Computation," International
Journal of Theoretical Physics, Vol. 25, No. 6 (June 1986), pp.
617-661. (First paper on the Omega Point Theory.)
http://www.springerlink.com/content/vlj3180664373268/

Frank J. Tipler, "Penrose diagrams for the Einstein,
Eddington-Lemaitre, Eddington-Lemaitre-Bondi, and anti-de Sitter
universes," Journal of Mathematical Physics, Vol. 27, Issue 2
(February 1986), pp. 559-561.
http://link.aip.org/link/?JMAPAQ/27/559/1

John D. Barrow and Frank J. Tipler, "Closed universes: their future
evolution and final state," Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical
Society, Vol. 216 (September 15, 1985), pp. 395-402.
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1985MNRAS.216..395B

Frank J. Tipler, "How to Construct a Falsifiable Theory in Which the
Universe Came into Being Several Thousand Years Ago," PSA: Proceedings
of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, Vol.
1984, Vol. Two: Symposia and Invited Papers (1984), pp. 873-902.
http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0270-8647(1984)1984%3C873%3AHTCAFT%3E2.0.CO%3B2-3

Frank J. Tipler, Observatory, Vol. 103, No. 1055 (August 1983), pp.
221-222; a review of P. C. W. Davies, The Accidental Universe
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982).
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1983Obs...103..221D

Frank J. Tipler, "Anthropic-Principle Arguments Against Steady-State
Cosmological Theories," Observatory, Vol. 102 (April 1982), pp. 36-39.
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1982Obs...102...36T

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

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.
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1981QJRAS..22..133T

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

Frank J. Tipler, "Singularities in Universes with Negative
Cosmological Constant," Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 209, Pt. 1
(October 1, 1976), pp. 12-15.
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1976ApJ...209...12T

Frank Jennings Tipler, Causality Violation in General Relativity,
Ph.D. thesis at the University of Maryland, College Park (1976).
Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Vol. 37-06, Section B,
pg. 2923. Also available as Dissertation 76-29,018 from Xerox
University Microfilms, Ann Arbor, MI.
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1976PhDT........61T

Frank J. Tipler, "Electromagnetic Radiation from Colliding Black
Holes," Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 197, Pt. 1 (April 1, 1975), pp.
199-202. http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1975ApJ...197..199T

Frank J. Tipler, "Rotating cylinders and the possibility of global
causality violation," Physical Review D, Vol. 9, Issue 8 (April 1974),
pp. 2203-2206. Available in GIF format here:
http://www.vialattea.net/curvatura/articoli/t1.gif
http://www.vialattea.net/curvatura/articoli/t2.gif
http://www.vialattea.net/curvatura/articoli/t3.gif
http://www.vialattea.net/curvatura/articoli/t4.gif

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James Redford, author of "Jesus Is an Anarchist," revised and expanded
edition, June 1, 2006 (originally published December 19, 2001)
http://praxeology.net/anarchist-jesus.pdf

Theophysics (a website with information on Prof. Frank J. Tipler's
Omega Point Theory) http://geocities.com/theophysics/

Androcles

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The very thread title is crapola.
*plonk*


GatherNoMoss

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On Jan 11, 3:51 pm, "Androcles" <Engin...@hogwarts.physics_d> wrote:
> The very thread title is crapola.
> *plonk*

As usual you add nothing to the conversation.

All you do, and evidently all you want to do, is add a tone of
incivility.

Roaming around to every freaking sci. group on calling people
"stupid".

I know you're fat and flabby...why not go outside and get some
exercise ?

Major Quaternion Dirt Quantum

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Androcles may be a lard-ass cyberjerk, but
the digest in Wired leaves so many simple questions out,
in reply to the assumedly-required infinities
of this finite Universe ideal,
you have to wonder. that is, even if
you believe in "black holes of the Standard Model."

Tipler puts everything into the heretofore visible part
of Universe, like Einstein, Bucky et al, and
the assumption that the redshift is Dopplerian,
a la the belief in a Big Bang cosmogeny. as well,
he assumes that the problem of decoherence
in quantum computing can ever be overcome; I mean,
lots of technical schemes & specs have been designed
for such QC, but has decoherence really ever been
fundamentally addressed (other than a bif, fat,
"it's just impossible to do this"), or sooner?

> Frank J. Tipler, "From 2100 to the End of Time," Wired.http://geocities.com/theophysics/tipler-from-2100-to-the-end-of-time....
964.http://math.tulane.edu/~tipler/theoryofeverything.pdf

> DeWitt, among others. But because these physicists were looking
> for equations with a finite number of terms (i.e.,
> derivatives no higher than second order), they abandoned
> this qualitatively unique quantum gravity theory since
> in order for it to be consistent
> it requires an arbitrarily higher number of terms. Further,
> they didn't realize that
> this proper theory of quantum gravity is
>

> read more »...

thus:
origami is the n'est-plus ultra
of numbertheory, using the Pierpont primes....
you only have to know how to make paper,
or pay for it.

thus:
so, it may be simple to see that
the productivity of Fermat was not only due
to his establishing numbertheorie as a science,
but to some fundamental method. I'm sure,
Wiles's collegiate advisors, at least, would
have made this deduction, by the time
that he started on his "secret basement lab,"
in the mid-seventies, since the historiography would
have been available to them. to be really cynical,
let's say, they were the ones
to promote "le derniere theorem" misdirection. or,
was it *derriere* ??

thus:
the operating system of chess,
is the systematization of all
of the possible games that can end in a draw, or
just those that have been recorded
in games between grandmasters?...
plus, games where the first player
gets one or n extra moves, such that
he'll almost always win?...
fine, at least, it seems somewhat testable; now,
put it into a shakespearean play (that is
to say, English!)

personally, I'd guess that
any "2D" analysis is doomed to failure,
not including time as a dimension -- bogus,
undeadminkowsispeak!

thus:
anyway, it seemed that the OP did not quite
"get" _Laws of Form_, itself, before diving
into the alleged 4CT proof. well,
in the very beginning, there's a reference
to an endnote that clearly shows the relation
to first-order boolean logic and,
since that is really the same as arithmetic,
you should be able to configure it.

thus:
erratum: the Swedish Bank Prize
for Economics is not a Nobel Prize, as
you might discern from the roster
of freaks of british liberal free trade and
Chicago U. alumni, like Milton Friedman,
author of Schulz's and Sir Henry
of Kiss.Ass.'s Chile experiment. so,
some bankers really are Jewish!

as for Al's Nobel,
he should really have gotten it for acting,
like a shill for Occidental Petroleum,
which made his (and Al, Sr.'s) carreer.... oh, wait;
he'd already gotten that!

> No they aren't. They are selected
> by the Swedish Academy of Science, and the
> Norwegian Parliament. The claim that these are 60% Jewish

thus:
I looked, again, at monsieur H's "effect" page, and
was rather nonplussed by the jabber
about zero-point energy, casamir effect etc. any way,
"effects happen," whether or not H. can explain them,
which he seems unable to do, or was that you?...
what ever experimental results he has,
they hardly disprove the effect
of a 757-model missile; do they?

thus:
can you give a precis of those pages, like,
in words?... as for the idea of a missile,
whether or not carrying a 3d movie, isn't that
what a 757 diving at 500mph, full of fuel, is?... I mean,
movies are *extra*, nowadays....
why is any more energy needed for an uncontrolled demo,
since it would take much less
for a correspodingly controlled job
a la Prez Trickier Dick?

> My current working-hypothesis is that a missile,
> carrying a hologramme crashed into the tower.
> I am now sure that *no* 767 jumbo crashed into any tower.

thus:
not sure about the whole chronology, but
Nahin said that the n=3 proof was never found,
as typical a la Fermat, but, then, blandly assumes that
it was a different proof from the *mirabile dictu* one
from the margin -- that's silly; eh?... now,
F. put the whole "infinite decent" proof
for n=4 in the blank endpapers of his _Bachet's
Diophantus_, then presumably issued the challenge
for n=3. a long time, later,
Sophie Germaine proved the conjecture
for all prime exponents of the form, 2p - 1,
where p is also prime, pretty much ending (or,
at least, bookending) any case-by-case proofs
for further n.

>without being paid-off by Oscar and Noby, c) ... so,
>what was the reason for them?

--Dick Cheeny, National Treasure:
Run, Trickier Dick -- Run for Indy superVeep!

RFHall

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On Fri, 11 Jan 2008 15:39:40 -0500, James Redford
<jrre...@yahoo.com> wrote:

>Why the Acceptance of the Known Laws of Physics Requires Acceptance of
>the Omega Point Theory
>
>based on articles by Prof. Frank J. Tipler; see:
>
>F. J. Tipler, "The structure of the world from pure numbers," Reports
>on Progress in Physics, Vol. 68, No. 4 (April 2005), pp. 897-964.
>http://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, April 24, 2007.
>http://arxiv.org/abs/0704.3276
>
>Frank J. Tipler, "Intelligent life in cosmology," International
>Journal of Astrobiology, Vol. 2, Issue 2 (April 2003), pp. 141-148.
>http://geocities.com/theophysics/tipler-intelligent-life-in-cosmology.pdf
>Also at arXiv:0704.0058, March 31, 2007.
>http://arxiv.org/abs/0704.0058
>
>Frank Tipler, "The Omega Point and Christianity," Gamma, Vol. 10, No.
>2 (April 2003), pp. 14-23.
>http://geocities.com/theophysics/tipler-omega-point-and-christianity.html
>
>----------
>

Jim:
Thank you for bringing this to our attention.
It appears as though Mr. Tipler has found a niche for himself,
probably, in the Christian community. The whole idea of the Big Bang
was originally conceived by Georges Lemaitre, a Catholic Priest. The
story I heard claims that Einstein stood up and endorsed the concept
immediately. It was especially appealing due to meeting scientific
notions as well as religious notions. The whole thing has been
promoted as Gospel ever since and all observations have been forced
into this mold. Tipler apparently thinks he has succeeded in bringing
the creationists and the big bang advocates together. I haven't
checked it out lately, but these two groups would battle endlessly on
talk.origins in the ninties. It was pathetic Good luck Mr. Tipler.

Even though there are significant controversies, contradictions, and
counter-theories; the scientific community is so committed to the Big
Bang, a generation will have to die before alternates are considered.
In the meantime, we can all roll our eyes back and see that the
singularity is God and the Big Bang is an expansion of the Biblical
Creation story: an ancient metaphor of magnificent proportions
inspired by the creator Himself.. The alpha and the omega (sic).

RFHall
http://www.seanet.com/~realistic/chpt3.html
The Realistic Idealist

tommy1729

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Feb 19, 2008, 6:20:23 PM2/19/08
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one of the problems of astronomy and specificly big bang theory is simple.

we measure only from our own position.

e.g. we measure background radiation.

in all directions. -> proof of big bang ?

could have been a few big nova's in the past surrounding us.

or radiation from black holes sourrounding us , both now or past.

since we only measure from our own position , we cant prove its everywhere !

we might argue because it is measured in all directions.

not a bad argument.

but far from conclusive , unless you want to conclude of course.

on the other hand , i wont just believe any other theory.

since big bang has not been disproven either.

staying neutral.

regards
tommy1729

Autymn D. C.

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