The Physics of Immortality
by Frank J. Tipler · first published 1994
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Frank J. Tipler is a major theoretician in the field of global general relativity, the rarefied branch of physics created by Stephen Hawking and Roger Penrose. Like most modern scientists, Tipler was an atheist who gave little thought to questions of theology. Yet, in devising a mathematical model of the end of the universe, Tipler came to a stunning conclusion: Using the most advanced and sophisticated methods of modern physics, relying solely on the rigorous procedures of logic that science demands, he had created a proof of the existence of God. Tipler's model of the universal end-time is
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Ever since I read Tipler's wildly speculative book The Physics of Immortality http://amzn.to/MarYjA (affiliate link) I've been a fan of this line of reasoning. Critics say it's all pseudo-science, and they're right. but pseudo-science is not necessarily a bad thing. There's really…
on “2045: The Year Man Becomes Immortal” ↗Yes, you need to survive today to see tomorrow, that's true. Two reads that border on fringe speculation that I happened to enjoy thoroughly were: The Physics of Immortality: Modern Cosmology, God and the Resurrection of the Dead by Frank J. Tipler, and The Singularity is Near by Ray Kurzweil. Now, I am an atheist, and I fully know the zaniness of Kipler's Omega Point and…
on “Climate-Related Death of Coral Around World Alarms Scientists” ↗Frank Tipler is the main person proposing this, and he wrote about FAP in The Physics of Immortality: https://www.amazon.com/Physics-Immortality-Modern-Cosmology-... Here's a review: http://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/tipler.html And here's a quote from it: "it would be possible for each male to be…
on “The Anthropic Principle (2000)” ↗There's a non-fiction book, The Physics of Immortality by Frank Tipler, with a similar premise. Because the universe (according to some models) will end in a Big Crunch, collapsing to a single point, and because information can't be destroyed, then an omniscient…
on “Is Death Reversible?” ↗The last bit you mention reminded me a lot of The Physics of Immortality (Frank J. Tipler, 1994) which I first read in when I was thirteen or fourteen years old. This was before it had been proven that the cosmological constant existed and was positive, so he was musing about…
on “Timeline of the Far Future” ↗…http://www.complex-systems.com/pdf/01-6-1.pdf One of the tripper far-reaching (to the end of the universe) applications of reversible computation is Tipler's "Omega Point," which he wrote about in "The Physics of Immortality". https://www.wired.com/2002/12/holytech/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omega_Point https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_J._Tipler#The_Omega_Poin...
on “Reversible Computing (2016) [video]” ↗Has some similarity to Tipler's "omega point" hypothesis iin his 1994 book "The Physics of Immortality" [1]. I read this years ago but have recently bought it again to have another look at. It seems to be a PDF on the Internet Archive as well. It was a very wild idea. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_J._Tipler
on “Nikolai Fyodorov wanted to resurrect the dead to live among the stars” ↗This reminds me of The Physics of Immortality by Frank Tipler.
on “A Dyson Sphere Could Bring Humans Back from the Dead” ↗…claimed by most traditional religions.[8][9] >Tipler's argument of the omega point being required by the laws of physics is a more recent development that arose after the publication of his 1994 book The Physics of Immortality. In that book (and in papers he had published up to that time), Tipler had offered the Omega Point cosmology as a hypothesis, while still claiming to confine the analysis to the known laws of physics.[10]…
…claimed by most traditional religions.[8][9] >Tipler's argument of the omega point being required by the laws of physics is a more recent development that arose after the publication of his 1994 book The Physics of Immortality. In that book (and in papers he had published up to that time), Tipler had offered the Omega Point cosmology as a hypothesis, while still claiming to confine the analysis to the known laws of physics.[10]…
on “Reversible computing escapes the lab” ↗…claimed by most traditional religions.[8][9] >Tipler's argument of the omega point being required by the laws of physics is a more recent development that arose after the publication of his 1994 book The Physics of Immortality. In that book (and in papers he had published up to that time), Tipler had offered the Omega Point cosmology as a hypothesis, while still claiming to confine the analysis to the known laws of physics.[10]…
on “Tofolli gates are all you need” ↗