The Physics of God and the Quantum Gravity Theory of Everything

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Where? Maybe I missed them.

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That article just shows that man can make anything seem plausible and official. Just as long as it sounds remotely comprehensible and has sufficient levels of jargon.

There is no direct evidence for a big bang or singularity. In fact looking at the observable universe one can see what is often described as an organic process. It would seem far more plausible to be in a growing universe rather than a universe that came to an advanced form or a significantly advanced form from nothingness. It would seem far more reasonable to come to the conclusion that the universes growth is sporadic in cosmic distance terms.

I would also like to hear the authors opinion on whether he agrees with the growing planet theory or if he believes in Continental Drift and Plate Tectonic theory?

On the nature of god, If god is everywhere and everything and a Omega Point. Then that must mean that he is evil as well.

haha, i love this: The reason God cannot do this is because this would create a logically paradoxical strange loop whereby the knowledge of good and evil doesn’t exist in existence

How do you know that evil would eventually take over the planet and destroy existence. Seems very unlikely, what exactly is stopping evil from doing it now? You also mix up free market economics in with your theory and it sounds a bit distorted to be honest. You are also referring to the far future and making theories about it based on your own assumptions about the universe.

What a load of non sense.

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“Good Lord, this thread gonna be fun! As a closet christian homosexual I am very interested in such proofs.”

It’s true, admitting you’re a christian is a pretty embarassing thing to have to do.

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Define “god” and get back to me.
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See Sec. 7.1: “The Haecceities of God” of the article.

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I dunno, seems like he’s got a rock solid case here.

After all, the words First Cause are not used in two different senses inthis argument.

Nor is the word “exists”.

Gotta hand it to you, Mr Redford.

BTW, should the churches dump the symbolism of the cross and pray to a picture of a Big Bang instead?
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Hi, Smiling Dave. By your reply apparently you found everything that I wrote to be correct (literally speaking–not sarcastically speaking), given that you felt the need to misrepresent the article’s arguments. Your “syllogysm” is not anywhere to be found in the article. In fact, in Sec. 7.1: “The Haecceities of God”, I specifically state that the First Cause in the abstract sense might not necessarily entail identification with God: “”
Yet another traditional definition of God is the creator of all reality, which means that all causal chains begin with God. According to the Big Bang cosmology, all causal chains start at the initial singularity, which is the first cause. In the abstract sense, the first cause might not necessarily entail identification with God, since one might abstractly imagine that the first cause doesn’t have the other properties of God. But in the concrete sense of the known laws of physics, the first cause logically requires a state of infinite mind, i.e., the Big Bang initial singularity cannot exist per the known physical laws without the Omega Point final singularity. As well, the initial singularity is a different aspect of the final singularity.
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It’s actually the Omega Point final singularity which has the haecceities of God, which I detail in the aforesaid Sec. 7.1. Below is the first paragraph from that section:

“”
The Omega Point is omniscient, having an infinite amount of information and knowing all that is logically possible to be known; it is omnipotent, having an infinite amount of energy and power; and it is omnipresent, consisting of all that exists. These three properties are the traditional definitions of God held by almost all of the world’s leading religions. Hence, by definition, the Omega Point is God.
“”

I go on in that section to elaborate on the crucial haecceity of God, that of a state of infinite mind which knows everything that is logically possible to know.

In Sec. 3.1: “The Omega Point” I give the mathematical theorem per the known laws of physics (i.e., the Second Law of Thermodynamics, General Relativity, and Quantum Mechanics) that the universe must end in the Omega Point.

Prof. Frank J. 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 cosmology 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 science and physics journals wherein Prof. Tipler has published his Omega Point cosmology:

  • 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. http://www.webcitation.org/64KHgOccs (First paper on the Omega Point cosmology.)

  • 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.

  • Frank J. Tipler, “The Omega Point as Eschaton: Answers to Pannenberg’s Questions for Scientists”, Zygon: Journal of Religion & Science, Vol. 24, Issue 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 (editors), Beginning with the End: God, Science, and Wolfhart Pannenberg (Chicago, Ill.: Open Court Publishing Company, 1997), pp. 156-194, ISBN 0812693256, LCCN 97000114. http://www.webcitation.org/5nY0aytpz

  • 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, doi:10.1016/0370-2693(92)90155-W, bibcode: 1992PhLB..286…36T. http://www.webcitation.org/64Uskd785

  • Frank J. Tipler, “A New Condition Implying the Existence of a Constant Mean Curvature Foliation”, bibcode: 1993dgr2.conf..306T, in B. L. Hu and T. A. Jacobson (editors), Directions in General Relativity: Proceedings of the 1993 International Symposium, Maryland, Volume 2: Papers in Honor of Dieter Brill (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993), pp. 306-315, ISBN 0521452678, bibcode: 1993dgr2.conf…H. http://www.webcitation.org/5qbXJZiX5

  • Frank J. Tipler, “There Are No Limits To The Open Society”, Critical Rationalist, Vol. 3, No. 2 (September 23, 1998). http://www.webcitation.org/5sFYkHgSS

  • Frank J. Tipler, “Ultrarelativistic Rockets and the Ultimate Future of the Universe”, NASA Breakthrough Propulsion Physics Workshop Proceedings, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, January 1999, pp. 111-119; an invited paper in the proceedings of a conference held at and sponsored by NASA Lewis Research Center, Cleveland, Ohio, August 12-14, 1997; doi:2060/19990023204. Document ID: 19990023204. Report Number: E-11429; NAS 1.55:208694; NASA/CP-1999-208694. http://www.webcitation.org/5zPq69I0O Full proceedings volume: http://www.webcitation.org/5zPsZWvmz

  • 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, doi:10.1111/j.1365-2966.2007.11895.x, bibcode: 2007MNRAS.379..629T. http://www.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, April 1, 2001. http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0104011 Published in J. Craig Wheeler and Hugo Martel (editors), Relativistic Astrophysics: 20th Texas Symposium, Austin, TX, 10-15 December 2000 (Melville, N.Y.: American Institute of Physics, 2001), pp. 769-772, ISBN 0735400261, LCCN 2001094694, which is AIP Conference Proceedings, Vol. 586 (October 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 (April 2003), pp. 141-148, doi:10.1017/S1473550403001526, bibcode: 2003IJAsB…2..141T. http://www.webcitation.org/5o9QHKGuW Also at arXiv:0704.0058, March 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 (April 2005), pp. 897-964, doi:10.1088/0034-4885/68/4/R04, bibcode: 2005RPPh…68..897T. 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

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. http://www.webcitation.org/5o9VkK3eE )

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. (And just to point out, Tipler’s 2005 Reports on Progress in Physics paper could not have been published in Physical Review Letters since said paper is nearly book-length, and hence not a “letter” as defined by the latter journal.)

For much more on these matters, particularly see Prof. Tipler’s above 2005 Reports on Progress in Physics paper in addition to the following resources:

James Redford, “The Physics of God and the Quantum Gravity Theory of Everything”, Social Science Research Network (SSRN), January 13, 2012 (orig. pub. December 19, 2011), 185 pp. http://ssrn.com/abstract=1974708 , http://theophysics.chimehost.net/Redford-Physics-of-God.pdf , http://www.webcitation.org/64it5yg8x

Theophysics: God Is the Ultimate Physicist http://theophysics.chimehost.net , http://theophysics.host56.com , http://theophysics.ifastnet.com

The only way to avoid the conclusion that the Omega Point exists is to reject the known laws of physics (i.e., the Second Law of Thermodynamics, General Relativity, and Quantum Mechanics), 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.

Additionally, we now have the quantum gravity Theory of Everything (TOE) correctly describing and unifying 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.

Note:

  1. While there is a lot that gets published in physics journals that is anti-reality and non-physical (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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I dunno, seems like he’s got a rock solid case here.

After all, the words First Cause are not used in two different senses inthis argument.

Nor is the word “exists”.

Gotta hand it to you, Mr Redford.

BTW, should the churches dump the symbolism of the cross and pray to a picture of a Big Bang instead?
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Hi, Smiling Dave. By your reply apparently you found everything that I wrote to be correct (literally speaking–not sarcastically speaking), given that you felt the need to misrepresent the article’s arguments. Your “syllogysm” is not anywhere to be found in the article. In fact, in Sec. 7.1: “The Haecceities of God”, I specifically state that the First Cause in the abstract sense might not necessarily entail identification with God:

“”
Yet another traditional definition of God is the creator of all reality, which means that all causal chains begin with God. According to the Big Bang cosmology, all causal chains start at the initial singularity, which is the first cause. In the abstract sense, the first cause might not necessarily entail identification with God, since one might abstractly imagine that the first cause doesn’t have the other properties of God. But in the concrete sense of the known laws of physics, the first cause logically requires a state of infinite mind, i.e., the Big Bang initial singularity cannot exist per the known physical laws without the Omega Point final singularity. As well, the initial singularity is a different aspect of the final singularity.
“”

It’s actually the Omega Point final singularity which has the haecceities of God, which I detail in the aforesaid Sec. 7.1. Below is the first paragraph from that section:

“”
The Omega Point is omniscient, having an infinite amount of information and knowing all that is logically possible to be known; it is omnipotent, having an infinite amount of energy and power; and it is omnipresent, consisting of all that exists. These three properties are the traditional definitions of God held by almost all of the world’s leading religions. Hence, by definition, the Omega Point is God.
“”

I go on in that section to elaborate on the crucial haecceity of God, that of a state of infinite mind which knows everything that is logically possible to know.

In Sec. 3.1: “The Omega Point” I give the mathematical theorem per the known laws of physics (i.e., the Second Law of Thermodynamics, General Relativity, and Quantum Mechanics) that the universe must end in the Omega Point.

Prof. Frank J. 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 cosmology 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 science and physics journals wherein Prof. Tipler has published his Omega Point cosmology:

  • 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. (First paper on the Omega Point cosmology.)

  • 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.

  • Frank J. Tipler, “The Omega Point as Eschaton: Answers to Pannenberg’s Questions for Scientists”, Zygon: Journal of Religion & Science, Vol. 24, Issue 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 (editors), Beginning with the End: God, Science, and Wolfhart Pannenberg (Chicago, Ill.: Open Court Publishing Company, 1997), pp. 156-194, ISBN 0812693256, LCCN 97000114.

  • 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, doi:10.1016/0370-2693(92)90155-W, bibcode: 1992PhLB..286…36T.

  • Frank J. Tipler, “A New Condition Implying the Existence of a Constant Mean Curvature Foliation”, bibcode: 1993dgr2.conf..306T, in B. L. Hu and T. A. Jacobson (editors), Directions in General Relativity: Proceedings of the 1993 International Symposium, Maryland, Volume 2: Papers in Honor of Dieter Brill (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993), pp. 306-315, ISBN 0521452678, bibcode: 1993dgr2.conf…H.

  • Frank J. Tipler, “There Are No Limits To The Open Society”, Critical Rationalist, Vol. 3, No. 2 (September 23, 1998).

  • Frank J. Tipler, “Ultrarelativistic Rockets and the Ultimate Future of the Universe”, NASA Breakthrough Propulsion Physics Workshop Proceedings, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, January 1999, pp. 111-119; an invited paper in the proceedings of a conference held at and sponsored by NASA Lewis Research Center, Cleveland, Ohio, August 12-14, 1997; doi:2060/19990023204. Document ID: 19990023204. Report Number: E-11429; NAS 1.55:208694; NASA/CP-1999-208694.

  • 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. Published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 379, Issue 2 (August 2007), pp. 629-640, doi:10.1111/j.1365-2966.2007.11895.x, bibcode: 2007MNRAS.379..629T.

  • 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. Published in J. Craig Wheeler and Hugo Martel (editors), Relativistic Astrophysics: 20th Texas Symposium, Austin, TX, 10-15 December 2000 (Melville, N.Y.: American Institute of Physics, 2001), pp. 769-772, ISBN 0735400261, LCCN 2001094694, which is AIP Conference Proceedings, Vol. 586 (October 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 (April 2003), pp. 141-148, doi:10.1017/S1473550403001526, bibcode: 2003IJAsB…2..141T. Also at arXiv:0704.0058, March 31, 2007.

  • 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, doi:10.1088/0034-4885/68/4/R04, bibcode: 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.

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.)

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. (And just to point out, Tipler’s 2005 Reports on Progress in Physics paper could not have been published in Physical Review Letters since said paper is nearly book-length, and hence not a “letter” as defined by the latter journal.)

For much more on these matters, particularly see Prof. Tipler’s above 2005 Reports on Progress in Physics paper in addition to the following resources:

James Redford, “The Physics of God and the Quantum Gravity Theory of Everything”, Social Science Research Network (SSRN), January 13, 2012 (orig. pub. December 19, 2011), 185 pp.

Theophysics: God Is the Ultimate Physicist.

The only way to avoid the conclusion that the Omega Point exists is to reject the known laws of physics (i.e., the Second Law of Thermodynamics, General Relativity, and Quantum Mechanics), 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.

Additionally, we now have the quantum gravity Theory of Everything (TOE) correctly describing and unifying 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.

Note:

  1. While there is a lot that gets published in physics journals that is anti-reality and non-physical (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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Per the laws of physics, as the
universe comes to an end at this singularity in a particular form of the Big Crunch,
the computational capacity of the universe (in terms of both its processor speed and
memory storage) increases unlimitedly with a hyperbolic growth rate as the radius
of the universe collapses to zero, allowing an infinite number of bits to be processed
and stored before the end of spacetime.

Um, citation needed?

And regardless of whether we “know” the Universe will eventually collapse, what is the Universe’s “processor speed”… and relative to what?

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Yeah, and this is where I call b/s and lose my interest. This “God is real!” stuff where someone tries to use equations to prove the existence always comes from this narrow minded monotheistic end. What I mean by that? It only goes by their definition of what a god is which excludes all other ideas of what a god is or can be. Tell me, as a polytheist who believes in a demiurge like deity, where my gods fit in?

All religions have a creation myth, they could all in some way be proved by science. There’s a Big Bang in the Poetic Edda (the creation myth is strikingly similar in ways to the Big Bang, more so than what’s in the Bible, so take that). The point? That people 2,000-3,000 years ago if not longer had a good conception of how the universe works that became projected from their own minds into the religions they followed.
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I see that you’re an adherent of epistemological relativism, which is the logical fallacy that truth is either infinitely malleable, utterly irrelevant, nonexistent, or unknowable. Yet on the contrary, truth exists, it is knowable, and it is independent of what anyone thinks or feels about it.

The only way to avoid the conclusion that the Omega Point exists is to reject the known laws of physics (i.e., the Second Law of Thermodynamics, General Relativity, and Quantum Mechanics), 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.

Additionally, we now have the quantum gravity Theory of Everything (TOE) correctly describing and unifying all the forces in physics: of which inherently produces the Omega Point cosmology.

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This appears to be an argument from ignorance. The absence of any refutation of a hypothesis or theory does not constitute evidence, let alone proof, that the hypothesis or theory is irrefutable.

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Um, citation needed?

And regardless of whether we “know” the Universe will eventually collapse, what is the Universe’s “processor speed”… and relative to what?
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Hi, Josh. Your reading comprehension skills are in need of amelioration. The following is the paragraph which immediately proceeds the paragraph from which you extracted your quoted text:

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The Omega Point cosmology by Tulane University professor of physics and mathematics Frank J. Tipler is a proof of God’s existence according to the known laws of physics, i.e., the Second Law of Thermodynamics, General Relativity, and Quantum Mechanics [433–437, 439–441, 443]. The theorem is an integral part of the Feynman–DeWitt–Weinberg quantum gravity/Standard Model Theory of Everything (TOE), which is also required by the known physical laws [437, 441, 443].
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See also my post previous to my previous post above.

Regarding your question, the universe’s processor speed will diverge to infinity relative to proper time.

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This appears to be an argument from ignorance. The absence of any refutation of a hypothesis or theory does not constitute evidence, let alone proof, that the hypothesis or theory is irrefutable.
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The mathematics itself isn’t refutable, otherwise it wouldn’t be a mathematical theorem. But if it were shown that the Second Law of Thermodynamics, General Relativity, or Quantum Mechanics were false, then the theorem wouldn’t apply to the actual physics of the universe. These physical laws have been confirmed by every experiment to date, and so the only way to reject the Omega Point cosmology is to reject empirical science. 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.

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Defining “God” simply as “first cause” means that “God” cannot be defined as anything else. So it does not follow from the proof that the Big Bang is/was jealous of all other Big Bangs, or that the Big Bang parted the Red Sea to let the Hebrews escape from Pharaoh, or that the Big Bang gave up Its only son to die on the cross for our sins, etc.

Additionally, the laws of physics have not proved in any way that a “Big Bang” actually occurred. Mainstream cosmology hypothesizes that it did, and points to certain observations as empirical evidence in favor of this hypothesis. That’s in no way the same as a proof, which is necessarily logical.
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Hi, Autolykos. Actually, Smiling Dave was elaborating on a phantasm of his own creation. Since you’re interested in what my position is on this matter, then read the article that I wrote about it. That’s what I wrote it for.

Regarding your second paragraph, your statement therein couldn’t be more false. The Big Bang cosmology is a mathematical theorem per General Relativity, which was demonstrated with the Penrose–Hawking–Geroch Singularity Theorems that are discussed in Sec. 5: “The Big Bang” of my following article.

James Redford, “The Physics of God and the Quantum Gravity Theory of Everything”, Social Science Research Network (SSRN), January 13, 2012 (orig. pub. December 19, 2011), 185 pp.

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That article just shows that man can make anything seem plausible and official. Just as long as it sounds remotely comprehensible and has sufficient levels of jargon.

There is no direct evidence for a big bang or singularity. In fact looking at the observable universe one can see what is often described as an organic process. It would seem far more plausible to be in a growing universe rather than a universe that came to an advanced form or a significantly advanced form from nothingness. It would seem far more reasonable to come to the conclusion that the universes growth is sporadic in cosmic distance terms.

I would also like to hear the authors opinion on whether he agrees with the growing planet theory or if he believes in Continental Drift and Plate Tectonic theory?
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Hi, Jack Roberts. The idea of an evolving universe is what the Omega Point cosmology is. It is the existential fact of evolution taken to its logical conclusion.

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On the nature of god, If god is everywhere and everything and a Omega Point. Then that must mean that he is evil as well.

haha, i love this: The reason God cannot do this is because this would create a logically paradoxical strange loop whereby the knowledge of good and evil doesn’t exist in existence

How do you know that evil would eventually take over the planet and destroy existence. Seems very unlikely, what exactly is stopping evil from doing it now? You also mix up free market economics in with your theory and it sounds a bit distorted to be honest. You are also referring to the far future and making theories about it based on your own assumptions about the universe.

What a load of non sense.
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Traditional Christian theology maintains that God can do anything which does not involve a logical contradiction. As I point out in the quote you provide, it is not logically possible for all evil to be avoided in the multiverse. But we are at a very early proper-time stage of the universe’s evolution, and are very near the time of technological transformation into immortality and the foundation of Heaven on Earth, after which there will be no more death or suffering. The pleasurable experiences generated will be a set of infinitely greater probability (in the sense of random selection across the entirety of existence) than the painful experiences, and thus in the measure theoretic sense God is totally good.

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I don’t know what “Quantum Gravity / Theory of Everything” you are referring to, but a Google search of “Feynman–DeWitt–Weinberg” turns up only hits related to your religiously-themed paper or Frank Tipler (I note that none of it is availble on arxiv.org).

This along with your mildly snarky attitude leads me to believe you are just a crank. Internet’s full of 'em.

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“”
I don’t know what “Quantum Gravity / Theory of Everything” you are referring to, but a Google search of “Feynman–DeWitt–Weinberg” turns up only hits related to your religiously-themed paper or Frank Tipler (I note that none of it is availble on arxiv.org).

This along with your mildly snarky attitude leads me to believe you are just a crank. Internet’s full of 'em.
“”

I notice that many people try to clairvoyantly divine what the contents of this article are without actually reading it for themselves. Sometimes these people will invent ad hoc and logically fallacious epistemic methodologies in an attempt to bolster their clairvoyant perceptions of the article’s content.

The Omega Point Theory of Everything goes under different names. I often use “Omega Point/Feynman-DeWitt-Weinberg quantum gravity/Standard Model Theory of Everything (TOE)” for all the components of it.

The following is the peer-reviewed paper on the Omega Point/Feynman-DeWitt-Weinberg quantum gravity/Standard Model Theory of Everything (TOE):

  • 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, doi:10.1088/0034-4885/68/4/R04, bibcode: 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.

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.)

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. (And just to point out, Tipler’s 2005 Reports on Progress in Physics paper could not have been published in Physical Review Letters since said paper is nearly book-length, and hence not a “letter” as defined by the latter journal.)

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As I said before, Josh, your reading comprehension skills are in need of amelioration. They would greatly benefit by stopping trying to clairvoyantly divine the contents of a work and instead actually read the work.

We’ve been over this in my previous response to you. Prof. Tipler’s above paper on the Omega Point TOE is Reference 441 in my previous response to you, which is reproduced below.

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Um, citation needed?

And regardless of whether we “know” the Universe will eventually collapse, what is the Universe’s “processor speed”… and relative to what?
“”

Hi, Josh. Your reading comprehension skills are in need of amelioration. The following is the paragraph which immediately proceeds the paragraph from which you extracted your quoted text:

“”
The Omega Point cosmology by Tulane University professor of physics and mathematics Frank J. Tipler is a proof of God’s existence according to the known laws of physics, i.e., the Second Law of Thermodynamics, General Relativity, and Quantum Mechanics [433–437, 439–441, 443]. The theorem is an integral part of the Feynman–DeWitt–Weinberg quantum gravity/Standard Model Theory of Everything (TOE), which is also required by the known physical laws [437, 441, 443].
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See also my post previous to my previous post above.

Regarding your question, the universe’s processor speed will diverge to infinity relative to proper time.

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The Big Bang Never Happened.

Ergo, “God exists” is still a non-sequitir.

QED

Clayton -

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Dude, get over yourself. There’s a mountain of garbage ideas available on the interwebs - if that mountain were the Empire State Building, your little paper would be a speck of dust on the wall. If I feel like reading/seeing garbage, I will go to Google or YouTube and search up the garbage that catches my interest rather than listen to a baby boohoo about how people won’t read his garbage.

Get a life.

Clayton

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“”
The Big Bang Never Happened.

Ergo, “God exists” is still a non-sequitir.

QED

Clayton -
“”

The Big Bang cosmology is a mathematical theorem per General Relativity, which was demonstrated with the Penrose–Hawking–Geroch Singularity Theorems that are discussed in Sec. 5: “The Big Bang” of my following article.

James Redford, “The Physics of God and the Quantum Gravity Theory of Everything”, Social Science Research Network (SSRN), January 13, 2012 (orig. pub. December 19, 2011), 185 pp.

At any rate, you’re replying to a phantasm of Smiling Dave’s own creation, as the proof of God’s existence per the known laws of physics (i.e., the Second Law of Thermodynamics, General Relativity, and Quantum Mechanics) isn’t based upon the Big Bang.

“”

Dude, get over yourself. There’s a mountain of garbage ideas available on the interwebs - if that mountain were the Empire State Building, your little paper would be a speck of dust on the wall. If I feel like reading/seeing garbage, I will go to Google or YouTube and search up the garbage that catches my interest rather than listen to a baby boohoo about how people won’t read his garbage.

Get a life.

Clayton
“”

I see that you’re another clairvoyant Knower. For you there is no need for scholarly discourse and rational discussion, as you can psychically divine what the truth is on this matter even though you know nothing about it.

I also see that you’re an adherent of epistemological relativism, which is the logical fallacy that truth is either infinitely malleable, utterly irrelevant, nonexistent, or unknowable. Yet on the contrary, truth exists, it is knowable, and it is independent of what anyone thinks or feels about it.

Prof. Frank J. 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 cosmology 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 science and physics journals wherein Prof. Tipler has published his Omega Point cosmology:

  • 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. http://www.webcitation.org/64KHgOccs (First paper on the Omega Point cosmology.)

  • 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.

  • Frank J. Tipler, “The Omega Point as Eschaton: Answers to Pannenberg’s Questions for Scientists”, Zygon: Journal of Religion & Science, Vol. 24, Issue 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 (editors), Beginning with the End: God, Science, and Wolfhart Pannenberg (Chicago, Ill.: Open Court Publishing Company, 1997), pp. 156-194, ISBN 0812693256, LCCN 97000114. http://www.webcitation.org/5nY0aytpz

  • 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, doi:10.1016/0370-2693(92)90155-W, bibcode: 1992PhLB..286…36T. http://www.webcitation.org/64Uskd785

  • Frank J. Tipler, “A New Condition Implying the Existence of a Constant Mean Curvature Foliation”, bibcode: 1993dgr2.conf..306T, in B. L. Hu and T. A. Jacobson (editors), Directions in General Relativity: Proceedings of the 1993 International Symposium, Maryland, Volume 2: Papers in Honor of Dieter Brill (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993), pp. 306-315, ISBN 0521452678, bibcode: 1993dgr2.conf…H. http://www.webcitation.org/5qbXJZiX5

  • Frank J. Tipler, “There Are No Limits To The Open Society”, Critical Rationalist, Vol. 3, No. 2 (September 23, 1998). http://www.webcitation.org/5sFYkHgSS

  • Frank J. Tipler, “Ultrarelativistic Rockets and the Ultimate Future of the Universe”, NASA Breakthrough Propulsion Physics Workshop Proceedings, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, January 1999, pp. 111-119; an invited paper in the proceedings of a conference held at and sponsored by NASA Lewis Research Center, Cleveland, Ohio, August 12-14, 1997; doi:2060/19990023204. Document ID: 19990023204. Report Number: E-11429; NAS 1.55:208694; NASA/CP-1999-208694. http://www.webcitation.org/5zPq69I0O Full proceedings volume: http://www.webcitation.org/5zPsZWvmz

  • 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, doi:10.1111/j.1365-2966.2007.11895.x, bibcode: 2007MNRAS.379..629T. http://www.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, April 1, 2001. http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0104011 Published in J. Craig Wheeler and Hugo Martel (editors), Relativistic Astrophysics: 20th Texas Symposium, Austin, TX, 10-15 December 2000 (Melville, N.Y.: American Institute of Physics, 2001), pp. 769-772, ISBN 0735400261, LCCN 2001094694, which is AIP Conference Proceedings, Vol. 586 (October 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 (April 2003), pp. 141-148, doi:10.1017/S1473550403001526, bibcode: 2003IJAsB…2..141T. http://www.webcitation.org/5o9QHKGuW Also at arXiv:0704.0058, March 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 (April 2005), pp. 897-964, doi:10.1088/0034-4885/68/4/R04, bibcode: 2005RPPh…68..897T. 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

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. http://www.webcitation.org/5o9VkK3eE )

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. (And just to point out, Tipler’s 2005 Reports on Progress in Physics paper could not have been published in Physical Review Letters since said paper is nearly book-length, and hence not a “letter” as defined by the latter journal.)

For much more on these matters, particularly see Prof. Tipler’s above 2005 Reports on Progress in Physics paper in addition to the following resources:

James Redford, “The Physics of God and the Quantum Gravity Theory of Everything”, Social Science Research Network (SSRN), January 13, 2012 (orig. pub. December 19, 2011), 185 pp. http://ssrn.com/abstract=1974708 , http://theophysics.chimehost.net/Redford-Physics-of-God.pdf , http://www.webcitation.org/64it5yg8x

Theophysics: God Is the Ultimate Physicist http://theophysics.chimehost.net , http://theophysics.host56.com , http://theophysics.ifastnet.com

The only way to avoid the conclusion that the Omega Point exists is to reject the known laws of physics (i.e., the Second Law of Thermodynamics, General Relativity, and Quantum Mechanics), 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.

Additionally, we now have the quantum gravity Theory of Everything (TOE) correctly describing and unifying 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.

Note:

  1. While there is a lot that gets published in physics journals that is anti-reality and non-physical (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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“”
The Big Bang Never Happened.

Ergo, “God exists” is still a non-sequitir.

QED

Clayton -
“”

The Big Bang cosmology is a mathematical theorem per General Relativity, which was demonstrated with the Penrose–Hawking–Geroch Singularity Theorems that are discussed in Sec. 5: “The Big Bang” of my following article.

James Redford, “The Physics of God and the Quantum Gravity Theory of Everything”, Social Science Research Network (SSRN), January 13, 2012 (orig. pub. December 19, 2011), 185 pp.

At any rate, you’re replying to a phantasm of Smiling Dave’s own creation, as the proof of God’s existence per the known laws of physics (i.e., the Second Law of Thermodynamics, General Relativity, and Quantum Mechanics) isn’t based upon the Big Bang.

“”

Dude, get over yourself. There’s a mountain of garbage ideas available on the interwebs - if that mountain were the Empire State Building, your little paper would be a speck of dust on the wall. If I feel like reading/seeing garbage, I will go to Google or YouTube and search up the garbage that catches my interest rather than listen to a baby boohoo about how people won’t read his garbage.

Get a life.

Clayton
“”

I see that you’re another clairvoyant Knower. For you there is no need for scholarly discourse and rational discussion, as you can psychically divine what the truth is on this matter even though you know nothing about it.

I also see that you’re an adherent of epistemological relativism, which is the logical fallacy that truth is either infinitely malleable, utterly irrelevant, nonexistent, or unknowable. Yet on the contrary, truth exists, it is knowable, and it is independent of what anyone thinks or feels about it.

Prof. Frank J. 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 cosmology 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 science and physics journals wherein Prof. Tipler has published his Omega Point cosmology:

  • 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. (First paper on the Omega Point cosmology.)

  • 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.

  • Frank J. Tipler, “The Omega Point as Eschaton: Answers to Pannenberg’s Questions for Scientists”, Zygon: Journal of Religion & Science, Vol. 24, Issue 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 (editors), Beginning with the End: God, Science, and Wolfhart Pannenberg (Chicago, Ill.: Open Court Publishing Company, 1997), pp. 156-194, ISBN 0812693256, LCCN 97000114.

  • 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, doi:10.1016/0370-2693(92)90155-W, bibcode: 1992PhLB..286…36T.

  • Frank J. Tipler, “A New Condition Implying the Existence of a Constant Mean Curvature Foliation”, bibcode: 1993dgr2.conf..306T, in B. L. Hu and T. A. Jacobson (editors), Directions in General Relativity: Proceedings of the 1993 International Symposium, Maryland, Volume 2: Papers in Honor of Dieter Brill (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993), pp. 306-315, ISBN 0521452678, bibcode: 1993dgr2.conf…H.

  • Frank J. Tipler, “There Are No Limits To The Open Society”, Critical Rationalist, Vol. 3, No. 2 (September 23, 1998).

  • Frank J. Tipler, “Ultrarelativistic Rockets and the Ultimate Future of the Universe”, NASA Breakthrough Propulsion Physics Workshop Proceedings, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, January 1999, pp. 111-119; an invited paper in the proceedings of a conference held at and sponsored by NASA Lewis Research Center, Cleveland, Ohio, August 12-14, 1997; doi:2060/19990023204. Document ID: 19990023204. Report Number: E-11429; NAS 1.55:208694; NASA/CP-1999-208694.

  • 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. Published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 379, Issue 2 (August 2007), pp. 629-640, doi:10.1111/j.1365-2966.2007.11895.x, bibcode: 2007MNRAS.379..629T.

  • 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. Published in J. Craig Wheeler and Hugo Martel (editors), Relativistic Astrophysics: 20th Texas Symposium, Austin, TX, 10-15 December 2000 (Melville, N.Y.: American Institute of Physics, 2001), pp. 769-772, ISBN 0735400261, LCCN 2001094694, which is AIP Conference Proceedings, Vol. 586 (October 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 (April 2003), pp. 141-148, doi:10.1017/S1473550403001526, bibcode: 2003IJAsB…2..141T. Also at arXiv:0704.0058, March 31, 2007.

  • 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, doi:10.1088/0034-4885/68/4/R04, bibcode: 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.

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.)

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. (And just to point out, Tipler’s 2005 Reports on Progress in Physics paper could not have been published in Physical Review Letters since said paper is nearly book-length, and hence not a “letter” as defined by the latter journal.)

For much more on these matters, particularly see Prof. Tipler’s above 2005 Reports on Progress in Physics paper in addition to the following resources:

James Redford, “The Physics of God and the Quantum Gravity Theory of Everything”, Social Science Research Network (SSRN), January 13, 2012 (orig. pub. December 19, 2011), 185 pp.

Theophysics: God Is the Ultimate Physicist.

The only way to avoid the conclusion that the Omega Point exists is to reject the known laws of physics (i.e., the Second Law of Thermodynamics, General Relativity, and Quantum Mechanics), 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.

Additionally, we now have the quantum gravity Theory of Everything (TOE) correctly describing and unifying 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.

Note:

  1. While there is a lot that gets published in physics journals that is anti-reality and non-physical (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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How long does it take you to write one of those montrous tl;dr? My goodness…