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His 1986 book, ''The Anthropic Cosmological Principle'' (with [[John D. Barrow]]) reviews the intellectual history of [[teleology]], the large number of physical coincidences which allow sapient life to exist (see [[anthropic principle]]), and then investigates the [[ultimate fate of the universe]]. This was the first book to describe the Omega Point Theory. Tipler has also published his Omega Point Theory in a number of peer-reviewed scientific journals since 1986.<ref name="Tipler1986">Frank J. Tipler, [http://www.springerlink.com/content/vlj3180664373268/ "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 Theory.)</ref><ref name="Tipler1987">Frank J. Tipler, [http://www.nature.com/doifinder/10.1038/325201c0 "Achieved spacetime infinity"], ''[[Nature (journal)|Nature]]'', Vol. 325, No. 6101 (January 15, 1987), pp. 201-202, {{doi|10.1038/325201c0}}, {{bibcode|1987Natur.325..201T}}.</ref><ref name="Tipler1988">Frank J. Tipler, [http://www.jstor.org/stable/192869 "The Anthropic Principle: A Primer for Philosophers"], ''PSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association'', Vol. 1988, Volume Two: Symposia and Invited Papers (1988), pp. 27-48; published by [[University of Chicago Press]] on behalf of the [[Philosophy of Science Association]].</ref><ref name="Tipler1989">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}}. [http://www.webcitation.org/5nY0aytpz Mirror link]. 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|97||000114}}.</ref><ref name="Tipler1992">Frank J. Tipler, [http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6TVN-46YD4D5-12T&_user=10&_rdoc=1&_fmt=&_orig=search&_sort=d&_docanchor=&view=c&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=41358cdcea2b6a49f87ce3f8c2667600 "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}}.</ref><ref name="Tipler1993">Frank J. Tipler, "A New Condition Implying the Existence of a Constant Mean Curvature Foliation", {{bibcode|1993dgr2.conf..306T}}, in B. L. Hu and [[Theodore Jacobson|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}}.</ref><ref name="Tipler1998">Frank J. Tipler, "Ultrarelativistic Rockets and the Ultimate Future of the Universe", [http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19990023204_1999021520.pdf ''NASA Breakthrough Propulsion Physics Workshop Proceedings''], [[NASA|National Aeronautics and Space Administration]], January 1999, pp. 111-119 ([http://www.webcitation.org/5nY13xRip mirror link]); an invited paper in the proceedings of a conference held at and sponsored by [[Glenn Research Center|NASA Lewis Research Center]], Cleveland, Ohio, August 12-14, 1998; {{doi|2060/19990023204}}. [http://ntrs.nasa.gov/search.jsp?Ntk=DocumentID&Ntt=19990023204 Document ID: 19990023204]. Report Number: E-11429; NAS 1.55:208694; NASA/CP-1999-208694. [http://www.webcitation.org/5nwu4fT31 Mirror link].</ref><ref name="Tipler2001">Frank J. Tipler, [http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0104011 "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), [http://scitation.aip.org/dbt/dbt.jsp?KEY=APCPCS&Volume=586&Issue=1 ''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|2001||094694}}, which is [http://link.aip.org/link/?APCPCS/586/769/1 ''AIP Conference Proceedings'', Vol. 586 (October 15, 2001)], {{doi|10.1063/1.1419654}}, {{bibcode|2001AIPC..586.....W}}.</ref><ref name="Tipler2003">Frank J. Tipler, "Intelligent life in cosmology", ''[[International Journal of Astrobiology]]'', Vol. 2, Issue 2 (April 2003), pp. 141-148, {{doi|10.1017/S1473550403001526}}, {{bibcode|2003IJAsB...2..141T}}; available [http://math.tulane.edu/~tipler/intelligentlife.pdf here] and at {{arxiv|0704.0058}}, March 31, 2007.</ref><ref name="Tipler2005">F. J. Tipler, [http://math.tulane.edu/~tipler/theoryofeverything.pdf "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://www.webcitation.org/5nx3CxKm0 Mirror link]. Also released as [http://arxiv.org/abs/0704.3276 "Feynman-Weinberg Quantum Gravity and the Extended Standard Model as a Theory of Everything"], {{arxiv|0704.3276}}, April 24, 2007.</ref><ref name="Tipler2007">Frank J. Tipler, Jessica Graber, Matthew McGinley, Joshua Nichols-Barrer and Christopher Staecker, [http://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0003082 "Closed Universes With Black Holes But No Event Horizons As a Solution to the Black Hole Information Problem"], 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}}.</ref> |
His 1986 book, ''The Anthropic Cosmological Principle'' (with [[John D. Barrow]]) reviews the intellectual history of [[teleology]], the large number of physical coincidences which allow sapient life to exist (see [[anthropic principle]]), and then investigates the [[ultimate fate of the universe]]. This was the first book to describe the Omega Point Theory. Tipler has also published his Omega Point Theory in a number of peer-reviewed scientific journals since 1986.<ref name="Tipler1986">Frank J. Tipler, [http://www.springerlink.com/content/vlj3180664373268/ "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 Theory.)</ref><ref name="Tipler1987">Frank J. Tipler, [http://www.nature.com/doifinder/10.1038/325201c0 "Achieved spacetime infinity"], ''[[Nature (journal)|Nature]]'', Vol. 325, No. 6101 (January 15, 1987), pp. 201-202, {{doi|10.1038/325201c0}}, {{bibcode|1987Natur.325..201T}}.</ref><ref name="Tipler1988">Frank J. Tipler, [http://www.jstor.org/stable/192869 "The Anthropic Principle: A Primer for Philosophers"], ''PSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association'', Vol. 1988, Volume Two: Symposia and Invited Papers (1988), pp. 27-48; published by [[University of Chicago Press]] on behalf of the [[Philosophy of Science Association]].</ref><ref name="Tipler1989">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}}. [http://www.webcitation.org/5nY0aytpz Mirror link]. 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|97||000114}}.</ref><ref name="Tipler1992">Frank J. Tipler, [http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6TVN-46YD4D5-12T&_user=10&_rdoc=1&_fmt=&_orig=search&_sort=d&_docanchor=&view=c&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=41358cdcea2b6a49f87ce3f8c2667600 "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}}.</ref><ref name="Tipler1993">Frank J. Tipler, "A New Condition Implying the Existence of a Constant Mean Curvature Foliation", {{bibcode|1993dgr2.conf..306T}}, in B. L. Hu and [[Theodore Jacobson|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}}.</ref><ref name="Tipler1998">Frank J. Tipler, "Ultrarelativistic Rockets and the Ultimate Future of the Universe", [http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19990023204_1999021520.pdf ''NASA Breakthrough Propulsion Physics Workshop Proceedings''], [[NASA|National Aeronautics and Space Administration]], January 1999, pp. 111-119 ([http://www.webcitation.org/5nY13xRip mirror link]); an invited paper in the proceedings of a conference held at and sponsored by [[Glenn Research Center|NASA Lewis Research Center]], Cleveland, Ohio, August 12-14, 1998; {{doi|2060/19990023204}}. [http://ntrs.nasa.gov/search.jsp?Ntk=DocumentID&Ntt=19990023204 Document ID: 19990023204]. Report Number: E-11429; NAS 1.55:208694; NASA/CP-1999-208694. [http://www.webcitation.org/5nwu4fT31 Mirror link].</ref><ref name="Tipler2001">Frank J. Tipler, [http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0104011 "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), [http://scitation.aip.org/dbt/dbt.jsp?KEY=APCPCS&Volume=586&Issue=1 ''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|2001||094694}}, which is [http://link.aip.org/link/?APCPCS/586/769/1 ''AIP Conference Proceedings'', Vol. 586 (October 15, 2001)], {{doi|10.1063/1.1419654}}, {{bibcode|2001AIPC..586.....W}}.</ref><ref name="Tipler2003">Frank J. Tipler, "Intelligent life in cosmology", ''[[International Journal of Astrobiology]]'', Vol. 2, Issue 2 (April 2003), pp. 141-148, {{doi|10.1017/S1473550403001526}}, {{bibcode|2003IJAsB...2..141T}}; available [http://math.tulane.edu/~tipler/intelligentlife.pdf here] and at {{arxiv|0704.0058}}, March 31, 2007.</ref><ref name="Tipler2005">F. J. Tipler, [http://math.tulane.edu/~tipler/theoryofeverything.pdf "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://www.webcitation.org/5nx3CxKm0 Mirror link]. Also released as [http://arxiv.org/abs/0704.3276 "Feynman-Weinberg Quantum Gravity and the Extended Standard Model as a Theory of Everything"], {{arxiv|0704.3276}}, April 24, 2007.</ref><ref name="Tipler2007">Frank J. Tipler, Jessica Graber, Matthew McGinley, Joshua Nichols-Barrer and Christopher Staecker, [http://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0003082 "Closed Universes With Black Holes But No Event Horizons As a Solution to the Black Hole Information Problem"], 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}}.</ref> |
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Tipler's Omega Point theories have received criticism by physicists and skeptics.<ref name="CSI">{{cite web|url=http://www.csicop.org/si/show/the_strange_case_of_frank_jennings_tipler|title=The Strange Case of Frank Jennings Tipler|last=Gardner|first=Martin|date=March / April 2008|work=Book Review, "The Physics of Christianity"|publisher=The Committee for Skeptical Inquiry|accessdate=29 June 2010}}</ref> [[George Ellis]], writing in the journal ''[[Nature (journal)|Nature]]'', described Tipler's book on the Omega Point as "a masterpiece of [[pseudoscience]] ... the product of a fertile and creative imagination unhampered by the normal constraints of scientific and philosophical discipline",<ref name="ellis1994"> |
Tipler's Omega Point theories have received criticism by physicists and skeptics.<ref name="CSI">{{cite web|url=http://www.csicop.org/si/show/the_strange_case_of_frank_jennings_tipler|title=The Strange Case of Frank Jennings Tipler|last=Gardner|first=Martin|date=March / April 2008|work=Book Review, "The Physics of Christianity"|publisher=The Committee for Skeptical Inquiry|accessdate=29 June 2010}}</ref> [[George Ellis]], writing in the journal ''[[Nature (journal)|Nature]]'', described Tipler's book on the Omega Point as "a masterpiece of [[pseudoscience]] ... the product of a fertile and creative imagination unhampered by the normal constraints of scientific and philosophical discipline",<ref name="ellis1994"> |
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Frank Jennings Tipler III | |
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Nationality | American |
Citizenship | United States |
Education | PhD (Physics) |
Alma mater | Massachusetts Institute of Technology; University of Maryland, College Park |
Occupation | Mathematical Physicist |
Employer | Tulane University |
Known for | Omega point theory The Physics of Immortality |
Website | http://math.tulane.edu/~tipler/ |
Frank Jennings Tipler III (born February 1, 1947 in Andalusia, Alabama[1]) is a mathematical physicist and cosmologist, holding a joint appointment in the Departments of Mathematics and Physics at Tulane University.[2]
Life
Tipler is the son of Frank Jennings Tipler Jr., a lawyer, and Anne Tipler, a homemaker.[1] He received his Bachelor of Science degree in physics in 1969 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (attending from 1965-1969).[2] In 1976, Tipler obtained his PhD from the University of Maryland, College Park in the field of global general relativity for his proof that if a time machine could be created its use would necessarily result in the formation of singularities, using the techniques of Stephen Hawking and Roger Penrose.[3] Tipler went on to be hired as a postdoctoral researcher by physicists John A. Wheeler, Abraham Taub, Rainer Sachs and Dennis Sciama.[2] He eventually became a professor of mathematical physics in 1981 at Tulane University, where he has taught since.[2]
Publications
The Omega Point
In his controversial 1994 book The Physics of Immortality,[4][5][6] Tipler claims to provide a mechanism for immortality and the resurrection of the dead consistent with the known laws of physics via the use of computers which use the entire universe to compute on and which diverge to a state infinite computational resources that Tipler terms the Omega Point and which he identifies with God. The line of argument is that the evolution of intelligent species will enable scientific progress to grow exponentially, eventually enabling control over the universe even on the largest possible scale. Tipler predicts that this process will culminate with an all-powerful intelligence whose computing speed and information storage will grow exponentially at a rate exceeding the collapse of the universe, thus providing infinite "experiential time" which will be used to run computer simulations of all intelligent life that has ever lived in the history of our universe. This virtual reality emulation is what Tipler means by "the resurrection of the dead." In more recent works, Tipler says that the existence of the Omega Point is required to avoid the violation of the known laws of physics.
His 1986 book, The Anthropic Cosmological Principle (with John D. Barrow) reviews the intellectual history of teleology, the large number of physical coincidences which allow sapient life to exist (see anthropic principle), and then investigates the ultimate fate of the universe. This was the first book to describe the Omega Point Theory. Tipler has also published his Omega Point Theory in a number of peer-reviewed scientific journals since 1986.[7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17]
David Deutsch incorporates the concept of Tipler's Omega Point as a central feature of the fourth strand of his "four strands" concept of fundamental reality and identifies some aspects of Tipler's physics as being correct [18] although Deutsch is highly critical of Tipler's Christian compatible conclusions.[19]
Tipler's Omega Point theories have received criticism by physicists and skeptics.[20] George Ellis, writing in the journal Nature, described Tipler's book on the Omega Point as "a masterpiece of pseudoscience ... the product of a fertile and creative imagination unhampered by the normal constraints of scientific and philosophical discipline",[5] and Michael Shermer devoted a chapter of Why People Believe Weird Things to enumerating what he thought to be flaws in Tipler's thesis.[21]
Tipler's 2007 book The Physics of Christianity analyzes the Omega Point Theory's pertinence to Christian theology.[22] In the book, Tipler identifies the Omega Point as being the Judeo-Christian God, particularly as described by Christian theological tradition. In this book Tipler also analyzes how Jesus Christ could have performed the miracles attributed to him in the New Testament without violating any known laws of physics, even if one were to assume that we currently don't exist on a level of implementation in a computer simulation (in the case that we did then, obviously and as noted by Tipler, such miracles would be trivially easy to perform for the society which was running the simulation whilst it would still seem amazing from our perspective).
Tipler's writings on scientific peer review have been cited by William A. Dembski as forming the basis of the process for review in the intelligent design journal Progress in Complexity, Information and Design of the International Society for Complexity, Information and Design (now defunct), where both Tipler and Dembski served as fellows.
Quantum gravity Theory of Everything
In a 2005 Reports on Progress in Physics paper that was included as one of 12 papers in the journal's "Highlights of 2005",[23] Tipler combines the Omega Point as a boundary condition with a version of the Feynman–Weinberg–DeWitt theory of quantum gravity along with an extended Standard Model in order to form what he maintained is the correct Theory of Everything (TOE) describing and unifying all the forces in physics.[16]
Selected Writings
Books
- Frank J. Tipler (2007). The Physics of Christianity. New York: Doubleday. ISBN 0385514247.
- Frank J. Tipler (1994). The Physics of Immortality: Modern Cosmology, God and the Resurrection of the Dead. New York: Doubleday. ISBN 0198519494.
- Frank J. Tipler (1986). The Anthropic Cosmological Principle. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0198519494.
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Articles
- Frank J. Tipler (2007). "The Value/Fact Distinction: Coase's Theorem Unifies Normative and Positive Economics". Social Science Research Network.
- Frank J. Tipler (2007). "Feynman-Weinberg Quantum Gravity and the Extended Standard Model as a Theory of Everything". arXiv:0704.3276 [hep-th].
- Frank J. Tipler (2005). "The Star of Bethlehem: A Type Ia/Ic Supernova in the Andromeda Galaxy?" (PDF). Observatory. 125: 168–74.
- Frank J. Tipler (2005). "The structure of the world from pure numbers" (PDF). Reports on Progress in Physics. 68 (4): 897–964. doi:10.1088/0034-4885/68/4/R04.
- Frank J. Tipler (2003). "Intelligent life in cosmology" (PDF). International Journal of Astrobiology. 2 (2): 141–48. doi:10.1017/S1473550403001526.
- Frank J. Tipler (2003). "Refereed Journals: Do They Insure Quality or Enforce Orthodoxy?" (PDF). Progress in Complexity, Information, and Design. 2 (1, 2).
- Frank J. Tipler (2003). "The Omega Point and Christianity". Gamma. 10 (2): 14–23.
See also
- Anthropic principle
- John D. Barrow
- David Deutsch
- The Fabric of Reality (a book by David Deutsch)
- Final anthropic principle
- Grand unification theory (GUT)
- The Last Question, (a 1956 fictional story by Isaac Asimov)
- Quantum gravity
- Simulated reality
- Theory of everything (TOE)
- Tipler cylinder
- Unified field theory
References
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Terrie M. Rooney (editor) (1997). Contemporary Authors. Vol. 157. Farmington Hills (MI): Thomson Gale. p. 407. ISBN 0787611832.
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(help) - ^ John Polkinghorne (1995). "I am the Alpha and the Omega Point". New Scientist (1963): 41.
- ^ a b George Ellis (1994). "Review of The Physics of Immortality" (PDF). Nature. 371: 115. doi:10.1038/371115a0.
- ^ Richard G. Baker (1995). "Fossils Worth Studying" (PDF). Science. 267 (5200): 1043–1044. doi:10.1126/science.267.5200.1043. PMID 17811443.
- ^ 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 Theory.)
- ^ Frank J. Tipler, "Achieved spacetime infinity", Nature, Vol. 325, No. 6101 (January 15, 1987), pp. 201-202, doi:10.1038/325201c0, Bibcode:1987Natur.325..201T.
- ^ Frank J. Tipler, "The Anthropic Principle: A Primer for Philosophers", PSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, Vol. 1988, Volume Two: Symposia and Invited Papers (1988), pp. 27-48; published by University of Chicago Press on behalf of the Philosophy of Science Association.
- ^ 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. Mirror link. 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 97-0.
- ^ 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, "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 (mirror link); an invited paper in the proceedings of a conference held at and sponsored by NASA Lewis Research Center, Cleveland, Ohio, August 12-14, 1998; Error: Bad DOI specified!. Document ID: 19990023204. Report Number: E-11429; NAS 1.55:208694; NASA/CP-1999-208694. Mirror link.
- ^ 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 20-1, 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, Issue 2 (April 2003), pp. 141-148, doi:10.1017/S1473550403001526, Bibcode:2003IJAsB...2..141T; available here and at arXiv:0704.0058, March 31, 2007.
- ^ a b 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. Mirror link. Also released as "Feynman-Weinberg Quantum Gravity and the Extended Standard Model as a Theory of Everything", arXiv:0704.3276, April 24, 2007.
- ^ 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", 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.
- ^ David Deutsch (1997). "The Ends of the Universe". The Fabric of Reality: The Science of Parallel Universes—and Its Implications. London: Penguin Press. ISBN 0713990619.
- ^ Mackey, James Patrick (2000). The critique of theological reason. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521772938.
- ^ Gardner, Martin (March / April 2008). "The Strange Case of Frank Jennings Tipler". Book Review, "The Physics of Christianity". The Committee for Skeptical Inquiry. Retrieved 29 June 2010.
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(help) - ^ Shermer, Michael (1997). Why People Believe Weird Things. W.H. Freeman. ISBN 0-7167-3090-1.
- ^ Frank J. Tipler (2007). "Christianity as Physics". The Physics of Christianity. New York: Doubleday. ISBN 0385514247.
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External links
- ADS articles by Tipler. (mirror)
- arχiv preprints by Tipler. (mirror)
- "Frank J. Tipler," Pajamas Media. Current-events commentary articles by Tipler.
- Tipler's personal website.
- Videos of a lecture on the Omega Point theory by Tipler. Given at the 1st Annual Workshop on Geoethical Nanotechnology, Terasem Movement (2005).
- 56 kbs .wmv
- Broadband .wmv
- Broadband .mov
- PowerPoint file of the topics of discussion
- Closer to Truth videos featuring Tipler:
- 1947 births
- Living people
- People from Covington County, Alabama
- American physicists
- Relativists
- Cosmologists
- Tulane University faculty
- Fellows of the International Society for Complexity, Information, and Design
- Religion and science
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
- University of Maryland, College Park alumni
- Theoretical physicists