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050 00 $aQB981$b.T57 1994
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100 1 $aTipler, Frank J.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80083290
245 14 $aThe physics of immortality :$bmodern cosmology, God, and the resurrection of the dead /$cFrank J. Tipler.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bDoubleday,$c[1994], ©1994.
300 $axxi, 527 pages :$billustrations ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 00 $gI.$tIntroduction --$gII.$tThe Ultimate Limits of Space Travel --$gIII.$tProgress Against the Eternal Return and the Heat Death --$gIV.$tPhysics Near the Final State: The Classical Omega Point Theory --$gV.$tDeterminism in Classical General Relativity and in Quantum Mechanics --$gVI.$tThe Quantum Version of the Omega Point Theory --$gVII.$tHow Free Will Can Arise from Quantum Cosmological Mechanisms --$gVIII.$tThe Omega Point and the Physical Universe Necessarily Exist --$gIX.$tThe Physics of Resurrection of the Dead to Eternal Life --$gX.$tWhat Happens After the Resurrection: Heaven, Hell, and Purgatory --$gXI.$tComparison of the Heaven Predicted by Modern Physics With the Afterlife Hoped for by the Great World Religions --$gXII.$tThe Omega Point Theory and Christianity --$gXIII.$tConclusion: Theology as a Branch of Physics.
520 $aFrank 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.
520 8 $aYet, 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.
520 8 $aTipler's model of the universal end-time is called the Omega Point Theory. For the last seventeen years, Tipler has explored the implications of the Omega Point Theory, one of which is even more astonishing than the evidence of God's existence: It is not only possible, but likely, that every human being who ever lived will be resurrected from the dead.
520 8 $aAs Tipler writes in his preface, he arrived at his proofs of God and immortality "in exactly the same way physicists calculate the properties of the electron.".
520 8 $aIn The Physics of Immortality Tipler guides the general reader through the details of his exhilarating discoveries. Displaying an awesome command of disciplines as diverse as computer science, economics, particle physics, cosmology, and evolutionary biology, Tipler constructs a stunningly plausible argument for God and the universal resurrection.
520 8 $aLucid in style, audacious in aim, breathtaking in scope, powerfully argued, and, finally, deeply moving, this is a book that will change the way you think. No reader, whether skeptic or believer, will look at the universe in the same way after encountering this remarkable work.
650 0 $aCosmology.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85033169
650 0 $aPhysics$xReligious aspects.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85101664
650 0 $aOmega Point.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85094685
650 0 $aEschatology.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85044785
650 0 $aGod$xProof, Cosmological.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85055551
852 00 $bmil$hQB981$i.T57 1994