I’m yet to read Tipler’s “The Physics of Christianity” past Chapter 1, which he offers online at his homepage, but over the past few years he has published a number of articles which give the basic outline of his argument – that Christianity’s basic claims are open to scientific verification or refutation, and case from the demands of physics means Christianity is true, the one true faith in fact. Just how the facts do support Xian dogma requires his Omega Point Theory to interpret them – God is the Singularity at the end of the Universe, in fact at both ends and not just our Universe, but all the Many-Worlds required by quantum theory, as explicated by Everett-Wheeler.
Personally I have problems with that initial claim – that the Everett-Wheeler Multiverse is the ONLY valid interpretation of Quantum Mechanics – as John Cramer’s Transactional Interpretation is as good and requires just one Universe. Also Ashfar’s experiments on Two-Slit interference of light still haven’t been explained away by Many-Worlds theorists.
That being said let’s give a summary of what his modification of his original OPT is now telling us about the Multiverse and Xian dogma.
• Universal acceleration is caused by the Higgs field being in a false vacuum. Reverse baryogenesis, employed by intelligent life, will eventually return it to its ground state allowing cosmic collapse into the Omega Point.
• Jesus performed many of his miracles through the reverse baryogenesis process, even if the miracle is strongly suppressed probabilistically speaking – how? Because the consistency of physics requires it.
• Jesus was born of a Virgin, Mary, as a parthenogenic XX male.
• Jesus was Resurrected via the conversion of his mass-energy into neutrinos, and reformed into a new “spiritual” body.
• This process – macroscopic sphaleron tunnelling – left traces on the Shroud of Turin as an apparent chemical reaction.
• Research on the process, using the Shroud perhaps, will give us the power of reverse baryogenesis – needed to colonise the Universe, but threatening humanity’s continued existence.
• Humanity is also threatened by the rise of human-level robots in the next 50 years. The combination of reverse baryogenesis and androids is the cause of the “Great Tribulation” that Jesus prophesised would proceed his direct intervention.
• ETIs exist, but beyond our Hubble horizon and their use of the macroscopic sphaleron tunnelling process independently of us will collapse the Cosmos.
• SETI will be able to confirm the existence of ETIs by building immense telescopes to image the home-planets of aliens billions of years in the past.
Tipler’s ideas can be found in several documents available online.
Firstly, his basic physics ideas can be found at the Internet Physics PrePrint archive…
Feynman-Weinberg Quantum Gravity and the Extended Standard Model as a Theory of Everything
Intelligent Life in Cosmology
Closed Universes With Black Holes But No Event Horizons As a Solution to the Black Hole Information Problem
The Ultimate Future of the Universe, Black Hole Event Horizons, Holography, and the Value of the Cosmological Constant
Genesis: How the Universe Began According to Standard Model Particle Physics
Secondly his arguments with respect to the dogmas of Xianity can be found here…
The Omega Point and Christianity
…plus some associated comments by Wolfhart Pannenberg.
Finally, the first chapter of the new book is available online at Tipler’s webpage…
…which summarises many of his recent comments elsewhere.
I’ll go into more detail in Part 2
