Physicist Frank J. Tipler at TEDxBrussels: Physics Proves God Exists

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God violating His own laws would make no sense. After all, they're His laws. Moreover, the idea that God would violate His own laws would mean that God is not omniscient, since it would mean that God failed to foresee that a better set of laws would be required in order to accomplish His goal.

You're right. It doesn't make sense that God would break His laws of physics. However, a miracle is not a break in these laws, they are merely interruptions.

Miracles are those acts that only God can perform; usually superceding natural laws. Baker's Dictionary of the Bible defines a miracle as "an event in the external world brought about by the immediate agency or the simple volition of God." It goes on to add that a miracle occurs to show that the power behind it is not limited to the laws of matter or mind as it interrupts fixed natural laws. So the term supernatural applies quite accurately.


To interfere with natural law does not necessarily mean to break the natural law. In fact, nature and "supernature" become interlocked after a miracle occurs and nature carries on according to the change wrought by that event. A science example: the law of inertia (Newton's first law of motion) states that an object will remain in rest until an external force is applied. Nature can only move from event to event through supernatural intervention.

The idea of the video is not pure science it has heavy foundations in philosophy.
 
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You're right. It doesn't make sense that God would break His laws of physics. However, a miracle is not a break in these laws, they are merely interruptions.

Miracles are those acts that only God can perform; usually superceding natural laws. Baker's Dictionary of the Bible defines a miracle as "an event in the external world brought about by the immediate agency or the simple volition of God." It goes on to add that a miracle occurs to show that the power behind it is not limited to the laws of matter or mind as it interrupts fixed natural laws. So the term supernatural applies quite accurately.


To interfere with natural law does not necessarily mean to break the natural law. In fact, nature and "supernature" become interlocked after a miracle occurs and nature carries on according to the change wrought by that event. A science example: the law of inertia (Newton's first law of motion) states that an object will remain in rest until an external force is applied. Nature can only move from event to event through supernatural intervention.

The idea of the video is not pure science it has heavy foundations in philosophy.

Traditional Christian theology has maintained that God never violates natural law, as God, in His omniscience, knew in the beginning all that He wanted to achieve and so, in His omnipotence, He formed the laws of physics in order to achieve His goal. The idea that God would violate His own laws would mean that God is not omniscient. In traditional Christian theology, miracles do not violate natural law--rather, they are events that are so improbable that they can only be explained by the existence of God and His acting in the world. As Augustine of Hippo wrote concerning miracles (The City of God, Book 21, Ch. 8; cf. Romans 1:19,20),

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For we say that all portents are contrary to nature; but they are not so. For how is that contrary to nature which happens by the will of God, since the will of so mighty a Creator is certainly the nature of each created thing? A portent, therefore, happens not contrary to nature, but contrary to what we know as nature.
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That is, traditional Christian theology has maintained that if we had the ultimate physical law, then we would be able to explain how God's existence and His miracles are possible. According to the known laws of physics, we now have that ultimate physical law, the Feynman-DeWitt-Weinberg quantum gravity/Standard Model Theory of Everything (TOE) correctly describing and unifying all the forces in physics, and so we are now able to explain God's existence and His miracles.

The English word miracle etymologically means "object of wonder". The Old Testament words translated as miracle are in the original Hebrew: oth, "sign, token"; mopheth, "sign, wonder"; and pala, "marvelous, wondrous". The New Testament words translated as miracle are in the original Greek: dunamis, "power, mighty work"; semeion, "sign"; and teras, "wonder". So the meaning of these words in their Biblical context has nothing to do with violating natural law.

The Standard Model of particle physics provides the mechanism by which the miracles recorded in the New Testament can be achieved 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 that case, then such miracles would be trivially easy to perform for the society running the simulation, even though it would seem amazing from our perspective). This process uses baryon annihilation, and its inverse, via electroweak quantum tunneling controlled by the cosmological end state of the Omega Point (since in physics it's just as accurate to say that causation goes from future to past events: viz., the principle of least action; and unitarity). If the coming of Jesus Christ and the miracles that He performed were necessary in order to lead to the Omega Point, then the probability of said event occuring is exactly 1: certain to happen.

Regarding your claim pertaining to philosophy, the Cosmological Singularity has all the quidditative properties claimed for God in the traditional religions.

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 quidditative definitions (i.e., haecceities) of God held by almost all of the world's leading religions. Hence, by definition, the Omega Point is God.

The Omega Point final singularity is a different aspect of the Big Bang initial singularity, i.e., the uncaused first cause, a definition of God held by all the Abrahamic religions.

As well, as Stephen Hawking proved, the singularity is not in spacetime, but rather is the boundary of space and time (see S. W. Hawking and G. F. R. Ellis, The Large Scale Structure of Space-Time [Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1973], pp. 217-221).

The Schmidt b-boundary has been shown to yield a topology in which the cosmological singularity is not Hausdorff separated from the points in spacetime, meaning that it is not possible to put an open set of points between the cosmological singularity and *any* point in spacetime proper. That is, the cosmological singularity has infinite nearness to every point in spacetime.

So the Omega Point is transcendent to, yet immanent in, space and time. Because the cosmological singularity exists outside of space and time, it is eternal, as time has no application to it.

Quite literally, the cosmological singularity (i.e., the uncaused cause of all causes) is supernatural, in the sense that no form of physics can apply to it, since physical values are at infinity at the singularity, and so it is not possible to perform the arithmetical operations of addition or subtraction on them; and in the sense that the singularity is beyond creation, as it is not a part of spacetime, but rather is the boundary of space and time.

And given an infinite amount of computational resources, per the Bekenstein Bound, recreating the exact quantum state of our present universe is trivial, requiring at most a mere 10^123 bits (the number which Roger Penrose calculated), or at most a mere 2^10^123 bits for every different quantum configuration of the universe logically possible (i.e., the powerset, of which the multiverse in its entirety at this point in universal history is a subset of this powerset). So the Omega Point will be able to resurrect us using merely an infinitesimally small amount of total computational resources: indeed, the multiversal resurrection will occur between 10^-10^10 and 10^-10^123 seconds before the Omega Point is reached, as the computational capacity of the universe at that stage will be great enough that doing so will require only a trivial amount of total computational resources.

Additionally, the cosmological singularity consists of a three-mode structure: the final singularity (i.e., the Omega Point), the all-presents singularity (which exists at all times at the edge of the multiverse), and the initial singularity (i.e., the beginning of the Big Bang). These three distinct aspects which perform different physical functions in bringing about and sustaining existence are actually one singularity which connects the entirety of the multiverse.

Christian theology is therefore preferentially selected by the known laws of physics due to the fundamentally triune structure of the cosmological singularity (which, again, has all the haecceities claimed for God in the major religions), which is deselective of all other major religions.
 
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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 quidditative definitions (i.e., haecceities) of God held by almost all of the world's leading religions. Hence, by definition, the Omega Point is God.

Is the Omega Point eternal? No, it had a beginning, it is merely everlasting.

God must be eternal.
 
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Then it wouldn't be diverging to infinity. It would be diverging to some finite state.
Wrong. E.g. A simple sequence like n = n + 1 diverges to infinity ( 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6... ). It is not diverging to a finite state because it could go on indefinitely, ever increasing.

Saying it diverges to infinity doesn't mean that such a sequence would ever reach infinity, just that it has no upper bound.

I don't make any money by speaking about these matters. If that were my interest, then I would promote antitheism, as the New Atheists are promoted by the government-beholden major media. Whereas people such as Profs. Frank J. Tipler and William Lane Craig are virtually persona non grata vis-à-vis the major media.
We know how much money there is in promoting the Christian "science" agenda, so there's no need to pretend otherwise.
 
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In General Relativity, singularities are unavoidable with realistic energy conditions (i.e., given any universe with matter that can contain life)...The only way singularities could not exist is if General Relativity were wrong, yet it has been confirmed by every experiment to date.
You are missing the point. General Relativity is not a complete theory, that does not mean it is wrong.
Just as General Relativity is more accurate and complete than Newton's gravity, a quantum theory of gravity would be more accurate and complete than General Relativity.
General Relativity breaks down at high densities such as in black holes and the big bang, and therefore cannot be relied upon for an accurate picture of what takes place at these high densities. Again, this does not mean relativity is wrong, it is just incomplete.

Likewise, the only way the Omega Point cosmology could be wrong is if the Second Law of Thermodynamics, General Relativity, or Qantum Mechanics were wrong, yet they have been confirmed by every experiment conducted to date. Hence, the only way to avoid the Omega Point cosmology is to reject empirical science.
Again, you are assuming that we have a complete theory with thermodynamics, relativity and quantum mechanics. These theories are correct (as far as we know), but they are not complete. Incomplete does not mean wrong.
Omega point cosmology is simply one theory that has its roots based in existing known physics. Omega point cosmology, has not been experimentally or observationally verified, and until it has been you cannot say that is anything more than a theory, and you certainly can't say that it has been proven.
 
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That's not a hypothetical result, that's a mathematical theorem per General Relativity.
Three things:
1)A mathematical theorem does not necessarily mean it exists as a part of reality.
2)General Relativity is an incomplete theory, that does not mean its wrong.
3)Hawking's theory has yet to see experimental and observational verification to prove he is correct.
Neil Turok is speaking about string theory, which violates the known laws of physics and has no experimental support whatsoever. If one is willing to abandon the known laws of physics, then one can come up with any result.
String theory does not violate the known laws of physics, it extends upon the known laws of physics. You are right that String theory has yet to see experimental or observational evidence.

And yes if someone abandons the known laws of physics then someone can come up with any result, which is why Omega Point cosmology is not a proven theory.
The main lesson to learn here is that the jury is still out, we simply do not know.
 
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You're right. It doesn't make sense that God would break His laws of physics. However, a miracle is not a break in these laws, they are merely interruptions.

Miracles are those acts that only God can perform; usually superceding natural laws. Baker's Dictionary of the Bible defines a miracle as "an event in the external world brought about by the immediate agency or the simple volition of God." It goes on to add that a miracle occurs to show that the power behind it is not limited to the laws of matter or mind as it interrupts fixed natural laws. So the term supernatural applies quite accurately.


To interfere with natural law does not necessarily mean to break the natural law. In fact, nature and "supernature" become interlocked after a miracle occurs and nature carries on according to the change wrought by that event. A science example: the law of inertia (Newton's first law of motion) states that an object will remain in rest until an external force is applied. Nature can only move from event to event through supernatural intervention.

The idea of the video is not pure science it has heavy foundations in philosophy.
You obviously have not heard of "Probability"
YouTube - The geometry and probability of Time within Quantum Mechanics
 
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Wrong. E.g. A simple sequence like n = n + 1 diverges to infinity ( 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6... ). It is not diverging to a finite state because it could go on indefinitely, ever increasing.

Saying it diverges to infinity doesn't mean that such a sequence would ever reach infinity, just that it has no upper bound.

You said, "Diverges to infinity, yes. Reaches infinity in a finite amount of time? No.", which is incorrect. In the Omega Point cosmology, the Omega Point final singularity is reached in finite proper time. Although in computer clock time (i.e., experiential time) it is never reached, since an infinite number of bits are processed before the Omega Point final singularity, and hence an infinite number of thoughts occur before the Omega Point is reached. At the Omega Point singularity, entropy is infinite, i.e., the Omega Point contains an infinite amount of information.

We know how much money there is in promoting the Christian "science" agenda, so there's no need to pretend otherwise.

As I said, I don't make any money by speaking about these matters. If that were my interest, then I would promote antitheism, as the New Atheists are promoted by the government-beholden major media. Whereas people such as Profs. Frank J. Tipler and William Lane Craig are virtually persona non grata vis-à-vis the major media.

The New Atheists' media success isn't due to their own merits. Take for example Prof. William Lane Craig, who is far more knowledgeable and well-spoken than any of the New Atheists on the subject of religion (and indeed, more photogenic, since we're speaking to the issue of media success). Rather, their media success is because those in the corporate media tend to like their message, and so those in the media promote their message.

Both academia and the corporate media in our modern day are grafted to the hip of the state, and the natural tendency of the state is to tolerate no God before it. As the inherent inclination of the state is to aggrandize all allegeance to itself--even to the extent of seeking the abolition of the family (as Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels set forth as one of the Communist goals in their Manifesto of the Communist Party); as the natural tendency of people is to owe a higher allegeance to their own family than to the state, which for the state is among the ultimate heresies. The rise of Christianity in the West somewhat shifted this fulcrum of power, so that the state rulers could no longer proclaim themselves gods. The old order was not completely thrown off, but this shift was enough to enable voluntary society to gain a foothold. This liberalization in thought and action brought about by Christianity is *the* great turning-point in history which allowed the rise of free inquiry enough to lead to the Scientific Revolution (its inception dated to the publication of devout Catholic cleric Nicolaus Copernicus's De revolutionibus orbium coelestium).

Thus the love affair by academia and the corporate media with collectivist ideologies, beginning in a major way in the 19th century. If the state hadn't loved Marx, almost no one would even know his name today. (As contrast his ideology's popularity with governments and their toadies with that of the great liberal thinkers of the 19th century, including the great French liberals of the 19th century who Marx admits in his writings is where he obtained his class-conflict theory from [the original being the state against voluntary society]--of which he butchered, making it into a struggle of voluntary actors in society against each other, with the state as the Savior. All of these great 19th century liberal thinkers are virtually unknown today.) The state loves Marx because Marx's Communism is the ultimate aggrandizement of the state: God marching upon the Earth, to paraphrase Georg Hegel's statements on this issue.

And so modern society being basted in collectivist and atheist ideologies is simply nothing more than the state striking back at Christianity, attempting to regain the ground it lost. Although atheism isn't the state's ultimate goal, for the state desires that society worship it as God. But Christianity must be torn down before that can occur.

Indeed, the occultic Thule Society (Thule-Gesellschaft) sponsored the German Workers' Party (Deutsche Arbeiterpartei), which was later transformed by Adolf Hitler into the Nazi Party (i.e., the National Socialist German Workers' Party). It is interesting to note that Hitler's Master Plan was the abolition of Christianity and the formation of a pagan New Age religion, as the recently released (and previously classified) Nuremberg documents prove:

"The Nazi Master Plan: The Persecution of the Christian Churches," U.S. Office of Strategic Services (OSS) Research and Analysis Branch, July 6, 1945; posted at the Rutgers University School of Law, Camden, New Jersey website in Winter, late 2001. http://org.law.rutgers.edu/publications/law-religion/nurinst1.shtml
http://web.archive.org/web/20021218...rs.edu/publications/law-religion/nurinst1.htm
http://org.law.rutgers.edu/publications/law-religion/publications/nazimasterplan01.pdf
http://org.law.rutgers.edu/publications/law-religion/publications/nazimasterplan02.pdf
http://org.law.rutgers.edu/publications/law-religion/publications/nazimasterplan03.pdf
http://org.law.rutgers.edu/publications/law-religion/publications/nazimasterplan04.pdf

"The Nazi's Persecution of Religion as a War Crime: The OSS's Response Within the Nuremberg Trials Process," Claire Hulme and Dr. Michael Salter, Rutgers Journal of Law and Religion, Vol. 3, No. 1 (2001). http://org.law.rutgers.edu/publications/law-religion/publications/churches.pdf
http://org.law.rutgers.edu/publications/law-religion/articles/RJLR_3_1_2.pdf
http://org.law.rutgers.edu/publications/law-religion/vol3.shtml

"Camden online legal journal to offer first public look at rare Nuremberg Trial documents," Mike Sepanic, Rutgers-Camden Public Information Office, January 2, 2002 http://web.archive.org/web/20020302...s.edu/medrel/viewArticle.phtml?ArticleID=1984

"Papers reveal Nazi aim: End Christianity," Edward Colimore, Philadelphia Inquirer, January 9, 2002 http://web.archive.org/web/20020111...nt/inquirer/2002/01/09/front_page/JNAZI09.htm

"Hitler's war on Christ," Joel Miller, WorldNetDaily.com, January 12, 2002 http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=26030

"Analysis: Nazis vs. Christians," Uwe Siemon-Netto, United Press International (UPI), January 14, 2002 http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2002/01/14/Analysis_Nazis_vs_Christians/UPI-55711011059133/

"You Mean Hitler Wasn't A Priest?," Dave Shiflett, National Review, January 21, 2002 http://www.nationalreview.com/shiflett/shiflett012102.shtml

"Donovan Nuremberg Trials Collection", Cornell University Law Library http://library.lawschool.cornell.edu/WhatWeHave/SpecialCollections/Donovan/index.cfm

"Nuremberg Trials Collection: The Donovan Archive Index", Cornell University Law Library http://library2.lawschool.cornell.edu/donovan/show.asp

On the last page above, do a page search on the words "christian" and "church" in order to find documents pertaining to the foregoing matters.
 
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You are missing the point. General Relativity is not a complete theory, that does not mean it is wrong.
Just as General Relativity is more accurate and complete than Newton's gravity, a quantum theory of gravity would be more accurate and complete than General Relativity.
General Relativity breaks down at high densities such as in black holes and the big bang, and therefore cannot be relied upon for an accurate picture of what takes place at these high densities. Again, this does not mean relativity is wrong, it is just incomplete.

General Relativity is complete for what it addresses, which is gravity. The other fundamental forces in physics are covered by the Standard Model of particle phyisics.

General Relativity is valid all the way up to the singularity. No possible form of physics can apply to the singularity itself, since physical values are at infinity at the singularity, and so it is not possible to perform the arithmetical operations of addition or subtraction on those physical values in which to apply a physics equation.

Again, you are assuming that we have a complete theory with thermodynamics, relativity and quantum mechanics. These theories are correct (as far as we know), but they are not complete. Incomplete does not mean wrong.
Omega point cosmology is simply one theory that has its roots based in existing known physics. Omega point cosmology, has not been experimentally or observationally verified, and until it has been you cannot say that is anything more than a theory, and you certainly can't say that it has been proven.

In the book The Physics of Immortality: Modern Cosmology, God and the Resurrection of the Dead (New York: Doubleday, 1994), Prof. Frank J. Tipler correctly predicted the mass of the top quark using the Omega Point cosmology, which contradicted the mass predicted by the European Center for Nuclear Research (CERN). Indeed, a paper Tipler sent to Physical Review Letters in 1992 correctly predicting the mass of the top quark was turned down with the explanation from one referee that it was "clearly refuted by experiment. The estimate from CERN indicates it is going to be 150 [GeV/c^2]." And so Europe's (and indeed the world's) most influential particle physicists were wrong and Prof. Tipler was right.

Moreover, 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 Theory is incorrect, and indeed, one must engage in extreme irrationality in order to argue against the Omega Point cosmology.

Additionally, we now have the Feynman-DeWitt-Weinberg quantum gravity/Standard Model 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.

There has already been experimental confirmation of the aforementioned Omega Point TOE. In Tipler's April 2005 Report on Progress in Physics paper, he gave a number of simple experiments to test the Omega Point TOE. As Tipler wrote in a recent preprint:

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If the CBR is an SU(2)L gauge field combined with the Higgs vacuum, and not a complete electromagnetic field, then it cannot couple to right-handed electrons either. Thus we would expect CBR pseudo-photons to show substantially less Sunyaev-Zel-dovich effect that conventional theory would predict, as I pointed out in [11]. This has now been seen [9].
""

From Frank J. Tipler, "Identifying the Unidentified Auger UHE Cosmic Rays with the Help of the Standard Model of Particle Physics", arXiv:1007.4568, July 26, 2010. http://arxiv.org/abs/1007.4568

In the above, citation No. 11 is Tipler's stated Rep. Prog. Phys. paper. Citation No. 9 is the below paper:

Richard Lieu, Jonathan P. D. Mittaz and Shuang-Nan Zhang, "The Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect in a Sample of 31 Clusters: A Comparison between the X-Ray Predicted and WMAP Observed Cosmic Microwave Background Temperature Decrement", Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 648, No. 1 (September 1, 2006), pp. 176-199. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/505627 Also available at arXiv:astro-ph/0510160, October 6, 2005.

For more on these matters, see the below paper:

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. 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

Out of 50 articles, Prof. Tipler's above paper 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.
 
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Is the Omega Point eternal? No, it had a beginning, it is merely everlasting.

God must be eternal.

They claim this Omega Point holds the same attributes as the Judeo-Christian God, but that is false. It theoretically holds only a few.

Is the Omega Point omnibenevolent? Did the Omega Point become flesh, die for my sins, and then rise again? Is the Omega Point three persons in one being? Has the Omega Point been immutable for all eternity? Did the Omega Point create the universe with intelligence and purpose? Can I have a relationship with it?


Hmmmm...this Omega Point doesn't sound like my God. The God of the Bible.
 
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Is the Omega Point eternal? No, it had a beginning, it is merely everlasting.

God must be eternal.

Yes, the Omega Point is eternal. As Prof. Stephen Hawking proved, the cosmological singularity is not in spacetime, but rather is the boundary of space and time (see S. W. Hawking and G. F. R. Ellis, The Large Scale Structure of Space-Time [Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1973], pp. 217-221).

So the Omega Point is outside of time. Time does not apply to it. It is literally eternal.

Further, it's just as accurate to state that the universe is brought into being by the Omega Point, since in physics it's just as accurate to say that causation goes from future to past events (viz., the principle of least action; and unitarity).
 
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They claim this Omega Point holds the same attributes as the Judeo-Christian God, but that is false. It theoretically holds only a few.

Is the Omega Point omnibenevolent? Did the Omega Point become flesh, die for my sins, and then rise again? Is the Omega Point three persons in one being? Has the Omega Point been immutable for all eternity? Did the Omega Point create the universe with intelligence and purpose? Can I have a relationship with it?


Hmmmm...this Omega Point doesn't sound like my God. The God of the Bible.

Yes to all of your questions.

The Omega Point created existence, since in physics it's just as accurate to say that causation goes from future to past events: viz., the principle of least action; and unitarity. Different times are merely examples of different universes in the multiverse. According to the known laws of physics (i.e., the Second Law of Thermodynamics, general relativity, quantum mechanics, and the Standard Model of particle physics), the Omega Point is logically required to exist in order to avoid their violation (such as unitarity being violated, or entropy decreasing). So if the known laws of physics are true descriptions of the world (and there exists no rational reason to think that they aren't, as they have been confirmed by every experiment to date), then the Omega Point exists apodictically. That is to say, if the known laws of physics are true, then existence could not exist in the first place without the Omega Point existing.

The Omega Point is the Final Singularity. This is God the Father, or the First Person of the Trinity. It consists of infinite entropy and infinite information. Another way of thinking of it is God in all His fullness, since, given that it has infinite computational resources, anything that will ever exist will be perfectly rendered on some level of implementation at this Final Singularity. It knows all that can logically be known.

The All-Presents Singularity exists at all times at the edge of the multiverse. This is God the Son, or the Second Person of the Trinity; or God in the world. Its entropy and information goes from zero to infinity.

The Initial Singularity was the start of the Big Bang. If one desires, one can also call it the Alpha Point. This is God the Holy Spirit, or the Third Person of the Trinity. It started at zero entropy and zero information. Think of it as a guiding influence upon all of existence, since the laws of physics come from it (going by the usual way in which humans think of causation, since the Initial Singularity exists in our past--although in physics it's just as accurate to say that causation goes from future to past events: viz., the principle of least action; and unitarity).

In classical (i.e., relativistic) cosmology, the Initial Singularity and the Final Singularity are unrelated singularities. But in quantum cosmology, the Initial and the Final Singularities are connected by a third singularity: the All-Presents Singularity, since all sizes of universes are obtained in the multiverse, which means that there are a class of universes which don't expand out from the Bing Bang singularity at all, but remain as a singularity. Here is a diagram that shows this process: http://www.webcitation.org/5vv6Jp0dK

These three distinct parts which perform different physical functions in bringing about and sustaining existence are actually One Singularity which connects the entirety of the multiverse: the Cosmological Singularity, of which consists eternally of three hypostases in a triune homoousian.

As Stephen Hawking proved, the singularity is not in spacetime, but rather is the boundary of space and time (see S. W. Hawking and G. F. R. Ellis, The Large Scale Structure of Space-Time [London: Cambridge University Press, 1973], pp. 217-221).

The Schmidt b-boundary has been shown to yield a topology in which the Cosmological Singularity is not Hausdorff separated from the points in spacetime, meaning that it is not possible to put an open set of points between the Cosmological Singularity and *any* point in spacetime proper. That is, the Cosmological Singularity (with its Three-in-One structure) has infinite nearness to every point in spacetime.

So the Cosmological Singularity is transcendent to, yet immanent in, space and time.

Furthermore, we now know the physics of how Jesus Christ can be resurrected.

Miracles are allowed by the known laws of physics, through baryon annihilation, and its inverse, by way of electroweak quantum tunneling (which is allowed in the Standard Model of particle physics, as baryon number minus lepton number, B - L, is conserved) caused via the principle of least action by the physical requirement that the Omega Point final cosmological singularity exists. If the miracles of Jesus Christ were necessary in order for the universe to evolve into the Omega Point, and if the known laws of physics are correct, then the probability of those miracles occurring is certain. (And, again, in physics it's just as accurate to say that causation goes from future to past events.)

On the below news article page, there is a 1:08:33 h:min:sec "Raw Video" of an excellent lecture by Prof. Tipler on the Omega Point cosmology which addresses the above matters:

Jennifer Mayerle, "Does God Exist?", CBS 46 News (WGCL-TV, Atlanta, Georgia), November 13, 2008. http://www.cbsatlanta.com/news/17975543/detail.html
 
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So, the problem you're running into despite all of your fancy quoting is thus. Let's allow for the moment that everything you've posted physics wise is accurate. This Omega Point whatever exists, has the properties you claim, and is responsible for the creation.

Fine.

All you've shown is that there's an Omega Point with the listed characters. That is a far, far, far cry from saying that it's the Judeo-Christian God. Just because the two concepts (Omega Point, heretofore Opoint) and God share similarities, that isn't enough to necessitate that they're the same thing.

I can postulate a scenario where God warms up my taco. That hardly means that your standard microwave is also God.

To sum up:

Demonstrating that a concept shares traits with something doesn't prove that they're the same thing. It just proves that they have overlapping characters.
 
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So, the problem you're running into despite all of your fancy quoting is thus. Let's allow for the moment that everything you've posted physics wise is accurate. This Omega Point whatever exists, has the properties you claim, and is responsible for the creation.

Fine.

All you've shown is that there's an Omega Point with the listed characters. That is a far, far, far cry from saying that it's the Judeo-Christian God. Just because the two concepts (Omega Point, heretofore Opoint) and God share similarities, that isn't enough to necessitate that they're the same thing.

I can postulate a scenario where God warms up my taco. That hardly means that your standard microwave is also God.

To sum up:

Demonstrating that a concept shares traits with something doesn't prove that they're the same thing. It just proves that they have overlapping characters.

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 quidditative definitions (i.e., haecceities) of God held by almost all of the world's leading religions. Hence, by definition, the Omega Point is God.

The Omega Point final singularity is a different aspect of the Big Bang initial singularity, i.e., the uncaused first cause, a definition of God held by all the Abrahamic religions.

As well, as Stephen Hawking proved, the singularity is not in spacetime, but rather is the boundary of space and time (see S. W. Hawking and G. F. R. Ellis, The Large Scale Structure of Space-Time [Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1973], pp. 217-221).

The Schmidt b-boundary has been shown to yield a topology in which the cosmological singularity is not Hausdorff separated from the points in spacetime, meaning that it is not possible to put an open set of points between the cosmological singularity and *any* point in spacetime proper. That is, the cosmological singularity has infinite nearness to every point in spacetime.

So the Omega Point is transcendent to, yet immanent in, space and time. Because the cosmological singularity exists outside of space and time, it is eternal, as time has no application to it.

Quite literally, the cosmological singularity (i.e., the uncaused cause of all causes) is supernatural, in the sense that no form of physics can apply to it, since physical values are at infinity at the singularity, and so it is not possible to perform the arithmetical operations of addition or subtraction on them; and in the sense that the singularity is beyond creation, as it is not a part of spacetime, but rather is the boundary of space and time.

And given an infinite amount of computational resources, per the Bekenstein Bound, recreating the exact quantum state of our present universe is trivial, requiring at most a mere 10^123 bits (the number which Roger Penrose calculated), or at most a mere 2^10^123 bits for every different quantum configuration of the universe logically possible (i.e., the powerset, of which the multiverse in its entirety at this point in universal history is a subset of this powerset). So the Omega Point will be able to resurrect us using merely an infinitesimally small amount of total computational resources: indeed, the multiversal resurrection will occur between 10^-10^10 and 10^-10^123 seconds before the Omega Point is reached, as the computational capacity of the universe at that stage will be great enough that doing so will require only a trivial amount of total computational resources.

Additionally, the cosmological singularity consists of a three-mode structure: the final singularity (i.e., the Omega Point), the all-presents singularity (which exists at all times at the edge of the multiverse), and the initial singularity (i.e., the beginning of the Big Bang). These three distinct aspects which perform different physical functions in bringing about and sustaining existence are actually one singularity which connects the entirety of the multiverse.

Christian theology is therefore preferentially selected by the known laws of physics due to the fundamentally triune structure of the cosmological singularity (which, again, has all the haecceities claimed for God in the major religions), which is deselective of all other major religions.
 
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So the Omega Point put on flesh, became man, and lived a sinless life?

Yes, in the form of Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ's eternal Godhead aspect is the All-Presents Singularity, which is the Second Person of the Trinity.

On the below news article page, there is a 1:08:33 h:min:sec "Raw Video" of an excellent lecture by Prof. Frank J. Tipler on the Omega Point cosmology which addresses this matter:

Jennifer Mayerle, "Does God Exist?", CBS 46 News (WGCL-TV, Atlanta, Georgia), November 13, 2008. http://www.cbsatlanta.com/news/17975543/detail.html

See also Prof. Tipler's book The Physics of Christianity (New York: Doubleday, 2007), although this book will be hard to understand unless one has already read Tipler's book The Physics of Immortality: Modern Cosmology, God and the Resurrection of the Dead (New York: Doubleday, 1994).
 
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What happens if an asteroid the size of Alaska hits the Earth two months from now and completely destroys all life on Earth? No more internet, no more humans, no more information, no more technology.

This scenario is plausible and valid within the realm of physics and science. Do you believe this is possible?
 
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