Ok Thanks. Yes, I am familiar with professor Tipler's books, including the one with astronomer, John Barrow, The Anthropic Cosmological; Principle. So maybe Daddy was a travelin' man? A plausible hypothesis.
-----Original Message----- From: John Clark <[email protected]> To: everything-list <[email protected]> Sent: Sat, Jul 29, 2017 4:57 pm Subject: Re: Robust topological quantum computing On Fri, Jul 28, 2017, spudboy100 via Everything List <[email protected]> wrote: > Do you hold out any value in quantum resurrection via massive Qubit computing? I think I picked that one up, years ago, from Dr. Clifford Pickover at IBM, as a concept. I'm more familial with Frank Tipler's 1993 book "The Physics of Immortality". Back then I liked his book a lot because it was scientific, he made a number of predictions and said that if even one of those predictions was wrong his entire theory could not work . A nd Tipler's predictions turned out to be wrong, some spectacularly wrong. Tipler predicted the expansion of the universe would slow down, stop, then change direction and collapse in on itself . >From the heat of that imploding fireball he thought a hyper-advanced >civilization could extract an infinite amount of energy and use that energy to perform a infinite number of calculations, not a very large number of them a infinite number of them. We now know due to Dark Energy (which he did NOT predict) the expansion of the cosmos is accelerating not decelerating , so that fireball will never happen. And there were other errors. Tipler said the Higgs boson must be at 220GEV +- 20 but we now know it is 125.3GEV +- .5. And Tipler said the Hubble constant must be less than or equal to 45, but it's 67.8 +- .77. W e don't live in the sort of universe that Tipler thought we did. More than one of his predictions was wrong so if we take Tipler at his word his theory must be wrong. There are other ideas about how resurrection could happen and who knows maybe one of them is right, but I wouldn't bet my life on it. That's why I decided to get frozen to liquid Nitrogen temperatures when I shuffle off this mortal coil. That's a long shot too but if it doesn't work it won't make me any deader. > Arthur C. Clarke (relation?) I'd love to be able to say I'm Arthur C. Clarke's illegitimate lovechild but as far I know we're unrelated. My father's name was Arthur E. Clark (no e) not Arthur C. Clarke. At least that's what he told me his name was...Hmm John K Clark -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
