On Monday, October 7, 2019 at 5:42:02 PM UTC-5, John Clark wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 7, 2019 at 3:12 PM spudboy100 via Everything List < > [email protected] <javascript:>> wrote: > > > So, PH, I believe, that Frank Tipler the Omega Point dude, agrees with >> you on this one issue. He seems to be a stickler for everything in physics >> to be neat and tidy and conformal. This, of course, will cause you and the >> rest here, to convulse with nausea on this here mailing list. But from what >> I was able to follow on his vid, he agrees with your contention. For me, I >> follow Tipler because I loved his reasoning, and an afterlife even after 10 >> trillion years of dust, >> > I remember reading Tipler's book *Physics of Immortality* and thinking it was nuts. He had ideas about hyper-tech beings surviving the collapse of the universe beyond the Planck range and so forth and with an asymptote on time there is some infinite time. The book though has a nice set of appendices that are a decent quick reference on some physics. He did come out with something about the cosmology of the Trinity or some such thing. I skipped that. I think he has gone off the rails.
LC > > I finished reading Tipler's book "The Physics Of Immortality" on Friday > March 15 1996 and liked it and I sent a post about it to the Extropian List > that same day. At the time, nearly 24 years ago, I said the reason I liked > his book was that: > > "*Tipler's Omega Point Theory makes a bunch of predictions, practical > predictions that should be able to be tested for in the next 4 or 5 years. > Tipler himself states that every one of these predictions must turn out to > be correct or the entire theory is dead in the water*." > > Well lets see how his predictions turned out" > > "* *Tipler predicts that the universe is closed: I think most would say > it's probably open, Tipler says they're wrong.* " > > It turned out it was Tipler that was wrong and not only was he wrong > Tipler was *spectacularly* wrong! The expansion of the universe is not > reversing, it's not even slowing down, it is accelerating. > > "* *Tipler predicts that the Higgs boson must be at 220 +- 20 GeV: If > he's correct then when the CERN Large Hadron Collider goes on line in 1999 > it will find it almost immediately*." > > The Higgs boson wasn't found until 2012, the delay wasn't Tipler's fault > but his prediction was dead wrong, the mass of the Higgs boson turned out > to be 125.3 +- 0.4 GeV > > "** Tipler predicts that the Hubble constant must be less than or equal > to 45*" > > Today there is still disagreement over the exact value, some say its 66.9, > another group says its 69.8, and another group says its 74.0, and yet > another group says its 82.4; but nobody thinks its anywhere near 45. > > So what is Tipler up to today? Well...back in 2007 the poor man went a > little funny in the head, you know, just a little funny, and he went and > did a silly thing; he wrote another book saying we should look for divine > DNA on the Shroud of Turin and check for radiation around the tomb of the > Blessed Virgin Mary that was caused by an intense beam of neutrinos that > must have shot out of the bottom of her feet thrusting her upward into > heaven. > > 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/74fcb018-bd42-4b63-bc09-37134f86a178%40googlegroups.com.
