George Hammond
2005-08-01 20:05:13 UTC
HAMMOND-TIPLER, PHYSICISTS FROM HELL...?
Some would expect me to try and flatter Frank Tipler since he
is a maverick physicist and so am I... both of us because of our
interest in God and Religion.
But no, Frank Tipler wouldn't raise a finger to help me, nor
would any other establishment physicist. They're all too jealous
and egocentric. So I won't waste my breath.
Tipler is author of the bestselling _Physics of Immortality_
(1994) a book considered by most physicists to be an embarrasment
to Science since it claims to scientifically prove there is
"Life After Death".
Tipler is a tenured professor of Astronomy at Tulane Univ. and
a well known collegue of Prof. John D. Barrow FRS also an
internationally recognized Astrophysicist. Up until about 1992
Tipler was a frequent coauthor with Barrow of exotic high level
Relativity and Astrophysical papers published in Nature, Physical
Review etc. Both men are are international bigshots, extremely
competent, and quite famous in conventional Physics.
However, around 1980 Barrow became interested in something called
the "anthropic Principle" and apparently got Tipler interested.
This resulted in their book _The Anthropic Cosmological Principle_
in 1986. Apparently, the success of this book went to Tipler's head
and got him off on the road to Religion resulting in the _Physics of
Immortality_ in 1994. I notice Tipler has not published any papers
with Barrow since then... probably Barrow was as shocked as everyone
else at Tipler's embarrasing obsession with religion.
At any rate, my message is simply this:
1)
Tipler's book is the most important (speculative)
scientific work about the Physics of God ever printed,
and Frank Tipler is probably (2nd only to myself) now
the most important scientist in the Science-Religion
field today.
2)
All this, DESPITE the fact that Frank Tipler's theory
of God is ridiculously incorrect due to a fundamental
faux pas of the first magnitude, perhaps the biggest
scientific gaffe since Einstein invented the Cosmological
Constant which Einstein later called "the biggest blunder
of my life".
3)
This Tipler blunder, certainly the "biggest blunder of
Frank Tipler's life" would be extremly funny if in fact
Tipler's book wasn't so significant in a different light
which will be mentioned later, and which is the justification
for my assessment given in 1) above.
4)
It turns out that Tipler in his amateur religious enthusiasm
simply went off half cocked trying to explain "Eternal Life"
and naievely presumed (like most lay people) that "Eternal Life"
meant "living forever". Fact is, as any competent student of
Religion knows "Eternal Life" does NOT mean "living forever"..
it means "living at full genotypic speed". Fact is, because of
the universal struggle for existence no one is fully grown
(such a person would be God in the flesh). Hence, none of us
is operating at full design (genotypic) speed or full (genotypic)
intelligence. the average human phenotype is only about 80%
full grown.. i.e.Phenotype=.8 Genotype. This (Secular Trend)
growth deficit is what causes the classical God of religion,
and is a commonly observed psychogical (perceptual) effect which
has been the central subject of Religion for thousands of years.
However, since this perceptual effect is so difficult to explain
to the average lay person (or even to a lay physicist like Tipler)
it is euphemistically referred to as "Eternal Life". However,
the notion of a person living for millions or billions of years
is only a HEURISTIC LAY EUPHEMISM.. which ironically, Frank Tipler
has taken literally, and in fact has apparently proven that
such a thing is even theoretically possible!
This of course would be a fascinating irony if it weren't for
the fact that in the course of Tipler's extrodinary efforts to
prove that "infinite life" (not to be confused with Eternal
Life) is actually possible... Tipler has in fact divulged and
even discovered enough physics to actually shed some important
light on the real credibility of Eternal Life, and in fact the
question of Life After Death itself!
OK... having explained how Tipler has managed to make a scientific
blunder on the order of Einstein's Cosmological Constant... let me
proceed to point out the true value of Tipler's work.
First, in his obsession to prove that it might be possible
to construct a life form that could "live forever", Tipler has
apparently brought the full force of mondern physics to bear
on the question of whether or not a computer "emulation" of a
person could be "alive". His conclusion is, based on the
indistiguishability of identical particles, that YES, a
perfect emulation could be "alive".
Now bear in mind, Tipler is considered a 1st rank physicist,
and is well known to people like Penrose, Hawking, Weinberg
and others, all of whom he has jointly published papers with
and/or had innumerable private discussions. He is a full professor
of Mathematical Physics at Tulane University. He was at one time
John A. Wheeler's postdoctoral assistant! His book lists among
others having commented on his book and had discussions with him
about it before publication:
Jacob Bekenstein
David Deutsch
Andrei Linde
John Polkinghorne
Walter Thirring
John A. wheeler
All of this tells us that the "computer emulation" hypothesis
(given a big enough computer) IS a viable no nonsense scientific
thesis.
OK, now I will omit a discussion of Tipler's "blunder" in
assuming that this computer would have to be built sometime
in the future and be of Galactic size... (his Omega Point theory)..
and get right to the RELEVANT implication for Life After Death
as it is historically known and conceived.
HISTORICALLY, the Christian Religion believes that Man will
"rise after death" in a "spiritual body" (St. Paul, I Cor:15).
Traditionally, it has been commonly believed that if this is true,
that what we are most likely talking about is some kind of post
mortem "dream" state.
Of course the traditional objection to that theory is that "dead
brains can't dream", so how could we dream of life after we are dead?
BUT, Hammond has pointed out that God has now been discovered to be
a relativistic Curvature of subjective spacetime, meaning that
God is a "Relativistic" phenomena.
That immediately raises the obvious speculation that life after death
is actually life before death, but is only "time dilated" so that
it APPEARS to take place after death when it actually doesn't!
According to Hammonds theory:
Hammond G.E.(2003) A Semiclassical Theory of God
Noetic Journal, Vol 4(3) July 2003, pp 231-244(Noetic Press)
Online copy at:
http://geocities.com/scientific_proof_of_god/Hammond5s1.html
The ungrown part of the brain (Freud's unconscious mind so called)
is constantly computing the "missing" part of our life (Heaven)
and this is stored at the atomic/particle physics level in the
brain. When we die, as a natural consequence of the death process,
this stored "log" of our missing life simply reads out or is read
by our consciousnes, which has now descended to this lower level
in accordance with the natural death process. Of course this
reading does not take place at neuronal speeds, it takes place a
quantum particle physics speeds... nanoseconds... but THEN..it is
liesurly "READ" by this particle physics consciousness in a "time
dilated coordinate system"... with a dilation factor of 10^15 or
more...thus dilating the last nanosecond of our life out into 5, 10
or 15 years! It is in THAT world, that we finally obtain "full
growth" and hence "Eternal Life".
This then, explains St. Paul's famous statment:
"We shall not all sleep, but we shall
all be changed.
In a moment, in the twinkling of an
eye, at the last trump.... the dead
shall be raised incorruptable, and
we shall be changed."
(I Cor 15:51)
What FRANK TIPLER has accomplished then, is to show us that the
HUMAN BRAIN is actually this "gigantic computer" he is talking
about, and that YES it does "emulate our body" and does
"resurrect" us to Eternal Life.
How has Tipler done this.... fact is Tipler has "independently
rediscovered" the classic Christian theory of Life After Death
wihtout even KNOWING it existed.. out of sheer religious
ignorance. Tipler is an "independent confirmation", and the most
modern scientific version, of what Christianity has already
postulated as a conjecture!
Combined with Hammond's result, that subjective reality is a
"curved version" of objective reality (a proven fact.. to 2 decimal
points), Tipler's "computer emulation" hypothesis becomes a credible
scientific reality.. tipler is the first indicaion that the
christian speculation ot "Life After Death" is actually a credible
scientific hypothesis!
Well... you can imagine how much I would like to talk to
Frank Tipler... but I'm sure he's too busy being a bigshot..
or too busy calculating the "Omega Point" to waste time
talking to a nobody M.S. physicist and experimenta psychologist
like me.
I tried eamiling him once or twice years ago.. but he never
answered... maybe you could send him an email and suggest he
talk to GEORGE HAMMOND.... his email address is:
..............................
Frank J.Tipler
Professor
Department of Mathematics
Tulane University
e-mail address:
tipler@[NOSPAM]math.tulane.edu
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Some would expect me to try and flatter Frank Tipler since he
is a maverick physicist and so am I... both of us because of our
interest in God and Religion.
But no, Frank Tipler wouldn't raise a finger to help me, nor
would any other establishment physicist. They're all too jealous
and egocentric. So I won't waste my breath.
Tipler is author of the bestselling _Physics of Immortality_
(1994) a book considered by most physicists to be an embarrasment
to Science since it claims to scientifically prove there is
"Life After Death".
Tipler is a tenured professor of Astronomy at Tulane Univ. and
a well known collegue of Prof. John D. Barrow FRS also an
internationally recognized Astrophysicist. Up until about 1992
Tipler was a frequent coauthor with Barrow of exotic high level
Relativity and Astrophysical papers published in Nature, Physical
Review etc. Both men are are international bigshots, extremely
competent, and quite famous in conventional Physics.
However, around 1980 Barrow became interested in something called
the "anthropic Principle" and apparently got Tipler interested.
This resulted in their book _The Anthropic Cosmological Principle_
in 1986. Apparently, the success of this book went to Tipler's head
and got him off on the road to Religion resulting in the _Physics of
Immortality_ in 1994. I notice Tipler has not published any papers
with Barrow since then... probably Barrow was as shocked as everyone
else at Tipler's embarrasing obsession with religion.
At any rate, my message is simply this:
1)
Tipler's book is the most important (speculative)
scientific work about the Physics of God ever printed,
and Frank Tipler is probably (2nd only to myself) now
the most important scientist in the Science-Religion
field today.
2)
All this, DESPITE the fact that Frank Tipler's theory
of God is ridiculously incorrect due to a fundamental
faux pas of the first magnitude, perhaps the biggest
scientific gaffe since Einstein invented the Cosmological
Constant which Einstein later called "the biggest blunder
of my life".
3)
This Tipler blunder, certainly the "biggest blunder of
Frank Tipler's life" would be extremly funny if in fact
Tipler's book wasn't so significant in a different light
which will be mentioned later, and which is the justification
for my assessment given in 1) above.
4)
It turns out that Tipler in his amateur religious enthusiasm
simply went off half cocked trying to explain "Eternal Life"
and naievely presumed (like most lay people) that "Eternal Life"
meant "living forever". Fact is, as any competent student of
Religion knows "Eternal Life" does NOT mean "living forever"..
it means "living at full genotypic speed". Fact is, because of
the universal struggle for existence no one is fully grown
(such a person would be God in the flesh). Hence, none of us
is operating at full design (genotypic) speed or full (genotypic)
intelligence. the average human phenotype is only about 80%
full grown.. i.e.Phenotype=.8 Genotype. This (Secular Trend)
growth deficit is what causes the classical God of religion,
and is a commonly observed psychogical (perceptual) effect which
has been the central subject of Religion for thousands of years.
However, since this perceptual effect is so difficult to explain
to the average lay person (or even to a lay physicist like Tipler)
it is euphemistically referred to as "Eternal Life". However,
the notion of a person living for millions or billions of years
is only a HEURISTIC LAY EUPHEMISM.. which ironically, Frank Tipler
has taken literally, and in fact has apparently proven that
such a thing is even theoretically possible!
This of course would be a fascinating irony if it weren't for
the fact that in the course of Tipler's extrodinary efforts to
prove that "infinite life" (not to be confused with Eternal
Life) is actually possible... Tipler has in fact divulged and
even discovered enough physics to actually shed some important
light on the real credibility of Eternal Life, and in fact the
question of Life After Death itself!
OK... having explained how Tipler has managed to make a scientific
blunder on the order of Einstein's Cosmological Constant... let me
proceed to point out the true value of Tipler's work.
First, in his obsession to prove that it might be possible
to construct a life form that could "live forever", Tipler has
apparently brought the full force of mondern physics to bear
on the question of whether or not a computer "emulation" of a
person could be "alive". His conclusion is, based on the
indistiguishability of identical particles, that YES, a
perfect emulation could be "alive".
Now bear in mind, Tipler is considered a 1st rank physicist,
and is well known to people like Penrose, Hawking, Weinberg
and others, all of whom he has jointly published papers with
and/or had innumerable private discussions. He is a full professor
of Mathematical Physics at Tulane University. He was at one time
John A. Wheeler's postdoctoral assistant! His book lists among
others having commented on his book and had discussions with him
about it before publication:
Jacob Bekenstein
David Deutsch
Andrei Linde
John Polkinghorne
Walter Thirring
John A. wheeler
All of this tells us that the "computer emulation" hypothesis
(given a big enough computer) IS a viable no nonsense scientific
thesis.
OK, now I will omit a discussion of Tipler's "blunder" in
assuming that this computer would have to be built sometime
in the future and be of Galactic size... (his Omega Point theory)..
and get right to the RELEVANT implication for Life After Death
as it is historically known and conceived.
HISTORICALLY, the Christian Religion believes that Man will
"rise after death" in a "spiritual body" (St. Paul, I Cor:15).
Traditionally, it has been commonly believed that if this is true,
that what we are most likely talking about is some kind of post
mortem "dream" state.
Of course the traditional objection to that theory is that "dead
brains can't dream", so how could we dream of life after we are dead?
BUT, Hammond has pointed out that God has now been discovered to be
a relativistic Curvature of subjective spacetime, meaning that
God is a "Relativistic" phenomena.
That immediately raises the obvious speculation that life after death
is actually life before death, but is only "time dilated" so that
it APPEARS to take place after death when it actually doesn't!
According to Hammonds theory:
Hammond G.E.(2003) A Semiclassical Theory of God
Noetic Journal, Vol 4(3) July 2003, pp 231-244(Noetic Press)
Online copy at:
http://geocities.com/scientific_proof_of_god/Hammond5s1.html
The ungrown part of the brain (Freud's unconscious mind so called)
is constantly computing the "missing" part of our life (Heaven)
and this is stored at the atomic/particle physics level in the
brain. When we die, as a natural consequence of the death process,
this stored "log" of our missing life simply reads out or is read
by our consciousnes, which has now descended to this lower level
in accordance with the natural death process. Of course this
reading does not take place at neuronal speeds, it takes place a
quantum particle physics speeds... nanoseconds... but THEN..it is
liesurly "READ" by this particle physics consciousness in a "time
dilated coordinate system"... with a dilation factor of 10^15 or
more...thus dilating the last nanosecond of our life out into 5, 10
or 15 years! It is in THAT world, that we finally obtain "full
growth" and hence "Eternal Life".
This then, explains St. Paul's famous statment:
"We shall not all sleep, but we shall
all be changed.
In a moment, in the twinkling of an
eye, at the last trump.... the dead
shall be raised incorruptable, and
we shall be changed."
(I Cor 15:51)
What FRANK TIPLER has accomplished then, is to show us that the
HUMAN BRAIN is actually this "gigantic computer" he is talking
about, and that YES it does "emulate our body" and does
"resurrect" us to Eternal Life.
How has Tipler done this.... fact is Tipler has "independently
rediscovered" the classic Christian theory of Life After Death
wihtout even KNOWING it existed.. out of sheer religious
ignorance. Tipler is an "independent confirmation", and the most
modern scientific version, of what Christianity has already
postulated as a conjecture!
Combined with Hammond's result, that subjective reality is a
"curved version" of objective reality (a proven fact.. to 2 decimal
points), Tipler's "computer emulation" hypothesis becomes a credible
scientific reality.. tipler is the first indicaion that the
christian speculation ot "Life After Death" is actually a credible
scientific hypothesis!
Well... you can imagine how much I would like to talk to
Frank Tipler... but I'm sure he's too busy being a bigshot..
or too busy calculating the "Omega Point" to waste time
talking to a nobody M.S. physicist and experimenta psychologist
like me.
I tried eamiling him once or twice years ago.. but he never
answered... maybe you could send him an email and suggest he
talk to GEORGE HAMMOND.... his email address is:
..............................
Frank J.Tipler
Professor
Department of Mathematics
Tulane University
e-mail address:
tipler@[NOSPAM]math.tulane.edu
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