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Quotes from Frank J. Tipler

Christianity is not a mere religion but an experimentally testable science.
~ Frank J. Tipler
We physicists know that a beautiful postulate is more likely to be correct than an ugly one. Why not adopt this Postulate of Eternal Life, at least as a working hypothesis?
~ Frank J. Tipler
The antiparticle of any particle has the same mass as the particle, and the same spin. But the antiparticle has the opposite charge.
~ Frank J. Tipler
quantum mechanics, general relativity, and the Standard Model of particle physics.
~ Frank J. Tipler
We are no exception: the physical laws apply to everything.
~ Frank J. Tipler
Pluralitas non est ponenda sine necessitate
~ Frank J. Tipler
There was a necessity, the same necessity that forces the multiverse upon us: to have one set of physical laws for both the small and the large.
~ Frank J. Tipler
Probability is always an expression of the human limitation of knowledge and is never some facet of nature.
~ Frank J. Tipler
But "we" in this sentence are the collection of our alternate selves in the alternate, but all equally real, universes of the multiverse.
~ Frank J. Tipler
Only a mentality that could see the entire multiverse would be able to dispense with probabilities.
~ Frank J. Tipler
make the determinism certain.
~ Frank J. Tipler
Relativity asserts that all observers, whatever their velocities relative to one another, measure exactly the same number for the speed of light. The invariance of the speed of light allows two apparently unrelated quantities, the dimension of time and the three dimensions of space, to be united into one four-dimensional entity, spacetime.
~ Frank J. Tipler
As we shall see in the next section, however, all fundamental particles have zero mass. A zero-mass particle necessarily moves at the speed of light.
~ Frank J. Tipler
Determinism in relativistic quantum mechanics is called unitarity. Determinism in all forms of physics is concerned with time evolution.
~ Frank J. Tipler
there would be an infinite amount of such time between now and the Omega Point.
~ Frank J. Tipler
very simple way
~ Frank J. Tipler
we can think of determinism as working backward as well as forward in time.
~ Frank J. Tipler
What is happening in the universe and multiverse today is determined by the goal in the far future that has been set for the universe and the multiverse.
~ Frank J. Tipler
A typical hard-drive memory capacity these days is 30 gigabytes
~ Frank J. Tipler
we can regard the human soul as a form of computer program, a program running on a wet computer we call the human brain.
~ Frank J. Tipler
each of the 6 billion human brains on the Earth.
~ Frank J. Tipler
In fact, if we consider an equation to consist of an infinite number of terms, there are no ultimate equations!
~ Frank J. Tipler