Frank Tipler - The Omega Point

Dr. Frank Tipler discusses "The Omega Point", a theoretical future event in which the entirety of the universe spirals toward a final point of unification, and offers insights into the relationship between thermodynamics and information. Th term "Omega Point" was originally invented by the French Jesuit Catholic priest Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, who framed it in theological terms, but Tipler's model is based on physics and computation. Tipler's theory began in a series of articles in the late 1980s, later summarized the 1994 book "The Physics of Immortality". Tipler's proposed that in the far distant future, all matter will converge to an infinite point at the end of a closed universe, which is the Omega Point. Dr. Frank Tipler is a mathematical physicist and cosmologist, holding a joint appointment in the Departments of Mathematics and Physics at Tulane University. Dr. Tipler has a Bachelors in Physics from MIT and a PhD from the University of Maryland, with postdoctoral work under the distinguished physicists John Archibald Wheeler, Abraham Taub, Rainer Sachs, and Dennis Sciama. He became an associate professor in mathematical physics in 1981 and a full professor in 1987 at Tulane University, where he has been a faculty member ever since. LINKS & RESOURCES: The Physics of Immortality: Modern Cosmology, God and the Resurrection of the Dead https://www.amazon.com/Physics-Immortality-Modern-Cosmology-Resurrection/dp/0385467990 The Anthropic Cosmological Principle https://www.amazon.com/Anthropic-Cosmological-Principle-Oxford-Paperbacks/dp/0192821474 Omega Point (Wikipedia) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omega_Point Frank Tipler (Wikipedia) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_J._Tipler