Frank Tipler Quotes


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?


Citations

Tipler, Frank J. The Physics of Immortality: Modern Cosmology, God and the Resurrection of the Dead. Doubleday, 1994, p. 332.

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  • Born: February 1, 1947
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Mathematical Physicist

Frank Jennings Tipler is an American mathematical physicist and cosmologist, holding a joint appointment in the Departments of Mathematics and Physics at Tulane University. Tipler has written books and papers on the Omega Point based on Pierre Teilhard de Chardin's religious ideas, which he claims is a mechanism for the resurrection of the dead. He is also known for his theories on the Tipler cylinder time machine. George Ellis has argued that his theories are largely pseudoscience.