Sunday, January 8, 2012

Is the Omega Point (a metaphysical argument) a logic to refute the nonexistence of God?

The Omega Point is a term used by professor of physics and mathematics Frank J. Tipler to describe what he maintains is a physically necessary cosmological state in the distant future of the Universe. Tipler identifies this final Omega Point singularity and its state of infinite informational capacity with God. The implication of this theory for present-day humans is that Tipler maintains this ultimate cosmic computer will be able to run computer emulations which are perfectly accurate down to the quantum level of every physically-possible universe, and any life contained in them, from the start of the Big Bang (which Tipler states starts at zero informational capacity and diverges to infinite informational capacity as the Universe progresses in time, thereby allowing sufficiently later states of the universe to perfectly render earlier states). According to Tipler, from the perspective of the recreated inhabitants, the states near the Omega Point would represent their resurrection in an infinite-duration afterlife, which could take any imaginable form due to its virtual nature.

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