• Frank Jennings Tipler (born February 1, 1947) is an American mathematical physicist and cosmologist, holding a joint appointment in the Departments of...
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  • recognized as allowing closed timelike curves until an analysis by Frank Tipler in 1974. Tipler showed in his 1974 article "Rotating Cylinders and the Possibility...
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  • upon in the writings of John David Garcia (1971), Paolo Soleri (1981), Frank Tipler (1994), and David Deutsch (1997). Teilhard de Chardin was a paleontologist...
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    emergence of man in the unfolding drama of the cosmos." John Barrow and Frank Tipler, both physicists and cosmologists, base much of their work on Teilhard...
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  • universe at 13.7 billion years. Hart’s argument was extended by cosmologist Frank Tipler in his 1981 paper entitled "Extraterrestrial intelligent beings do not...
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  • Tipler may refer to: Frank J. Tipler (born 1947), a mathematical physicist and cosmologist Frank Tipler III, a Libertarian politician in Alabama John...
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    with Frank Tipler- White Gardenia interview with Frank Tipler, December 2015 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMkp1kZN5n4&t=26s Q&A with Frank Tipler http://turingchurch...
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  • John Barrow and Frank Tipler depart from Carter and define the WAP and SAP as follows: Weak anthropic principle (WAP) (Barrow and Tipler): "The observed...
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    000 and 100,000,000 civilizations in the Milky Way galaxy. Conversely, Frank Tipler and John D. Barrow used pessimistic numbers and speculated that the average...
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  • philosopher of religion Alvin Plantinga and physics professor and theologian Frank J. Tipler. ISCID hosted its first online symposium in October 2002, titled "The...
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    recognized as allowing closed timelike curves: 21  until an analysis by Frank Tipler in 1974. If a cylinder is infinitely long and spins fast enough about...
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  • size of the Milky Way in as little as half a million years. In 1981, Frank Tipler put forth an argument that extraterrestrial intelligences do not exist...
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    involves a hypothetical comet which could have appeared in 6 BC. Physicist Frank Tipler has proposed that the star of Bethlehem was a supernova or hypernova...
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    proposal of the Omega Point by Christian cosmologist Frank Tipler. Drawing upon ideas in digitalism, Tipler has advanced the notion that the collapse of the...
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    Basingstoke: Taylor & Francis. ISBN 9780203212738. For example, John Barrow; Frank Tipler (1986). The Anthropic Cosmological Principle. Fred Hoyle, "The Universe:...
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  • Immortality: Modern Cosmology, God and the Resurrection of the Dead by Frank Tipler. In the 2014 film Transcendence, Will's consciousness is uploaded into...
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    principle, including those of Brandon Carter, John Leslie, John Barrow, and Frank Tipler. Bostrom believes that the mishandling of indexical information is a...
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    meaningless or considered to have had little if any scientific merit. Frank Tipler has argued that physics can explain immortality, although such arguments...
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    (Birmingham) Carson Tinker, NFL player, Jacksonville Jaguars (Decatur) Frank Tipler, mathematical physicist and cosmologist (Andalusia) Andre Tippett (born...
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    Nancey Murphy, Frank Tipler 28 14 "Will Intelligence Fill This Universe?" Leon Lederman, Francisco Ayala, Bruce Murray, Frank Tipler, Gregory Benford...
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  • both sides of the Fermi paradox. He contrasts the Uniqueness view of Frank Tipler with the Contact view of Carl Sagan, and records some of the acrimony...
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  • Anders Sandberg Richard Seed Bruce Sterling Gregory Stock Mark W. Tilden Frank Tipler Margaret Wertheim Robert J. White Robert Anton Wilson Terence McKenna...
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    James Redfield, Layne Redmond, Malidoma Patrice Somé, Hyemeyohsts Storm, Frank Tipler, Kriyananda (J. Donald Walters), Andrew Weil, Roger Weir, and Marianne...
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  • (nanotechnologist), Brian Stableford (author), John Clute (author), Frank Tipler (mathematical physicist), Gregory Benford (author) This episode was first...
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    Wikimedia Commons has media related to Johann Heinrich von Mädler. Frank J. Tipler, "Olbers's Paradox, the Beginning of Creation, and Johann Mädler,"...
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    Press. ISBN 0-300-09211-3. Tipler 1989. Tipler 1994. Tipler 2007. Pannenberg, Wolfhart (1995). "Breaking a Taboo: Frank Tipler's the Physics of Immortality"...
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  • to Hefner, Wicker, Eaves, and Tipler", Zygon, Vol. 24, Issue 2 (June 1989), p. 255. John D. Barrow and Frank J. Tipler, Foreword by John A. Wheeler, 1986...
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    Michael Herman, Ph.D. (interim) (2017 - 2018) Nick Altiero (2006 - 2017) Frank Tipler Alexander Wentzell Thomas W. Sherry James MacLaren John P. Perdew Tulane...
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  • Sisson, attorney J. Budziszewski, philosopher, CSC Fellow, ISCID Fellow Frank J. Tipler, mathematical physicist, ISCID Fellow Michael J. Behe, biochemist,...
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  • known as the Hart-Tipler argument – acknowledging Hart's priority as the argument's originator, but also acknowledging Frank J. Tipler's substantial extension...
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