JamesRedford:
Physicist and mathematician Prof. Frank J. Tipler’s Omega Point cosmology is a proof (i.e., mathematical theorem) demonstrating that sapient life (in the form of, e.g., immortal superintelligent human-mind computer-uploads and artificial intelligences) is required by the known laws of physics (viz., the Second Law of Thermodynamics, General Relativity, and Quantum Mechanics) to take control over all matter in the universe, for said life to eventually force the collapse of the universe, and for the computational resources of the universe (in terms of both processor speed and memory storage) to diverge to infinity as the universe collapses into a final singularity, termed the Omega Point.
The expansion of the universe is accelerating. From my understanding, this would rule out a Big Crunch scenario. I am also unaware of any mathematical proof which requires an intelligence to collapse wavefunctions in quantum mechanics. Since these are two of the pillars of Tipler’s Omega Point, I don’t see how it is viable.
Mathematical physicist Frank Tipler generalized[13] Teilhard’s term Omega Point to describe what he alleges is the ultimate fate of the universe as required by the laws of physics : roughly, Tipler argues that quantum mechanics is inconsistent unless the future of every point in spacetime contains an intelligent observer to collapse the wavefunction and that the only way for this to happen is if the Universe is closed (that is, it will collapse to a single point) and yet contains observers with a “God-like” ability to perform an unbounded series of observations in finite time.[14] Tipler’s conception of the Omega Point is regarded as pseudoscience by some scientists.[15] [16] [better source needed Omega Point - Wikipedia
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