Tipler: Frank

Barrow, John D. Theories of Everything. Clarendon Press, Oxford. 1991. Barrow, John D. and Tipler, Frank J. The Anthropic Cosmological Principle. Clarendon Press, Oxford. 1986. 

In which we encounter Einstein, Rumi, God, the anthropic principle, Stephen Hawking, the Bible, Proust s hyper-realities. The Lobotomy Club, Sushi Never Sleeps, acto/5, brain surgery, Italian filmmaking, neorealism, stellar nucleosynthesis, the Big Bang, Paul Davies, Frank Tipler, Marcel Proust, H. P Lovecrafi, Andrei Linde, Sir Fred Hoyle, Rudy Rucker, Robert Jastrow, The Templeton Foundation, multiple universes, Paul Kammerer, synchronicity, and the shoreless sea of love. 

Barrow, John and Frank Tipler, The Anthropic Cosmological Principle (New York Oxford University Press, 1986). 

Frank Tipler, Physics (New York Worth Publishers, 1976), 961-964. 

John Barrow and Frank Tipler, in the Anthropic Cosmological Principle, are fascinated by the number of seemingly coincidental conditions, events, and physical constants that guide our Universe. For example, they find the number of coincidences involving 1039 remarkable. 

Quoted in John D. Barrow and Frank J. Tipler The Anthropic Cosmological Principle The Anthropic Principle and Biochemistry (p. 541)... 

In 1913, long after Charles Darwin had argued for the htness of organisms for their environment, the Harvard chemist Lawrence J. Henderson pointed out that the organisms would not exist at all except for the htness of the environment itself. Fitness there must be, in environment as well as in organism, he declared near the outset of his classic work. The Fitness of the Environment (1913, p. 6). While most of Henderson s contemporaries ignored the philosophical implications of this work, as John Barrow and Frank Tipler have noted, it still comprises the foundahon of the Anthropic Principle as applied to biochemical systems (1986, p. 143). 

Stephen Hawking s classic is an overview of the origin of the universe with reflections on its fate. Frank Tipler s classic view discussed in this chapter is but one example of... 

The first source below relates in scholarly detail the conception of the universe as a computer of sorts. The book is particularly useful for original source references otherwise, it would take us too far afield to discuss this analogy, except to note that how easy it might be for our descendants to make the universe become a computer. At least that is the thinking of Frank Tipler whose book we referenced above in regard to Chapter 1. 

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