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  <title><![CDATA[The Physics of Immortality: Modern Cosmology, God and the Resurrection of the Dead]]></title>
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  <default_description>Is there a higher power in the universe? What happens to us when we die? Leading physicist Frank J. Tipler tackles these questions and more in an astonishing and profoundly important book that scientifically proves the existence of God and the physical resurrection of the dead.</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1994</original_publication_year>
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  <read_at>Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1994</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Wishful thinking disguised as science.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[best religion ever.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Oct 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[It's a wild idea, God as the infinite Turing machine at the collapse of the universe. He finds the idea of the eternal return very repugnant. Given the current guesses about the state of cosmology, I would have to reject the basic premise as having been tested and found to be false. The universe is ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22556905">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[So far uninspiring, however his claim that for religion to survive it will need to be adopted by physics is quite interesting.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Tipler is a recognized expert in the fields of computer science, physics, and astronomy/cosmology.  This is a very difficult read. The second half of the book consists of mathematical equations proving his theory set for in the first half:  That every human that ever lived will be immortalized in an...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16344116">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Way out of touch, but way cool. A great book to open one's eyes about science.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[stuff]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Cosmos and nanotechnology<br/><br/>Imagine the entire cosmos conquered by nanotech self-replicating machines? That's just one of the far-out ideas to chew on in this book. Even if the whole theory doesn't hang together, a lot of the parts are extremely interesting.<br/>Note: Readers without a bac...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22479309">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[New concept of computer emulation of the Universe and the importance of being able to experience an actual infinity through infinite senses or mind etc., so that we can avoid eternal recurrence. Eternal recurrence would be very boring in a Heaven realm. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I understood about 5 percent of this book. I read it on the ferry to Ellis Island in order to impress a girl I wanted to have sex with. I only got a blow job out of it, so I guess she wasn't that impressed.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[It turns out that God and Heaven might exist after all. Aren't I fuckin' surprised!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A fascinating theory, but ultimately without evidence behind it to convince me.]]></body>
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