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Author: SolomonWSolomonW Date: Jun 2, 2008 05:27
> While Tipler is a superb mathematical physicist widely
> known for discovering the Tipler Cylinder in General
> Relativity and also famous for his celebrated book on the
> Anthropic principle with fellow physicist Barrow,
>
What do others think of this book? I thought is was one of the best
books, I had read.
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Author: George HammondGeorge Hammond Date: Jun 2, 2008 08:08
On Mon, 2 Jun 2008 22:27:50 +1000, SolomonW
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>> While Tipler is a superb mathematical physicist widely
>> known for discovering the Tipler Cylinder in General...
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Author: ImmortalistImmortalist Date: Jun 2, 2008 23:04
On Jun 2, 5:27 am, SolomonW DONTBOTHER.com> wrote:> In article 4ax.com>, Nowhere1
> @notspam.org says...
>>> While Tipler is a superb mathematical physicist widely
>> known for discovering the Tipler Cylinder in General
>> Relativity and also famous for his celebrated book on the
>> Anthropic principle with fellow physicist Barrow,
>
> What do others think of this book? I thought is was one of the best
> books, I had read.
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Author: SolomonWSolomonW Date: Jun 3, 2008 04:54
> On Jun 2, 5:27 am, SolomonW DONTBOTHER.com> wrote:>> In article 4ax.com>, Nowhere1
>> @notspam.org says...
>>>>> While Tipler is a superb mathematical physicist widely
>>> known for discovering the Tipler Cylinder in General
>>> Relativity and also famous for his celebrated book on the
>>> Anthropic principle with fellow physicist Barrow,
>>
>> What do others think of this book? I thought is was one of the best
>> books, I had read.
>
> A just-so story, also called the Ad hoc fallacy, is a term used in
> academic anthropology, biological sciences, and social sciences. It
> describes an unverifiable and unfalsifiable narrative explanation for
> a cultural practice or a biological trait or behavior of humans or
> other animals. The use of the term is an implicit criticism that
> reminds the hearer of the essentially fictional and unprovable nature ...
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Author: SolomonWSolomonW Date: Jun 3, 2008 04:55
> On Mon, 2 Jun 2008 22:27:50 +1000, SolomonW
> DONTBOTHER.com> wrote:
> >>> While Tipler is a superb mathematical physicist widely
>>> known for discovering the Tipler Cylinder in General
>>> Relativity and also famous for his celebrated book on the
>>> Anthropic principle with fellow physicist Barrow,
>>>
>>
>>What do others think of this book? I thought is was one of the best
>>books, I had read.
>>
>>
> [Hammond]
> Tipler's books on religion are generally ridiculed and
> totally unappreciated within the scientific community but ...
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Author: George HammondGeorge Hammond Date: Jun 3, 2008 09:44
On Tue, 3 Jun 2008 21:55:56 +1000, SolomonW
DONTBOTHER.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, 2 Jun 2008 22:27:50 +1000, SolomonW
>> DONTBOTHER.com> wrote:
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Author: SolomonWSolomonW Date: Jun 4, 2008 03:45
> Barrow and Tipler's book is 22 years old. Most if not
> all of the material in this verbose 658 page book is now
> well known to Physics if not frankly ancient history.
It is certainly a well known book that is because "The Anthropic
Cosmological Principle" is a first class book.
Note I have not read the Physics of Christianity, and from the reviews I
am not rushing to read it but that does not mean that his early book is
a bad book.
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Author: George HammondGeorge Hammond Date: Jun 4, 2008 05:59
On Wed, 4 Jun 2008 20:45:09 +1000, SolomonW
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>>[Hammond]
>> Barrow and Tipler's book is 22 years old. Most if not
>> all of the material in this verbose...
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Author: SolomonWSolomonW Date: Jun 4, 2008 07:08
> On Wed, 4 Jun 2008 20:45:09 +1000, SolomonW
> DONTBOTHER.com> wrote:
> >>In article <7bla4456levcpigsqks4emj5m7hng0dh0b@ 4ax.com>, Nowhere1
>>@ notspam.org says... >>>
>>>[Hammond]
>>> Barrow and Tipler's book is 22 years old. Most if not
>>> all of the material in this verbose 658 page book is now
>>> well known to Physics if not frankly ancient history.
>>
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>>[SolomonW]
>>It is certainly a well known book that is because "The Anthropic
>>Cosmological Principle" is a first class book.
>>
>>Note I have not read the Physics of Christianity, and from the reviews I
>>am not rushing to read it but that does not mean that his early book is ...
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Author: George HammondGeorge Hammond Date: Jun 4, 2008 09:58
On Thu, 5 Jun 2008 00:08:39 +1000, SolomonW
DONTBOTHER.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, 4 Jun 2008 20:45:09 +1000, SolomonW
>> DONTBOTHER.com> wrote:
>> >>>In article <7bla4456...
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