James Redford. What did Tipler's apparently uninformed opponent, Lawrence Krauss, have to say? You barely mentioned him. I guess he doesn't count. Just a guy who wandered in off the street, I guess.
Nothing like a load of confirmation bias.
Lawrence Maxwell Krauss (born May 27, 1954) is an American theoretical physicist and cosmologist who is Foundation Professor of the School of Earth and Space Exploration at Arizona State University and director of its Origins Project, He is known as an advocate of the public understanding of science, of public policy based on sound empirical data, of scientific skepticism and of science education and works to reduce the impact of what he opines as superstition and religious dogma in pop culture.He is also the author of several bestselling books, including The Physics of Star Trek and A Universe from Nothing.
Krauss mostly works in theoretical physics and has published research on a great variety of topics within that field. His primary contribution is to cosmology as one of the first physicists to suggest that most of the mass and energy of the universe resides in empty space, an idea now widely known as "dark energy". Furthermore, Krauss has formulated a model in which the universe could have potentially come from "nothing," as outlined in his 2012 book A Universe from Nothing. He explains that certain arrangements of relativistic quantum fields might explain the existence of the universe as we know it while disclaiming that he "has no idea if the notion [of taking quantum mechanics for granted] can be usefully dispensed with". As his model appears to agree with experimental observations of the universe (such as of its shape and energy density), it is referred to as a "plausible hypothesis".
Initially, Krauss was skeptical of the Higgs mechanism. However, after the existence of the Higgs boson was confirmed by CERN, he has been researching the implications of the Higgs field on the nature of dark energy.
Krauss is one of the few living physicists described by Scientific American as a "public intellectual" and he is the only physicist to have received awards from all three major American physics societies: the American Physical Society, the American Association of Physics Teachers, and the American Institute of Physics. In 2012, he was awarded the National Science Board's Public Service Medal for his contributions to public education in science and engineering in the United States.
Arizona State University
Australian National University
New College of the Humanities
Yale University
Case Western Reserve University
Harvard University
Alma mater
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD)
Carleton University (BSc)
Thesis Gravitation and phase transitions in the early universe (1982)
Known for
Dark energy
Zero-energy modeling
Notable awards
Andrew Gemant Award (2001)
Lilienfeld Prize (2001)
Science Writing Award (2002)
Oersted Medal (2004)
Books
Krauss, Lawrence M. (1989). The fifth essence. Basic Books. ISBN 978-0465023752.
Fear Of Physics: A Guide For The Perplexed. 1994. Basic Books. ISBN 0-465-02367-3
The Physics of Star Trek. 1996. Basic Books. ISBN 0-465-00559-4
Beyond Star Trek. 1998, Harper Collins. ISBN 978-0060977573
Quintessence The Search For Missing Mass In The Universe. 2000. Basic Books. ISBN 0-465-03741-0
Atom: An Odyssey from the Big Bang to Life on Earth...and Beyond. 2002. Black Bay. ISBN 0-316-18309-1
Hiding in the Mirror: The Mysterious Allure of Extra Dimensions, from Plato to String Theory and Beyond. 2005. Viking. ISBN 0-670-03395-2
Quantum Man: Richard Feynman's Life in Science. 2011. Norton and Co. ISBN 978-0-393-06471-1
A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing. 2012. Atria Books. ISBN 978-1-4516-2445-8
Contributor
100 Things to Do Before You Die (plus a few to do afterwards). 2004. Profile Books.
The Religion and Science Debate: Why Does It Continue? 2009. Yale Press.
Articles
THE ENERGY OF EMPTY SPACE THAT ISN'T ZERO. 2006. Edge.org
A dark future for cosmology. 2007. Physics World.
The End of Cosmology. 2008. Scientific American.
The return of a static universe and the end of cosmology. 2008. International journal of modern physics.
Late time behavior of false vacuum decay: Possible implications for cosmology and metastable inflating states. 2008. Physical Review Letters.
Krauss, Lawrence M. (June 2010). "Why I love neutrinos". Scientific American 302 (6): 19. doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0610-34.
MediaEdit
Documentary films
The Unbelievers (2013)
The Principle (2014)
TelevisionEdit
How the Universe Works (2010–)
FilmsEdit
London Fields (2015) (cameo)
Awards
Gravity Research Foundation First Prize Award in the 1984 Essay Competition
Presidential Investigator Award (1986)
American Association for the Advancement of Science's Award for the Public Understanding of Science and Technology (2000)
Julius Edgar Lilienfeld Prize (2001)
Andrew Gemant Award (2001)
American Institute of Physics Science Writing Award (2002)
Oersted Medal (2003)
American Physical Society Joseph P. Burton Forum Award (2005)
Center for Inquiry World Congress Science in the Public Interest Award (2009)
Helen Sawyer Hogg Prize of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada and the Astronomical Society of Canada (2009)
Physics World Book of the Year 2011 for Quantum Man
National Science Board 2012 Public Service Award and Medal (2012)
Premio Roma "Urbs Universalis", Rome (2013)
Elected as Laureate of the International Academy of Humanism (2013)
AFO (Academia Film Olomouc) Award for Outstanding Personal Contribution to the Popularization of Science, 49th Annual AFO Festival April 19, 2014. Olomouc, Czech Republic
Gravity Research Foundation First Prize Award in the 2014 Essay Competition
Humanist of the Year, 2015, American Humanist Association.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_M._Krauss
Hi, LoisL. Prof. Lawrence M. Krauss is a particle physicist. Whereas physicist and mathematician Prof. Frank J. Tipler is not only an expert in quantum field theory (i.e., Quantum Mechanics combined with special-relativistic particle physics) but also an expert in Global General Relativity and computer theory. Global General Relativity (which is General Relativity applied on the scale of the universe as a whole) is the field created by Profs. Roger Penrose and Stephen Hawking during the formulation of their Singularity Theorems, and it is the most elite and rarefied field of physics.
Further, Prof. Krauss's criticism of Prof. Tipler is already covered in Sec. 4: "Criticisms of the Omega Point Cosmology", pp. 26-28 of my aforecited article "The Physics of God and the Quantum Gravity Theory of Everything".
In his review (see Lawrence Krauss, "More dangerous than nonsense", New Scientist, Vol. 194, No. 2603 [May 12, 2007], p. 53) of Prof. Tipler's book The Physics of Christianity (New York: Doubleday, 2007), Prof. Krauss repeatedly commits the logical fallacy of bare assertion. Krauss gives no indication that he followed up on the endnotes in the book The Physics of Christianity and actually read Tipler's physics journal papers. All that Krauss is going off of in said review is Tipler's mostly nontechnical popular-audience book The Physics of Christianity without researching Tipler's technical papers in the physics journals. Krauss's review offers no actual lines of reasoning for Krauss's pronouncements. His readership is simply expected to imbibe what Krauss proclaims, even though it's clear that Krauss is merely critiquing a popular-audience book which does not attempt to present the rigorous technical details.
Ironically, Krauss has actually published a paper that greatly helped to strengthen Tipler's Omega Point cosmology. Some have suggested that the current acceleration of the universe's expansion due to the positive cosmological constant would appear to obviate the Omega Point. However, Profs. Krauss and Michael S. Turner point out that "there is no set of cosmological observations we can perform that will unambiguously allow us to determine what the ultimate destiny of the Universe will be." (See Lawrence M. Krauss and Michael S. Turner, "Geometry and Destiny", General Relativity and Gravitation, Vol. 31, No. 10 [Oct. 1999], pp. 1453-1459.)