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Out of 50 articles, physicist and mathematician Prof. Frank J.
Tipler's 2005 Reports on Progress in Physics paper--which presents the
Omega Point/Feynman-DeWitt-Weinberg quantum gravity/Standard Model
Theory of Everything (TOE)--was selected as one of 12 for the
"Highlights of 2005" accolade as

""
the very best articles published in Reports on Progress in Physics in
2005 [Vol. 68]. Articles were selected by the Editorial Board for
their outstanding reviews of the field. They all received the highest
praise from our international referees and a high number of downloads
from the journal Website.
""

Reports on Progress in Physics is the leading journal of the Institute
of Physics, Britain's main professional body for physicists. Further,
Reports on Progress in Physics has a higher impact factor (according
to Journal Citation Reports) than Physical Review Letters, which is
the most prestigious American physics journal (one, incidently, which
Prof. Tipler has been published in more than once). A journal's impact
factor is a measure of the importance the science community places in
that journal in the sense of actually citing its papers in their own
papers, with a higher number meaning more citations. Impact factors
published by Journal Citation Reports are the standard measure used to
compare a journal's influence.

Said paper by Prof. Tipler is the following:

* F. J. Tipler, "The structure of the world from pure numbers",
Reports on Progress in Physics, Vol. 68, No. 4 (Apr. 2005), pp.
897-964, doi:10.1088/0034-4885/68/4/R04, bibcode: 2005RPPh...68..897T, http://www.math.tulane.edu/~tipler/theoryofeverything.pdf . Also
released as Frank J. Tipler, "Feynman-Weinberg Quantum Gravity and the
Extended Standard Model as a Theory of Everything", arXiv:0704.3276,
Apr. 24, 2007, http://arxiv.org/abs/0704.3276 .

Prof. Tipler's Omega Point cosmology, which has been published and
extensively peer-reviewed in leading physics journals, 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 space) to diverge to infinity as the
universe collapses into a final singularity, termed the Omega Point.
Said Omega Point cosmology is also an intrinsic component of the Feynman-DeWitt-Weinberg quantum gravity/Standard Model Theory of
Everything (TOE) correctly describing and unifying all the forces in
physics, of which TOE is itself mathematically forced by the aforesaid
known physical laws.

Said known laws of physics have been confirmed by every experiment to
date. Thus, the only way to avoid the Omega Point TOE is to reject
empirical science. As Prof. Stephen Hawking wrote, "one cannot really
argue with a mathematical theorem." (From p. 67 of Stephen Hawking,
The Illustrated A Brief History of Time [New York, NY: Bantam Books,
1996; 1st ed., 1988].)

The Omega Point final singularity has all the unique properties
(quiddities) claimed for God in the traditional religions. For much
more on Prof. Tipler's Omega Point cosmology and the details on how it
uniquely conforms to, and precisely matches, the cosmology described
in the New Testament, see the following article, which also addresses
the societal implications of the Omega Point cosmology:

* James Redford, "The Physics of God and the Quantum Gravity Theory of Everything", Social Science Research Network (SSRN), Sept. 10, 2012
(orig. pub. Dec. 19, 2011), 186 pp., doi:10.2139/ssrn.1974708, https://archive.org/download/ThePhysicsOfGodAndTheQuantumGravityTheoryOfEverything/Redford-Physics-of-God.pdf
, https://jamesredford.github.io/Redford-Physics-of-God.pdf , https://sites.google.com/site/physicotheism/home/Redford-Physics-of-God.pdf
, http://theophysics.host56.com/Redford-Physics-of-God.pdf .

Additionally, in the below resource are different sections which
contain some helpful notes and commentary pertaining to multimedia
wherein Prof. Tipler explains the Omega Point cosmology and the Feynman-DeWitt-Weinberg quantum gravity/Standard Model TOE.

* James Redford, "Video of Profs. Frank Tipler and Lawrence Krauss's
Debate at Caltech: Can Physics Prove God and Christianity?",
alt.sci.astro, Message-ID: jghev8tcbv02b6vn3uiq8jmelp7jijluqk@4ax.com
, July 30, 2013, https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/alt.sci.astro/KQWt4KcpMVo , https://archive.is/a04w9 , http://webcitation.org/6IUTAMEyS , http://megalodon.jp/2013-1120-0627-11/archive.is/a04w9 , http://www.freezepage.com/1444354013XYWSDYOWKZ , https://wayback.archive.org/web/20131024025706/http://archive.is/a04w9
.

The following is the aforementioned Rep. Prog. Phys. "Highlights"
commendation:

* Richard Palmer (Publisher), "Highlights of 2005", Reports on
Progress in Physics website, ca. 2006; original URL: http://www.iop.org/EJ/journal/-page=extra.highlights/0034-4885 ;
archive URLs: http://www.webcitation.org/5o9VkK3eE ,
https://archive.is/UkzRD , https://wayback.archive.org/web/20131016104753/http://archive.is/pKD3y
, http://megalodon.jp/2015-0123-0153-04/archive.today/pKD3y , http://www.freezepage.com/1421959879JEYDWJFKTQ .

Below is the plain text of the above-cited Rep. Prog. Phys. webpage:

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Highlights of 2005


I am delighted to present a special collection of the very best
articles published in Reports on Progress in Physics in 2005. Articles
were selected by the Editorial Board for their outstanding reviews of
the field. They all received the highest praise from our international
referees and a high number of downloads from the journal Website.

These 12 articles are only a small sample of the wide range of content
in Reports on Progress in Physics which publishes across the whole of
physics, covering:

* astrophysics and cosmology
* atomic, molecular and optical physics
* condensed matter and materials
* earth sciences
* metrology
* soft condensed matter and biological physics
* nuclear physics
* particle physics

All of these articles are free to read until 31 December 2006.

Articles are designed to be accessible to physicists working in the
fields and form an ideal introduction to graduate students entering
the subject.

Further journal information for readers, subscribers or authors can be
found on the journal home page or you can e-mail the journal
publishing team at rop@iop.org.

Richard Palmer, Publisher


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77
The mass of the photon
Liang-Cheng Tu, Jun Luo and George T Gillies 68 No 1 (January 2005)
A nonzero photon rest mass would have far-reaching implications such
as variation of the speed of light, deviations in static
electromagnetic fields, longitudinal electromagnetic radiation, and
even gravitational deflection. This review assesses the experimental
methods that have set upper limits on the photon rest mass. As yet,
there has been no firm finding of a finite photon mass, but ever more
stringent upper bounds have been set.

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The Casimir force: background, experiments, and applications
Steven K Lamoreaux 68 No 1 (January 2005)
The Casimir force - the attraction of two uncharged material bodies
due to modification of the zero-point energy associated with the electromagnetic modes in the space between them – has recently been
measured with percent-level accuracy. This article reviews the theory
of the Casimir force and its corrections for real materials and finite temperature and discusses applications of the theory to a number of
practical problems.

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Physics of negative refractive index materials
S Anantha Ramakrishna 68 No 2 (February 2005)
It has been known for some time that a medium in which the relative
dielectric permittivity and relative magnetic permeability are both
negative will have a negative refractive index. There has recently
been an explosion of interest in such materials, which have now been
realized experimentally. Negative refractive index materials offer the possibility of a perfect lens that enables imaging with sub-wavelength
image resolution. This article reviews the fundamental concepts and
ideas of negative refractive index materials.

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523
Electron tunnelling in self-assembled monolayers
Wenyong Wang, Takhee Lee and Mark A Reed 68 No 3 (March 2005)
There has been much recent interest in both the basic transport
physics and potential technological applications of molecular
electronics, but some reports of molecular mechanisms in electronic
devices have turned out to be due to filamentary conduction. This
article reviews the mechanisms and characterization methods of
electronic transport through self-assembled monolayers (SAMs). Using
SAMs of alkanethiols in a nanometer scale device structure, tunnelling
is unambiguously demonstrated as the main intrinsic conduction
mechanism for defect-free large bandgap SAMs.

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The physics of snow crystals
Kenneth G Libbrecht 68 No 4 (April 2005)
This article reviews how snow crystals (snowflakes) grow from water
vapor as an illustration of the more general physics of crystal
growth. As crystals grow and develop, they create complex structures
on many length scales. Self-assembly of nano-scale devices has given
fresh impetus to understanding how solidification produces ordered,
and sometimes complex, structures from disordered precursors.

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The structure of the world from pure numbers
F J Tipler 68 No 4 (April 2004)
This review investigates the relationship between physics and
mathematics. It argues that requiring the joint mathematical
consistency of the Standard Model of particle physics and the DeWitt-Feynman-Weinberg theory of quantum gravity can resolve the
horizon, flatness, and isotropy problems of cosmology. It provides a
natural explanation for dark matter and dark energy. It proposes
several simple experiments to test the hypothesis.

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Single-photon sources
Brahim Lounis 68 No 5 (May 2005)
New concepts for single-photon sources, or “photon guns”, originate
from recent progress in the optical detection, characterization, and manipulation of single quantum objects. This article reviews basic
concepts in quantum optics, and discusses potential applications of single-photon states to optical processing of quantum information: cryptography, computing, and communication. We expect single photons
to soon go from demonstrations to applications, and to bring with them
the first practical uses of quantum information.

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1251
Reflection anisotropy spectroscopy
P Weightman, D S Martin, T Farrell and R J Cole 68 No 6 (June 2005)
Reflection anisotropy spectroscopy (RAS) is a non-destructive optical
probe of surfaces that is capable of operation within a wide range of environments, where it has a clear advantage over UHV-based probes for investigating surface phenomena. This article reviews the principles, instrumentation and theoretical considerations of RAS, recent progress
in its application to investigate surface phenomena and applications
in fields including electrochemistry, molecular assembly, liquid
crystal device fabrication and remote stress sensing.

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1343
Global warming
John Houghton 68 No 6 (June 2005)
Global warming is widely recognized as the most important
environmental issue of our day. This review describes the basic
science of global warming, its likely impacts both on human
communities and on natural ecosystems and the actions that can be
taken to mitigate or to adapt to it.

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Near fields in nanostructures
Christian Girard 68 No 8 (August 2005)
Near–field optical microscopes are now used to precisely image the electromagnetic field distributions inside nanostructures. This
article reviews the physics of this so-called nano–optics, presenting
the main theoretical techniques and typical calculations. It details
procedures for optimization of the energy transfer efficiency inside
addressed nanostructures for solving the problem of optical addressing
of both passive and active nanostructures in a subwavelength area.
Finally it revisits the concept of photonic local density of states in near–field optics

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2701
Physical limits of silicon transistors and circuits
Robert W Keyes 68 No 12 (December 2005)
The rapid advancement of transistor electronics has relied on
miniaturization and the search for limits is an important question.
This article aims to convey the essential physics of the topic for
scientists not closely aligned with the development of the technology.
It reviews the history and development of transistor technology and
describes the physics of semiconductor devices and transistors then
discusses the changes in transistor characteristics as sizes are
reduced.

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The mathematics and physics of knots
Louis H Kauffman 68 No 12 (December 2005)
This article gives an introduction to relationships between knot
theory and theoretical physics. It gives an exposition of the theory
of polynomial invariants of knots and links, the Witten functional
integral formulation of knot and link invariants, and the beginnings
of topological quantum field theory, and shows how the theory of knots
is related to a number of key issues in mathematical physics,
including loop quantum gravity and quantum information theory.

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James Redford, author of "Jesus Is an Anarchist", Social Science
Research Network (SSRN), Dec. 4, 2011 (orig. pub. Dec. 19, 2001), doi:10.2139/ssrn.1337761, http://ssrn.com/abstract=1337761 , http://theophysics.host56.com/anarchist-jesus.pdf , http://webcitation.org/66AIz2rJw

Theophysics: God Is the Ultimate Physicist (a website with information
on Prof. Frank J. Tipler's Omega Point Theorem and the quantum gravity
Theory of Everything [TOE]), http://theophysics.host56.com , http://theophysics.freevar.com

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