The Physics of Immortality: Modern Cosmology, God and the Resurrection of the Dead , Frank J. Tipler. c 1994.

partial contents:

• The Ultimate Limits of Space Travel
  • A Space Traveling Species Can Ultimately Engulf and Control the Entire Universe
• Progress Against the Eternal Return and The Heat Death
  • The Heat Death of Nineteenth-Century Physics
  • The Eternal Return in Philosophy, Religion and Politics
  • Physics and the Eternal Return
• Physics Near the Final State: The Classical Omega Point Theory
  • Computer Definitions of "Life," "Person," and "Soul"
  • What Does It Mean for Life to Exist Forever?
  • Experimental Tests of the Omega Point Theory
  • Theological Implications: Omnipresence, Omniscience, and Omnipotence
• Determinism in Classical General Relativity and in Quantum Mechanics
• The Quantum Version of the Omega Point Theory
  • Theological Implications: The Universal Wave Function as Holy Spirit
• How Free Will Can Arise From Quantum Cosmological Mechanisms
  • How Quantum Cosmological Indeterminism Might Be Used In Human Thought
• The Omega Point and the Physical Universe Necessarily Exist
  • The Ontological Argument in Computer Science
  • Simulations and Emulations
  • The Algorithm for Deciding Which Concepts Exist Physically
  • Proof of the Eternal Life Postulate
  • How the Omega Point Creates the Physical Universe
• The Physics of Resurrection of the Dead to Eternal Life
  • Social Immortality as a Consequence of the Omega Point Theory
  • The Physical Mechanism of Individual Resurrection
  • Proof That and Emulation of the Entire Visible Universe is Physically Possible
  • When Will the Dead Be Raised?
  • Why Will the Dead Be Raised?
• What Happens After the Resurrection: Heaven, Hell, and Purgatory
  • Reasons for Believing the Omega Point will Resurrect Us to Eternal Life
  • The Existence and Nature of Hell and Purgatory
  • The Problem of Evil: An Omega Point Theodicy
  • Social Immortality, Personal Immortality, and Eternal Progress Are Identical
• Comparison of the Heaven Predicted by Modern Physics With the Afterlife Hoped for by the Great World Religions
• The Omega Point Theory and Christianity
  • Miracles and the Babbage Mechanism
  • Why I Am not a Christian
  • The Omega Point Is (Probably) Not a Triune Deity
  • The Miracle of Transubstantiation
• Conclusion: Theology as a Branch of Physics
  • Theology and Religion are Branches of Science, Not Branches of Ethics
  • The Significance of the Omega Point Theory For the Average Person
• APPENDIX FOR SCIENTISTS

[ Is this just a disguised attempt to get grants? ]

see also The Physics of Christainity