Brent Antonson

What the Hell Are... the Physics of Immortality?

What the Hell Are the Physics of Immortality? Frank Tipler didn’t write a self-help book; he wrote a 500-page mathematical sermon. The Physics of Immortality (1994) takes Einstein’s relativity, quantum mechanics, and thermodynamics and aims them straight at theology. Tipler’s premise: if the universe ends in an...

The Cathedral Tongue: On the Possibility That English Was Cultivated for Revelation

The Cathedral Tongue: On the Possibility That English Was Cultivated for Revelation By Brent Antonson There are two ways to tell the story of English. One is linguistic; the other is architectural. The first insists that English happened. The second suggests it was built. 1. The Common Story — A Language...