Abstract
There is another objection to the assertions made by Frank Tipler in The Physics of Immortality: Modern Cosmology and the Resurrection of the Dead besides that made by M W Thring (June p23). If we rely on mathematical formalism of any kind to determine the nature of the universe, then our ability to “know it” must depend on the self-consistency of the mathematical structure. If the universe could be completely described by a universal quantum theory with a formalism that is axiomatic then, according to Kurt Gödel, it must contain statements that are undecidable. Intuitively, one suspects that some of these statements would correspond to questions about the “meaning of life”. Such statements would lie outside the universal “proof” and therefore be metaphysical.
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