The physics of immortality: modern cosmology, God, and the resurrection of the dead

I. Introduction

II. The Ultimate Limits of Space Travel

III. Progress Against the Eternal Return and the Heat Death

IV. Physics Near the Final State: The Classical Omega Point Theory

V. Determinism in Classical General Relativity and in Quantum Mechanics

VI. The Quantum Version of the Omega Point Theory

VII. How Free Will Can Arise from Quantum Cosmological Mechanisms

VIII. The Omega Point and the Physical Universe Necessarily Exist

IX. The Physics of Resurrection of the Dead to Eternal Life

X. What Happens After the Resurrection: Heaven, Hell, and Purgatory

XI. Comparison of the Heaven Predicted by Modern Physics With the Afterlife Hoped for by the Great World Religions

XII. The Omega Point Theory and Christianity

XIII. Conclusion: Theology as a Branch of Physics.