omega point

plural omega points

1. geometryA well-defined point outside the hyperbolic plane.

   To begin, let AB be a given segment, and l and m be sensed parallel lines with shared omega point Ω.

   2018, Maureen T. Carroll, Elyn Rykken, Geometry: The Line and the Circle, page 319

2. Alternative letter-case form of Omega Point (“maximal level of complexity in the universe, associated with the idea of God”).

plural Omega Points · alternative Omega point · alternative omega point

1. A maximal level of complexity in the universe, often equated with the Christian God, which some philosophers believe is inevitable.

   [Philip] Goff likens this scenario to the visions of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, the French Jesuit priest who, as we've seen, prophesied the coming Omega Point and inspired aspects of transhumanism.

   2021, Meghan O'Gieblyn, chapter 9, in God, Human, Animal, Machine […] , →ISBN

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   We may hope that the intelligence at the omega point will consist of our descendants. That is to say, of our intellectual descendants, since our present physical forms could not survive near the omega point.

   1998 [1997], David Deutsch, The Fabric of Reality, New York: Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 352

plural Omega points

1. Alternative letter-case form of Omega Point.