Bio
Philip G. Calabrese is an awarding-winning mathematician with a Ph.D. from the Illinois Institute of Technology. His has worked as a university professor, mathematical inventor, aerospace analyst & computer programmer, prime contractor for the Department of Defense, and been a senior scientist for the US Navy. Over the years, Phil has given numerous presentations and published many scientific and cosmological papers dedicated to readers of The Urantia Book.
Contributions
Phil is probably best known for his paper and presentations on The Coming Scientific Validation of The Urantia Book. At the Fellowship’s IC05 conference, Phil gave a presentation on his Null Hypothesis approach to how new discoveries and scientific advances increasingly support UB history. His efforts in this area helped inspire the launch of the UBtheNEWS project.
In 2009, the Fellowship Herald published a paper by Phil: Solar System Discoveries that Corroborate The Urantia Book.
At the Urantia Foundation’s 2016 Science Symposium I, Phil presented: The Implication of Freewill in the Cosmos. See related paper.
Phil invented a successful 4-operation algebra of Boolean fractions. These are like numerical fractions, but with propositions or events rather than whole numbers. The ordered pairs of propositions faithfully represent and support algebraic manipulations of uncertain conditional information, combining deductive logic and conditional probability in a common context, something impossible within the standard logic of Boolean algebra. He has developed the theory of these conditional events and applied them to diverse areas of information, most recently to provide a more natural expression of the logic of quantum measurements. At Urantia Foundation’s Science Symposium II in 2019, he presented Quantum Entanglement: Spooky Action at a Distance. See related paper.