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Praise. Praise. Praise . . . and BEWILDERMENT!!!

Job’s Response in light of Quantum Field Theory

I just get giddy with excitement reading passages like this … Praise. Praise. Praise.

“God doesn’t even mention quantum field theory to Job …

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Job might have dropped his complaining even sooner if he saw the quantum fluctuations occurring in space-time. It’s so bizarre.

PRAISE & BEWILDERMENT

PRAISE & BEWILDERMENT

PRAISE & BEWILDERMENT

“Where were you when I … ”

“Who marked off its dimensions … ”

“Have you comprehended the vast expanses …”

“Do you know the laws of the heavens? …”

  • God to Job ( Job 38)

… just 1universe in the Universe?

… “I highly doubt it.”

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BIG BANG

PRE-BANG?

POST-BANG?

MULTI-BANG?

OMNI-BANG?

… “To think that our big bang was the only bang would seem at this point to me to be a bit narrow-minded, anthropocentric, andin contradiction to the continual iconoclastic evolution in our cosmological understanding.”

  • Jed Anderson, EnviroAI

Just how big is creation? … how may “bangs” ?

The iconoclastic evolution in our cosmological understanding …

  • Our Earth is round not flat (this notion of a round earth is contrary to intuition and most of our everyday experience) - 500 B.C. (Pythagorus) [Eratosthenes calculated circumference in 240 B.C. and of course Columbus didn’t sail off the edge of the earth when he tried it almost 2000 years later]
  • Our Earth isn’t the center of the universe[earth rotates around the sun] - 240 B.C. (Aristarchus) [Calculations by Copernicus in 1532 and astronomical observations by Galileo in 1632]
  • Our sun isn’t the center of the universe[stars are other suns] - 450 B.C. (Anaxagoras) [Bruno in 1584 and then Angelo Secchi proved through spectroscopy in 1860]
  • Our galaxy isn’t the center of the universe - 964 (Azophi) [Later Kant, Messier, Shapley, and finally Edwin Hubble … January 1, 1925”The day we discovered the universe”]
  • Our universe isn’t the center of the Universe [or Multiverse]- _____?

How many universes?Interview with Steven Weinberg, recently deceased University of Texas Professor and Nobel Prize Winner in Physics.

How many universes? Interview with Max Tegmark, MIT Professor of Physics.

---“The Universe is full of possibility.The more expansive the range of probability, the more possible of course that everything becomes. Simple math. Bigger range, now you’ve got a chance since you’re in range. Possibility then just becomes the inevitable outcome of probability played out. Once you are in the range … it’s gonna happen. AND THIS WE KEEP LEARNING IS SURE ONE EVER-INCREASING ‘GINORMOUS’ RANGE OF POSSIBILITY. It’s incredible!!! Jaw-dropping. Bewildering. Praiseworthy. Joy-evoking.”

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BibTeX
@misc{anderson_2022_praise_praise_praise_and_bewilderment,
  author = {Jed Anderson},
  title  = {Praise. Praise. Praise . . . and BEWILDERMENT!!!},
  year   = {2022},
  url    = {https://jedanderson.org/posts/praise-praise-praise-and-bewilderment},
  note   = {Accessed: 2026-05-13}
}
APA
Anderson, J. (2022). Praise. Praise. Praise . . . and BEWILDERMENT!!!. Retrieved from https://jedanderson.org/posts/praise-praise-praise-and-bewilderment
MLA
Anderson, Jed. "Praise. Praise. Praise . . . and BEWILDERMENT!!!." Jed Anderson, June 3, 2022, https://jedanderson.org/posts/praise-praise-praise-and-bewilderment.

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