--- title: 'Praise. Praise. Praise . . . and BEWILDERMENT!!!' slug: 'praise-praise-praise-and-bewilderment' date: 2022-06-03 type: 'post' status: 'published' tags: ['faith', 'constant-contact-archive'] abstract: '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 . .' license: 'CC-BY-4.0' author: 'Jed Anderson' co_authors: [] canonical_url: 'https://jedanderson.org/posts/praise-praise-praise-and-bewilderment' original_source: 'Constant Contact campaign' supporting_files: [] --- Job's Response in light of Quantum Field Theory ‌ I just get giddy with excitement reading passages like this . . . Praise. Praise. Praise. ![](/images/posts/praise-praise-praise-and-bewilderment/img-01.jpg) ‌ "God doesn't even mention quantum field theory to Job . . . - Jed Anderson ![](/images/posts/praise-praise-praise-and-bewilderment/img-02.gif) ![](/images/posts/praise-praise-praise-and-bewilderment/img-03.gif) Job might have dropped his complaining even sooner if he saw the quantum fluctuations occurring in space-time. It's so bizarre. ![](/images/posts/praise-praise-praise-and-bewilderment/img-04.gif) PRAISE & BEWILDERMENT ![](/images/posts/praise-praise-praise-and-bewilderment/img-05.gif) PRAISE & BEWILDERMENT ![](/images/posts/praise-praise-praise-and-bewilderment/img-06.gif) 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) ![](/images/posts/praise-praise-praise-and-bewilderment/img-07.jpg) ![](/images/posts/praise-praise-praise-and-bewilderment/img-08.gif) . . . just 1universe in the Universe? . . . "I highly doubt it." - Jed Anderson ![](/images/posts/praise-praise-praise-and-bewilderment/img-09.gif) ![](/images/posts/praise-praise-praise-and-bewilderment/img-10.jpg) 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 ![](/images/posts/praise-praise-praise-and-bewilderment/img-11.gif) ![](/images/posts/praise-praise-praise-and-bewilderment/img-12.png) ![](/images/posts/praise-praise-praise-and-bewilderment/img-13.jpg) ![](/images/posts/praise-praise-praise-and-bewilderment/img-14.gif) Just how big is creation? . . . how may "bangs" ? ![](/images/posts/praise-praise-praise-and-bewilderment/img-15.gif) 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]- \_\_\_\_\_? ![](/images/posts/praise-praise-praise-and-bewilderment/img-16.gif) ![](/images/posts/praise-praise-praise-and-bewilderment/img-17.jpg) ![](/images/posts/praise-praise-praise-and-bewilderment/img-18.jpg) ![](/images/posts/praise-praise-praise-and-bewilderment/img-19.jpg) ![](/images/posts/praise-praise-praise-and-bewilderment/img-20.jpg) ![](/images/posts/praise-praise-praise-and-bewilderment/img-21.jpg) ![](/images/posts/praise-praise-praise-and-bewilderment/img-22.jpg) ![](/images/posts/praise-praise-praise-and-bewilderment/img-23.png) ‌ ![](/images/posts/praise-praise-praise-and-bewilderment/img-24.gif) ![](/images/posts/praise-praise-praise-and-bewilderment/img-25.gif) [![](/images/posts/praise-praise-praise-and-bewilderment/img-26.png)](https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001N4O4Gy8PWqKIru7KK64OMxkRP-5XACogqzVBqxb_01SI9DiJeqZha69PEx_h3uk0H8HCRmGNoaLrhMBQQrEG48-S6Tkx_o3zU5QWK--GyGhMpPkg-kLzZpHqfMSRAmNLAr94MQRIvtusfrEdMnn4XVUZ3CMnQQLUw2tHZicH0IdDRGFLtj_qQDsQBPExkKuKm1fKNytHP9CBKjFpMQRPlQ==&c=&ch=) ![](/images/posts/praise-praise-praise-and-bewilderment/img-27.gif) ![](/images/posts/praise-praise-praise-and-bewilderment/img-28.gif) How many universes?[Interview](https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001N4O4Gy8PWqKIru7KK64OMxkRP-5XACogqzVBqxb_01SI9DiJeqZha3QkhgxIft5qXgW1MfvvWeE164HKt-w8BfetMEGEEf7ky4GEnuqNDyynpn9W30QCVBWanwws_Cur668IKL4cxVMJ7SfxKSs-4w==&c=&ch=) with Steven Weinberg, recently deceased University of Texas Professor and Nobel Prize Winner in Physics. ![](/images/posts/praise-praise-praise-and-bewilderment/img-29.gif) ![](/images/posts/praise-praise-praise-and-bewilderment/img-30.gif) [![](/images/posts/praise-praise-praise-and-bewilderment/img-31.png)](https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001N4O4Gy8PWqKIru7KK64OMxkRP-5XACogqzVBqxb_01SI9DiJeqZha69PEx_h3uk0H8HCRmGNoaLrhMBQQrEG48-S6Tkx_o3zU5QWK--GyGhMpPkg-kLzZpHqfMSRAmNLAr94MQRIvtusfrEdMnn4XVUZ3CMnQQLUw2tHZicH0IdDRGFLtj_qQDsQBPExkKuKm1fKNytHP9CBKjFpMQRPlQ==&c=&ch=) ![](/images/posts/praise-praise-praise-and-bewilderment/img-32.gif) ![](/images/posts/praise-praise-praise-and-bewilderment/img-33.gif) How many universes? [Interview](https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001N4O4Gy8PWqKIru7KK64OMxkRP-5XACogqzVBqxb_01SI9DiJeqZha69PEx_h3uk0H8HCRmGNoaLrhMBQQrEG48-S6Tkx_o3zU5QWK--GyGhMpPkg-kLzZpHqfMSRAmNLAr94MQRIvtusfrEdMnn4XVUZ3CMnQQLUw2tHZicH0IdDRGFLtj_qQDsQBPExkKuKm1fKNytHP9CBKjFpMQRPlQ==&c=&ch=) with Max Tegmark, MIT Professor of Physics. ![](/images/posts/praise-praise-praise-and-bewilderment/img-34.gif) ![](/images/posts/praise-praise-praise-and-bewilderment/img-35.gif) ![](/images/posts/praise-praise-praise-and-bewilderment/img-36.png) ---"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." - Jed Anderson ![](/images/posts/praise-praise-praise-and-bewilderment/img-37.png) ![](/images/posts/praise-praise-praise-and-bewilderment/img-38.gif)