Dark Energy and the Book of Job ?

"But none of us were consulted when the universe was created.”

I found that to be a rather humorous jab at the arrogance of certain
scientists, perhaps even a humble self-deprecation.

Also, it reminded me of a passage near the end of the Old Testament
Book of Job, wherein God asks the question of those who presume to
stand in judgment of how God does, or should be doing, things. God
asks, (approx quote) where were you when I laid the foundations of the
universe?

Indeed.



On Jul 22, 5:50 pm, "Kyle T. Jones" <KBf....RemoveThis@realdomain.net> wrote:
> Lute wrote:
> >http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/03/science/03dark.html?_r=1&pagewanted....
>
> > Dr. Witten said he was just doing his duty to explain what dark energy
> > meant to physics.
> > “As for how I feel personally, I am not sure what to say,” he said in
> > an e-mail message. “I wasn’t terribly enthusiastic the first, or even
> > second, time I heard the proposal of a multiverse. But none of us were
> > consulted when the universe was created.”
>
> Hmmm... read this:
>
> "No fundamental principles can explain why Einstein’s constant, or any
> physical parameter, could be so small without being zero, Dr. Witten
> said. Zero can be a fundamental number, he said, but not a 1 with 59
> zeroes between it and the decimal point."
>
> Zero is necessary in some interpretations, but I don't believe it has
> anything to do with zero having some "fundamental number qualia" that
> really, really small numbers are missing.
>
> Interesting read, though!
>
> Cheers.
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