Got a spam (three or four times now) from a Christian kook. In the middle of the prophecies about nuclear war and the biochip of the beast is a paragraph about Creation, including:
THE LATEST RESEARCH IN MOLECULAR PHYSICS HAS COME TO THE CONCLUSION THAT 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (APPROXIMATLY 10 TO THE 34th POWER) JEWLS (POWER UNIT) NEEDS TO BE INPUTED INTO THE WHOLE UNVERSE EVERY SECOND TO KEEP IT FROM FALLING COMPLETELY APART. THEY DON’T KNOW WHERE THIS ENERGY COME S FROM BUT (— THIS IS ENOUGH ENERGY TO LIGHT NEW YORK CITY FOR 200 YEARS –) THIS IS PART OF THE WILL OF GOD- PLAIN AND SIMPLE-.
Whee! Where do they find this stuff? Of what is it a distortion?
If my figures are right 10^33 watts is about 3 million suns; negligible in the Galaxy, beneath measure in the Universe. But 10^33 joules is indeed enough to power New York City for two hundred years – assuming 8 million people each using twenty terawatts.