This is a complete rewrite of “Putting Sublte Energies on the Scientific Map.” However, after extensive feedback from editor Sean Esbjörn-Hargens and a chat with Nobelist Sheldon Glashow, I’ve decided to do another complete rewrite to make it shorter and much more concise—something along the lines of “The Observer-Centered Version of Scientific Cosmology Reveals Subtle Energies (and other surprises)!”