9 Billion Names of God

After watching Let's Kill Hitler I think Moffet may be referencing the Arthur C Clarke story the Nine Billion Names of God.  It's about a group of monks whose order is created to find the name of God and when they find it the universe will end.  The way Moffet describes the silence really reminds me of the story.  Has anyone else read it?  Here's a link.

http://downlode.org/Etext/nine_billion_names_of_god.html