poem “Observing Theories of the Universe”, a poem questioning the scientific view that the Universe is expanding versus the philosophical view that we create objects (like an expanding Universe) only by OBSERVING it (like stronger telescopes observing farther and farther away in the Universe), By Chicago Poet Janet Kuypers

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Observing
Theories of
the Universe
Janet Kuypers
10/31/14
Is the Universe expanding?
Scientists now say yes,
but some scientists say
that something doesn’t exist
until we observe it.
So with ever increasingly
powerful telescopes,
we see further
to the edges of the Universe.
So... Is it only expanding
because we gain the technology
to see farther and farther?
Are objects moving
farther and farther apart,
or are we just seeing —
and therefore creating
a larger and larger Universe?

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Like Janet Kuypers’ writing on any of these links below:

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers performing her poem Observing Theories of the Universe live 11/19/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery (Canon)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers performing her poem Observing Theories of the Universe live 11/19/14 at Chicago’s open mic the Café Gallery (Sony, Edge Detection filter)

See YouTube video (Cps) of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Observing Theories of the Universe from cc&d v254, “Idea”, live 4/29/15 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago

See YouTube video (Cfs200) of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Observing Theories of the Universe from cc&d v254, “Idea”, live 4/29/15 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading poems from cc&d v254, “Idea” (Including the first verse of Brian Looney’s “the Instance of Being”, Donald Gaither’s “Arthritic”, Kelley Jean White MD’s “Dutiful Daughter”, Janet Kuypers’s two haiku poem “JY asks”, and her poems “Observing Theories of the Universe” and “jabbed into an open nerve”) live 4/29/15 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (Cps)

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading poems from cc&d v254, “Idea” (Including the first verse of Brian Looney’s “the Instance of Being”, Donald Gaither’s “Arthritic”, Kelley Jean White MD’s “Dutiful Daughter”, Janet Kuypers’s two haiku poem “JY asks”, and her poems “Observing Theories of the Universe” and “jabbed into an open nerve”) live 4/29/15 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (Cfs200)

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