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Red Matter Janet Kuypers 1/16/15 Try to understand everything in the Universe. I dare you. Even the science geeks at every high—tech lab in the world can’t explain how matter can function the way it does in our Universe. They only way they can explain it all is by making up some invisible “stuff” and only guess it’s properties be seeing how it affects everything around it. Sounds crazy, no? Well, you might be right but at some point in the game, when you’ve done all the experiments you can think of, it’s then time to start coming up with theories. Like the Big Bang Theory. When you look for more evidence to support your theory (which they’ve done), the Big Bang Theory starts to seem less and less like a theory. Well, it has to be a theory, no one was there when the Universe started, but as those science geeks collect more and more evidence, we start thinking of the Big Bang Theory as probably the closest thing to the truth. Well, those scientists have been at it again, they plot stars, galaxies and they see everything speeding away. and they think, wait a minute, even though gravity is weak, our Universe shouldn’t be flying apart. It makes no sense. So the only thing they can come up with as a theory, to explain it, is that there’s some invisible matter driving everything apart. And one scientist happened to say the words “Dark Matter” and, although the phrase makes no sense, it stuck. A bunch of things we can’t explain, lets lump it into this elusive Dark Matter, and Dark Energy. ### But what if this elusive darkness yielded something so red— fiery—hot that instead of making our Universe fall apart, it crammed all that energy into a black hole? Let’s come up with a term, let’s call this hot stuff “Red Matter”; ignite the stuff and watch it turn whatever it touches into a black hole? I mean, one drop of the stuff could be enough to collapse a star, or consume planets. You know, this might be the cool part of being a scientist, when you’ve learned all you can with what technology you have you come up with theories and look for evidence to support the fantastic. Who knows, maybe this stuff was created by a species we’ve never found, like, an intelligent Vulcan race who relied on logic to accomplish so much. Maybe it was created with a rare isotope of Lithium — let’s call it “Decalithium” — and this Red Matter was first used to collapse a star that was about to go supernova, into a quantum singularity, or a black hole. You see, anything is possible when it comes to theories, so, be like that Vulcan mind you imagine — logically look for solutions and you’ll be surprised at what you can discover.

 

See YouTube video of the Janet Kuypers reading her poem Red Matter in her 3/20/15 show “Resistance is Futile” at Ch Fi 2015 in Chicago (Canon fs200)

See YouTube video of the Janet Kuypers reading her poem Red Matter in her 3/20/15 show “Resistance is Futile” at Ch Fi 2015 in Chicago (Canon Power Shot)

See YouTube video of the Janet Kuypers 3/20/15 show “Resistance is Futile” at Ch Fi 2015 in Chicago (Canon fs200), of poems relating to Star Trek including this poem

See YouTube video of the Janet Kuypers 3/20/15 show “Resistance is Futile” at Ch Fi 2015 in Chicago (Canon Power Shot), of poems relating to Star Trek including this poem

Download this poem in the free chapbook “Resistance is Futile”, of poems read on 3/21/15 at the Ch Fi 2015 convention in Chicago, with this poem.

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