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Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Beginning of the Universe”, “Out Toward the Horizon”, “Neodymium magnets up your nose”, “Einsteinium from flying through mushroom clouds”, & “Kiribati” from her manuscript of the CyberWit 2024 Janet Kuypers poetry book “The Universe is in Your Hands” in front of the grain tower for Circle Brewing Company on 4/28/24 for “the 2024 Poetry Bomb” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). Also enjoy this as a Facebook live video stream that was filmed and streamed live from a Samsung S9 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr. #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetrybomb #janetkuyperstheuniverseisinyourhands

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her v346 6/24 31st anniversary cc&d issue/book “Timepiece” poems “Beginning of the Universe” & “End of the Universe” (which also appear as the first and last poems in the Summer 2024 release of the CyberWit.net Janet Kuypers poetry book “The Universe is in Your Hands”) to start her “Poetic License 6/2/24 global open mic” she hosted through Zoom & a Facebook event page (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). Also enjoy this as a Facebook live video stream (from a Samsung S9 camera w/ a Starburst filter; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperstheuniverseisinyourhands #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

Beginning of the Universe Janet Kuypers 9/29/23 I submit: in the first inextricably hot moment of the Universe, plasma, our fourth state of matter, may have been the first matter when matter couldn’t exist in our Universe. — It seems so insurmountable — understanding where we came from, how everything began. People can talk about the Big Bang Theory — and that’s exactly what it is, a theory, but these science-types keep finding more evidence to back up their crazy claims. So... whether you believe the Universe started as a speck of nothingness with enough energy to create and define everything — these theories still seem beyond our feeble imaginations. But after astrophysicists have speculated, try to imagine this: after that first great explosion (wait, if there are no sound waves or light, explosion is a way-too-human term) after that first monumental expansion of so much energy out of nothingness, expanding at insurmountable speeds and creating space itself... all of this energy, massless energy, too hot and energetic to create atoms, was too hot to even form protons or neutrons. That left the Universe these “quarks”1, subatomic particles that couldn’t even bind to create anything in that first second. So, what do you get when quarks are all too hot and bothered? That’s when they clicked with gluons2 and created “a perfect liquid in its first moments”3. Because when the Universe was too hot for energy to trade some energy for mass in the as-of-yet nonexistent Higgs field4, the gluons could at least stick the quarks together, making an irreplicable plasma. Now, it may be a mistake to call it a liquid, because plasma, like heated gas, would be impossible to feel in our hands. So, when they call it a liquid, it’s not like water in serene hot springs or almost-too-warm bubble baths because in this fraction-of-a-second Universe ten to the tenth power Kelvin is beyond         too        warm. Because really, with such scalding temperatures and no matter to get in the way, once these gluons group these quarks all they can do is flow in the smoothest slide. ...We often call plasma the fourth state of matter, but in this fractionally sized and timed Universe, this quark and gluon plasma may literally be the first state of matter our Universe has ever known. — We look up at the night sky, marvel at stars sparking though our atmosphere and we never think about the forces that hold things together in this ever-expanding Universe — strong and weak nuclear forces, electromagnetism and gravity (the weakest of the four), but in the very beginning... all of these forces binding us together had to start after this Universe started. And if these science-types have their calculations right, these fundamental forces started fractionally after5 quarks, gluons, and muons were created, which only later clumped into protons, neutrons, atoms — where matter could even be made. So... although we can’t imagine it, since we could never touch or feel plasma, stop for a moment and imagine the ethereal feel of a fog blanketing mountain tops... or, better yet, sense the steam of boiling water, maybe from piping hot coffee, with all that energy, waiting to be released.   1 subatomic particles that combine to make protons and neutrons 2 messenger particles of the strong nuclear force that binds quarks 3 https://www.nature.com/articles/news050418-5 4 creation of the Higgs field: 10-12 s; https://www.iop.org/higgs-boson-and-history-univers&e035;#gref 5 after the universe started: creation of quarks, gluons, muons: 10-35 s; creation of the fundamental forces: 10-12 s;     both detailed in illustrations in “The Early Universe” at https://phys.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/University_Physics/Book%3     A_University_Physics_(OpenStax)/University_Physics_III_-_Optics_and_Modern_Physics_(OpenStax)/11%3     A_Particle_Physics_and_Cosmology/11.08%3A_Evolution_of_the_Early_Universe

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