How about "foresaw" or, perhaps better yet, "foreknew"?

Dr. Wheeler's exact phrase was that the Universe "someknow knew we were coming", and after looking at the online tangle of cosmological arguments revolving around that idea just now, I figure that for the sake of the poem, it would be best to not go too far beyond that.

So far as I know, the late Dr. Wheeler and I have no close genealogical relationship. I used to quip that he if anyone had the authority to speak on the Big Bang, inasmuch as he was probably an eyewitness to it. :) He lived to a ripe old age.

My reply was meant to be just that: a reply, not an addition. But if you think it fits the theme...

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