The long view. A Hubble image of deep space by way of wikipedia.
El Cabrero is a big fan of lecture series produced by The Teaching Company (and the libraries that buy them). At the moment, I'm in the midst of one about "Big History: The Big Bang, Life on Earth, and the Rise of Humanity" by Dr. David Christian.
I enjoy light subjects...
Anyhow, he had some interesting ideas about getting a handle on the age of the universe (over 13 billion according to recent estimates). To make it easier to picture, he shrinks the scale a billion times.
If the universe was 13 years old,
*earth would have been formed five years ago;
*the first multi-celled organisms showed up seven months ago;
*after a successful run of several weeks, dinosaurs would have gotten wiped out three weeks ago;
*the first hominids appeared 53 minutes ago;
*agriculture started five minutes ago;
*the first agrarian civilizations got going three minutes ago; and
*industrial societies would have been around for six seconds.
Our part of the show is just getting started....or maybe it's just a short feature.
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2 comments:
I belive it was a series of huge exposions that formed the universe instead of one huge one.
This is called the Big Gangbang theory ;-)
That would explain a lot.
Do you have any similar theories about clusters in the field of astronomy?
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