Alternative version:
http://scaleofuniverse.com/
It also has Powers of Ten below it, a video from 1977 done in a similar style. Worth a watch.
A little bit cuter as it has animation.
I giggled at "minecraft world".
I'll be sure to spread the word about the two. These are amazing!
As well as space time is also expansive and just as bewildering.
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You might be 20 years old.
The common era began about 2000 years ago.
The last ice age was in full swing about 20,000 years ago.
There have been hundreds of ice ages, so now we're talking about tens of millions of years.
Trilobites existed about 400-500 mya
Stromatolites- colonies of photosynthetic bacteria- are fossils from about 3bn of years ago.
The earth is about 4.567 bn years old
The sun is even older, but it's not a first generation star, so stars existed for billions of years before it.
In fact the entire universe is at least 13.75bn years old.
...and the universe could continue to exist for Googols of years...
This is a great idea!
Has nobody made an interactive version like it yet?
If not, how about you contribute to its making?
Makes you wonder about how long we'll last. The human race, if it is able to spread out and move to other galaxies, could very well survive for a large portion of what's left of the universe's life.
Question "we". Are we the only sentient species in the galaxy? If not, we will either fight the other, or integrate.
Question "human race". If we integrate, then we aren't really the human race. Recent years have shown skyrocketing development in both genetic engineering and machinery - it might only take a few decades for us to see people who are partially machines, or people who have traits of other species on planet Earth(such as tardigrades, who are very resistant to both harsh temperatures and pressure - something that will obviously help us in the future, when space will become much colder and less dense). Will we still be the human race? Might as well go full cyborgs in a thousand years.
Question "the universe". Obviously enough, it'll take more than a hundred years for us to travel to the end of the current observable universe. Since this universe faces imminent(in seemingly infinite years) "death", we might have to travel from this one to another, be it parallel universes or time travel, whichever is available first. Conclusion is, if we actually get to live to that day, then we will certainly evacuate this freezer of a universe. I want to live to that day.
