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Cosmic Scales
The Universe in a Year
By Vincent Sapone
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Overview
What would a yearly Calendar look like if the entire history of the Universe was compressed into one year?
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Parameters
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year
daysyear sec
day
sec 000,536,311
400,86
1
3651
Actual Age of the Universe: 13.7 Billion Years Old
ond
yearsonds
years
secsec
4241502.434000,536,31
000,000,700,13
1 Second on our Calendar equals 434.4 years
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Your Birthday
1 Day = 37,534,246.58 years
Therefore, each of our Birthdays corresponds to a cosmic history of 37.5 million years.
Did anything special happen on your birthday? Considering the large time span something must
have happened, shouldn’t it?
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Final Questions
Before proceeding, think about this question to yourself: On what Calendar day will human history begin?
The next page has a hint
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Human Life Range
Taking 75 years as the average life expectancy yields a time of 0.17 seconds for the life of an average human being.
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Calendar Days
January through June
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Difficulties
During this early period it is difficult to nail down precise dates.
In fact, usually a range is given. For instance, the study (WMAP) which suggests the universe is 13.7 billion years old that we are using has a plus/minus caveat of 200 million years (13.7 +/- 0.2 bya)
General estimates will be provided.
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In The Beginning
The Big Bang : January 1st at 12:00 AM
On this day the universe as we know it came to be; violently expanding
outward in all directions.
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Origin of Milky Way (13.6 +/- .8 bya*)
January 3rd at about 4:00 PM marks the origin of our home galaxy.
*Numbers are taken from the 2004 study which used the UV-Visual Echelle Spectrograph of the VLT to study Beryllium content in two stars of a globular cluster.
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Eons of time.
Lots of stuff happens within the coming months but the next really significant event we can speak of is our solar system’s formation.
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Solar Nebula
Modern theory tells us the sun and other objects within our solar system formed from a solar nebula about 4.6 billion years ago
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Earth’s Origin
Earth formed 9.1 billion yeas into our universe’s history. Roughly 242.5 days into our year.
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Earth
August 31th at about 12:00 PM marks the origin of our solar system and Earth.
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The Cosmos
The entire Cosmos is Here. All the galaxies, stars, planets and large scale matter//mass structures of the universe are in existence.
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Almost Home
Two Thirds of the History of the Universe has unfolded and all the life we know of today has not appeared in our solar system yet.
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Formation of Life
Life is most commonly thought to have formed on Earth some time about 3.8 billion years ago. That is 9.9 billion years into the universe’s history.
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Formation of Life
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September 21th at just after 6 PM marks the formation of life on Earth.
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Goodbye Dinosaurs
The Dinosaurs went extinct about 65 million years ago. That is about 13,635,000,000 years into the universe’s existence.
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Dino-bite the dust..
They went extinct on Dec 30th sometime around 6 am.
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Human Civilization
Humans can go back millions of years depending on how you define us.
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Primates and Humans
Anatomically modern humans can be very roughly dated to the last 100,000 years.
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Percentage
Compared to the total history of the universe, the entire existence of man is only 100,000 out of 13,700,000,000 years.
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Of Men and Mice
That means the history of the universe is 137,000 times longer than the existence of all modern human civilization.
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100,000 Years Ago
That is 13,699,900,000 years into the universe’s existence.
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The Dawn of People
Humans arrived on December 31th at 11.56 pm.
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Perspective
Only 4 minutes are left of the entire history of the universe and modern humans have just arrived.
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Two Other Key Facts
For Perspective on “Important” Events in the History of the world look at the following two time periods:
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The United States of America
America has existed as its own nation for just over 230 years.
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Percentage Wise
The history of the universe is almost 60,000,000 times longer than the history of the United States.
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World History
On Cosmic Scales, our lives and the entire history of human civilization are nothing more than a fleeting dust particle in the sands of time.
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Humility
The sheer size, scope and age of the universe in which we live are very humbling.
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Guide to Key Dates
Jan. 1st 12.00 AM : Big Bang Jan. 3rd 4.00 PM: Galaxy Forms Aug. 31st 12.00 PM: Solar System Sep. 21st 6.00 PM: First Life Dec. 30th 6.00 AM: Dinosaurs Dec. 31th 11:56 PM: Humans