All of Time (in Two Minutes Flat)
Won Over By Reality
By Tim Bayer
BRIGHTON New York—(Weekly Hubris)—8/12/2013—Getting to this cosmic point, our shared present, the timeline goes back billions of years. 13.7 billion years ago was The Big Bang; 4.6 billion years ago was the creation of the Earth; evolution has been shaping multicellular life on this planet for the last billion years (including some 200,000 years of human evolution)—and all of it was required for you (and I) to arrive at precisely this point in space and time.
Now that we’ve made it, here’s a “home movie” of that 13.7-billion-year odyssey.
In case you missed it, part of today’s cosmic timeline included my column from last week (“It’s A Fake!”).
The video I share with you here, sent me by Dave Stookey, crunches the 13.7 billion years of the universe as we know it into . . . two minutes, with the last 200,000 years (where humans and our recorded history come into play) given the lion’s share of the screen time.
It’s an interesting video and exceptionally well done, but try not to blink, or you might miss several hundred years of the action.
(If you, yourselves, come across an entertaining link or video, I’d be interested in seeing it, and sharing it with my readers at Weekly Hubris. Please contact me at: Email: tim@safegdriver.com.)
Tim Bayer
Tim Bayer, Webmaster, and Assistant Editor of Weekly Hubris, was born and brought up in Webster, New York. He attended St. Bonaventure University, earning a BS in Computer Science, and then worked in the hi-tech world. In 2002 he turned his creative energies to product development and video production with the release of his first independently produced products. When the demand for web site design and freelance writing increased, he once again switched skill sets . . . to writing and web work. An avid or, to be more accurate, rabid, disc golfer, he may often be found chasing plastic while in pursuit of the perfect round on a disc golf course, or designing and developing disc golf products for Demogrid.com. He says he tries to find the humor hidden in everyday experiences, because, “life is too important to be taken seriously.” (Author photo by Tim Bayer. Author Head Shot Augment: René Laanen.)