[Julie Steiner]

Universe Timeline: 13,800,000,000 years = 6.9 km (4.3 mi)

"Every person you've ever heard of existed in this last centimeter of space, and your life would be less than the width of a hair."

[John Riley]

This sounds like something right up my alley. I copied the link address and will watch it ASAP. Thanks.

[R. Nemo Hill]

A hair's breadth of I.

Nemo

[Roger Slater]

You mean my grandfather's stories about where he was when the Big Bang went off aren't true?

[James Brancheau]

Luxury. Before the Big Bang, my grandfather lived in a cardboard box, worked 25 hours a day, and then walked ten miles barefooted to school lugging ten pounds of ice, for no apparent reason. You try to tell that to anyone born after the Big Bang, and they won't believe you.

[Jim Moonan]

Originally Posted by Julie Steiner

Universe Timeline: 13,800,000,000 years = 6.9 km (4.3 mi)

"Every person you've ever heard of existed in this last centimeter of space, and your life would be less than the width of a hair."

Before you know it it’s over again.

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[Julie Steiner]

Certain days and hours can feel damn near eternal, though. In the "making of" video:

By the end of the day we were exhausted. Shattered. Then once we got home and reviewed the footage, that's when we realized, "It's not good enough!" We had to do it again.

We had always planned to go back to film the human timeline, the smaller model. So while we were going back to do that model, we decided, "Why not redo the universe model? Make it better. Make it better and easier, so we just put the lights on the ground." But that required us to hand solder every single one of the lights, so that it would be ready, when we got out there, to just be assembled and placed. That was months of soldering. Just sitting there in the evening, soldering little lights. And I'll be pretty happy if I don't ever have to solder a light, ever again, actually. It was worth it, but it was an absolutely brutal second shoot. [...] You know, seven kilometers, and every ten meters, you have to stop and bend over and put something on the ground. Cause you end up doing, like, 800 squats. You become completely exhausted. We got swarmed by bees...

[Christine P'legion]

That was an incredible video. Thanks for posting, Julie.

Dovetailing with this: I recently came across an interactive map where you can page through global history (on the millions of years scale) and even mark your city on the map and watch it be covered & uncovered by glaciers etc. Very neat stuff. https://dinosaurpictures.org/ancient-earth#0

[John Riley]

Thanks for this. It should be required viewing.

[Jim Moonan]

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To be honest, Julie (which I always try to be but hardly ever am completely), I didn’t find much in the way of new insight/perspective on the scale of time/existence to our own existence within that time.

Though I can’t, as I sit here, recall a specific example, I’ve seen many other representations that have blown my mind and given me a glimpse of (for lack of a better description) some divine-like godless thing at play that we spend our entire lives trying to fathom.

“Live like lilies of the field” gives me more food for thought.
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