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AGE OF THE UNIVERSE 12 Billion Years condensed into ONE year

AGE OF THE UNIVERSE 12 Billion Years condensed into ONE year. Jan 1, 12am: Big Bang occurs. Early Feb: Our Milky Way Galaxies forms. Aug. 12 (approx.): The Earth and Sun are formed.

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AGE OF THE UNIVERSE 12 Billion Years condensed into ONE year

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  1. AGE OF THE UNIVERSE 12 Billion Years condensed into ONE year Jan 1, 12am: Big Bang occurs Early Feb: Our Milky Way Galaxies forms Aug. 12 (approx.): The Earth and Sun are formed Sept. 28 (approx.): First life arises on Earth Dec. 13: First animals appear on Earth Dec. 25: Dinosaurs walk the Earth Dec. 30, 12:33am: Dinosaurs wiped out  Dec. 31, 9:00pm: First Humanoids life appear Dec. 31, 11:58pm: Homo Sapiens first appear Dec. 31, 11:59pm + 30 secs: Agriculture developed Dec. 31, 11:59pm + 47 secs: Pyramids built Dec. 31, 11:59pm + 59 secs: Shakespeare writes plays The universe it so old that ALL of recorded human history occupies only the last 13 seconds or so of the year.

  2. SIZE OF THE UNIVERSE Diameter of the Earth: 12 756.2 kilometres Diameter of the Sun: 1 391 000 kilometres Distance between Earth and Sun: 149, 597, 870.7 kilometres Distance to Pluto: 6.437376 × 1012 meters One light year = 9.4605284 × 1015 meters Nearest Star (4 light years away) = 3.78421136 × 1016 meters Diameter of the galaxy (100,000 light years) = 9.4605284 × 1020 meters Completely meaningless to our students! (Even to me!)

  3. Scale Models http://solar-center.stanford.edu/compare/

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