The Cosmic Calendar is a way of imagining the extent of the history of the universe by summarizing its age over 13.8 billion years to a year alone. In this picture, the Big Bang occurred at the beginning of January 1st, and the present is summarized at the end of December 31st of midnight. On this scale, every second means 438 years, every hour means 1.58 million years, and every day means 37.8 million years.
This concept was popularized by Carl Sagan in his book, The Dragons of Eden, and his television series, Cosmos. In the sequel of 2014, Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey, host of Neil deGrasse Tyson uses the same Cosmic Calendar concept but its natural age should be revised to 13.8 billion years, improving the 15 billion years Sagan presented in 1980. Sagan also makes a comparison with surface area. He explained that if the Cosmic Calendar is stretched the size of a football field, then the whole of human history is just as wide as the palm of the hand
Then if the entire history of the universe is compressed into a year or in a calendar, then using this timescale, a month will be approximately equal to 1.1 billion years. The picture below explains more closely the event of an important event that occurs when we imagine the universe in one year:
Let's look at the calendar in a little more detail:
Date | Billion Years | Event |
---|---|---|
Jan 1st | 13.8 | Big Bang |
March 15st | 11.0 | The Milky Way Galaxy is formed |
August 31st | 4.57 | the sun is formed (Planet and satellite shortly thereafter) |
Sept 16st | 4.0 | The oldest known rock on earth |
Sept 21st | 3.8 | first life (prokaryotes) |
Oct 12st | 3 | photosynthesis |
Oct 29st | 2.4 | atmospheric oxygenation |
Nov 9st | 2 | complex cells (eukaryotes) |
Des 5st | 1 | The first multicell life |
Des 14st | 0.67 | simple animals |
Des 14st | 0.55 | ancestral insects (arthropods) |
Des 18st | 0.5 | fish and amphibious proto |
Des 20st | 0.45 | Land plants |
Des 21st | 0.4 | insects and seeds |
Des 22st | 0.36 | amphibians |
Des 23 st | 0.3 | Reptile |
Des 26st | 0.2 | mammals |
Des 27st | 0.15 | Bird |
Des 28st | 0.13 | Flower |
Des 30 at 06:24 | 0.065 | The lime-paleogen extinction event, a non-bird dinosaur extinct |
So, if the age of our universe compresses into 1 year, then we (modern humans or homo sapiens) only exist about 8-7 minutes ago and the history we know is only our history a few seconds ago from the moment .
Best Regard @t4r1
Reference :
https://www.turkaramamotoru.com/en/cosmic-calendar-110714.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_Calendar
http://everything.explained.today/Cosmic_Calendar/
https://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/view_episode_scripts.php?tv-show=cosmos-a-spacetime-odyssey-2014&episode=s01e01
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