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The Cosmic Calendar

We, as humans, can have difficulty understanding amounts that exceed our narrow perspective. To aid us in understanding the 14 billion years that the universe has existed and the minuscule amount of time humans have inhabited it, scientists have put it in our terms of one year. Each month of the “cosmic calendar” represents roughly 1 … Continue reading “The Cosmic Calendar” Continue reading

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Cosmic Calendar: The Month of January

After studying the Cosmic Calendar, very little appears to have happened in “the first month of the universe.” Aside from the Big Bang in January and the formation of the Milky Way in March, most of the action begins in September, reaching a climax in December. Of course, the notion that little happened in the […] Continue reading

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The Cosmic Calendar

The Cosmic Calendar is truly an eye-opening visualization of the entire age of our universe. It shrinks the entire 13.8 billion years that the universe has been around into one calendar year where each second equates to a few hundred years. The birth of the human species and just how little we have been around compared […] Continue reading

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Human History Measured in Minutes

Hey Listeners! Today I will be discussing the Cosmic Calendar. What is the Cosmic Calendar? This a demonstrative tool by which the age of the universe is elucidated. The universe is believed to be approximately 13.8 billion years old, however in this representation it is proportionally condensed to the length of a year. This means that […] Continue reading

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Blog #1: The Cosmic Calendar

After a particularly tough day or week, people can often be heard grumbling that “it has been such a long day/week.” I definitely fall victim to this habit and have always been fascinated by the fact that a specific amount of time can seem to pass by at different rates depending on the situation. How […] Continue reading

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The Cosmic Calendar

The universe is a staggering 14 billion years old – most of us can’t comprehend that length of time, so to put things into perspective, one can fit the entire history of the universe into one calendar year. With this “cosmic calendar,” the universe’s lifetime can be more easily understood by you and me. The… Continue reading The Cosmic Calendar Continue reading

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The Cosmic Calendar

Although I doubt it will ever be entirely possible to comprehend the enormity of an amount of time as great as 13.7 billion years, I’ve found the Cosmic Calendar to be […] Continue reading

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The Cosmic Calendar

This image was taken from the personal blog of Michael Arney.  It is an image of the explanation that the famous astronomer Carl Sagan gave to enable the public to grasp “the immensity of time” and the Cosmic Calendar.  In … Continue reading Continue reading

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#B1 Cosmic Calendar

This video put the extensive history of the universe into perspective. Our history as humans that we take years of education to understand are so minuscule compared to the creation of the universe. In our society, we are so focused … Continue reading Continue reading

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Perspective of the Cosmic Calendar

What do you think of when someone mentions the word old? Turning 21, grandparents, black and white photos? Maybe even cave men or the dinosaurs? However, all these things are insanely young on the cosmic scale! If you were to take the time from the creation of the universe until present day and squeeze it all into […] Continue reading

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