Did you ever wonder about the age of the universe, life, or even human existence itself?
We live in a great time period my friends, we can now uncover our past with an amazing amount of precision and even determine the happenings and time when we or any of our ancestors didn't even exist.
At the present moment it is believed that the Big Bang is what gave rise to the universe, about 15 billion years ago, and created everything that exists in it out of the explosion of a small and condensed amount of matter no bigger than an atom.
Just so you will get a concept of the large amount of time that has passed since that monumental event we call the Big Bang, it has been put in perspective by spreading the amount of time that has passed since it during one year, being the Big Bang on the first second of January 1st and the present time at 12:00 AM on New Year's Day of the next year.
The time that is indicated in hours, minutes and seconds represents that given moment on December 31st.
| The Big Bang | January 1st |
|---|---|
|
Origin of the Milky Way Galaxy |
May 1st |
|
Origin of the Solar System |
September 9th |
|
Formation of the Earth |
September 14th |
|
Origin of life on Earth |
September 25th |
|
Formation of the oldest know rocks |
October 2nd |
|
Time of the oldest known fossils (bacteria and green blue algae) |
October 9th |
|
Sexual differentiation (in microorganisms) |
November 1st |
|
Oldest fossilized photosynthetic plants |
November 12th |
|
The first cells with a nucleus appear |
November 15th |
|
Origin of the Proconsul and Ramapithecus |
13:30 |
|
Appearance of the first man |
22:30 |
|
Invention of agriculture |
23:59:20 |
|
First dynasties in Sumer, Ebla, and Egypt |
23:59:50 |
|
Roman Empire, birth of Christ |
23:59:56 |
|
The Cruzades, Mayan civilization |
23:59:58 |
|
Europe of the Renaissance |
23:59:59 |
|
Worldwide expansion, space travel |
Present time, first second of the new year |
It is almost certain that all of the life forms that live on Earth today originated in the way described, but why do most living things die?, what is the purpose of and how did such an event originate?, let's then explore if :
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1997 Eduardo Diaz Diaz
Last updated: February 16th, 1997
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