The history and future of everything on one timeline
Summary
KG condenses the development of the universe from the Big Bang into the distant future and makes unimaginable periods of time comparable. Scales change meaning, because the same span of time seems tiny or overwhelming depending on the frame of reference. A temporal perspective links scientific facts with the question of human responsibility.
Ideas
- Cosmic history becomes easier to understand when events sit on a shared scale.
- Most of the universe’s future consists of increasingly cold and dark epochs.
- Human history takes up hardly any visible space, even compared with the young Earth.
Recommendations
- Compare geological, biological and technical periods on the same logarithmic axis.
- Keep the well-documented past apart from model-dependent statements about the distant future.
References
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