I did this with a tennis court once. Imagine the court represented all time. Picture standing on the right corner. The Big Bang starting in the far left corner, and time running like a calendar across the tennis court from left to right until it stops at the present moment get under your feet. At that scale, the last 30,000 years would be the size of half a grain of rice.
Also, just because I believe the length of history is wrong according to evolutionists, does not mean I disagree with the rest of science. Evolution is a small piece that if ignored, makes no fundamental difference. In fact when you look deeper into evolution it makes less and less sense to say everything happened by an improbable chance rather an all powerful being created and designed it.
As mind-blowing as the scale of 13.8 billion years is, what’s even more crazy for me to think about is that the current age of the universe, is just a blink of an eye compared to its future. It's not even the blink of an eye-there isn't an adequate analogy or way of conceiving the staggering difference between the current age of the universe and how old it will one day be. We are in an inconceivably YOUNG universe. According to our understanding, the universe will continue expanding and accelerating, eventually leading to a "Big Freeze”, aka heat death. In this scenario, the universe could reach an age of roughly 10^100 years before experiencing heat death, making its current age virtually 0. In fact, all the time that has elapsed thus far in our universe… that will occur approximately 10^90 more times before the universe meets its end (in the heat death scenario)
Let's try to make the scale of all time relatable instead: The universe existed about 13,800 times longer than all human existence- by this measure, ours is a young universe. Our time here seems quite significant. Life itself began about 3,600 times the length of human existence. If I were 85 years old now, I could meet Da Vinci by going back a mere 6 of my lifespans. I can visit the start of human civilization in Mesopotamia in 70 lifespans. I can visit the age of the dinosaurs in a long but relatable 750,000 lifespans. Does this change the perspective?
Time is the biggest puzzle for me. I just can’t comprehend it. Edit: maybe time was invented for us to work for clever people and learn & make something of ourselves😃
It’s funny when people poke fun at religion for supposedly claiming that the universe is only 6000 years old. What they don’t appreciate is that we believe that God has been around far longer than the history of the universe, and will around far longer than when it’s gone. Try putting that on a scaled timeline Mr scientist.
I just finished reading "Tuesdays with Morrie" today, at work, came home, relaxed and watched a little RU-vid...then I watched this....."The width of a human hair...."
love the story telling! I feel so bad for religious people that can't face reality and the science we have done to prove its more than a few thousand years old......... 😵💫
The graphics at the beginning show the total timeline distances, but if you want all the measurements, there's a downloadable PDF in the video description.
This video is impressive, but there is no way that all those things just perfectly happened and lead up to present day. God is the only explanation for all these marvelous changes. It can’t all just happen coincidentally.
@@SpottedSharks I found this quote by Alvin Plantinga while researching the Anthropic principle and I guess this kind of summarizes my argument here.👇 “One reaction to these apparent enormous coincidences is to see them as substantiating the theistic claim that the universe has been created by a personal God and as offering the material for a properly restrained theistic argument - hence the fine-tuning argument. It's as if there are a large number of dials that have to be tuned to within extremely narrow limits for life to be possible in our universe. It is extremely unlikely that this should happen by chance, but much more likely that this should happen if there is such a person as God.”
Space time is relative as is the human perception of time. Yes we think an hour is long and in the raw context of the universe that is nothing, however a dedicated human can create amazing things in that short time. We as humans went from the first powered flight to landing on the moon and creating gen 5 fighter jets in less than 100 years. We now have the internet and super computers in our pockets. We are the metronome of time.
