To Scale: TIME 

5 years later and casually drop another masterpiece

You standing at the edge of the timeline to represent the present was just master storytelling.

"It's a tiny moment, but...what a moment." words to live by

My god, what a staggeringly well made, moving 10 minute work of art.

This channel is a testament of quality over quantity, and doing projects for the pure awe of an audience with educational content. You guys are truly an inspiration.❤

What I think is even crazier than the time aspect of how short our life is, is the fact that we are conscious enough to be aware of how little time we have. We are the only species known to not only have the will to survive, but the will to want to understand the nature of our being as well.

why does this only have 334k views?? this deserves millions of views! this made me feel such deep things that I can't even put into words. oh man. thank you for making this another masterpiece!

I come back to this video a lot when I'm feeling lost or overwhelmed by everything happening around me. Thank you for making this, it's impacted me in ways you can't ever truly understand

I have never commented on anything, ever. And trust me when I say I did find some pretty amazing things here on RU-vid. But this... This pushes me to step forward into the light, for the sole purpose of saying: "I feel an immense sense of pride, awe, and humility, towards the fact that I am alive to witness such passion and ingenuity" Thank you so much for this, you just reignited a deep sense of purpose within me. I love you.

Just look those vlogers getting 10 million subs and here this guy creating masterpieces at just 139k subs. YOU deserve way the more --est.*

"We are alive for the briefest moment, but that time is a gift from the universe." How beautifully put. Carl would be proud.

Every human on the planet earth should watch this masterpiece for the peace and to get a real sense of who you really are in these vast cosmos. Kudos for this baller clip 🤘

As a geologist I highly appreciate your hard work to illustrate the vastness of the timescale if its displayed linearly. Thank you for your efforts!

To our *very* patient subscribers: thank you so much for staying with us. New things coming, learn more here: www.toscaleseries.com, and consider becoming a Patron: www.patreon.com/toscale

This channel is the literal definition of quality vs quantity. Also love the Carl Sagan quote at the beginning. Great job with this video, very informative.

This video is a great example of Science+Cinematography.

My favorite video on RU-vid just got a sequel. There are ony a handful of video's that give me such an amount of emotion. Thanks to the entire team to make me understand and appreciate this world a little more.

When you said that my life is less than the width of a hair versus the distance I see towards the horizon, something snapped into place. I don't know what it was but my eyes just started welling up and I'm in tears -- the feeling is profound. Thank you! Brilliant work, again. 👏

I rarely cry and I have never commented on a youtube video in my years of being here. But this made me bawl outta nowhere. It reminds me that all the suffering and pain everyone and everything has gone through and is going through will be but a speck in all of time. I'm a bit of a cynic, but somehow the reminder of how extremely brief our time here is gives me so much hope for life. Thank you for going great lengths (pun intended) to put this into perspective. This is instantly going into my all-time favourite videos and I cannot wait to see what else you guys create. Big love x

This is quite simply the best thing I’ve seen on this subject. You brought something that seems otherwise impossible to imagine, into focus. It’s mesmerizing and deeply moving, and as you so eloquently point out at the end, it puts our brief lives into perspective. As others have already said, this is a masterpiece.

Glad this channel is still going. Probably the most incredible, authentic videos on RU-vid come from here.

"We are on a marble, floating in the middle of nothing." And every person you've ever heard of has existed on this marble in this last centimetre of space. Another incredible installment of this series that made the wait worth it even more. Amazing work Alex and Wylie. 👏🏻

A truly incredible exhibition of the paradox that we live in, putting great value to every second that we exist while the scale of time rendering our life, our race, and everything we do, thoroughly insignificant on its map. I would like to thank you for this effort so succinctly abridged into ten minutes, again a great tip of the hat to what you’re trying to illustrate. The emotions I felt during this video, I can’t explain. But it brought a tear to my eye - one of emotion, pain, gratitude, and peace.

Best video ever! I am crying..thanks for making this..huge fan!

This film was transcendental. A wonderful, spotless masterpiece.

What a stunning piece! Visually beautiful and so fascinating. I can't explain it but it brought me to tears (moments before he began crying on screen). Just so powerful! CREATE RIPPLES! Live for today! Go out there and DO IT! Life is just too damn short for all the BS, drama, and wastefulness! Congrats to the entire team who created this!!

Amazing piece. All my life, since the age i was able to define time. I have struggled to tell people around me how small and helpless it makes me feel to know how thin our life is compared to the whole timeline. I wanna be alive in a state just to witness more than i was ever supposed to. Seeing you cry just made me feel that there are others who think like i do

The host seemed to be having a psychological episode on par with a religious experience. A feeling of profound awe, which leads to an understanding of the importance of life and his gratitude for it, despite its brevity . He wasn't the only one.

"That whole history is just to get us here" that line brought tears in my eyes.Truely magnificent!

I just don't understand how this masterpiece of a channel isn't everywhere in the internet. Really. You guys are the best youtube channel i've met in a while. Congratulations, and i'll be patiently waiting for more of your art.

⁠Thank you for taking the time to do this. I watched this and fell to tears, I knew the numbers but to see it visually displayed was a completely different feeling. It’s important to do videos like this, for many people, we get so overwhelmed with our daily circumstances and the grind of it all that we never take any chance to appreciate how fascinating and involved the process is for us to exist at this moment in time. Why have we overly complicated our lives that we make the whole world run to their deaths than to just slow down and appreciate the moments that we have been given. I do wish humanity moving forward gets to live a balanced life filled with constructive work, wonderful community , creativity and joy. I know for me, at this moment, I have to deal with the current situations of life, but for the future generations I want to be able to provide something more meaningful filled with a good balance of work and joy and companionship. Hope for a better word. Thank you again.

It is beautiful. All of the incredible things that happened to get you to this life. I do try to think about this often, to give thanks to all of my ancestors, all of them, for finding a way.

I sometimes come back to the first To Scale video (and the Moon one) and just sit there in awe. Truly incredible videos dudes, you're touching the souls of many

The one thing I will keep with me from this video is that life is a precious gift from the universe

This Makes you Realise why are we Wasting our life on Things like War, Borders, Religion and Differences. Just Cherish that you got the Chance to live on this Beautiful Planet for a Brief Moment. Live a life keeping together your Most Valuable things - Your Family and friends. Remembering that after you die you will be forgotten forever in the Deep Void. Thanks Team To Scale for this Amazing Piece ❤

The ending just blew me away. I want to express my deep gratitude in expressing in suck a brief moment, the lightness, the fragility of the presence of our own existence. Coming from a very violent universe the fact that my eyes and everybody's eyes, looking at that line at dawn is a miracle. Thank you so much for such a poignant closure

Brother has uploaded top quality content after 5 years. I'm satisfied ❤

This was such a humbling experience, that we exist for a fraction of a hair on a universe time scale but it is such a great thing to experience life as human being and that goes to say that universe is experiencing itself through us conscious beings.

We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever. - Carl Sagan. True words:)

The whole project is a masterpiece! I admire your spirit to build the model in real life rather than just creating the scale with CGI animation.

Humans need to be continuously reminded of how small we truly are instead of being enveloped in our present achievements so that each of us strive to become better versions for the other and the world around us. Thank you for another masterpiece that challenges our existential perspective and congratulations for successfully delivering it!

Babe wakeup, To Scale uploaded a new video !!!!!!!!!! What a masterpiece guys. I was a physics tutor to 12th graders and I showed the solar system video to almost every new batch , and a few years later my grandfather passed away and there’s a saying in my place, that the old people who passes away spend their time on the moon untill they are called up on to the heavens, and u dropped “a view on the moon” video which helped me alot with his passing, and now this. WoW another masterpiece ❤️

How exhilarating, if just for a fleeting moment, to feel as though you are the tip of the arrow of time. I for one cant wait to see where this wild ride takes us.

We still feel things we can't put words to. Seeing this video really made me feel that again. Seeing that strand of hair on that timeline was so poetic. That hair is the product of a process that's been going on since the beginning of time, so it's small and it kinda isn't. Each and every one of us is the culmination of millions of people and billions of years. The odds any of us exist are astronomically small. The deeper question I struggle with is how can we build a society that carries that fact, that reality inside it's heart for those who will follow and for those that are here? How can we live in a world that reveres the scale and significance of this process you beautifully visualized?

“Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift; that’s why it’s called the present.”

Maybe the one and only video everyone should have watched once in a lifetime.🙏❤

I felt the deepest, most profound feelings watching this video. Thank you.

Words cannot express how beautiful this is... This is so incredibly amazing. It brought tears to my eyes and once again reminds me to live life to the fullest. We only have one chance at life, let's make the most of it! Love from the Netherlands

I was just a teenager when I watched your last videos. Each one was a testament in both creativity, and a passion for the wonder of our world. You help make science interesting for everyone. It’s because of content like yours that I have chosen to study physics. Thank you for all that you do. You’re a real inspiration.

Awesome... Into my seventh decade of that thin slice of time. Re-inspired to make the unknown remaining moments matter. Thanks for sharing your creativity with us.

We are alive in physical form during this life for a short time, but I believe that our spirit, our energy, our soul, if you will, lives on much longer. I know that this is heresy to most of you, but we all believe what we want to believe. After all, have any of you actually seen the Big Bang? A stunning display no matter what you believe. Kudos to the crew who set this up.

The 8 years of waiting is absolutely worth it. I love how this video has so many callbacks to the solar system one. The google image search, how you waved to the camera when loading luggages into the van, the font and axises, the motion tracking... Almost felt like a flashback. But at the same time, your technologies and editing skills have also progressed a lot after these years, so it didn’t feel outdated either. This video preserved the original concept, but also modernized it with modern technology. I've always been wondering if "to scale" was the best name of this channel. The moon video wasn't really related to "to scale", and the eclipse video was basically a mini version of the solar system video. So the solar system video was only video that actually had the "to scale" concept. I wondered if there are more topics that could be done in the concept of "to scale", I thought of the milky way, but that's not really creative when you’ve already made the solar system one. But, after I saw the title of this new video, I was like, it's so great. It's brilliant to visualize the concept of time. It fits the "to scale" concept so well, and it's also such a different aspect compared to the solar system. Space and time, both can be visualized to scale. Great work!!! I'm sure I'll be revisiting this video a million more times in the next few years, just like what I did after watching the solar system video for the first time.

One of the TRULY GREAT videos on RU-vid; brings a tear to your eye at the end, and adds sobering context to mankind's place in the Universe. I used a similar graphic on the "the history of planet Earth" when I taught introductory geology; if we scale the ~4.5 billion years of Earth's history (since the impact that formed the Moon) as the distance from the west coast at Los Angeles all the way across the United States to the east coast at New York City (3,935 kilometers) then the average human lifespan is the width of a sidewalk curb relative to the Earth's lifetime. Imagine! Live your life so that every day counts, and be kind to each other. That's the realization this type of secular discovery should bring.

Ya know what's important with the time we have? Living in the now. So many of us live constantly in the past, or waiting for the future we miss our current. I've found that the simple practice of mindfulness can be quite powerful. Love this video and how well it demonstrates how insignificant we are. But we all have what we're given. Don't miss it.

This is literally one of the best videos I've watched on the Internet.

Obligatory comment to up your engagement - you guys deserve so much more recognition and love! Amazing video.

You guys are amazing. Thanks for that ❤

. . . . . . . . The last centimeter. Brilliant, beautiful. Thank you.

That was one of the most beautiful videos I have ever seen. Thank you

I have no idea why but 6:54 - 7:06 was so powerful I started crying. Did that happen for anyone else, I'm not even sure why or how. I went back and watched it a second time. Same thing. I wouldn't have thought that watching small mammals evolve into us could ever be so moving. Amazing video!

Oh wow! This is super inspiring. The music, the narration, the cinematography, the idea itself to present history of universe on a scale. I am speechless and awestruck for how nature works. Thank you for this ..

This channel should be shown in cinemas worldwide and in every school.

I shed a tear also and told myself, "its why you don't give up!"

I see life as a spark of light between two great abysses. Most people, unfortunately, are more apprehensive about the approaching abyss than the one they were in for billions and billions of years. I am not fearful of that approaching abyss because I was not inconvenienced one bit by the abyss that I came out of.

Just fantastic...from the bottom of all our hearts: thank you for all yall are doing and please keep going...its a real privilege to watch your work and dedication to the projects and each other...and congrats on the arrival of your daughter 👍

Its crazy how not much people think about this in their day to day life .... each person is just out her surviving every day...i am 23 and i am spending most of early 20s questioning my existence...i am not a science major or anything...but i have my interests and find information like these fascinating. When you cried ...i felt that...we will be never be there to see the next evolution...but its human to accept the fact to live out our tiny beautiful lives....and make them as bigger as possible...like to give more to the people to the entire race and die gracefully hoping the next generation doesnt give up and does better than us, reach farther than we have...i would cry like a baby on my deathbed. Great video !! I feel you brother...looking forward to have friends like you and your mates around....Peace🕊

I just started crying like mad over this. 😭 Thank you! ❤

Its time to binge watch all your videos again after 5 years 👍🏼

i hope you guys keep making videos, these are all absolutely wonderful and worth the years of wait

I can't stop my tears every time I watch this video. Thanks guys. This video is a reminder of how valuable our existence is.

I can't believe I just discovered this video today, I absolutely loved your previous ones when they came out. Another masterpiece that hit hard. Incredible!

Genuinely felt like Christmas seeing new videos on this channel! Keep up the amazing work, it’s just brilliant. ⏳💯

You deserve so much more views and likes. This was absolutely beautiful. Thank you !

I think the reason the world is in the state it’s in is because we don’t look at the night sky enough. That’s down to 2 things: light pollution and selfishness. People might know about stars, planets and galaxy’s but they are too focused on what’s happening in their own environment. People are too busy looking down. If more people looked at the stars I think a lot of them would live their life’s a bit differently, and this video is an absolutely perfect way of waking people up to just how finite we are. Just how unbelievably lucky we are to be alive for this short window to witness the greatness of the universe. We are nothing here on earth but we are a part of something enormous. Not enough people see it that way.

This video just cured every doubt I ever had, Thank you so much for making this masterpiece!!!

Great comeback ⚡🌿🌿. From a eons, anthropological and cosmological perspective that was really refreshing.

The sound design of this video is impeccable 👌

This is what the internet was made for. Honestly, from the bottom of my heart, thank you for making this 🙏💙

The end of 2023, I just done watching this video and left with total awe. It's such a masterpiece with creative storytelling and POWERFUL message. I almost cried for sure, when I finally realized how tiny our lives compared to the eternity of the Universe, it's an honor to be alive for such a short moment

Glad to see you guys are still out there making content like this after all these years. Never ceases to amaze me, how small our footprint actually is.

This was phenomenal. Really appreciate the hard work that was put into this

What a beautiful and brilliant film, humbling and empowering all at once. Thank you!

This channel has played an essential part in my passion for exploring the unknown and daring to question and step out of my comfort zone. My teenage years will forever remain a memory sweetened by your videos, an inspiration for me to pursue stargazing and spreading the love and wonder for the universe to my wife and family. From the bottom of my heart, thank you. 🫶

You guys just made me cry so much, thank you I guess. This was brilliant and beautiful, congratulations.

I don't regret the past, I regret the time I wasted on holding on to it.

It is impossible to truly comprehend but I hope more people make an effort to realize their place in this universe. It is humbling to think about but also so very improbable even in the short scale (you are 1/a couple hundred million sperm cell chance) that you cannot help be awe struck that you are even thinking it. Thanks for making this.

Thank You ... Thank You ... Thank You, for allowing all of us to experience the wonder of TIME !!! 😉😉😉

-The solar system scale video is a masterpiece that cannot be surpassed. -Wilye Overstreet & Alex Gorosh: Hold my beer.

you made me cry its mindboggling to think that this moment right now is the result of all that time

I have just watched your video for the first time, and i thank you for it. I must admit the contents in this video has an enormously emotional effect on me as an human being living on earth at the present . I wish there are more personnel like you young people in the governmental offices. We need more scientists and engineers to sustain life, unfortunately at the moment, only roughly about 15% of college graduates are of science technology and engineering, its just too low, we have had excessive amount of lawyers and politicians in this country, we just dont have enough scientists and engineers who would help the younger generation to think critically in both individually as well collectively.

I'm happy to see you crying too. I take seizures in my sleep because of "stress", but being scared that my human hair of existence might be cut short doing help. What help is knowing that I'm still here to be happy and enjoy the little time I have. Thank to everything that came before me!

Thank you!!! I’m glad I’m not alone in thinking how little but gifted living is. Thank. You!

These works of yours are so profound, I feel privileged to have witnessed them. 🙏

I was in tears while watching the video. I rarely comment on RU-vid.

Beautiful and profound, thank you so much for this precious moment ❤

Just coming back to this occasionally to be inspired! Thank you so much!

Absolutely stunning and moving. Everyone involved should be proud of this. We are all infinitesimal sparks

EPIC WORK!!!! Thank you so much for making this video!!!!!!!!

Dude, this was friggen amazing. Thinking about the history of everything and having an actual To Size Model just blows the mind away.

Beautiful and succinct. I remember the first time I came across someone doing something like this. In that presentation, the universe time scale model took place with a small group of people as they walked through the countryside in England. I'm a nature tour guide, and I've been wanting to set up my own walking universe time-scale project to share with local schools and others. I can totally relate to your passion and feelings of being humbled when it comes to your desire to share such relevant information about our existence and place within this astounding universe/s.