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If we could fit billions of years in one, where would we be now?

If we could fit billions of years in one where

Now that we’ve just started the year, there’s a good opportunity to reduce the extension of universal time (billions of years) to one calendar year. This is what astronomy professor Jon Willis suggests in his book All these worlds are yours (Alpha Decay) when he identifies the cosmic calendar with the newly released almanac.

In this way we can take time as a game, as a pastime – better said – and get used to imagining what comes after the last chime of the year, since the Big Bang happens immediately after, and with the Big Bang and the last grape comes the “cosmic burst” of elementary particles; Atoms that will be the basic ingredient of the original soup from which we come.

But let’s not overdo it, because the soup has to cool first, and that happens in the early hours of the new year, when the universe begins to expand and atomic matter forms the first molecules, giving rise to clouds of gas. This means that stars are born at the end of the first week of January, which would correspond to hundreds of millions of years after the Big Bang.

The Milky Way began to form more than two months later, with spring. And the age of the world and its temporal dimension would conclude in August with the formation of the planets around their star queen. As we continue to tear pages out of the almanac, we find ourselves in the month of November, when cells become increasingly complex and the first multicellular organisms emerge. In mid-December, on the 16th, we have the date that would correspond to the moment when the so-called Cambrian explosion took place, the biological big bang that came about due to the oxygenation of water for the diversification of multicellular organisms. This happened about 540 million years ago.

The billions of planets revolving around the stars of the Milky Way help us to not only think about the future, but also to reflect on the past, never forgetting that our present is just a matter of time, based on the cosmic almanac is projected of the universe

The dinosaurs appeared on Christmas Eve. And coinciding with Christmas Day, our first ancestors saw the light. On December 31, almost a year after the Big Bang, at a quarter past ten in the morning the first great apes arrived, walking on all fours and reaching the upright position 12 hours later. About 15 seconds before the end of the year we learned to write and with it to interpret the sky and to think that behind every person who inhabits the earth there are thirty spirits and for each of them a world in which he could live for always. forever.

With this, the billions of planets revolving around the stars of the Milky Way help us not only to think about the future, but also to reflect on the past, without forgetting that our present is only a matter of time projected in the cosmic Almanac of the Universe.

The great distance that separates us from the beginning of time to today can be bridged in a year, as we learned with Jon Willis in this easy-to-understand book, a journey through space in search of a second earth place, at which contains life forms similar or equal to ours. There are books that are toys and this is one of them.

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