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Everyone welcome back
Ready to dig into some more fascinating history
Always what are we tackling in this deep dipe
Well today we're going
Way back
I mean way way back
We're talking about the very beginning of well everything ambitious and what's our guide for this journey to the dawn of time
This awesome piece titled the grand history
The beginning of everything we ukes kes think about history ory a whole different scale
We usually think of history
As you know ancient civilization history ical figures those sorts of thing right like what we learn in school dates
Names big evventhe exactly
But this piece challenges that whole notion
It argues that history doesn't start with humans at all
But with the universe itself now that's a perspective shift
And it makes sense what you think about it
I mean the universe had to exist before any those historical events
We typically focus on
Exactly
So where do most people typically mark the beginning of histstwell conventionently we often think of histstory arting with the oblious written records
Which takes us back to around thirty five hundred bc
But the semararians right you got it
They developed ununiform the writing system with those weds shaped marks on clay tablets
We've all seen those in museums definitely
And it's amazing to think about those ancient scribes documenting their world
But i mean thirty five bc is still just a tiny blip in the grand scheme of things isn't
It absolutely in fact
The grand hihistory isn't
It that focusing solely on written records is like peaking through a tiny key hole
When you've got this vast panorama of time stretching out before you that's a great analogy
It's a only reading the last page of book
Right we miss out on the entire story that came before exactly and to really understand history
We've got a rewine in the clock
Much much further we're talking billions of years back to the big bang itself the big big that's where things get really mind blowing
I mean trying to grasp the concept of the universe
Exploding into existence thirteen point eight billion years ago
It's almost impossiit's
It's redibly difficulty for our human brains to really grasp such a vast time scalright definitely
So how do we even begin in make sense se of it well the grand history uses a really helpful analogy imagine
If you comppress the entire history of the universe from the big bang to this very moment into just thirteen years
Okay
Like this
This rinking down the timeline
So where does earth pop up in this thirteen year history ory the universe well give this earth isn't even form until about four in half years into this compresss timeline
Well also so planet it is relatively young in the grand scheme of thing
Exactly it's another year so in this analogy
Before we see the first signs of life on earth single celled organisms the very beginnings of life is we know it incredible
And what about all those incredible creatures
We learn about in natural history museums
Where do dinosaurs fit into these thirteen year timeline get ready for these dinosaurs don't even appear until about three weeks ago in this compresss time frame
They do the earth for a while
But then vanish about a week later
It really puts things in perspective
Doesn't adet all those millions of years of dinosar evolution
Gone in the the link of an eye
When we're looking at the entire history of the universe
It really does and what about us
Where do humans show up in all of us
Let me guess pretty late in the game
You got it
We humans only show up in the last fifty minutes of this thirteen year
Timine wow
So even those recorded human history
Everything we typically think of his history is crammed into the last few minutes of this cosmic movie marathon
Exactly
And even those ancient civilizations that we consider so old
They only pop up in the last few seconds so basically
Everything we think
We know about the past is just a tiny
Tiny sliver of the bigger picture
That's exactly the point the grand history is trying to make
It's not that our human history isan important
But we have to remember it's just one chapter in a much much longer story
A story that began billions of years before humans ever walk the earth
It's all inspiring and humbling at the same time
Absolutely
And i think it's a good reminder to stay curious
If we could witness any event from this vast cosmic timeline
What would it be what mystery of the universe
Would you want to wrabbit
