TIMELAPSE OF THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE

On a cosmic time scale, human history is as brief as the blink of an eye. By compressing all 13.8 billion years of time into a 10 minute scale, this video shows just how young we truly are, and just how ancient and vast our universe us. Starting with the big bang and culminating in the appearance of homo sapiens, this experience follows the unfolding of time at 22 million years per second, adhering closely to current scientific understanding.

Narration by Brian Cox, Carl Sagan, and David Attenborough.

Concept, music, editing, sound design, and select VFX by melodysheep. Soundtrack now on bandcamp: https://melodysheep.bandcamp.com/album/continuum-e-p

In addition to custom footage, this video samples a large library of content from many sources, including NASA, Voyage of Time, Cosmic Voyage, Wonders of the Universe, and more. Learn more about this project at http://melodysheep.com/timelapse.

It can be difficult to fathom how long 13.8 billion years is. The more you watch this video, the more it sinks in just how stunningly old the universe is, and how magnificently tiny we humans are in the grand scheme. I hope seeing this experiment in humility makes you ponder the vast, unwitnessed ages that have passed before we came along, and the brevity of our existence in comparison.

Every event featured in this video is fascinating on its own, so I highly encourage anybody interested to dig deeper. Start with the Wikipedia page on geologic time and go from there to learn more about all the events featured within.

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melodysheep
@musicalscience

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We're going on a journey.

This video depicts billion years of time unfolding
on a 10 minute scale - from to Big Bang to today.

Every passing second represents 22 million years.

On this scale, humans do not appear until the last fraction of second.

The universe begins in 5.....

The universe begins in 4....

The universe begins in 3...

The universe begins in 2..

The universe begins in 1.

The Universe Has Begin!!!

The Universe Has Begin!!!
[The Big Bang]

[The Big Bang]

[The First Star]

Brian: From the primordial cloud of gas and cosmic dust
[The First Star]

Brian: From the primordial cloud of gas and cosmic dust

gravity forged the stars.

[Early Star Formation]

[Early galaxy formation]

Gravity connects star systems
[Early galaxy formation]

together in vast galaxies
[Early galaxy formation]

together in vast galaxies,

and steers them

in their journey through unbounded space.

The relentless flow of time

has driven the evolution of the universe

and created extraordinary wonders.

Some galaxies formed so close together

that they are locked

in a gravitational embrace.

What a magnificent sight it will be!

As it evolves the universe

passes through distinct eras,

vast ages whose beginnings and endings

are marked by unique milestones,

the births and deaths of its wonders.

Carl: We're the product of a grand evolutionary sequence.

Cosmic evolution.

About which we are only occasionally aware.

[Milky Way Formation]

Brian: Gravity is the great creator,
[Milky Way Formation]

Brian: Gravity is the great creator,

the constructor of worlds.

But gravity is also the destroyer,

because it's relentless.

[Black Hole Formation]

When a star around 15 times

the mass of our Sun collapses,

all the matter in it's core is crushed

into an infinite void of blackness,

know as Stellar Mass Black Hole.

The immense gravitational pull of

these monsters can rip a star apart.

They tear matter from its surface,

and drag it into orbit.

This super-heated matter spins

around the mouth of the black hole,

and great jets of radiation fire from the core.

Although these jets can be seen across the cosmos,

the core itself remains a mystery.

Not even light can escape,

so their interior is forever hidden from us.

[Star Death and Rebirth]

Throughout the stars life,
[Star Death and Rebirth]

Throughout the stars life,

there's a constantly battle

between energy pushing out and gravity pushing in.

When it runs out of fuel,

the star collapses

and then explodes with

the brightness of a billion of suns.

As the star is torn apart,

it will fire out into space

all the elements that it created on it's life

and death.

These are new stars,

forming from the elements

blown out by supernova explosions.

New stars being born,

from the remains of dead ones.

And it's from this universal process of death,

and rebirth

that we emerged.

Because it was in a nebula just like this

5 billion years ago

that our Sun was formed.

[Collapse of Protoplantary Dust Cloud]

Clouds of hydrogen collapses
[Collapse of Protoplantary Dust Cloud]

Clouds of hydrogen collapses

further and further onto the force of gravity

and the life cycle of a new star has begun.

A star was born,

that would come to be known,

as the Sun.
[Birth of the Sun]

[Birth of the Sun]

Around it,

a network of planets formed,

among them,

was the Earth.

[Formation of Earth]

Debris left over the formation

of the Solar System

collides with the Earth.

[Formation of the Moon]

[Hadean Eon]

Earth, began life as a molten hell.
[Hadean Eon]

Earth, began life as a molten hell.

David: The early continents was still forming.

[Archean Eon]

The land was dominated by volcanoes
[Archean Eon]

The land was dominated by volcanoes

hostile and lifeless.

But deep in the oceans,

life had begun.

[Early Life Forms]

The latest theory is that chemicals,

spewing from underwater volcanic vents

solidified and created the conditions needed

for the first cells to form.

For some 3 billion years

simple, microscopic organisms

were the most advanced form of life on the planet.

Cyanobacteria and other oxygen

producing microbes began to blue.

producing microbes began to blue.
[Oxygenation of Atmosphere]

[Oxygenation of Atmosphere]

These flourished in colonies of plant like

microbes that pumped out

enormous volumes of oxygen.

And was this increasing oxygen

that was the key for the rise

of the animal kingdom.

[Complex Single Celled Life]

Brian: Organisms started to produce oxygen to respire.

You will need of a lot more energy

which allows the development of more complex life.

[Proterozoic Eon]

David: Just before complex life appeared,

the world was in the grip of the

the world was in the grip of the
[Snowball Earth]

biggest ice age in its entire history.
[Snowball Earth]

biggest ice age in its entire history.

[First Multicelled Animals]

And then suddenly,
[First Multicelled Animals]

[First Multicelled Animals]

advanced organisms have appeared.
[First Multicelled Animals]

advanced organisms have appeared.

[Cambrian Explosion]

[Ordovician Period]

[Silurian Period]

[Devonian Period]

[Carboniferous Period]

[Permian Period]

[Triassic Period]

[Cretaceous Period]

[Rise of Mammals]

[Audstralopithecus Afarensis]

[Homo Erectus]

[Neanderthals]

[Homo Sapiens]

[Homo Nouveau]

Timelapse Of The Entire Universe

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