visual illustration of the history of the Universe
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A graphical view of the Cosmic Calendar, featuring the months of the year, days of December, the final minute, and the final secondVideo of the calendar The Cosmic Calendar is a method to visualize the chronology of the universe, scaling its currently understood age of 13.787 billion years to a single year in order to help intuit it for pedagogical purposes in science education or popular science. A similar analogy used to visualize the geologic time scale and the history of life on Earth is the Geologic Calendar.
In this visualization, the Big Bang took place at the beginning of January 1 at midnight, and the current moment maps onto the end of December 31 just before midnight. At this scale, there are 438 years per cosmic second, 1.58 million years per cosmic hour, and 37.8 million years per cosmic day.
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Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).