[Vision2020] Putting Time In Perspective

[Kenneth Marcy]

Putting Time In Perspective

Humans are good at a lot of things, but putting time in perspective is 
not one of them. It's not our fault—the spans of time in human history, 
and even more so in natural history, are so vast compared to the span of 
our life and recent history that it's almost impossible to get a handle 
on it. If the Earth formed at midnight and the present moment is the 
next midnight, 24 hours later, modern humans have been around since 
11:59:59pm—1 second. And if human history itself spans 24 hours from one 
midnight to the next, 14 minutes represents the time since Christ.

http://www.waitbutwhy.com/2013/08/putting-time-in-perspective.html?m=1


Ken