Things like a lightyear, or a million years can get very easily lost in words. That may seem like a long time for most of us but the universe has existed for 13.8 billion years!!! That is 13,800,000,000 years! This is such a hard concept to grasp-Big numbers like this don’t really mean much to most people.įor this reason, I must add a little disclaimer here, because my summary might miss a lot of the impact that is captured so well in the book.
Our civilization has thrived only for a couple thousand years. He starts by pointing out how small we are in the grand scheme of the Cosmos.
Not the actual chapter title… Carl’s titles are much more eloquent and descriptive-but, I would like to simplify them a little bitįrom the beginning Carl really puts things in perspective.
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