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This is the timeline of the Universe from Big Bang to Heat Death scenario. ImageSize = width:830 height:2000 PlotArea = left:40 right:235 bottom:75 top:75
   Colors = id:period1 value:rgb(1,1,0.7) # light yellow id:period2 value:rgb(0.7,0.7,1) # light blue id:events value:rgb(1,0.7,1) # light purple id:era2 value:lightorange id:era1 Value:yellowgreen
   DateFormat = yyyy Period = from:-171 till:300 TimeAxis = format:yyyy orientation:vertical # order:reverse doesn't work ScaleMajor = unit:year increment:10 start:-170 ScaleMinor = unit:year increment:1 start:-171
   AlignBars = justify
   BarData = bar:Clock bar:Dummy1 bar:Era bar:Dummy2 bar:Dummy3 bar:Periods bar:Dummy4 bar:Events
   TextData = fontsize:M pos:(365,75) text:"Planck epoch"
  1. pos:(210,50) pos:(205,50) text:"Big Bang" pos:(20,50) text:"0: Linear time" pos:(10,1980) text:"Double-logaritmic time:" text:"100*log log year" pos:(200,1960) text:"Heat Death"
PlotData= textcolor:black fontsize:M
    width:90 bar:Clock color:events align:right shift:(43,3) mark:(line,teal) at:-171 text:"10E-43 seconds" at:-141 at:-135 at:-129 text:"One picosecond" at:-122 text:"One nanosecond" at:-113 text:"One microsecond" at:-102 shift:(43,-13) text:"One millisecond" at:-100 text:"10E-10 years" at:-88 text:"One second" at:-60 text:"One hour" at:0 text:"One year" at:48 text:"One thousand years" at:78 text:"One million years" at:95 text:"One billion years" at:100 text:"10E10 years" at:108 text:"One trillion years" at:118 text:"One quadrillion years" at:126 at:132 at:200 text:"10E100 years"
  • at:200 text:"10100 years" at:300 shift:(43,-13) text:"10E1000 years" width:55 bar:Dummy1
        width:130 bar:Era mark:(line,white) align:center shift:(0,0) from:-171 till:90 color:era1 text:"The Primordial Era" # or end at one million? stelliferous without stars? from:90 till:115 color:era2 text:"The Stelliferous Era" from:115 till:160 color:era1 text:"The Degenerate Era" from:160 till:200 color:era2 text:"The Black Hole Era" from:200 till:218 color:era1 text:"The Dark Era" from:218 till:300 color:era2 text:"The Photon Era"
        width:55 bar:Dummy2 bar:Dummy3
        width:165 bar:Periods align:center shift:(0,0) mark:(line,white) from:-171 till:-165 color:period2 text:Grand unification epoch # end at 10-37 seconds, not 10-33? from:-165 till:-163 color:period1 text:"Inflationary epoch" from:-163 till:-129 color:period2 text:Electroweak epoch from:-129 till:-113 color:period1 text:Hadron epoch # 10-12 to 10-6 seconds?, not 10-6 to 10-2. Error in text? from:-113 till:-88 color:period2 text:Lepton epoch from:-88 till:-72 color:period1 text:Epoch of Nucleosynthesis from:-72 till:68 color:period2 text:"Radiation domination" from:68 till:75 color:period1 shift:(0,0) text:"Matter domination" from:75 till:90 color:period2 text:"The Primordial Dark Age" from:90 till:93 color:period1 text:"Reionization" # 100-400 million years from:100 till:101 color:period2 text:"Life on Earth"
        width:55 bar:Dummy4
        width:55 mark:(line,purple) textcolor:black fontsize:M bar:Events color:events align:left shift:(30,-2)
        at:-171 shift:(30,-15) text:"Planck time, the smallest observable unit of time ~and the time before which science is unable to ~describe the universe. At this point, the force of ~gravity separated from the electronuclear force." at:-165 text:"Separation of the strong force from the ~electronuclear force." at:-161 text:"Quarks and anti-quarks begin forming." at:-129 text:"The weak force separates from the ~electromagnetic force resulting in the four ~separate forces we know today." at:-113 shift:(30,10) text:"Electrons and positrons begin to annihilate each ~other." at:-110 shift:(30,-30) text:"Quarks combine to form protons and neutrons. ~Quark/anti-quark pairs combine into mesons." at:-106 shift:(30,30) text:"Lepton/anti-lepton pairs are annihilated by ~existing photons. Neutrinos break free and exist ~on their own." at:-88 shift:(30,10) text:"Formation of atomic nuclei (hydrogen). Nuclear ~fusion begins to occur as they collide to form ~heavier elements." at:-72 text:"Nuclear fusion ends after about 3 minutes." at:75 text:"372,000 to 387,000 years - Hydrogen nuclei ~capture electrons to form stable atoms. Photons ~are no longer able to interact strongly with atoms. ~Cosmic microwave background radiation forms." at:90 text:"100 million years. First star began to shine." at:94 text:"600 million years. Formation of the first galaxy"
  • at:98 text:"4 billion years. Earliest Population I stars" at:100 shift:(30,-10) text:"8.7 billion years. Formation of the Sun" at:101 mark:(line,magenta) text:"13.7 billion years: this present day"
  • at:101 text:"18.7 billion years Sun becomes a red giant" at:105 text:"200 billion years. The Sun dies down." at:115 text:"Formation of new stars ceases. The last star die ~down. Death of unintelligent water-based life. "
  • at:118 shift:(30,20) text:"Solar systems no longer exists. Planets flung out ~of orbit or consumed by larger bodies." at:120 shift:(30,5) text:"Galaxies no longer exist. Stars flung out of orbit ~or consumed by larger bodies as black holes." at:156 text:"Proton decay to 1/2" at:160 shift:(30,10) text:"All protons decay. The matter that stars and life etc ~was built of no longer exist." at:200 text:"Small and medium sized black holes have ~evaporated" at:218 text:"The last supermassive black holes have ~evaporated" Usually the logarithmic scale is used for such timelines but it compresses the most interesting Stelliferous Era too much as this example shows. Therefore a double-logarithmic scale s (s*100 in the graphics) is used instead. The minimum of it's unfortunately only 1, not 0 as needed, and the negative outputs for inputs smaller than 10 are useless. Therefore the time from 0.1 to 10 years is collapsed to a single point 0, but that doesn't matter in this case because nothing special happens in the history of the universe during that time. » s =

    egin
    10 and log10log10 scales>
    year log10 year combination of log10log10 year and
    -log10(-log10 year)
    101000 1000 3
    10100 100 2
    1010 10 1
    102 2 0.30
    101 1 0
    100 0 undefined but here forced to 0
    10-1 -1 0
    10-2 -2 -0.30
    10-10 -10 -1
    10-100 -100 -2
    The seconds in the timescale have been converted to years by second / 31 557 600 using the Julian year.

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