13.7 Billion Years—Reduced to 18 Minutes
Have you ever seen a presentation that was so powerful and compelling that you felt a strange impulse to memorize it verbatim? That’s exactly what just happened to me.
Here’s a Ted Talk on the history of the universe (“Big History”) that will leave you with at once a rhapsodic joy and a profound sorrow that it has only 1.6 million views on YouTube, meaning that, tragically, the vast majority of people on Earth don’t really understand this.
Thanks for that Craig. That really is a well done presentation. Interesting, concise, and extremely dense.
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It’s nice to pause and note how fast things are accelerating every now and then.
Yes, it’s amazing. Makes you think that achieving sustainability is like balancing a bowling ball on the head of a pin. I don’t believe that, but we’re most certainly behaving in an insanely irresponsible manner.
Fernando in Brazil writes:
Craig, THANK YOU very much for sending me thus link! It touches my soul deeply!
I’m so glad you appreciate it.
Foerd Aames notes: Thanks, Craig. Nice, syntropic thoughts on our big history.
Glad you liked it, though I had to go to http://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/syntropic to figure out what you meant.
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When you see that mankind is only a blip on the screen of time since the beginning, you will be amazed at how far we’ve come. But there has been a cost. If you haven’t seen it you must watch the new documentary “RACING EXTINCTION”. If you’re not changed after you see it, you’re not human!
Thanks for sharing! 🙂