Scale of Time

[ciphergoth]

A zooming view of all time, from the Big Bang to the Bomb. Ideas very welcome!

Comments

[alexmc]

If it isn't too cheeky I'd like to see the reverse too - starting with a few years and going to mega years.

It takes me a long time to figure out what your units are. Can we have a key? Can you highlight when we change units?

I prefer this way round. Your draft was horizontal rather than vertical, right?

I'd like it to be more interactive. Is that possible? If not then I can just move the youtube slider to look at differentparts of the animation.

[ciphergoth]

Thanks! Yes, previous draft was horizontal. I could change the colours as we go from Ga to Ma etc. Not sure there's room for a key, unless I just add events that read eg "10 Ga = 10 billion years", "500 Ma = 500 million years" etc.

Interactive is much, much harder.

[alexmc]

I was thinking of a key which could be flashed up before the main animation...