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Been working on a universal timeline bc I have a really poor sense of how it all fits together.
I knew I'd need a couple layers of "zoom" bc of the vastly different timescales involved even if its not done to scale, but still figured I should start with the Big Bang. If I am going to do then do it in a way that actually connects all the bits right? Cosmology, geology, paleontology, archeology, history. If I can’t make 1 timeline that has 9/11, the first human leaving the Levant, the formation of the moon, and the first atoms, I can at least have one that goes "and the entire history of the human race fits in the bottom right corner, see this other timeline for more".
What I hadn’t expected (and this is probably just because of how I'm doing it) is that it leaves a very ADHD impression of things.
First 20 minutes, science has down pat very busy, so busy we need to show you how to note the tiniest fractions of a second. Establish the rules of the universe the different forces.
Then things just sort of cool down, one epoch goes 10 seconds to 380,000 years after the Big Bang, electrons just kinda bouncing off nuclei in what keeps being referred to as "plasma soup". Then hey those bits pooling together make light, oh lets have that ionize things so we can get a better look.
This congealing bit is fun and does neat things lets do it all over with everything, use that gravity force from the beginning of the project. Then that keeps going for a mind boggling amount of time, until it too sort of peters out until I hit the geological timeline with the formation of the Earth.
Then life on Earth takes off in all these interesting directions that don't really resemble the cosmological bits at all, like when I revive interest in an old project by running with a bit that got tacked on as I lost control of scope creep.
Most of that ends up getting scraped to shift focus in a new direction, and with the archeological timeline its all about this one sub sub project and how these human characters interact with the other bits. "Hey what if they don’t just feel the weather but change the climate.oh what if after looking at the stars they decide to go to them! Oh but what if to go to them they have to do massive amounts of the stuff that changes the climate? Oh but what if seeing other planets by doing that paradoxically causes them to care more about that climate change and the spin off technologies help them learn about climate change & how to do less of it?"
I knew I'd need a couple layers of "zoom" bc of the vastly different timescales involved even if its not done to scale, but still figured I should start with the Big Bang. If I am going to do then do it in a way that actually connects all the bits right? Cosmology, geology, paleontology, archeology, history. If I can’t make 1 timeline that has 9/11, the first human leaving the Levant, the formation of the moon, and the first atoms, I can at least have one that goes "and the entire history of the human race fits in the bottom right corner, see this other timeline for more".
What I hadn’t expected (and this is probably just because of how I'm doing it) is that it leaves a very ADHD impression of things.
First 20 minutes, science has down pat very busy, so busy we need to show you how to note the tiniest fractions of a second. Establish the rules of the universe the different forces.
Then things just sort of cool down, one epoch goes 10 seconds to 380,000 years after the Big Bang, electrons just kinda bouncing off nuclei in what keeps being referred to as "plasma soup". Then hey those bits pooling together make light, oh lets have that ionize things so we can get a better look.
This congealing bit is fun and does neat things lets do it all over with everything, use that gravity force from the beginning of the project. Then that keeps going for a mind boggling amount of time, until it too sort of peters out until I hit the geological timeline with the formation of the Earth.
Then life on Earth takes off in all these interesting directions that don't really resemble the cosmological bits at all, like when I revive interest in an old project by running with a bit that got tacked on as I lost control of scope creep.
Most of that ends up getting scraped to shift focus in a new direction, and with the archeological timeline its all about this one sub sub project and how these human characters interact with the other bits. "Hey what if they don’t just feel the weather but change the climate.oh what if after looking at the stars they decide to go to them! Oh but what if to go to them they have to do massive amounts of the stuff that changes the climate? Oh but what if seeing other planets by doing that paradoxically causes them to care more about that climate change and the spin off technologies help them learn about climate change & how to do less of it?"
