We're going on a journey.
This video depicts billion years of time unfolding on a 10 minute scale - from to Big Bang to today.
Every passing second represents 22 million years.
On this scale, humans do not appear until the last fraction of second.
The universe begins in 5..... 4.... 3... 2.. 1.
The Big Bang
The Universe has begun!
[The first ☀️ star]
Brian: "From the primordial cloud of gas and cosmic dust, gravity forged the stars."
[Early ☀️ star formation]
[Early 🌌 galaxy formation]
Brian: "Gravity connects star systems together in vast galaxies and steers them in their journey through unbounded space. The relentless flow of time has driven the evolution of the universe and created extraordinary wonders. Some 🌌 galaxies formed so close together that they are locked in a gravitational embrace. ... What a magnificent sight it will be!"
Brian: "As it evolves, the universe passes through distinct eras, vast ages whose beginnings and endings are marked by unique milestones, the births and deaths of its wonders."
Carl: "We're the product of a grand evolutionary sequence—cosmic evolution—about which we are only occasionally aware."
[
Milky Way formation]
Brian: "Gravity is the great creator, the constructor of worlds. But gravity is also the destroyer because it's relentless."
[
Black hole formation]
Brian: "When a ☀️ star around 15 times the mass of our 
Sun collapses, all the matter in its core is crushed into an infinite void of blackness, known as a stellar-mass black hole. The immense gravitational pull of these monsters can rip a ☀️ star apart. They tear matter from its surface and drag it into orbit. This super-heated matter spins around the mouth of the black hole, and great jets of radiation fire from the core. Although these jets can be seen across the cosmos, the core itself remains a mystery. Not even light can escape, so their interior is forever hidden from us."
[☀️ Star death and rebirth]
Brian: "Throughout ☀️ the star's life, there's a constant battle between energy pushing out and gravity pushing in. When it runs out of fuel, ☀️ the star collapses and then explodes with the brightness of a billion suns. As ☀️ the star is torn apart, it will fire out into space all the elements that it created in its life and death. These are new ☀️ stars, forming from the elements blown out by supernova explosions. New ☀️ stars being born, from the remains of dead ones. And it's from this universal process of death and rebirth that we emerged... because it was in a nebula just like this 5 billion years ago that our Sun was formed."
[Collapse of Protoplantary Dust Cloud]
Brian: "Clouds of 
hydrogen collapses further and further onto the force of gravity, and the life cycle of a new star has begun. A star was born that would come to be known as the Sun."
[Birth of the Sun]
Brian: "Around it, a network of planets formed. Among them was 
the Earth."
[Formation of Earth]
Brian: "Debris left over the formation of the Solar System collides with the Earth."
[Formation of 
the Moon]
Hadean Eon
Brian: " Earth began life as a molten hell."
David: "The early continents was still forming."
Archean Eon
David: "The land was dominated by volcanoes, hostile and lifeless. But deep in the oceans, life had begun."
[Early life forms]
David: "The latest theory is that chemicals, spewing from underwater volcanic vents, solidified and created the conditions needed for the first cells to form."
David: "For some 3 billion years, simple microscopic organisms were the most advanced form of life on the planet.🦠 Cyanobacteria and other File:Oxygen-icon.png oxygen-producing microbes began to bloom."
[Oxygenation of atmosphere]
David: "These flourished in colonies of plantlike microbes that pumped out enormous volumes of File:Oxygen-icon.png oxygen, and was this increasing File:Oxygen-icon.png oxygen that was the key for the rise of the animal kingdom."
[Complex single-celled life]
Brian: "Organisms started to produce File:Oxygen-icon.png oxygen to respire. You will need of a lot more energy, which allows the development of more complex life."
Proterozoic Eon
David: "Just before complex life appeared, the world was in the grip of the biggest ice age in its entire history."
[Snowball Earth]
[First multicelled animals]
David: "And then, suddenly, advanced organisms have appeared."
Phanerozoic Eon
[Ordovician Period]
[Silurian Period]
[Devonian Period]
[Carboniferous Period]
[Permian Period]
[Triassic Period]
[Cretaceous Period]
Cenozoic
[Rise of mammals]
[Australopithecus afarensis]
[Homo Erectus]
[
Neanderthals]
[
Homo sapiens]
[🖥️ Homo nouveau]
Credit to Melodysheep
For more about his video, visit https://melodysheep.com/timelapse.
Subtitles by the Amara.org community