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Reversing Backward Time
Remember in history class when studying ancient civilizations you would get confused because some fellow would be getting older as the years became “younger”. For example Caesar Augustus was born in 64 BC and 37 years later became emperor in 27 BC? How did he do that? Reverse time travel?
This reverse time problem is also endemic to anthropology, geology, cosmology and all the other studies that look back through time. Well AllTime does away with all this backward thinking. Because AllTime counts time from the beginning of time; therefore all time moves forward, the years advance as people get older, just like they do in real life!
In AllTime there is no BC, no Years Ago, no Before Present. In AllTime the universe did not begin 13.2 billion years ago, in AllTime the universe is 13.2 billion years old.
How To Get Time Moving Forward
AllTime, in its wildest, think-outside-the-box form says, envision all of time, not just a couple of miniscule millennia. Think about all 13 billion years, not just 2002. Before we look at this new universe freed from billions of years of backward time, there is one modification of AllTime we need to introduce. We need to create a more precise definition of AllTime, actually a hybrid of AllTime and the epoch system you’re presently using.
Here’s how it works; simply take the AllTime number and add whatever epoch system you are presently using, if you are using the Hebrew calendar the date would be 13,200,005,763, if you are using the Gregorian calendar the date would be 13,200,002,002. (We’ll use the AllTime / Gregorian hybrid for the examples that follow. Don’t worry about the length of this hybrid number, you can use the abbreviation 13.2 B 2002 ).
The reason we use this AllTime – hybrid is that we get the best of both worlds; we get the long view of AllTime linked to the precise historic records scribed in the last 2002 years of the Gregorian system.
For example if you were born in 1950 Gregorian then you were born in 13.2B 1950 AllTime – hybrid. The beauty is that all of the dates on your love letters, bank records, etc., remain the same and yet all you have to do is imagine a 13.2B before the date and voila! They’re now in AllTime.
Although the link between AllTime and the Gregorian is a relatively painless and simple conceptual shift when dealing with forward moving time, we reap big rewards when translating Gregorian backward time called BC or Science’s backward time called Years Ago or Before Present, into AllTime.
Fixing Years Ago
Let’s take a look at the big picture first. Presently scientists would say that the galaxies formed about 10.5 billion years ago. AllTime would say the galaxies formed 2.7 billion years after the Big Bang.
It’s comforting to see time move forward, isn’t it? But what AllTime does to the shorter-term timelines is truly fun.
Fixing B C
In the big picture the AllTime date is still in flux because we haven’t settled on a commonly accepted age of the universe. (See Discovery of AllTime for latest infoIn the big picture the AllTime date is still in flux because we haven’t settled on a commonly accepted age of the universe. (See Discovery of AllTime for latest information on the Age of Universe.) But there is an immense section of time in which AllTime dates can work to turn time around with absolute accuracy even though we don’t know the age of the universe yet.
To show you how this works we need to take an example from the BC system, say Sargon's Empire founded in 2234 B C. What would this date be in AllTime?
To get the AllTime date we subtract the BC date (2234) from the AllTime date (13,200,000,000) so the AllTime – hybrid date would be 13,199,997,766.
This is big number but we can abbreviate. We don’t need the front end, (13.199,99) because it’s always the same if we intend to only look at the time that follows after this number. Lets replace it with a > symbol.
Now we have a date the same length as the BC date, they are both equally manageable:
2234 BC
>7766 AT
We also get a big gain by using this > symbol because the abbreviation > does not need to stand for 13.199,99. Instead it could stand for whatever the age of the universe ultimately turns out to be. It may turn out to be 14,999,99 (7,766) or 12,499,99 (7,766). Using the abbreviation makes it possible to print an AllTime history book today that would remain valid until the end of time.
Saying Good Bye To BC
Lets now take a look at AllTime compared to BC (Gregorian).
Abbreviating AllTime
The abbreviation system can encompass larger chunks of time just by shortening the abbreviated section; thus, the advent of the modern human in 13,199,900,000 becomes >900,000. (The Years Ago number is equally long: 100,000.)
In the last half of the 20th century
scientists have made a significant discovery:
the universe has a beginning point -
the Big Bang.
This knowledge leads to an exciting proposition -
We can now create a calendar that
counts time from the time time began.
What year is it? 2002? It is commonly accepted that the year is 2002 by those who use the Gregorian calendar, but if you’re using the Hebrew calendar the year is 5762. The Chinese year is 4700. The Islamic year is 1423. These dates are derived from arbitrarily determined points in time called epochs. The Gregorian or Christian era epoch is the birth of Jesus; before that the most-used western epoch was the founding of the city of Rome or AUC. The French revolutionary calendar started counting its years from the founding of the Republic.
The point is that it is not 2002 anymore than it is any of these or a multitude of other possible dates. Common usage and convenience is the only reason we continue to use 2002.
Is there a better epoch date? Well, if you wanted to use a date that would best express how much time has passed since time began, you would use a number near 13 billion. Any number around 13 billion is closer by magnitudes to the true age of the universe than 2002.
This is the basic idea of AllTime.
The purpose of AllTime is to popularize the use of the age of the universe as part of the way people commonly think about their place in the continuum of time.
Welcome to AllTime.
The Discovery of AllTime
The discovery of the expanding universe by Edwin Hubble in the late 1920's led to the Big Bang theory. As science became more convinced that the Big Bang was the hypothesis that best fit the data the debate shifted from if there was a big bang to when it took place.
We began the AllTime project in 13.2 B 1998 because we saw the potential of a new way of envisioning time. We began to wonder what it might mean and how it might work.
AllTime is a work in progress. We started exploring the implications of AllTime far before science had honed in on the actual age of the universe. The actual age of the universe is still in flux. When we started the AllTime Project in 13.2 B 1998, the set of numbers scientists believed could contain the right number for the age of the universe was between 12 Billion and 20 Billion. (Billion is sometimes written as Gyrs) This set has been reduced to between 12 Billion and 14.4 Billion with 13.2 Billion being the most likely number.
See:
Setting New Constraints on the Age of the Universe
by Ferreras, Melchiorri, Silk
in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 327 (4) L47-L5.
To purchase a copy of this article click here.
When you write 13.2 B on your letter you are using the most recent scientific estimation of the age of the universe. This estimate maybe further refined as more and more precise experiments are completed, but we predict that in the near future a consensus will be reached as to a commonly accepted age of the universe. One reason we predict this will happen is AllTime itself. In other words, the value of being able to think of time in the direction that time’s arrow travels will ultimately over ride the quibbling over the final fine tuned date.
The discovery of the expanding universe by Edwin Hubble in the late 1920's led to the Big Bang theory. As science became more convinced that the Big Bang was the hypothesis that best fit the data the debate shifted from if there was a big bang to when it took place.
We began the AllTime project in 13.2 B 1998 because we saw the potential of a new way of envisioning time. We began to wonder what it might mean and how it might work.
AllTime is a work in progress. We started exploring the implications of AllTime far before science had honed in on the actual age of the universe. The actual age of the universe is still in flux. When we started the AllTime Project in 13.2 B 1998, the set of numbers scientists believed could contain the right number for the age of the universe was between 12 Billion and 20 Billion. (Billion is sometimes written as Gyrs) This set has been reduced to between 12 Billion and 14.4 Billion with 13.2 Billion being the most likely number.
See:
Setting New Constraints on the Age of the Universe
by Ferreras, Melchiorri, Silk
in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 327 (4) L47-L5.
To purchase a copy of this article click here.
When you write 13.2 B on your letter you are using the most recent scientific estimation of the age of the universe. This estimate maybe further refined as more and more precise experiments are completed, but we predict that in the near future a consensus will be reached as to a commonly accepted age of the universe. One reason we predict this will happen is AllTime itself. In other words, the value of being able to think of time in the direction that time’s arrow travels will ultimately over ride the quibbling over the final fine tuned date.
The Science of AllTime
Is AllTime ever going to be precise enough to be used?
Versions of all time are already in use. The following is from the October (13.2 B) edition of National Geographic.
AllTime is a system that best approximates the age of the universe to a reasonable margin of error as determined by the best science to date.
There is a popular belief that science is prone to immense conceptual upsets and is therefore unreliable. What is true today wont be tomorrow. This is not the case , for the most part science is cumulative and although the road to the discovery of the age of the universe has been rocky and full of many egos entrenched behind scant and at time inaccurate information claiming their number unimpeachable we have observed a steady refinement of the information over time.
Bishop Ussher arrived at the age of the universe in 16xx that was uncanny, it was 6pm Saturday, October 22, 4004 BC science isn’t going to achieve this level of accuracy nor does it need to.
Discovering The Age of the Universe
The Most Up To Date Scientific Information
Books and Articles
Two new books and one new paper have recently been released on the age of the universe.
Measuring Eternity, The Search for the Beginning of Time by Martin Gorst (13.2B) 2001 Broadway Books.
The Birth of Time, How Astronomers Measured the Age of the Universe by John Gribbin (13.2B) 2001 Yale Nota Bene.
Setting New Constraints on the Age of the Universe by Ferreras,Melchiorri,Silk in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 327 (4) L47-L5
Measuring Eternity should be read first, it is a delightful over view of the West’s effort to find a starting point for time beginning with Bishop Ussher’s very precise pronouncement of 6pm Saturday, October 22, 4004 BC. Clarence Darrow asked during the Scopes trial “Is that Eastern or Standard time?” Ussher arrived at this number by count up all the "begats" in the Bible from Adam to Jesus. Although his methodology was unassailable the information he was analyzing was not and the rest of the book traces other intriguing efforts to get a handle on time leading up to today.
If you want to cut to the chase The Birth of Time is the book to read. The first chapter summarizes what most of Measuring Eternity covers in detail and then discusses the various methodologies used by scientists to determine the age of the universe. The final chapter deals with one of the most recent discoveries – that the universe is expanding at an ever-faster rate.
Setting New Constraints on the Age of the Universe synthesizes much of the various experimental data to date and sets out the parameters and best estimate as to the age of the universe. Which is most probably 13.2 billion years with the possibility that it could be as low as 12.4 billion years or as high as 14.4 billion years. Whereas The Birth of Time explains in layman’s terms the methodologies that have been developed to measure the age of the universe this paper applies latest information to produce the most precise age of the universe estimate to date is 13,200,002,021 years.
Is AllTime ever going to be precise enough to be used?
Versions of all time are already in use. The following is from the October (13.2 B) edition of National Geographic.
AllTime is a system that best approximates the age of the universe to a reasonable margin of error as determined by the best science to date.
There is a popular belief that science is prone to immense conceptual upsets and is therefore unreliable. What is true today wont be tomorrow. This is not the case , for the most part science is cumulative and although the road to the discovery of the age of the universe has been rocky and full of many egos entrenched behind scant and at time inaccurate information claiming their number unimpeachable we have observed a steady refinement of the information over time.
Bishop Ussher arrived at the age of the universe in 16xx that was uncanny, it was 6pm Saturday, October 22, 4004 BC science isn’t going to achieve this level of accuracy nor does it need to.
Discovering The Age of the Universe
The Most Up To Date Scientific Information
Books and Articles
Two new books and one new paper have recently been released on the age of the universe.
Measuring Eternity, The Search for the Beginning of Time by Martin Gorst (13.2B) 2001 Broadway Books.
The Birth of Time, How Astronomers Measured the Age of the Universe by John Gribbin (13.2B) 2001 Yale Nota Bene.
Setting New Constraints on the Age of the Universe by Ferreras,Melchiorri,Silk in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 327 (4) L47-L5
Measuring Eternity should be read first, it is a delightful over view of the West’s effort to find a starting point for time beginning with Bishop Ussher’s very precise pronouncement of 6pm Saturday, October 22, 4004 BC. Clarence Darrow asked during the Scopes trial “Is that Eastern or Standard time?” Ussher arrived at this number by count up all the "begats" in the Bible from Adam to Jesus. Although his methodology was unassailable the information he was analyzing was not and the rest of the book traces other intriguing efforts to get a handle on time leading up to today.
If you want to cut to the chase The Birth of Time is the book to read. The first chapter summarizes what most of Measuring Eternity covers in detail and then discusses the various methodologies used by scientists to determine the age of the universe. The final chapter deals with one of the most recent discoveries – that the universe is expanding at an ever-faster rate.
Setting New Constraints on the Age of the Universe synthesizes much of the various experimental data to date and sets out the parameters and best estimate as to the age of the universe. Which is most probably 13.2 billion years with the possibility that it could be as low as 12.4 billion years or as high as 14.4 billion years. Whereas The Birth of Time explains in layman’s terms the methodologies that have been developed to measure the age of the universe this paper applies latest information to produce the most precise age of the universe estimate to date is 13,200,002,021 years.
AllTime in Use Today
The discovery of the expanding universe by Edwin Hubble in the late 1920's led to the Big Bang theory. As science became more convinced that the Big Bang was the hypothesis that best fit the data the debate shifted from if there was a big bang to when it took place.
We began the AllTime project in 13.2B 1998. Because we saw the potential of a new way of envisioning time we wondered what it might mean and how it might work.
We also imagined that others would also grasp this paradigm. AllTime is a meme, an idea that is latently alive in the “conceptual ether" simply waiting for anyone to grab and use it.
Remember that before AllTime every document dealing with cosmology, geology, archeology, ancient history was written in some form of negative numbers – years ago, BC etc. But if we were right and AllTime is a meme than it was only a matter of time before aspects of AllTime would begin to appear in the general population.
One such event occurred on Star Trek, Enterprise on November 28 (13.2B) 2001:
Promontus:
Capt. Archer:
Promontus:
For you, Captain.
It’s beautiful. What exactly is it?
A clock. It charts time from the beginning of the universe.
“Cold Front” Star Trek, Enterprise Episode 11 by Steve Beck and Tim Finch.
In the print world AllTime first appeared as charts. The first we are aware of was in TIME Magazine as a chart explaining the Big Bang.
The discovery of the expanding universe by Edwin Hubble in the late 1920's led to the Big Bang theory. As science became more convinced that the Big Bang was the hypothesis that best fit the data the debate shifted from if there was a big bang to when it took place.
We began the AllTime project in 13.2B 1998. Because we saw the potential of a new way of envisioning time we wondered what it might mean and how it might work.
We also imagined that others would also grasp this paradigm. AllTime is a meme, an idea that is latently alive in the “conceptual ether" simply waiting for anyone to grab and use it.
Remember that before AllTime every document dealing with cosmology, geology, archeology, ancient history was written in some form of negative numbers – years ago, BC etc. But if we were right and AllTime is a meme than it was only a matter of time before aspects of AllTime would begin to appear in the general population.
One such event occurred on Star Trek, Enterprise on November 28 (13.2B) 2001:
Promontus:
Capt. Archer:
Promontus:
For you, Captain.
It’s beautiful. What exactly is it?
A clock. It charts time from the beginning of the universe.
“Cold Front” Star Trek, Enterprise Episode 11 by Steve Beck and Tim Finch.
In the print world AllTime first appeared as charts. The first we are aware of was in TIME Magazine as a chart explaining the Big Bang.
Star Trek and The Clock Of AllTime
Star Trek's Capt. Archer:
First Human To Receive a Clock of AllTime
Excerpt from Script: Star Trek, Enterprise on November 28 (13.2B) 2001:
Promontus:
For you, Captain.
Capt. Archer:
It’s beautiful. What exactly is it?
Promontus:
A clock. It charts time from the beginning of the universe.
“Cold Front” Star Trek, Enterprise Episode 11 by Steve Beck and Tim Finch.
OK Capt. Archer is not a real human being, he’s an actor in a sci-fi TV show (try to tell trekky fans that), but the Clock of AllTime is real. Since (13.7B) 1998 Chris Hardman, Artistic Director of Antenna, based in the Virgo Cluster, Milky Way Galaxy, Solar system, planet Earth, north of the Golden Gate, (Star Fleet Command Headquarters is just south of the Golden Gate) has been working on a clock like that Promontus announced “charts time from the beginning of the universe.”
“I was thinking of a theatrical way to respond to the (at that time) upcoming Millennium celebration and it struck me- why celebrate 2000 years when we should be celebrating all of time?”
The answer to that question became AllTime: an all-inclusive vision of time which counts time from the Big Bang.
Star trek episodes begin with a star date, a system that Gene Roddenberry admits is a fictitious invention - devoid of a logical basis, (some trekkies have turned stardates into the date the episode was first aired thus “Cold Front” appeared on stardate 0111.28 )
Humans are presently using equally illogical dating systems, for instance many human believe the present date is 2002 (Gregorian calendar) other believe it’s 4699 (Chinese calendar) still others believe it’s 5763 (Hebrew calendar).
AllTime counts time from the beginning of time. It is the only truly universal time system. No visiting alien would be able to relate to the time system now in use on earth because they wouldn’t understand the points of origin. The birth of Jesus was not a universal event but the beginning of the universe is and would be known by all intelligent beings anywhere in the cosmos.
Star Trek's Capt. Archer:
First Human To Receive a Clock of AllTime
Excerpt from Script: Star Trek, Enterprise on November 28 (13.2B) 2001:
Promontus:
For you, Captain.
Capt. Archer:
It’s beautiful. What exactly is it?
Promontus:
A clock. It charts time from the beginning of the universe.
“Cold Front” Star Trek, Enterprise Episode 11 by Steve Beck and Tim Finch.
OK Capt. Archer is not a real human being, he’s an actor in a sci-fi TV show (try to tell trekky fans that), but the Clock of AllTime is real. Since (13.7B) 1998 Chris Hardman, Artistic Director of Antenna, based in the Virgo Cluster, Milky Way Galaxy, Solar system, planet Earth, north of the Golden Gate, (Star Fleet Command Headquarters is just south of the Golden Gate) has been working on a clock like that Promontus announced “charts time from the beginning of the universe.”
“I was thinking of a theatrical way to respond to the (at that time) upcoming Millennium celebration and it struck me- why celebrate 2000 years when we should be celebrating all of time?”
The answer to that question became AllTime: an all-inclusive vision of time which counts time from the Big Bang.
Star trek episodes begin with a star date, a system that Gene Roddenberry admits is a fictitious invention - devoid of a logical basis, (some trekkies have turned stardates into the date the episode was first aired thus “Cold Front” appeared on stardate 0111.28 )
Humans are presently using equally illogical dating systems, for instance many human believe the present date is 2002 (Gregorian calendar) other believe it’s 4699 (Chinese calendar) still others believe it’s 5763 (Hebrew calendar).
AllTime counts time from the beginning of time. It is the only truly universal time system. No visiting alien would be able to relate to the time system now in use on earth because they wouldn’t understand the points of origin. The birth of Jesus was not a universal event but the beginning of the universe is and would be known by all intelligent beings anywhere in the cosmos.
Cultural Value of AllTime
The Gregorian calendar has been growing in acceptance worldwide as the common business calendar due in part to Euro / American economic and military power. Yet 70 percent of the world is not Euro / American or Christian and therefore the basis era, the Christian era that underlies the Gregorian calendar is a cultural anathema for many if not most people who use the calendar.
How might AllTime effect this issue?
In our overview we introduced AllTime in its most pure form. Pure AllTime would call this year 13.2B and next year would therefore be 13.2B 1. This would do away with all prior cultural calendars and start anew counting time from the Big Bang. But it’s difficult to imagine that long held eras and calendric systems are going to be replaced by AllTime overnight so we propose that AllTime be wedded to the various eras presently in use. (You might like to imagine this as a temporary measure until a global AllTime date is agreed upon and established.)
We talked about the AllTime hybrid in our introduction and used the Gregorian calendar as our example 13.2B 2002 but we could easily created some other AllTime hybrids such as 13.2B 1422 Islamic or 13.2B 5763 Chinese. Although pure AllTime would create the most universal calendar the AllTime hybrid using various cultural eras may also have a profound effect on how we think about our shared history of time.
Here’s why.
The majority of epoch in use today are: Gregorian; 2002 BC, Hebrew; 5763BC, Chinese; 4699BC, and the Islamic; 1423BC. The differences between these epochs are not larger than five thousand years. Although five thousand years may seem large in relationship to a lifetime it’s beyond small in comparison to AllTime.
Think of it this way, if you were to walk thirteen thousand feet along a beach the last three grains of sand would represent five thousand years. (See .:.sands.:.of.:.time.:.) In other words, a speck on an elephant.
All cosmic, geological, and many early archeological numbers have error bars that exceed five thousand years. This means that these numbers are for every intent and purpose the same in any of these various cultural calendars.
One AllTime timeline would work for all systems for the vast preponderance of time, in fact all the way up to those dates that were certain to within a five thousand years. Therefore AllTime Hybrid timelines are culturally shared and interchangeable for all but the smallest sliver of time. By adopting AllTime we can come to understand that our shared heritage far outweighs our differences.
Adding AllTime to these various eras doesn’t change their relation in the short run particularly in regard to present or even ancient history (although it does get rid of all the backward numbers) but it does have a profound effect as we move back in time.
Cosmic AllTime
Science has delivered a great gift to western culture.
The first hint of the coming of this big present was when Galileo peered into the telescope and realized that we weren’t in fact at the center of the universe. This came as a great shock to the Catholic Church. Galileo was ordered to rewrite his conclusion by Rome and died under house arrest. But the empirical facts continued to overwhelm the mythological fictions and today we know that the earth is only one planet revolving around one average star, the sun, in only one galaxy, the Milky Way, in only one galaxy cluster, the Virgo cluster in only one super cluster of galaxies. There are trillions of these super clusters. This is the story of the discovery of our true place in Space.
The discovery of the true place in Time has followed a similar course. In the bible creation took only seven days and humans were there at the outset to name all of the animals and generally lord over the universe in any way they saw fit. Having the sun and stars circling the earth and humans right there at the beginning of time put us pretty much center stage. This was the heady mythology of the west. But that’s not how it turned out. Fossils and geology, carbon dating and tectonics stretched seven days into four and a half billion years and left humans occupying a particularly small slice of that time. Much has been written about the discovery of deep space much less about the discovery of deep time but the two taken together can lead to only one conclusion- the human experiment, occupying an infinitesimally small amount of space over an infinitesimally small amount of time, clearly can not be the rasion d’etre of a universe of such immense proportions. We are not the be all and end all of it all.
What are we to think?
We, you and I, are some of the luckiest homo sapiens ever because we are alive at a time when the true knowledge of how the universe came about and what it actually is and how it works and where it’s going, all this is in our grasp. No one before us has ever been able to hold in their brains as accurate a vision of the breadth and scope, through both time and space, of the whole universe as we can today.
And yet and this is the big “and yet.” - Humans are only human and there is a gigantic flaw in human nature that must be attended to if we intend to continue to continue. The flaw is this; we are one of the only species that organizes itself for the purpose of killing its own kind and we are definitively the only species that create machinery and poisons for the purpose of self-extermination.
Much human endeavor has been spent throughout time to improve the means of war and they have improved immensely. Some believe war works , the strong conquer the weak and rule over them. They take what they want and write the history so they are the heroes. War works and will continue to work until the day it doesn’t. And that day is coming our way..
We saw a glimpse of it on August 9th 1945 when 66,000 people died in a matter of a moment. That moment should have stopped any wise (the sapiens in Homo sapiens means wise) species cold. Instead we have built more bombs and improved our killing capability. We now find ourselves at a point when we are either going to blow ourselves up or while spending all our resources on war, fail to notice that we have severed our relation to the planet that sustains us and will succumb to the looming ecological disaster. Either way, if we don’t change our behavior, the human species will have the dubious distinction of being the only species on the planet earth that knowinglycaused it own extinction.
Yet we are also an animals that has the ability to modify our behavior.
We all know the road to peace. It is simple and it has been known for centuries: it is – do unto others, as you would have them do unto you. If you don’t want to live in fear of becoming homeless create a world in which there is no homelessness, if you don’t want to live in fear of suddenly becoming poverty stricken create a world that has no poverty if you don’t want to be killed don’t kill. etc etc. etc.. We all know this to be true yet there is, I suspect., no more than approximately two dozen people on the earth at any one time that actually act on this conviction and not one of them is presently in a position of power.
What if the humans that were our parents or their parents’ parents had cured themselves of the disease of war, what a legacy we would have? Can you imagine walking through Carthage or Dresden or the summer palace of Imperial china or being able to read the books from the library at Alexandria to name a very few of the places and things war has destroyed. Remember reading about how Napoleons gunners shot the nose of off the Sphinx – what were they thinking?
The pain we inflict on each other is the pain we are inflicting on ourselves it is the knowledge that we could make our lives and everyone else’s exceedingly joyful and we are failing to do so and this is al the more poignant because it’s only ourselves that gain.
The chances of pulling this off would require a miracle. We could do this in style the human species could enjoy it and be proud of its accomplishments.
About 5 billion years from now the sun is going to go super novae and if the earth is not sucked into the fireball it will be fused together like a marble. There will be no mark of the human species, or anything else, left. We are living in an amazing moment when we can see almost all of the entire universal story and our place in it. We may very possibly be the only players to behold all this and what joys if we were wise enough not to throw it all away.
There are at least one hundred billion galaxies in the universe and not one of these galaxies is gong to care one whit if we succumb or solve this chronic disease of war but we should care because we have all to gain or everything to lose.
The universe is an immense very uniform expanding cellular structure with the cell walls made of sheets of galactic super clusters enclosing massive empty voids.
About 50 million light years from the center of one such supercluster called Virgo is a giant spiral galaxy - the Milky Way. About 25,000 light years from the center of the milky way on one of the spirals called the Orion arm is an ordinary yellow star, average both in size and temperature. This is the sun. Around this sun revolve nine planets, the third one is the Earth.
The earth is about 4.5 billion years old. Life began soon after the Earth cooled but remained as single cell organisms for around three billion years then in a flurry of creativity multi-celled organisms of every conceivable type filled the oceans and land. Through evolutionary shape-shifting a mammal called Homo sapiens arrived on the scene. In a very short period of time. This strange mammal learned to speak and then in the last several thousand years learned to read and write and more recently to make accurate observations of how the universe works.
The Gregorian calendar has been growing in acceptance worldwide as the common business calendar due in part to Euro / American economic and military power. Yet 70 percent of the world is not Euro / American or Christian and therefore the basis era, the Christian era that underlies the Gregorian calendar is a cultural anathema for many if not most people who use the calendar.
How might AllTime effect this issue?
In our overview we introduced AllTime in its most pure form. Pure AllTime would call this year 13.2B and next year would therefore be 13.2B 1. This would do away with all prior cultural calendars and start anew counting time from the Big Bang. But it’s difficult to imagine that long held eras and calendric systems are going to be replaced by AllTime overnight so we propose that AllTime be wedded to the various eras presently in use. (You might like to imagine this as a temporary measure until a global AllTime date is agreed upon and established.)
We talked about the AllTime hybrid in our introduction and used the Gregorian calendar as our example 13.2B 2002 but we could easily created some other AllTime hybrids such as 13.2B 1422 Islamic or 13.2B 5763 Chinese. Although pure AllTime would create the most universal calendar the AllTime hybrid using various cultural eras may also have a profound effect on how we think about our shared history of time.
Here’s why.
The majority of epoch in use today are: Gregorian; 2002 BC, Hebrew; 5763BC, Chinese; 4699BC, and the Islamic; 1423BC. The differences between these epochs are not larger than five thousand years. Although five thousand years may seem large in relationship to a lifetime it’s beyond small in comparison to AllTime.
Think of it this way, if you were to walk thirteen thousand feet along a beach the last three grains of sand would represent five thousand years. (See .:.sands.:.of.:.time.:.) In other words, a speck on an elephant.
All cosmic, geological, and many early archeological numbers have error bars that exceed five thousand years. This means that these numbers are for every intent and purpose the same in any of these various cultural calendars.
One AllTime timeline would work for all systems for the vast preponderance of time, in fact all the way up to those dates that were certain to within a five thousand years. Therefore AllTime Hybrid timelines are culturally shared and interchangeable for all but the smallest sliver of time. By adopting AllTime we can come to understand that our shared heritage far outweighs our differences.
Adding AllTime to these various eras doesn’t change their relation in the short run particularly in regard to present or even ancient history (although it does get rid of all the backward numbers) but it does have a profound effect as we move back in time.
Cosmic AllTime
Science has delivered a great gift to western culture.
The first hint of the coming of this big present was when Galileo peered into the telescope and realized that we weren’t in fact at the center of the universe. This came as a great shock to the Catholic Church. Galileo was ordered to rewrite his conclusion by Rome and died under house arrest. But the empirical facts continued to overwhelm the mythological fictions and today we know that the earth is only one planet revolving around one average star, the sun, in only one galaxy, the Milky Way, in only one galaxy cluster, the Virgo cluster in only one super cluster of galaxies. There are trillions of these super clusters. This is the story of the discovery of our true place in Space.
The discovery of the true place in Time has followed a similar course. In the bible creation took only seven days and humans were there at the outset to name all of the animals and generally lord over the universe in any way they saw fit. Having the sun and stars circling the earth and humans right there at the beginning of time put us pretty much center stage. This was the heady mythology of the west. But that’s not how it turned out. Fossils and geology, carbon dating and tectonics stretched seven days into four and a half billion years and left humans occupying a particularly small slice of that time. Much has been written about the discovery of deep space much less about the discovery of deep time but the two taken together can lead to only one conclusion- the human experiment, occupying an infinitesimally small amount of space over an infinitesimally small amount of time, clearly can not be the rasion d’etre of a universe of such immense proportions. We are not the be all and end all of it all.
What are we to think?
We, you and I, are some of the luckiest homo sapiens ever because we are alive at a time when the true knowledge of how the universe came about and what it actually is and how it works and where it’s going, all this is in our grasp. No one before us has ever been able to hold in their brains as accurate a vision of the breadth and scope, through both time and space, of the whole universe as we can today.
And yet and this is the big “and yet.” - Humans are only human and there is a gigantic flaw in human nature that must be attended to if we intend to continue to continue. The flaw is this; we are one of the only species that organizes itself for the purpose of killing its own kind and we are definitively the only species that create machinery and poisons for the purpose of self-extermination.
Much human endeavor has been spent throughout time to improve the means of war and they have improved immensely. Some believe war works , the strong conquer the weak and rule over them. They take what they want and write the history so they are the heroes. War works and will continue to work until the day it doesn’t. And that day is coming our way..
We saw a glimpse of it on August 9th 1945 when 66,000 people died in a matter of a moment. That moment should have stopped any wise (the sapiens in Homo sapiens means wise) species cold. Instead we have built more bombs and improved our killing capability. We now find ourselves at a point when we are either going to blow ourselves up or while spending all our resources on war, fail to notice that we have severed our relation to the planet that sustains us and will succumb to the looming ecological disaster. Either way, if we don’t change our behavior, the human species will have the dubious distinction of being the only species on the planet earth that knowinglycaused it own extinction.
Yet we are also an animals that has the ability to modify our behavior.
We all know the road to peace. It is simple and it has been known for centuries: it is – do unto others, as you would have them do unto you. If you don’t want to live in fear of becoming homeless create a world in which there is no homelessness, if you don’t want to live in fear of suddenly becoming poverty stricken create a world that has no poverty if you don’t want to be killed don’t kill. etc etc. etc.. We all know this to be true yet there is, I suspect., no more than approximately two dozen people on the earth at any one time that actually act on this conviction and not one of them is presently in a position of power.
What if the humans that were our parents or their parents’ parents had cured themselves of the disease of war, what a legacy we would have? Can you imagine walking through Carthage or Dresden or the summer palace of Imperial china or being able to read the books from the library at Alexandria to name a very few of the places and things war has destroyed. Remember reading about how Napoleons gunners shot the nose of off the Sphinx – what were they thinking?
The pain we inflict on each other is the pain we are inflicting on ourselves it is the knowledge that we could make our lives and everyone else’s exceedingly joyful and we are failing to do so and this is al the more poignant because it’s only ourselves that gain.
The chances of pulling this off would require a miracle. We could do this in style the human species could enjoy it and be proud of its accomplishments.
About 5 billion years from now the sun is going to go super novae and if the earth is not sucked into the fireball it will be fused together like a marble. There will be no mark of the human species, or anything else, left. We are living in an amazing moment when we can see almost all of the entire universal story and our place in it. We may very possibly be the only players to behold all this and what joys if we were wise enough not to throw it all away.
There are at least one hundred billion galaxies in the universe and not one of these galaxies is gong to care one whit if we succumb or solve this chronic disease of war but we should care because we have all to gain or everything to lose.
The universe is an immense very uniform expanding cellular structure with the cell walls made of sheets of galactic super clusters enclosing massive empty voids.
About 50 million light years from the center of one such supercluster called Virgo is a giant spiral galaxy - the Milky Way. About 25,000 light years from the center of the milky way on one of the spirals called the Orion arm is an ordinary yellow star, average both in size and temperature. This is the sun. Around this sun revolve nine planets, the third one is the Earth.
The earth is about 4.5 billion years old. Life began soon after the Earth cooled but remained as single cell organisms for around three billion years then in a flurry of creativity multi-celled organisms of every conceivable type filled the oceans and land. Through evolutionary shape-shifting a mammal called Homo sapiens arrived on the scene. In a very short period of time. This strange mammal learned to speak and then in the last several thousand years learned to read and write and more recently to make accurate observations of how the universe works.
.:. sands .:. of .:. time .:.
.:. sands .:. of .:. time .:. is a is an environmental public art project that takes 13,000 plus feet of beach front and rakes it into a Zen garden of time. Visitors wearing walkmans hike along the beach viewing the sculpted sand while hearing the story of the universe starting from the big bang and ending at the present. For many visitors this is the first introduction of the new scientific cosmology based on the discovery of the Big Bang.
It is also an introduction to AllTime. .:. sands .:. of .:. time.:. is one of the first timelines to count time starting from the time that time began at the big bang. .:. sands .:. of .:. time.:. graphically represents the magnitude of scale between the time that has elapsed from the beginning of time (represented by the 13,000 feet of beach) and the amount of time we commonly consider time the last 2000 plus years (represented by a grain of sand).
.:. sands .:. of .:. time .:. suggests that we should change our thinking to embrace the entire beach length of time instead of just a mere grain of sand.
Production History
Rodeo Beach, Marin County, CA 13.2B 1998
Ocean Beach, San Francisco, CA 13.2B 1998
Burning Man, Black Rock Desert, NV 13.2B 1999
Santa Monica Beach, Santa Monica, CA 13.2B 2000
NEXT UP:
Rodeo Beach, Marin County, CA October,13.2B 2002
.:. sands .:. of .:. time .:. is a is an environmental public art project that takes 13,000 plus feet of beach front and rakes it into a Zen garden of time. Visitors wearing walkmans hike along the beach viewing the sculpted sand while hearing the story of the universe starting from the big bang and ending at the present. For many visitors this is the first introduction of the new scientific cosmology based on the discovery of the Big Bang.
It is also an introduction to AllTime. .:. sands .:. of .:. time.:. is one of the first timelines to count time starting from the time that time began at the big bang. .:. sands .:. of .:. time.:. graphically represents the magnitude of scale between the time that has elapsed from the beginning of time (represented by the 13,000 feet of beach) and the amount of time we commonly consider time the last 2000 plus years (represented by a grain of sand).
.:. sands .:. of .:. time .:. suggests that we should change our thinking to embrace the entire beach length of time instead of just a mere grain of sand.
Production History
Rodeo Beach, Marin County, CA 13.2B 1998
Ocean Beach, San Francisco, CA 13.2B 1998
Burning Man, Black Rock Desert, NV 13.2B 1999
Santa Monica Beach, Santa Monica, CA 13.2B 2000
NEXT UP:
Rodeo Beach, Marin County, CA October,13.2B 2002
The Clock Of AllTime
Recent discoveries in astrophysics have made it possible to estimate the age of the Universe, and therefore to know what time it is.
The Clock Of AllTime is the first clock which incorporates this new knowledge and reflects the 13.2 billion years which have passed since time began at the moment of the Big Bang. This makes The Clock Of AllTime the most precise chronological instrument to date.
Until very recently no one knew when time began. Prior chronological systems counted time from arbitrarily determined points (such as the birth of Jesus about 2000 years ago) and counted time backwards (such as BC or Years Ago) yet time did not start at some culturally determined event nor does time travel backwards.
AllTime represents the first chronological system that counts time as progressing forward from the beginning of time.
Soon science will determine the date of the Big Bang to an accuracy that will make AllTime a workable universal chronological system. We will then be able to “reverse” our “backward” view of time and instead be able to conceive of both the universe and time as they unfold together. At that time it will be possible to build the first Clock Of AllTime.
For Sausalito California’s Millennium celebration called the Big Bang ANTENNA created a large prototype of one such Clock Of AllTime. This clock was designed to float on Richardson Bay just off Sausalito’s shores. When finished in earnest the clock would be powered by the tidal action of the bay.
Recent discoveries in astrophysics have made it possible to estimate the age of the Universe, and therefore to know what time it is.
The Clock Of AllTime is the first clock which incorporates this new knowledge and reflects the 13.2 billion years which have passed since time began at the moment of the Big Bang. This makes The Clock Of AllTime the most precise chronological instrument to date.
Until very recently no one knew when time began. Prior chronological systems counted time from arbitrarily determined points (such as the birth of Jesus about 2000 years ago) and counted time backwards (such as BC or Years Ago) yet time did not start at some culturally determined event nor does time travel backwards.
AllTime represents the first chronological system that counts time as progressing forward from the beginning of time.
Soon science will determine the date of the Big Bang to an accuracy that will make AllTime a workable universal chronological system. We will then be able to “reverse” our “backward” view of time and instead be able to conceive of both the universe and time as they unfold together. At that time it will be possible to build the first Clock Of AllTime.
For Sausalito California’s Millennium celebration called the Big Bang ANTENNA created a large prototype of one such Clock Of AllTime. This clock was designed to float on Richardson Bay just off Sausalito’s shores. When finished in earnest the clock would be powered by the tidal action of the bay.
The ECOlogical Calendar
Because we humans have lived with a functioning calendar for many centuries, we have come to take this time-tool for granted. In this age of increasing urban dwelling, the calendar has become a clock; a continuous, unstoppable march of numbers, a business machine telling us when to be where.
Is this all we want from our calendar?
Many people feel out of touch with nature and are looking for ways to reconnect with the cosmos. ANTENNA offers a calendar that echoes our relationship to nature, to time, and to the seasons.
The ECOlogical CALENDAR is meant to help connect us with events outside ourselves, outside our culture, outside our species. In short, to better connect us with the universe through the natural cycles of the year.
We hope you will pin this calendar on your wall and visit it often to get a glimpse of just a few of the natural phenomena that make each day an amazing event.
Inspiration for the ECOlogical CALENDAR
Much of the inspiration for the creation of this calendar comes from the French Revolutionary Calendar of 1793. The French wished to do away with the ancien regime and replace it with a society of equals which they viewed as a more natural state of being.
As part of their re-envisioning the world, they instituted a new calendar. They jettisoned the old Roman months, renaming them to better reflect the seasons. They also replaced the saints’ and martyrs’ days with names of plants and animals.
It was this effort to honor the natural world (instead of the acts of man) which inspired the ECOlogical CALENDAR.
The Lean Mean Calendar Machine
This is an example of a modern calendar design, sparse and clean. It is also a powerful image of life as perpetual drudgery, with each day a large number invariably leading to the next. Here the weekdays have devolved into letters. The month has shrunk into a small note in the corner. The calendar has been reduced to one page of numbers after another. Having fun yet?
Habits are Habitual
The purpose of the ECOlogical CALENDAR is to suggest new ways to think about time. As part of this exploration it may be interesting to remind ourselves of what we now take for granted.
Take December for example. It’s hard to imagine a winter wonderland without December, that frosty last month before the new year. The twelfth month with the twelfth night and the twelve days of Christmas, but wait dec means ten does it not? Yes. So December means the tenth month, right?
In fact starting with September (meaning the seventh month) all the month names are off by two. October (meaning the eighth month) is the tenth month, etc.
We mention this because imagining new names for the months becomes easier after one chuckles at the quirkiness of those in use today.
Are there any great fans of Julius and Augustus Caesar still out there? If not, then why do we celebrate these old roman emperors by continuing to call July and August by the dead emperors’ names?
Anti-Anthro
Science warns us about anthropomorphizing nature, that is, imbuing nature with human attributes, but what about the flip side?
The universe has been in action for about 13.2 billion years and human participation in this immense adventure is negligible. As Mark Twain put it, “If the Eiffel Tower were now representing the world’s age, the skin of paint on the pinnacle-knob at its summit would represent man’s share of that age, and anybody would perceive that that skin was what the tower was built for. I reckon they would, I dunno.”
We are now beginning to understand that the universe is not about us and that we need to de-anthrocentrize our sensibilities so we can better understand and experience it. But how?
If you want to get an overview of the earth, you start with a globe not a street map and if you want of get an overview of the physical universe, you start with a map of the universe - not of the earth.
When dealing with time you start with an overview of the 13.4 billion years since the Big Bang, not the 2002 years of the Gregorian Calendar.
And when looking at the year you begin with an overview of the real nature of the year; the seasons, lunations and days, the tides, the birth and death of flora and fauna - not a human overlay celebrating the lives of famous people.
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Features to be Found in the ECOlogical Calendar
Seasons, Solstices and Equinoxes
The first and most profound division of the year is the four seasons. Few calendars even pay lip-service to this fact. The ECOlogical CALENDAR recognizes the cycle of the seasons. Each section of the ECOlogical CALENDAR shows one season starting and ending at a solstice or equinox.
Moon Cycles
What is called a month in the Gregorian calendar is not truly a representation of the cycle of the moon. It is instead approximately twelve moon cycles forced into a solar year.
The ECOlogical CALENDAR shows the actual lunar cycle and the phases of the moon.
Alternative Names for the Months
The ECOlogical CALENDAR offers seasonally appropriate names for the months. The Gregorian month names are also provided.
Weeks
There is no natural phenomenon that cycles every seven days. The week is a human construct. The ECOlogical CALENDAR therefore keeps the days flowing forward instead of stacking them by weeks. The weekdays are listed as reference due to common usage.
Day Names
To reinforce the importance of a particular day in the natural flow of the year and to minimize the idea that days are just dates on a calendar, the ECOlogical CALENDAR has given each day a name appropriate to its season. The explanation of the name can be found directly below the name. There is an added bonus for those poetically inclined. Documents could be dated, for instance, Winter, Ember, SilentSnow whereas in the Gregorian calendar it would read Dec. 23rd. By using a name the date stops serving merely as a number marker and instead becomes a poem about a point in time.
Relationship of Day to Night
A running chart shows the approximate amount of light to dark throughout the year, including the approximate sunrises and sunsets of the solstices and equinoxes.
Star Chart
As the earth revolves around the sun, an entirely different panorama of stars can be seen in the night sky. At the top of our calendar we show much of the night sky as it appears in the northern hemisphere throughout winter.
A New Epoch Date:
Counting Time from the Beginning of Time
Calendars presently in use reflect cultural or religiously derived epoch dates. The Hebrew calendar year is 5763, the Chinese is 4699, The present Gregorian year is 2002.
Due to global business practices, more and more humans are adopting the Gregorian calendric system which starts at the beginning of the Christian epoch. Thus the year printed on many, if not most, calendars is 2002. Meaning 2002 years have passed since the birth of Jesus.
This date has much to do with a specific, cultural sensibility but little to do with the grand sweep of time itself. About 13.4 billion years has passed since time, and the universe, began at the Big Bang.
The ECOlogical CALENDAR presents science’s best knowledge to date as to the age of the universe. (We also present the Gregorian and other year dates for reference).
The Fine Print
The ECOlogical CALENDAR tells of phenomenon which are actually observable somewhere in the northern hemisphere at the point they are presented. Obviously extreme northern latitude winter conditions will not be experienced near the equator.
Because we humans have lived with a functioning calendar for many centuries, we have come to take this time-tool for granted. In this age of increasing urban dwelling, the calendar has become a clock; a continuous, unstoppable march of numbers, a business machine telling us when to be where.
Is this all we want from our calendar?
Many people feel out of touch with nature and are looking for ways to reconnect with the cosmos. ANTENNA offers a calendar that echoes our relationship to nature, to time, and to the seasons.
The ECOlogical CALENDAR is meant to help connect us with events outside ourselves, outside our culture, outside our species. In short, to better connect us with the universe through the natural cycles of the year.
We hope you will pin this calendar on your wall and visit it often to get a glimpse of just a few of the natural phenomena that make each day an amazing event.
Inspiration for the ECOlogical CALENDAR
Much of the inspiration for the creation of this calendar comes from the French Revolutionary Calendar of 1793. The French wished to do away with the ancien regime and replace it with a society of equals which they viewed as a more natural state of being.
As part of their re-envisioning the world, they instituted a new calendar. They jettisoned the old Roman months, renaming them to better reflect the seasons. They also replaced the saints’ and martyrs’ days with names of plants and animals.
It was this effort to honor the natural world (instead of the acts of man) which inspired the ECOlogical CALENDAR.
The Lean Mean Calendar Machine
This is an example of a modern calendar design, sparse and clean. It is also a powerful image of life as perpetual drudgery, with each day a large number invariably leading to the next. Here the weekdays have devolved into letters. The month has shrunk into a small note in the corner. The calendar has been reduced to one page of numbers after another. Having fun yet?
Habits are Habitual
The purpose of the ECOlogical CALENDAR is to suggest new ways to think about time. As part of this exploration it may be interesting to remind ourselves of what we now take for granted.
Take December for example. It’s hard to imagine a winter wonderland without December, that frosty last month before the new year. The twelfth month with the twelfth night and the twelve days of Christmas, but wait dec means ten does it not? Yes. So December means the tenth month, right?
In fact starting with September (meaning the seventh month) all the month names are off by two. October (meaning the eighth month) is the tenth month, etc.
We mention this because imagining new names for the months becomes easier after one chuckles at the quirkiness of those in use today.
Are there any great fans of Julius and Augustus Caesar still out there? If not, then why do we celebrate these old roman emperors by continuing to call July and August by the dead emperors’ names?
Anti-Anthro
Science warns us about anthropomorphizing nature, that is, imbuing nature with human attributes, but what about the flip side?
The universe has been in action for about 13.2 billion years and human participation in this immense adventure is negligible. As Mark Twain put it, “If the Eiffel Tower were now representing the world’s age, the skin of paint on the pinnacle-knob at its summit would represent man’s share of that age, and anybody would perceive that that skin was what the tower was built for. I reckon they would, I dunno.”
We are now beginning to understand that the universe is not about us and that we need to de-anthrocentrize our sensibilities so we can better understand and experience it. But how?
If you want to get an overview of the earth, you start with a globe not a street map and if you want of get an overview of the physical universe, you start with a map of the universe - not of the earth.
When dealing with time you start with an overview of the 13.4 billion years since the Big Bang, not the 2002 years of the Gregorian Calendar.
And when looking at the year you begin with an overview of the real nature of the year; the seasons, lunations and days, the tides, the birth and death of flora and fauna - not a human overlay celebrating the lives of famous people.
Click to enlarge
Features to be Found in the ECOlogical Calendar
Seasons, Solstices and Equinoxes
The first and most profound division of the year is the four seasons. Few calendars even pay lip-service to this fact. The ECOlogical CALENDAR recognizes the cycle of the seasons. Each section of the ECOlogical CALENDAR shows one season starting and ending at a solstice or equinox.
Moon Cycles
What is called a month in the Gregorian calendar is not truly a representation of the cycle of the moon. It is instead approximately twelve moon cycles forced into a solar year.
The ECOlogical CALENDAR shows the actual lunar cycle and the phases of the moon.
Alternative Names for the Months
The ECOlogical CALENDAR offers seasonally appropriate names for the months. The Gregorian month names are also provided.
Weeks
There is no natural phenomenon that cycles every seven days. The week is a human construct. The ECOlogical CALENDAR therefore keeps the days flowing forward instead of stacking them by weeks. The weekdays are listed as reference due to common usage.
Day Names
To reinforce the importance of a particular day in the natural flow of the year and to minimize the idea that days are just dates on a calendar, the ECOlogical CALENDAR has given each day a name appropriate to its season. The explanation of the name can be found directly below the name. There is an added bonus for those poetically inclined. Documents could be dated, for instance, Winter, Ember, SilentSnow whereas in the Gregorian calendar it would read Dec. 23rd. By using a name the date stops serving merely as a number marker and instead becomes a poem about a point in time.
Relationship of Day to Night
A running chart shows the approximate amount of light to dark throughout the year, including the approximate sunrises and sunsets of the solstices and equinoxes.
Star Chart
As the earth revolves around the sun, an entirely different panorama of stars can be seen in the night sky. At the top of our calendar we show much of the night sky as it appears in the northern hemisphere throughout winter.
A New Epoch Date:
Counting Time from the Beginning of Time
Calendars presently in use reflect cultural or religiously derived epoch dates. The Hebrew calendar year is 5763, the Chinese is 4699, The present Gregorian year is 2002.
Due to global business practices, more and more humans are adopting the Gregorian calendric system which starts at the beginning of the Christian epoch. Thus the year printed on many, if not most, calendars is 2002. Meaning 2002 years have passed since the birth of Jesus.
This date has much to do with a specific, cultural sensibility but little to do with the grand sweep of time itself. About 13.4 billion years has passed since time, and the universe, began at the Big Bang.
The ECOlogical CALENDAR presents science’s best knowledge to date as to the age of the universe. (We also present the Gregorian and other year dates for reference).
The Fine Print
The ECOlogical CALENDAR tells of phenomenon which are actually observable somewhere in the northern hemisphere at the point they are presented. Obviously extreme northern latitude winter conditions will not be experienced near the equator.
Conclusion
We hope you will join the project by using AllTime in your daily life. Write 13.2 B on all of your correspondence and tell everyone why you’re doing it.
And why are you doing it? Because it is the most accurate expression of time? Because it gives us a better sense of our place in the universe? Because it moves us away from the anthropomorphic illusion of a universe constructed for us alone? Because it distances us from specific religious or cultural bias? Maybe all of the above or some other reason we haven’t thought of yet.
Whatever it may be, we welcome you to AllTime.
People who believe that the year is 2002, who use 2002 calendars and date their documents with 2002, live in a miniscule chronological world. Most human history lies outside the last two thousand years. Most old growth trees are older than two thousand years. In fact most everything you see is older that two thousand years, the rocks, ridges, oceans and sky.
Yet there is nothing older than the beginning of time. Everything that now exists started then, every atom and all the energy that is here today began at the Big Bang. When you use AllTime you are stepping outside of a short-sighted religious / cultural view of time and linking up to an all-encompassing one. By adopting AllTime you are helping to usher in a time when we will communally view the unfolding of the universe as our shared legacy.
Summary of the Advantages of AllTime
• AllTime best reflects the true nature of time.
Time started at the Big Bang.
• AllTime best expresses the length of time that has passed since the beginning of time.
AllTime uses the latest scientific information to present the most accurate date of the universe. No other calendric system comes near to the actual age of the universe.
• AllTime is a universal, scientific norm.
Other calendric systems count time from cultural or religiously derived epochs.
• AllTime expresses our true place in time.
Most other calendric systems express only a portion of the human experience whereas AllTime encompass the entire story of the universe.
• AllTime counts all of time as moving forward.
Most other systems count the vast majority of time in reverse.
• AllTime brings the past and the present into harmony as one.
Many other systems counted some time in reverse and other time forward.
• AllTime does away with cultural / religious bias.
Most calendric systems begin their epoch at a cultural or religious event, AllTime begins on a universally shared event – the beginning of time.
We hope you will join the project by using AllTime in your daily life. Write 13.2 B on all of your correspondence and tell everyone why you’re doing it.
And why are you doing it? Because it is the most accurate expression of time? Because it gives us a better sense of our place in the universe? Because it moves us away from the anthropomorphic illusion of a universe constructed for us alone? Because it distances us from specific religious or cultural bias? Maybe all of the above or some other reason we haven’t thought of yet.
Whatever it may be, we welcome you to AllTime.
People who believe that the year is 2002, who use 2002 calendars and date their documents with 2002, live in a miniscule chronological world. Most human history lies outside the last two thousand years. Most old growth trees are older than two thousand years. In fact most everything you see is older that two thousand years, the rocks, ridges, oceans and sky.
Yet there is nothing older than the beginning of time. Everything that now exists started then, every atom and all the energy that is here today began at the Big Bang. When you use AllTime you are stepping outside of a short-sighted religious / cultural view of time and linking up to an all-encompassing one. By adopting AllTime you are helping to usher in a time when we will communally view the unfolding of the universe as our shared legacy.
Summary of the Advantages of AllTime
• AllTime best reflects the true nature of time.
Time started at the Big Bang.
• AllTime best expresses the length of time that has passed since the beginning of time.
AllTime uses the latest scientific information to present the most accurate date of the universe. No other calendric system comes near to the actual age of the universe.
• AllTime is a universal, scientific norm.
Other calendric systems count time from cultural or religiously derived epochs.
• AllTime expresses our true place in time.
Most other calendric systems express only a portion of the human experience whereas AllTime encompass the entire story of the universe.
• AllTime counts all of time as moving forward.
Most other systems count the vast majority of time in reverse.
• AllTime brings the past and the present into harmony as one.
Many other systems counted some time in reverse and other time forward.
• AllTime does away with cultural / religious bias.
Most calendric systems begin their epoch at a cultural or religious event, AllTime begins on a universally shared event – the beginning of time.
AllTime Explanation
Dear Friend,
You may have noticed that we dated the enclosed correspondence 13.2B 2002 and you may be wondering why?
Certainly the 2002 is familiar- it is the date we commonly use based on the Gregorian calendar but the 13.2B may be unfamiliar to you.
Our perception of time is going through a revolutionary transformation. We now know that the universe began at the Big Bang and we have a good idea as to when that was. The 13.2 B means 13.2 Billion years from the Big Bang; it is sciences best estimate of the age of the universe.
We use this AllTime date to honor the true amount of time it has taken to create the universe we enjoy today. We hope you will join us and begin to use AllTime when you date your next correspondences. Let you friends know that you know what time it really is.
Join us as we begin to help ourselves and others realize our true place in time.
Dear Friend,
You may have noticed that we dated the enclosed correspondence 13.2B 2002 and you may be wondering why?
Certainly the 2002 is familiar- it is the date we commonly use based on the Gregorian calendar but the 13.2B may be unfamiliar to you.
Our perception of time is going through a revolutionary transformation. We now know that the universe began at the Big Bang and we have a good idea as to when that was. The 13.2 B means 13.2 Billion years from the Big Bang; it is sciences best estimate of the age of the universe.
We use this AllTime date to honor the true amount of time it has taken to create the universe we enjoy today. We hope you will join us and begin to use AllTime when you date your next correspondences. Let you friends know that you know what time it really is.
Join us as we begin to help ourselves and others realize our true place in time.