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This is the timeline of the Universe from Big Bang to Heat Death scenario. The different Eras of the Universe are shown. 
Usually the logarithmic scale is used for such timelines but it compresses the most interesting Stelliferous Era too much as this example shows. Therefore a double-logarithmic scale s (s*100 in the graphics) is used instead. The minimum of it is unfortunately only 1, not 0 as needed, and the negative outputs for inputs smaller than 10 are useless. Therefore the time from 0.1 to 10 years is collapsed to a single point 0, but that doesn't matter in this case because nothing special happens in the history of the universe during that time.
| year | log10 year | combination of log10log10 year and -log10(-log10 year) |
|---|---|---|
| 101000 | 1000 | 3 |
| 10100 | 100 | 2 |
| 1010 | 10 | 1 |
| 102 | 2 | 0.30 |
| 101 | 1 | 0 |
| 100 | 0 | undefined but here forced to 0 |
| 10-1 | -1 | 0 |
| 10-2 | -2 | -0.30 |
| 10-10 | -10 | -1 |
| 10-100 | -100 | -2 |
The seconds in the timescale have been converted to years by second / 31557600 using the Julian year.
See also
- Timeline of the Big Bang
- Graphical timeline of the Big Bang
- Heat death of the universe
- List of other end scenarios than Heat Death
- Timeline from Big Bang to the near cosmological future
- Graphical timeline of the Stelliferous Era
- Tiny Graphical timeline from Big Bang to Heat Death. This timeline uses the log scale for comparison with the double-logarithmic scale in this article.
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- This page was last modified on 11 September 2008, at 01:15.
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