The whole story, on one wall
Every chapter on this page is a band of this master chart — all 13.8 billion years on a single wall. Click to open it full size.
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The history of the world, from the Big Bang to the present day
One continuous fall through all of time — from the first flash of light to the view back home, with room to stop at every moment worth stopping for.
Thirteen chapters trace the arc: deep time gets the breathing room it deserves, human history accelerates, and the story returns at last to the stars. Each chapter opens on a scene, then goes deeper into the real history behind it. And if you'd rather take the whole journey in a single breath, there's a three-and-a-half-minute film waiting at the end of the page.
The same 13.8 billion years, drawn to scale — and then the end of the line magnified, twice, to find ourselves.
All of recorded history — Mesopotamia to this moment — is the bright gold tip of the last line: about 0.00004% of the first. We are a very new thing, telling a very old story.
This page is the long walk; the film is the flight. The same 13.8 billion years in three and a half minutes — a single camera that never stops moving, falling forward through time.
Every chapter on this page is a band of this master chart — all 13.8 billion years on a single wall. Click to open it full size.
Our story is one planet,
one species, one future.