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Age of the universe (13.82 billion y)

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If Age of the universe (13.82 billion y) was a standard unit ...

  • Time since the start of the Stone Age (3.4 million y)...more would be 1/4000 of Age of the universe
  • Time since the emergence of earliest humans (2.8 million y)...more would be 1/5000 of Age of the universe

Is That A Big Number? - The Book

Yes, there's now a book based on these numbers. Oxford University Press: July 2018.

Click here to learn more about it.

Click here for Podcast: Andrew Elliott interviewed for New Books Network.

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