Episode 1 Heaven and Earth Fate.
Record the pulse of the earth with shadows.
Follow the time tunnel of the camera, go to Changquiro on the northwest coast of Peru, and meet the 13 towers built by humans about 2,500 years ago to record time, their facades were originally bright white, and the walls were painted with various patterns, where you can feel the ancestors use the shadows of the 13 towers to mark the scale on the horizon, which is the movement of the sun, the ruler that measures the sky, and the calendar that once existed. Even now, the error is no more than 1-2 days.
In ancient times, we survived by recording time. ...... hunting, harvesting, traveling, or sea voyagesIt is necessary to master time, to master it, is to look up at the sky, to observe the position of the stars, the sun and the moon. Sunrise and sunset form the main theme of the earth, like the pulse of the epic earth, allowing us to mark the traces of time.
Returning glaciers and deserts – from where they came from, where they always went.
Time has left its mark on Patagonia, Argentina – glaciers. Time has drifted snow down on distant mountains in ancient times, forming patches of ice, which slowly form glaciers over time, and now it falls into Lake Argentino in large chunks, as if it were formed silently, silently melting and disappearing without a trace. The glacier has been here for 10,000 years and has a surface width of 3km and a depth of 70m. It seems to be immovable, but in fact it is slowly moving down every moment, and we have seen the glacier collapse into the water, but we have never seen the ice jump out of the lake and condense onto the glacier. We are so used to everything in front of us that we no longer ask why it always happens in a certain order, and why does time always move in one direction? Time is one of the most fundamental elements of our living experience, it will eventually lead the earth to extinction, without time, the world we know will not exist, today and yesterday will not be different, time and life are integrated, we cannot question the passage of time. The cycles of the universe seem to be very stable, and the rhythm seems to be eternal and unchanging.
Standing on the south beach of South Wales, quietly feeling the pull of the ocean and the earth's surface back and forth, listening to the friction between the sea and the seabed, which slows down the rotation of the earth and affects the trajectory of the moon. The Earth is 70 microseconds longer every day than before, and when the dinosaurs were still around, the day was 15-16 minutes shorter than it is now; Many centuries from now, will humanity no longer know that we used to have a 24-hour day? The moon moved away from the earth at a rate of 4 cm per year, and the dinosaurs must have seen a denser starry sky, a larger and rounder moon, and a more beautiful night sky.
Once a desert, one day people found diamonds, this desert came alive, it is Carmansco, the former diamond city. Standing on the desert today, you can still see the buildings left behind in those years, and you may want to tell the style of the past, but the ruins and broken walls as far as the eye can see, are in a mess. Nature silently "restored" it to its original disordered form.
Time progresses, and everything becomes disorderly. That is, it gives time a definite direction, distinguishing the past from the future, the past is more orderly, and the future inevitably becomes disordered. The state of disorder must become more and more pronounced, so that the past must be different from the future. This creates a time arrow. Decline and destruction are inevitable results of the passage of time. Day after day, moment by moment, everything is slowly moving towards disorder, destruction and decay. Disorder is a basic law of nature, as time passes, everything will always become disordered, and nothing can escape the ruthless advancement of time, which is what physicists call "entropy".
Our eternity is a cosmic moment.
The Sun and the planets of the solar system have existed for about 4.6 billion years, which is considered eternal in the eyes of humans. But the Sun will burn out in about 5 billion years, and when it burns out, its core will collapse and expand into a red giant. After the red giant continues for hundreds of thousands of years, the Sun will enter the pulsating phase, and eventually the appearance will begin to break away and gradually disperse into the solar system, expanding into a planetary nebula, and the Sun will become what we call a white dwarf. The white dwarf is just a faintly shiny pile of ashes. Only a few remnants of the former glory remained. The sun perished, and the wreckage cooled in the vast, cold space.
The fate of the sun is also the fate of all stars, and one day they will all die and the universe will be plunged into eternal darkness. The age of stars is over. The universe became cold, desolate, and lifeless. Even then, only a fraction of life in the universe has passed. There's still a long way to go, and it's hard to imagine it. Whether there are black dwarfs or not, we don't know yet, and even if they do, they will eventually disappear, turn into radiation, and enter the void universe, leaving no trace. This substance will also disappear completely. At this point, the story of the universe finally ends. For the first time in the entire history of the universe, the universe will remain eternal and unchanging. He could no longer continue in the direction of disorder, as it no longer contained any decaying matter. There will be no difference between the past, the present and the future. The time arrow is completely gone. Nothing will happen, and never will happen. When hell freezes over.
Our earth has come from ** and will go to ** again.
The Swift telescope, 600 kilometres above astronomer Nialtawil's office, is floating in space in search of the oldest stars in the universe.
On April 23, 2009, the telescope captured a small patch of the sky in the constellation Leo, which contained a long-sought target, and the small red spot in the image looked inconspicuous. But it is the afterglow of a cosmic **. A star in the depths of the universe perished. These stars are so far away that we can't see them through modern technology, but they emit gamma rays, which means that all of a sudden they are so bright that they can be seen across the universe. Further analysis proved that it took 13 billion years for the light emitted by this red spot to reach Earth. It is one of the oldest astral bodies. We have not found a star older than him in the universe, it was one of the first stars born in the universe. This is the most important turning point in the evolution of the universe. Today's universe is full of stars, too many to count. Starlight gives us daylight and gives us the night sky. According to the arrow of time, the stellar era has a beginning and must also have an end.
We have seen how the magnificent stellar age began, and we know how it will end. If you can't imagine it, maybe you can take a look at the Skulll Coast in Naminia, which was called the Gates of Hell by Portuguese sailors in the 17th century, and feel the moment when the iron ships of the past are turning into iron filings and disappearing into the sand with the wind.
Will the legends of mankind still live in the end of no human beings?
Compared with the life span of the universe, the existence of life in the universe, or life composed of carbon like me, can only exist for a very short moment in the long river of time. Because in this short period of time, life evolved from a single cell to a complex human being. Attached to the ability to understand the true meaning of time.
Three million years ago, there were no humans on Earth.
Five billion years ago, there was no Earth in the universe.
Nearly 14 billion years ago, an ancient and primitive time, when the universe was very different from what it is now.
This is the miracle of the universe, the destiny of heaven and earth.