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The Universe Story… by Jim Ayala
“It is our story, the human story,the life story, the earth story,all wrapped into one sacred whole. “ - Brian Swimme
Andromeda Galaxy
… or, how in the heck did we get here?
Feb 2009
Once upon a time in a place that didn’t exist…
… all hell broke loose!
The story begins.
The big bang theory…
Pop!
Expanding Universe
Hot gas expanding
Atomic elements appear
1st stars/galaxies
are born
Accelerating
expansion
Big Bang
Expanding Universe
Get over it dude!
Paradox!The big mystery…
The Universe came from nothing?
Edwin Hubble
1919The Milky Way was considered the
known universe!
1922
Hubble discovers galaxies beyond the
Milky way. Bloody hell!
Gathers data proving the movement of
the galaxies away from each other.
The universe expands!
The Hubble telescope
Cloud of gas
and debris
swirling
around new
star
Back to the story…
The Sunborn within a
cloud of gas
in a spiral
arm of the
Milky Way
galaxy
Our solar system is born!
Completed without email or text messaging!
Home!!
Portland
13.7 +/- billion years
4.7 +/- billion years
Deliverables and timelines
Big Bang
Universe (still expanding)
Earth
Project Universe
200,000 - 300,000
+/- years
Humans
Present time
11:58 !We only just arrived!
12
34
5678
910
1112
Big Bang
OMG! The humans are here!
Look out.. ..we’re here!
Yale School of Medicine
A few human micro trivia:
- 1 trillion cells in the body
- 100 billion brain cells
- Nerve cells travel 170 MPH
- consists of atoms which are
99% empty space
- has overrun the planet Earth
- drinks coffee
- eats chocolate
- sleeps a lot
Universe Intelligence
Macro trivia: big gets bigger and weirder
Universe Intelligence
Earth
Sun
Sun
Arturo's
PollexSirius
Solar System
The context of our existence:
The Big Bang is the birthplace of all natural wonder.
Big Bang
Humans
There’s a thread from the Big Bang to us.
We emerge from the creative intelligence of the universe
The story continues through us.
As unique, conscious, self aware beings.
We are not the story.
...we are the universe looking at itself.
We play a unique role in the story,…
“And, tell me, why should I care? Well…
“… In a few centuries,
we have changed the planet
in its physical structure and
in its life functioning on a
scale that formerly took
hundreds of millions of
years.”
- Thomas Berry
"Any nation that plunders its own
resources for economic gain, to
the detriment of the larger context
of the geological or biological
systems of the earth, is
endangering all the nations,
including itself."
Endangered Species
Fuel Crisis
Global Warming War
Poverty
-Thomas Berry
We have the incredible ability to reinvent ourselves!
We can face any challenge.
I change colors,
therefore….
The future.
We will, and already are, playing a significant role in the next
chapters of the Earth story, the human story, our story.
The Universe Story By Jim Ayala
I am a feather on the bright sky.
I am the blue horse that runs the plain.
I am the fish that rolls, shining, in the water,
I am the shadow that follows a child…
I am the hunger of a young wolf.
I am the whole dream of things.
You see, I am alive, I am alive.
- Scott Momaday
Native American Poet
