01 JAN 2012 by ideonexus
Big History as a Fable
Once upon a time, about ten or fifteen billion years ago, the universe was without form. There were no galaxies. There were no stars. There were no planets. And there was no life. Darkness was upon the face of the deep. The universe was hydrogen and helium. The explosion of the Big Bang had passed, and the fires of that titanic event – either the creation of the universe or the ashes of a previous incarnation of the universe – were rumbling feebly down the corridors of space. But the gas...Folksonomies: wonder big history
Folksonomies: wonder big history
Carl Sagan tells the story of our Universe's history as a fairy tale.