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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


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Once upon a time in a place that didnt exist

all hell broke loose!

The story begins.


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The big bang theory

Pop!

Expanding Universe

Hot gas expanding

Atomic elements appear

1st stars/galaxies

are born

Accelerating

expansion

Big Bang

Expanding

Universe


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Get over it dude!

Parad

ox!

The big mystery

The Universe came from nothing?


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Edwin Hubble

1919

The Milky Way was considered theknown 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


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Cloud of gas

and debris

swirling

around new

star

Back to the story

The Sunborn within acloud of gas

in a spiral

arm of the

Milky Waygalaxy


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Our solar system is born!

Completed without email or text messaging!


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Home!!

Portland


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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


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11:58 !

We only just arrived!

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567

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Big

Bang

OMG! The humans are here!

Look out.. ..were here!


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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


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Macro trivia: big gets bigger and weirder

Universe Intelligence

Earth

Sun

Sun

Arturo's

PollexSirius

Solar System


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The context of our existence:

The Big Bang is the birthplace of all natural wonder.

Big Bang

Humans

Theres a thread from the Big Bang to us.


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We emerge from the creative intelligence of the universe

The story continues through us.

As unique, conscious, self aware beings.


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We are not the story.

...we are the universe looking at itself.

We play a unique role in the story,


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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 tookhundreds of millions of

years.

- Thomas Berry


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"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, isendangering all the nations,

including itself."

Endangered Species

Fuel Crisis

Global Warming War

Poverty

-Thomas Berry


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We have the incredible ability to reinvent ourselves!

We can face any challenge.

I change colors,

therefore.


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The future.

We will, and already are, playing a significant role in the next

chapters of the Earth story, the human story, our story.


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The Universe Story By Jim [email protected]

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 MomadayNative American Poet

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