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Video of the Week: This Stunning Video on The History of Time Will Make You Have Feelings About The Entire Universe


Although we use it every day, time is complicated.

When we break it up into small pieces, most people are pretty good at organising time, but everything starts to get a bit wobbly when the timescales get larger.

If you keep zooming out on the history of the Universe, at a certain point time becomes simply incomprehensible for our puny human brains.

The team at Kurzgesagt has just released a new animated video to help explain time, with a timescale that will give you exceptionally weird feelings about the vastness of it all.

Read entire article at ScienceAlert.com