Deep Time is the multi-billion-year time frame that scientists believe the Earth existed. Her current estimate puts our planet at 4.54 billion years old.

deep times size, and particularly the distance between events within it, is a journey to be understood. Cleopatra, for example, died in 30 BC. B.C., but lived closer to the present day than when the Pyramids of Giza were built.

How many signers of the Declaration of Independence became President?

If the history of the earth was represented on a 100 meter soccer fieldmodern people – ie Cleopatra, the pyramids and every body else– Emerge an eighth of an inch from the end zone. Heck, the depth time length has an error range of 50 million years– but on the whole that’s small. Less than two meters on the soccer field.