TIMELAPSE OF THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE

Narration by Brian Cox, Carl Sagan, and David Attenborough.

Concept, music, editing, sound design, and select VFX by melodysheep.

It can be difficult to fathom how long 13.8 billion years is. The more you watch this video, the more it sinks in just how stunningly old the universe is, and how magnificently tiny we humans are in the grand scheme. I hope seeing this experiment in humility makes you ponder the vast, unwitnessed ages that have passed before we came along, and the brevity of our existence in comparison.

Every event featured in this video is fascinating on its own, so I highly encourage anybody interested to dig deeper. Start with the Wikipedia page on geologic time and go from there to learn more about all the events featured within.

Peace and love,

melodysheep
@musicalscience

[melodysheep]

Who wants to see this turned into a full series??

[alixsha]

we will have to wait 22 million years just to add another second.

[ChristineKabere]

No matter how many times I watch this, it touches me emotionally. Yes, please make this a full series.

[HistoryOnPaper]

6:43 this moment makes the The Sun sound like the the most important star in the universe

[jacobnair]

At the end when it went black i could see myself in the reflection. What an end

[cameronweaver]

The last minute was a cinematic masterpiece. Wow.

[razzerbits]

melodysheep was what really brought me the interest of astronomy. How beautiful the space is, how large it is and how mysterious it is. Stuff that really makes you think differently about reality itself...

[shivanikaushik]

7:12 I lost count of how many times i watched this !!!! The sound pairing is awesome.

[MsJoshisfat]

Don't blink you'll miss a few million years.

[RaZoRi]

This channel is way too advanced to be on YouTube man.

[Levine]

5:13 10:04 this two scene make me goosebumb

[hazzah]

Absolute masterpiece and cure for depression, have been watching this for over a year on repeat.

Notice: How at 10:03, the last 600 million years of Earth's history are put to song, with each note of of the melody... or each "bar" I guess, not a music person so not sure... but each 100 million year cut-off mark, the note changes, six notes in total, ending at that high note at the end, each one covering exactly 100 million years.

Helped me think of the Earth's history in this "metric" sense as well for a second, as generally I think of it in geological periods rather than numerical cutoffs.

Crazy to think what happened in the last 100 million years... dinosaurs from the ancient world reigned from the beginning, then 40 million years through they go extinct, then the mammals take over the fresh earth, and then humans evolving only in the last percentagepoint of that timescale. Crazy.

[aerick]

the music is literally flat out epic. period.

[TheSamuelCish]

That final frame of the eyes absolutely sent chills down my spine.

[anikakumari]

this is literally the most beautiful thing i've ever seen my eyes feel blessed!!

[ibexhimself]

Can we just take a moment to appreciate that this is FREE

[rlvvie]

“Universe dies”

My mom:”it’s all because of that damm phone”

[DepecheGuy]

I'm crying of joy. Thank you SO MUCH for this. I really loved it.

[sollyfan]

Watching the birth of our sun always makes me cry, life is beautiful

[PurplePoppyAnimator]

That final minute when complex life appeared, the music is breathtaking, and that final frame that shows how short humanities time has actually been on this universe compared to everything else that has come before.
An absolute cinematic masterpiece