Cosmic Timeline

|    -13750000000 | Creation of the universe                                                 |
|    -13350000000 | Formation of first stars                                                 |
|     -4570000000 | Formation of Sun                                                         |
|     -4540000000 | Formation of Earth                                                       |
|     -3500000000 | Origin of life                                                           |
|     -1200000000 | Emergence of life on land                                                |
|      -250000000 | Breakup of Pangea                                                        |
|      -199000000 | Dinosaurs dominant land animals                                          |
|         -400000 | Appearance of Homo sapiens                                               |
|           -1800 | Life of Abraham                                                          |
|              -6 | Birth of Our Lord                                                        |
|            1969 | Homo sapiens lands on Moon                                               |
|       250000000 | Coalescence of continents into Pangea Ultima                             |
|      2000000000 | Evaporation of oceans due to increasing solar temperature                |
|      3000000000 | Merging of Andromeda & Milky Way galaxies                                |
|      4000000000 | Earth surface conditions resemble Venus due to runaway greenhouse effect |
|      5000000000 | Sun enters red giant phase; likely destruction of Earth                  |
|      5010000000 | Sun ejects planetary nebula and enters white dwarf phase                 |
|    100000000000 | Coalescence of Local Group into single galaxy                            |
|   2000000000000 | Galaxies outside Local Supercluster no longer detectable                 |
| 100000000000000 | End of star formation; Degenerate Era                                    |
|           10^19 | Dissolution of galaxies                                                  |

(if protons decay ...)

|  10^40 | Decay of all nucleons |
| 10^100 | Decay of black holes  |

(if protons do not decay ...)

|    10^1500 | Decay & coalescence of all matter into iron stars             |
| (10^10)^26 | Collapse of iron stars into black holes; decay of black holes |


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