How long do humans live in reference to the time scale of the universe?

1 Answer
Feb 21, 2016

Almost nothing.

Explanation:

The Universe is about 14 billion years old, and what we could call humans exist only for about 1 million years.

If you scale the age of the universe into one year, humans would appear:

#1/14000xx365xx24xx60=37# minutes before midnight of December 31st

For the particular and proud Homo Sapiens (200 thousand years) it would be:

#0.2/14000xx365xx24xx60=7.5# minutes before midnight of December 31st