Big History

  What is the "Big History"?  Big History is an academic discipline which examines history from the Big Bang to the now.  It's literally the history of everything... Big History is one of the most complicated, complex, and thee most important historical culmination of how the universe was created and adapted to the present which connects to discovering the future.  The creation of the universe which was 13.8 billion years starting at the Big Bang and traveling through time all the way to the future. The connections in our world, the resources of our collective learning, trying to understand how our universe and our world has evolved from the most simple to the multi expanding and ever increasing complex universe we live in.  The universe is infinite and there is more and more to learn about it which links to the past to the present and to the foreseeable future of events.


  It's a very interesting study and concept of linking history like American history tying it towards the "Big History".  The United States of America was founded in 1776, making the country 243 years old as of 2019.  Thats like a mere fraction of how old the universe is and I can't even comprehend trying to figure out or collect enough historical data from the Big Bang til now with culture, tradition, religion, seismic wars, monumental events, and historical pasts.  I'm intrigued by this, but my brain is going to explode of all the questions I can fathom and looking for answers that might not even exist yet.  Knowing this now and not even grazing or even near this subject is blowing my mind already...


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