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Mark Lerner (born September 1953) [1] is an American businessman. He is the managing principal owner at Lerner Enterprises [ 2 ] and principal owner of Major League Baseball 's Washington Nationals .
The graphic helps cosmology, evolution, and written history in context. It has been widely referenced on the Web and is used as an introductory graphic in science and history classes. Unlike other Cosmic Calendar graphics on the Web, this one includes primary sources of evidence, key dates for human evolution, and the last 60 seconds of the year.
A graphical view of the Cosmic Calendar, featuring the months of the year, days of December, and the final minute. The Cosmic Calendar is a method to visualize the chronology of the universe, scaling its current age of 13.8 billion years to a single year in order to help intuit it for pedagogical purposes in science education or popular science.
Note, previous nomination: Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Cosmic Calendar. Jujutacular talk 00:04, 29 March 2011 (UTC) Thanks! --Efbrazil 23:17, 29 March 2011 (UTC) Support Gives all the information relevant to the concept in an effective manner. Only complaint might be the pixelized stopwatch; I think removing it may be the easiest ...
A graphical view of the Cosmic Calendar, featuring the months of the year, days of December, the final minute, and the final second. The Cosmic Calendar is a method to visualize the chronology of the universe, scaling its currently understood age of 13.8 billion years to a single year in order to help intuit it for pedagogical purposes in science education or popular science.
December has the longest nights of the entire year, providing more time for stargazing. However, it also brings an uptick in storms and clouds, which can make it challenging to view some of the ...
(Tyson subsequently dismisses Bruno's visionary experiences as unscientific, but is sympathetic to the persecution he suffered.) Later, he presents the history of the Universe on Carl Sagan's Cosmic Calendar. The episode ends with Tyson's brief speech about Carl Sagan's life and career, and how Sagan inspired him to become an astrophysicist.
Eric J. Lerner (born May 31, 1947) is an American popular science writer and independent plasma researcher. [2] He wrote the 1991 book The Big Bang Never Happened , which advocates Hannes Alfvén 's plasma cosmology instead of the Big Bang theory.