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Time Scale ✦

A journey from ultrafast processes through human, geologic, and cosmic time.

Open Time Machine
Selected interval

Second

Continuous time magnitude

10⁰ seconds

Every +1 on this control is ×10 more time.

What can happen in this time?

Same duration, several processes

💡Light travels
〰Sound travels
💜Heartbeats
🌍Earth rotates
Starlight PathsTurn duration into light-distanceSpectrumFrequency and period relationshipsPhysical ScaleCompare time scales with distance scalesDeep Time articlesPublication-style explanations

ORBIT is a local-first interactive system for magnitude, number, scale, measurement, time, patterns, and space. Approximate values are labeled.