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About 15 billion years ago,
with the Big Bang, an incomprehensibly large explosion,
the Universe began to expand and matter, energy, space
and time came into being. As the Universe expanded,
the debris from this explosion began to cool down and
be condensed into gas clouds, and eventually stars and
planets. It was in one of these planets, our planet,
the Earth, took form about 4.6 billion years ago. After
that, the geological processes shaped the surface of
our planet, moved the tectonic plates, built mountains
and eroded them again over millions of years. These
processes provided the ever changing conditions for
life, which adapted to those changes. Now, the understanding
of Earth has deepened greatly and new theories and technologies
have been providing further insight into Earth's dynamics.
In this digital museum, Earth’s history,
the most important scenarios in Earth’s history and
evolution are displayed in a simple-to-access, easy-to-understand
way to help our intended audiences to obtain a scientific
intuition of the entire earth system, its component
parts such as land, sea, atmosphere, and their interactions,
to get an image how they function and how they may be
expected to continue to evolve on all time scale. |
