A Planet or a Laboratory? Understanding the Hadean Eon
The story of Earth did not begin with the calm, deep blue landscapes we see today. If you had a time machine and traveled back 4.6 billion years, you would not find anything you recognize. What lay before you was an “age of chaos,” where the sky was constantly burning, the ground beneath your feet…
A Cosmic Story
Approximately 13.8 billion years ago, the entire universe was compressed into a point of incredible density. This moment is called the Big Bang. The explosion was not a “scattering into space,” but rather space itself beginning to expand. Time, matter, and energy were born at that moment together. In the first seconds, the temperature was…