Time since t = 0
10⁻⁴³ s
Temperature
10³² K
MercuryVenusEarthMarsJupiterSaturnUranusNeptune
Epoch 01 / 9
Singularity
Everything that exists, in a volume with no meaningful size. Physics as we have it does not describe this moment — it describes what happened immediately after.
13.8 billion years
From a point with no size to a planet with an opinion about it.
The clock and thermometer above interpolate the standard Lambda-CDM values in log space, so both readouts stay honest across sixty orders of magnitude. The shapes are schematic; the numbers are not.