AST 100 Our Cosmic History
A fourteen-billion-year story — from the first hot moment of being, through the slow assembly of stars and worlds, to the very recent invention of culture. Rebuilt here as a cinematic, scroll-driven web experience.
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Seven Ages of the Universe
The whole 14-billion-year story, traced along a river — the Brahmaputra metaphor + a 51-event scroll-driven cosmic timeline.
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Spacetime and Energy-Matter
Two theories — eleven quiet years apart — that stitched space, time, matter, and energy into one fabric. Drag a mass to warp spacetime; watch a rocket clock run slow at 0.99 c.
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Cosmic Evolution
Increasing complexity — the engine that turns hot soup into civilizations. Entropy, complexity, and the Big Freeze.
- 0.3 horizon coming soon
Observable Universe
What we can see, what we cannot, and why the difference matters. Horizons, scale, and Einstein's curveball.
- 0.4 instrument coming soon
Light and Telescopes
How starlight becomes data and data becomes a picture of the past. The EM spectrum, telescope anatomy, spectroscopy.
More sections coming soon. Each gets its own bespoke interactives and animations — same scrape → prototype → port workflow.