01/06/2020 – Iso Well-Being Compilation
Let’s take a wander
Through our magnificent and glorious past
As if all of time might be compressed
Into a single year of our lives.
Happy new year to the universe
It’s off to a tremendous start
A Big Bang and an expanding of everything
Begins us on a seemingly never-ending course.
Within just sixteen nanoseconds
Of our year having begun
We see the first stable nuclei form
From the matter that has been expelled.
By the 15-minute mark we find
The first neutral atoms have arrived
And the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation
Has been well and truly emitted.
A few days later the first stars appear,
Bright dots in an expanding cosmos
The light from which we may never see
Even with our most powerful telescopes.
By mid-January we can now confirm
The light of those distant stars
Will eventually reach our modern eyes
And be a source of marvel yet.
As the month draws to a close
The first Galaxy proto-clusters are observed
Like embryonic star groups
Finding their way in the dark.
Valentine’s Day whizzes past
With the largest scale structures forming then
We’re starting to look more recognizable
As the universe we will become.
March has rolled around by now
And we’re seeing mature galaxies form
Bright and iconic to our eyes,
Littering the depths of space.
Then in mid-April they start colliding
Pairs of spirals merging as one
And turning into great ellipticals
A galactic dance with no known steps.
We fly through May and onto June –
The first sun-like stars are dying –
Evolving into the planetary nebulae
That we all know and love.
The universe carries on like this
All through July and September
Creating and destroying
As it had all along.
On September 3rd our sun appears
With its proto-planetary disc.
This will be our giver of life,
Where all life as we know it exists.
The Earth, it formed without satellites
Until it was impacted the very next day
By a large proto-planet
The debris coalescing to form our moon.
It was not until September 21st
That the first life appeared on our planet –
Unicellular and, by our standards of today,
Completely unremarkable.
Life comes into its own
When sex appears on the scene
Though that wasn’t until December 2nd,
Relatively, not that long ago.
Around December 17th, we have the Cambrian Explosion
And life as we know it blooms.
Diversification is the rule right then
And it continues for a good, long while.
Extinctions come and extinctions go,
Until December 30, at 6:25am to be precise.
We lose the now beloved dinosaurs,
A meteorite strike thought to be to blame.
Mammals take over from that point
With the Homo Sapiens swaggering in
Just in time for New Year’s Eve,
A mere seven
minutes left to spare.
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