Seed Magazine has a great feature it describes as "an experiment in scale" which condenses "4.6 billion years of history into a minute." Though they call it the evolution of life - there is no life for a significant portion of the video - so I'm calling it the history of the earth.
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It reminds me of the opening of The Story of Mankind, the first book to win the Newbery Award in 1922, describing "a single day of eternity":
High up in the North in the land called Svithjod, there stands a rock. It is a hundred miles high and a hundred miles wide. Once every thousand years a little bird comes to this rock to sharpen its beak.
When the rock has thus been worn away, then a single day of eternity will have gone by.
Of course, the concept of a measure of eternity is meaningless - but by attempting to measure it in such a way, we realize to some degree what the concept is.
Seed takes the opposite approach by condensing billions of years of history into 60 seconds.