What Is Big History

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Big History In order to understand the importance of big history, we must first know what big history is. Big history is the uniqueness of humans and what it means to be one as well as our relationship with the planet. Due to complexity, we understand that we humans are unique because we keep studying about new things yet we are the only species we know of, even though one of the reasons we may not find any other species out there, is the is any, is because our minds are not complex enough to understand things bigger than us, like the universe and other such things. Collective learning also plays a big part in understanding that we are unique because everything we find out, we share it with each other so we can learn more from it, and humans are the only ones who do that, that we know of. To be human means that we center our focus on understanding ourselves before other things. Our relationship with the planet is also essential because we keep doing things that we think will help us but that end up harming the earth and if we keep doing that, the environment will be destroyed and we will die from that because there will be nothing left for us to love off of. People are also discovering and creating new chemicals which are harming us. (Christian main lecture 4). There’s a lot more to big history than just substances, there is also our story and how we came to be and we call these modern scientific origin stories. We came from elements, which came from dying stars, which came from helium and hydrogen fusing together due to gravity, which came from the big bang; so technically, we came from the big bang. From this, we can tell that the big bang is the origin of our universe and that’s where all matter started. It is also the beginning of our modern scientific origin story since it’s where it all started and came from. One of the most important things about the big
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