A Dance to the Music of Time, by Nicolas Poussin, c. 1635. Wallace Collection, London.
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In 2013 a picture taken by the Planck telescope of fluctuations in the cosmic microwave background—radiation generated by the Big Bang—resulted in the estimation that the universe is 13.82 billion years old.
Our allotted time is the passing of a shadow.
—Book of Wisdom, c. 100 BC