13.8 Billion years ago = Nope

The Big Bang wasn't 13.8 Billion years ago. 13.8 Billion years is a measurement bias on top of nearly every other cognitive bias I'm aware of. 13.8 billion years = easy to think about. Reality = not easy to think about.

Don't think in straight lines

Straight lines and causality are the paths of least thinking resistance. If at any point you say, "this makes sense" check yourself. High probability you fell into one of these normal human perspective ruts and once there, they're hard to get out of. Specifically, the easy path is the most accepted and supportive. If attention is the goal, easy to think about is the most relatable and generates the most attention.

Is the goal of science to be easy?

13.8 Billion years is a straight shot back to the end of our measurement ability. This is important. Take a moment. The straight shot part raised my red flags when I first realized this. What else works in straight shots = nothing.

Years = wrong

Year is relative to Earth, our Sun, and is dependent on stability in measurement = we already know the measurement is not stable, consistent, or universally true. It's just hard to think about. My goal in the post is to shoulder-check "easy." In this case, easy and right are not the same thing.

Easy = wrong.

Time Dilation = 13.8 billion years is not 13.8 billion years. This is the challenge to think about and it took me a bit to ease into the perspective. Year is not a year everywhere. Gravity impacts time and the Big Bang represents the most gravity, mass, and measurement variance humans have ever conceived (insert plot to the movie "Interstellar).

Years = impossible to be true

Nope, the middle school skill level liner regression used to calculate our scientifically accepted measurement does not include a measure (for the unmeasurable) impacts of time dilation = closer you get to the Big Bang, the farther away the Big Bang is (paradox?) and the more time it takes to get there.

13.8 billion years = not true.

Time is not a universally true measurement (time dilation). Distance is not a universally true measurement (space-time expansion). S = D/T. Change the variables for distance and time and the speed changes too. It's best to picture things as foam = no measurements are solid.