You Were Born Halfway to the Big Bang
On a logarithmic timeline, someone's childhood falls exactly halfway between now and the Big Bang.
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Cartoon by Ben Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings. https://cartoons.mathwithbaddrawings.com/2018-11-02-you-were-born-halfway-to-the-big-bang/ (CC BY-NC 4.0)Transcript
A: "When I was a kid..." B: "Let me stop you there."
B: "I believe our perception of time is logarithmic, which means that, to me, your childhood sits exactly halfway between the moment I started this sentence and the Big Bang."
[Log-scale timeline: 10¹⁸ (the Big Bang) ... 10⁹ (your childhood) ... 10³ ... around now]
A: "Are you calling me old?" B: "Oh, get over it. I made that remark ages ago."