Conclusion

We hope you will join the AllTime Project by using AllTime in your daily life.  Write 13.7B on all of your correspondence and tell everyone why you’re doing it. 

And why are you doing it?  Because it is the most accurate expression of time?  Because it gives us a better sense of our place in the universe?  Because it moves us away from the anthrocentric illusion of a universe constructed for us alone?  Because it distances us from specific religious or cultural bias?  Maybe all of the above or some other reason we haven’t thought of yet.

Whatever it may be, we welcome you to AllTime.

People who believe that the year is 2004, who use 2004 calendars and date their documents with 2004, live in a miniscule, chronological world.  Most human history lies outside the last two thousand years.  Most old growth trees are older than two thousand years. In fact most everything you see is older than two thousand years, the rocks, ridges, oceans and sky.

Yet there is nothing older than the beginning of time.* Everything that now exists started then, every atom and all the energy that is here today began at the Big Bang.  When you use AllTime you are stepping outside of a short-sighted religious / cultural view of time and linking up to an all-encompassing one.  By adopting AllTime you are helping to usher in a world in which we will communally view the unfolding of the universe as our shared legacy.  

* There may be a time before our universe that might be discovered if we can see beyond the singularity called the Big Bang.  But before we can get into this speculation, AllTime suggests that we expand our study of time up to the Big Bang.

Summary of the Advantages of AllTime

•  AllTime best reflects the true nature of time.

Time started at the Big Bang.

•  AllTime best expresses the length of time that has passed since the beginning of time.

AllTime uses the latest scientific information to present the most accurate date of the universe. No other calendric system comes near to the actual age of the universe.

  •  AllTime is a universal, scientific norm.

Other calendric systems count time from cultural or religiously derived epochs.

•  AllTime expresses our true place in time.

Most other calendric systems express only a portion of the human experience, whereas AllTime encompasses the entire story of the universe.

•  AllTime counts all of time as moving forward.

Most other systems count the vast majority of time in reverse.

•  AllTime brings the past and the present into harmony as one.

Many other systems count some time in reverse and other time forward.

•  AllTime does away with cultural / religious bias.

Most calendric systems begin their epoch at a cultural or religious event, AllTime begins on a universally shared event – the beginning of time.