A Cosmic Time-Map of Adon Olam

THE BEGINNING TO THE END OF THE UNIVERSE A Cosmic Time-Map of Adon Olam If time were representedby a line stretchingacross outer space, a million years to a mile, and the present momentwas placed on the West Coast of the U.S., the followingwould be a pictorialrepresentationof the first phrases of the first two stanzas of Adon Olam. '1Fiis grapmc isfromtlie6ooKJ lmggi:ninstlie'Univme D!J 'Lfwanf Paqarrf Science is rich with theories but lacking certainty as to whether the universe is "open" and will continue expanding forever, is "flat" and will reach a state of equilibrium, or is "closed" and will eventually cease to expand and then contract at an accelerating rate, ending in a "pjg crunch." This visualization is of a closed scenario.· Master of the universe which ruled before any Adonolam Asher malakh B'terem kol Y'tzir nivra form was created ... Ecnb'soxlstcncobegins lifoen Earthbegins YWlobrato~fobegins ~~huma; tliebigbang il BACKWARD/ LOOKING Milos Billionsof Years 70 billion years =ONE MILLION ~ARS And following When all is extinguished Alone Will Rule. Awesome. FORWARD ONE MILE lhebeginnlngoftlie~ V'akharay Kikh'lot hakol Yimlokh nora.