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===[[Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Timeline of the universe|Timeline of the universe]]===
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[[File:CMB Timeline300 no WMAP.jpg|thumb|right|400px|'''Original''' – Timeline of the universe]]
;Reason:Interesting and informative image
;Articles in which this image appears:[[Chronology of the universe]], [[Metric expansion of space]], [[Time]], and others
;FP category for this image:[[Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Space/Understanding]]
;Creator:[[NASA]]/[[Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe]] team, modified by [[User:Kaldari|Kaldari]]

* '''Support as nominator''' – <font style="white-space:nowrap;text-shadow:#008C3A 0.1em 0.1em 1.5em,#01796F -0.1em -0.1em 1.5em;color:#000000">[[User:Pine|<font color="#01796F"><b>Pine</b></font>]][[User talk:Pine|<font color="#01796F"><sup>✉</sup></font>]]</font> 06:19, 17 October 2014 (UTC) 
*'''Comment''' If I understand the Big Bang expansion correctly, it should be presented rather as an expanding sphere, not as a one-direction tube-shaped pattern. Also, the letters after the first word in labels like "Quantum Fluctuations", "Development of Galaxies...", "Dark Energy Accelerated Expansion", etc should be decapitalized. [[User:Brandmeister|Brandmeister]]<sup>[[User talk:Brandmeister|talk]]</sup>   11:05, 17 October 2014 (UTC)
**It's pretty standard to reduce the three spacial dimensions to a simplified two when trying to show time or another scalar value over them. Think of the rubber sheet model of gravity - it loses Z-axis to use it for something else. Likely, most depictions of the [[light cone]] either reduce distance in space to one signed value, or show two-dimensional space. It's standard. While you could show this as a series of spheres or spheres inside each other, you'd probably end up showing less information, as you'd lose the smoothness of the time axis, as well as making it harder to see what's happening. <span style="text-shadow:grey 0.118em 0.118em 0.118em; class=texhtml">'''[[User:Adam Cuerden|Adam Cuerden]]''' <sup>([[User talk:Adam Cuerden|talk]])</sup></span> 22:54, 17 October 2014 (UTC)
*'''Support''' Pretty sure I saw this on a book cover recently. The cup shape is because inflation makes the bottom thick, then expansion slowed. Time progresses left to right. I don't think we should decapitalize the titles - if it were designed by a Wikipedian, yes, but it's a valid convention.  <span style="text-shadow:grey 0.118em 0.118em 0.118em; class=texhtml">'''[[User:Adam Cuerden|Adam Cuerden]]''' <sup>([[User talk:Adam Cuerden|talk]])</sup></span> 12:44, 17 October 2014 (UTC)
*'''Support'''--Brandmeister had it wrong to say about the shape. You can't show the acceleration of dark matter in a sphere. Plus there isn't any alternative way to represent the theory (though I don't believe it). --<font style="white-space:nowrap;text-shadow:#F8F8FF 0em 0em 0.8em,#FF4500 -0.8em -0.8em 0.9em,#90EE90 0.7em 0.7em 0.8em;color:#696969"><span style="font-family:Old English Text MT;color:black"><big>[[User:The Herald|The herald]]</big></span></font> 15:27, 17 October 2014 (UTC)
*'''Support''' --[[User:Fauzan|<font color="2F4F4F">Fauzan</font>]]<sup style="margin-left:+0.5ex">[[User talk:Fauzan#top|<font color="BDB76B">✆ talk</font>]]</sup><sub style="margin-left:-4.6ex">[[Special:EmailUser/Fauzan|<font color="BDB76B">✉ mail</font>]]</sub> 14:29, 19 October 2014 (UTC)
*<s>'''Support''' -- [[User:Marinka van Dam|Marinka van Dam]] ([[User talk:Marinka van Dam|talk]]) 17:02, 19 October 2014 (UTC)</s>
**Vote from sock puppet violating a block has been removed.&nbsp;—&nbsp;[[User:Crisco 1492|Crisco 1492]] ([[User talk:Crisco 1492|talk]]) 01:14, 25 October 2014 (UTC)
*'''Question''' What's the "lens flare" at the beginning represent? Or is it just inspired by J.J. Abrams? Presumably quantum fluctuations don't emit anything backwards into the nothingness of nothing. [[User:Belle|Belle]] ([[User talk:Belle|talk]]) 10:41, 20 October 2014 (UTC)
::I've got no idea either- what does it (and the orange ring) represent? [[User:Xanthomelanoussprog|Xanthomelanoussprog]] ([[User talk:Xanthomelanoussprog|talk]]) 07:46, 21 October 2014 (UTC) 
:::As from [[:File:History of the Universe.svg|this file]], I think its the big bang (and the associated [[Gamma-ray burst|bursts]]) and the space shows (IMO) the lag between inflation and the bang. But still doubt about the orange thermal rings. --<font style="white-space:nowrap;text-shadow:#F8F8FF 0em 0em 0.8em,#FF4500 -0.8em -0.8em 0.9em,#90EE90 0.7em 0.7em 0.8em;color:#696969"><span style="font-family:Old English Text MT;color:black"><big>[[User:The Herald|The herald]]</big></span></font> 13:07, 23 October 2014 (UTC) 
*'''Support''' - Thanks for the explanation. [[User:Xanthomelanoussprog|Xanthomelanoussprog]] ([[User talk:Xanthomelanoussprog|talk]]) 17:28, 23 October 2014 (UTC)
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