The origins of everything: the Big Bang
Your mission begins at ground zero. This is the beginning of everything… the Big Bang. In just a few steps, you leave the present and plunge into a dizzying past. You quickly become aware of the immensity of the time you are about to travel through. A few centimetres are enough to represent millions of years. The scale is bewildering… and fascinating.
You soon come across the first major stages: fossil radiation, the birth of the first stars. The Universe is becoming organised and structured. You move forward, and with you, billions of years pass beneath your feet in the heart of the starry Earth.
The great construction of the cosmos
As you move forward, the distances become longer. You have to walk further to pass through the great stages of cosmic history. Galaxies appear, the Milky Way takes shape. The Universe becomes more familiar.
Then comes a key moment: the birth of the Sun. You are already more than halfway along the journey. In just a few more hundred metres, the Earth appears in its turn. Here, time begins to speed up. Events move faster… and so do you.
Life enters the scene
Theappearance of life marks a turning point in your adventure. What seemed abstract suddenly becomes concrete. You’re still on a hike… but you’re also following the story of your own existence.
The emergence of the oceans, theevolution of species, the disappearance of the dinosaurs… each panel is a key stage in this long transformation. And the closer you get to the end, the closer the events get.
The present moment… or almost
The last few metres are the most surprising. Lucy, the Lascaux paintings… it’s all just a few steps away. Where billions of years used to occupy kilometres, human history is captured in just a few centimetres.
And then you arrive. “We. Here and now.
This end of the journey often leaves you with the same feeling: dizziness, curiosity… and an irresistible urge to raise your eyes to the sky.
Next door, a second mission awaits you: to explore the solar system. Another journey, another scale… but still the same feeling of exploration (start of the route at the Sun sign).
