TimeTrek transforms your walks into educational journeys through history. Powered by science, it links physical movement and distance to time, marking milestones from chosen timelines. Not just an app, it’s a revolution in understanding time.
For fitness tracking and understanding vast scales, there’s no better companion.
1km = 1 Billion Years | 1m = 1 Million years
TimeTrek isn’t just another step tracker. It's where fitness meets history and astronomy. Engage in curated treks, starting from any corner of the world. Choose the "History of the Universe" trek and let your 13.7km walk or run transport you through 13.7 billion years, from the Big Bang to now.
As you journey, interactive milestones enrich your path. Encounter the birth of the first star, learn about the Cambrian explosion, or dive deep into the rise of civilizations. Each milestone isn’t just a checkpoint; it's a world of knowledge waiting to be explored.
With TimeTrek, you’re not just chasing fitness goals; you’re embarking on a dynamic journey through time. It’s a transformative experience, blending health, knowledge, and communal discovery.
TimeTrek is a seamless blend of distance and history. As you embark on a trek, each step you take correlates to a specific period in time. Whether you choose a 13.7km journey to traverse the entire 13.7 billion years since the Big Bang (1km = 1 Billion Years, 100m = 100 Million Years, 1m = 1 Million years, 10cm years 100,000 years) or a shorter trek focusing on a specific epoch, your path will be dotted with milestones. Read More
1. Select a TimeTrek
Select from a variety of timelines, each having its unique time-to-distance scale and historical significance. Read More
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2. Walk or run in any direction
Begin your trek from any global location. The app displays your route and tracks your progress on a user-friendly map. Read More
3. Distance & Milestone Indicator
As you progress in your journey, the app calculates the distance you’ve covered, which translates to specific periods in time. Read More
4. Pass Milestones
Upon reaching a milestone, the app offers rich content—be it audio, video, or text—detailing significant events of that period. Read More
Users can delve deeper if they wish to learn more about that particular moment in history.
Step into the vastness of history, where every journey is a blend of fitness and enlightenment. From tailored treks to communal challenges, TimeTrek offers features that cater to both your mind and muscles.
Whether you're jogging through your neighborhood or hiking in the wild, choose your adventure. Travel through cosmic timelines or delve into specialized epochs, all at your own pace.
Sync up with friends using Split Screen Map Tracking. Race, challenge, or simply enjoy milestones together, making time travel a shared experience.
Sync up with friends using Split Screen Map Tracking. Race, challenge, or simply enjoy milestones together, making time travel a shared experience.
Sync up with friends using Split Screen Map Tracking. Race, challenge, or simply enjoy milestones together, making time travel a shared experience.
Lace up for a real-world trek mirroring the universe's age. Beyond just walking, engage with educational performances, interactive booths, and challenges that bring our cosmic story to life.
With TimeTrek, learning never stops. Benefit from regular content expansions, fresh timelines, and varied scales, ensuring your exploration remains boundless and invigorating.
Resume from where you left off. Start and pause TimeTrek right from your dashboard.
Quick Menu - Start Treks, Trek with friends, Leaderboards, Virtual timelines etc
Become friends with fellow trekkers, and see their shared treks!
A feed of your friends shared timelines.
The History of the Universe TimeTrek is included for free!
Purchase new TimeTreks Indvidually, or joint the TimeTrek subscription.
The Map Screen - The app tracks your journey via GPS and maps out your trek.
Quick stats, like current speed, distance travelled, and time to next milestone.
Visual timelines - Can't get outside, just want to relive a past trek? You can also scroll through TimeTreks on the couch.
Time Trek isn’t confined to a single location or pre-defined route. Whether you’re weaving through the bustling streets of New York, traversing the serene trails of the Swiss Alps, or strolling by the iconic Brisbane River, every journey you undertake becomes a unique trek through time.
Start your trek from any point in the world and our app will meticulously record every step, every twist, and every turn. On your journey’s map, you’ll find pins marking significant milestones in our universe’s expansive timeline. Each pin isn’t just a spot on the map but a portal to a defining moment in time. Click on them to dive deep into the events that have shaped our cosmos.
But the experience doesn’t end when your trek does. Revisit your path anytime, reliving each moment and milestone. Better yet, share your journeys with the TimeTrek community. Inspire others with your routes, or embark on treks charted by fellow explorers. Every journey tells a story; what will yours reveal?
Brisbane TimeTrek: A Cosmic Journey
Kick-off at UQ University and stride through Southbank’s lively lanes. As you navigate to Toowong and ascend Mount Coot-tha, each step resonates with a billion years of cosmic history. The journey culminates at the Observatory, where the vastness of time meets the boundless sky.
The future of education is not confined to the four walls of a classroom. With TimeTrek, educational institutions have a groundbreaking tool at their fingertips that extends learning beyond textbooks and brings it vividly into the real world.
The best way to retain information is by experiencing it. TimeTrek allows students to physically journey through history. As they walk, run, or trek, they engage with significant milestones in the universe’s evolution. This immersive learning ensures a deeper understanding and retention of information.
Educators can adapt the time scales based on the subject matter. Teaching ancient history? Adjust the scale to represent significant epochs. Delving into a month-long project on the Renaissance? Set the scale to days or weeks. This adaptability ensures the app fits seamlessly into various curricula.
TimeTrek promotes outdoor education. Schools can organize educational treks where students not only learn history but also reap the benefits of physical activity. This holistic approach caters to both mental and physical well-being.
Students can share their journeys, encouraging collaborative projects. Classes can discuss different treks, compare experiences, and even challenge each other to explore new timelines. The app’s social features foster community building and peer-to-peer learning.
The integration of augmented reality means students can interact with 3D models, videos, and other media. This dynamic method of presentation is bound to captivate the tech-savvy generation and enhance their learning experience.
Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) principles come alive with TimeTrek. It’s not just about learning the facts, but about seeing their application in real-world settings. From the physics of the universe’s creation to the technology underpinning the app, students witness STEM in action.
With options to adjust the difficulty and accessibility of treks, educators can ensure that all students, regardless of their physical abilities, can participate and benefit.
The future of education is not confined to the four walls of a classroom. With TimeTrek, educational institutions have a groundbreaking tool at their fingertips that extends learning beyond textbooks and brings it vividly into the real world.
Are you as excited about TimeTrek as we are? Want to be among the first to experience this groundbreaking fusion of education and fitness? By signing up for our updates, you won’t just be kept informed—you’ll be stepping into a community of pioneers and enthusiasts, eagerly awaiting the chance to traverse through time.
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Collaborate with TimeTrek
TimeTrek is not just an app; it’s a growing movement, and we believe in the power of collaboration. Whether you’re interested in content creation, app development, forming an educational partnership, or even investing in our vision, we’d love to hear from you. Share your ideas, skills, or resources and let’s make history, together.
Visualizing certain concepts can be tricky, especially when they involve big numbers or vast time scales. Let’s embark on a small thought experiment to illustrate this point.
Apples and Numbers
Picture a singular apple in your mind. Pretty straightforward, isn’t it?
Now, visualize ten apples. Maybe they’re laid out neatly on a table.
Let’s up the stakes a bit. Can you picture a hundred apples? They might be clustered in boxes or spread out across a room.
How about a thousand? Things might start getting a little hazy now.
Attempting to fathom 1,000,000,000 apples? It’s nearly impossible. Your mind probably conjures an endless sea of apples, more abstract than concrete.
Distances We Understand
Let’s now equate this with distances, something humans deal with on a daily basis and find easier to visualize.
Imagine a 1-meter stick – simple enough, right?
Next, think of 1 kilometer. You might recall a familiar route you walk, or the distance to a nearby park.
Now, visualize a trek spanning 13.7 kilometers, perhaps resembling a hike you once embarked on.
Our brains often stumble when trying to fathom vast numbers or durations. We aren’t naturally equipped to comprehend values like a billion. Yet, distances are inherently more tangible to us.
The brilliance of TimeTrek is in its transformation of the incomprehensible into the graspable. By equating the time since the Big Bang until now with a 13.7km journey, suddenly, the unfathomable stretches of time become conceivable. A billion years isn’t just a vague, abstract duration anymore – it’s a tangible distance, a journey you can embark on and truly understand. Welcome to a fresh perspective on time’s vast expanse.
Interested in collaborating with us, investing or are interested in becoming an educational partner – please reach out! We’d love to hear from you!
Brisbane, Australia
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Fusing passion for education, fitness, design, and history, we’ve created an app that transforms vast time scales into tangible treks. Join us on a journey where every step is a leap through time.
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The term Time Trek was first coined by a scientific team in Finland – They even created a physically 13.7km trail using physical milestones. We hope one day to do the same. Lehto, K., Lehto, H., Brozinski, A., Gardner, E., Eklund, O., Rajala, K., . . . Vuorisalo, T. (2013). Time Trek: A 13.7 km long nature trail leading through the history of the Universe and the Earth. International Journal of Astrobiology, 12(1), 1-7. doi:10.1017/S1473550412000225 – Check out thier website here: http://aikavaellus.fi/en/