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Choose a Trek
Select a journey through time, space, a place or a real expedition route.
The basic idea
Your movement becomes the measuring stick.
Time Trek translates enormous timescales, distances and real expeditions into routes you can physically travel. Instead of reading that something happened billions of years ago, you walk the distance between it and everything that came after.
Four simple steps
Choose. Move. Discover. Remember.
The app handles the scale and timing in the background. The experience remains simple enough to begin with a single tap.
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Choose the scale
Use the classic route or shorten and lengthen it to suit your time, ability and location.
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Start moving
GPS records your genuine progress while the app calculates what your distance represents.
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Unlock discoveries
Stories, audio, imagery, evidence and achievements appear at precisely mapped milestones.
Making scale physical
Distance becomes a universal translator.
The facts do not change when the route changes. The app recalculates the physical spacing between events while preserving their correct chronological or spatial relationship.
13.8 kilometres
Approximately one metre represents one million years of cosmic history.
6.9 kilometres
The same events remain in order, compressed into half the physical distance.
27.6 kilometres
Events spread apart for a longer walk, run or cycle with more space to reflect.
The story adapts
One route does not require one reading level.
The science remains consistent, but the language, depth and emphasis can change for the person taking the Trek.
Three content modes
- Child mode uses energetic, concrete storytelling for roughly ages six to ten
- Adult mode explains unfamiliar terms while preserving wonder and accuracy
- Scientist mode expands dates, terminology, uncertainty, sources and context
Designed for different bodies and places
- Walk, run or cycle where the Trek supports it
- Adjust route length without breaking the timeline
- Pause, resume or continue from a different location
- Preview a Trek with simulation before moving
- Use read-aloud support for hands-free discovery
More than a route tracker
Movement, science and motivation reinforce each other.
Time Trek aims to make exercise more compelling while helping difficult ideas become memorable.
Milestones create anticipation
The next event is always somewhere ahead, giving the walk a reason to continue.
Sources remain visible
Stories can link to scientific sources and explain what is known, inferred or uncertain.
Progress becomes meaningful
Achievements, Time Points, titles and completed Treks reward genuine movement and curiosity.
See the idea laid out as a timeline.
Open the Trek library and tap through a sample journey from the beginning of the Universe to humanity.