It’s difficult for most people to grasp the immensity of time as it’s viewed by archeologists, much less as it’s viewed by geologist or cosmologists. One way often used by those scientists to model time in terms that others can visualize is to compare time to distance along a path, with markers to denote specific events and periods.
To Scale: TIME is a YouTube video about a group of friends who built a practical scale model of time: 13.8 billion years of cosmic evolution, and our place within it, on a dry lakebed in the Mojave.