Critically examining the "End of the World"
Is thereany scientifical proof that the 2012 end of the world will happen?
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I am like totally scared about the 2012 thing. help?
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about 1 year ago
yep
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about 1 year ago
May be funny.
SCIENTIFIC EXPERTS from around the world are predicting that five years from now, all life on Earth could well come to an end. Some are saying it’ll be humans that would set it off. Others believe that a natural phenomenon will be the cause. And the religious folks are saying it’ll be God himself who would press the stop button. The following are some likely arguments as to why the world would end by the year 2012.
Reason one: Mayan calendar
The first to predict 2012 as the end of the world were the Mayans, a bloodthirsty race that were good at two things — building highly accurate astrological equipment out of stone and sacrificing virgins.
Thousands of years ago they managed to calculate the length of the lunar moon as 329.53020 days, only 34 seconds out. The Mayan calendar predicts that the earth will end on December 21, 2012. Given that they were pretty close to the mark with the lunar cycle, it’s likely they’ve got the end of the world right as well.
Reason two: Sun storms
Solar experts from around the world monitoring the sun have made a startling discovery. Our sun is in a bit of strife. The energy output of the sun is, like most things in nature, cyclic and it’s supposed to be in the middle of a period of relative stability. However, recent solar storms have been bombarding the earth with lot of radiation energy. It’s been knocking out power grids and destroying satellites. This activity is predicted to get worse and calculations suggest it’ll reach its deadly peak sometime in 2012.
Reason three: The atom smasher
Scientists in Europe have been building the world’s largest particle accelerator. Basically, its a 27 km tunnel designed to smash atoms together to find out what makes the universe tick. However, the mega-gadget has caused serious concern, with some scientists suggesting that it’s properly even a bad idea to turn it on in the first place. They’re predicting all manner of deadly results, including mini black holes. So when this machine is fired up for its first serious experiment in 2012, the world could be crushed into a super-dense blob the size of a basketball.
Reason four: The Bible says it
If having scientists warning us about the end of the world isn’t bad enough, religious folks are getting in on the act as well. Interpretations of the Christian Bible reveal that the date for Armageddon, the final battle between good an evil, has been set for 2012. The I Ching, also known as the Chinese Book of Changes, says the same thing, as do various sections of the Hindu teachings.
Reason five: Super volcano
Yellowstone National Park in United States is famous for its thermal springs and old faithful geyser. The reason for this is simple — it’s sitting on top of the world’s biggest volcano and geological experts are beginning to get nervous sweats. The Yellowstone volcano has a pattern of erupting every 650,000 years or so, and we’re many years overdue for an explosion that will fill the atmosphere with ash, blocking the sun and plunging the earth into a frozen winter that could last up to 15,000 years. The pressure under the Yellowstone is building steadily, and geologists have set 2012 as a likely date for the big bang.
Reason six: The physicists
This one’s case of bog — simple maths mathematics. Physicists at Berkely University have been crunching the numbers.
They’ve determined that the earth is well overdue for a major catastrophic event. Even worse, they’re claiming that their calculations prove that we’re all going to die, very soon. They are also saying that their prediction comes with a certainty of 99 per cent; and 2012 just happens to be the best guess as to when it occurs.
Reason seven: Earth’s magnetic field
We all know the Earth is surrounded by a magnetic field that shields us from most of the sun’s radiation. What you might not know is that the magnetic poles we call North and South have a nasty habit of swapping places every 750,000 years or so — and right now we’re about 30,000 years overdue. Scientists have noted that the poles are drifting apart roughly 20-30 kms each year, much faster than ever before, which points to a pole-shift being right around the corner. While the pole shift is under way, the magnetic field is disrupted and will eventually disappear, sometimes for up to 100 years. The result is enough UV outdoors to crisp your skin in seconds, killing everything it touches.
about 1 year ago
There is no need to be afraid the world or even ones life could end at any time. Whether that will happen in 2012 is yet to be seen. I was at the bookstore a few weeks ago and there are a lot of books on 2012. There is another speculation that it wouldn’t be the end but that the there will be some Spiritual awakening. .
Here are some website in regards to a Spiritual awakening.
http://www.thesouljourney.com/sevencycles.shtml
http://www.experiencefestival.com/a/Year_2012/id/4185
http://www.2012finalfantasy.com/2008/2012-possibility-spiritual-awakening.php
about 1 year ago
not as far as I know. there are just theories that the world will end because the mayan calender ended that year.
about 1 year ago
No need to be scared– there’s not any “real” proof of its existence. It’s based on the fact that the Mayan calendars were created long ago and have stayed fairly accurate for some time. The calendars happen to end on 2012.
Allegedly this is because we “think” that they “thought” there would be no point in continuing the calendar because the world would then end.
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about 1 year ago
Super volcanos are acting up. No fucking ice in the arctic. Huge cracks in our ozone. Pollution everywhere. Floods can happen from any of these cataclysms. Larger Earthquakes every year. Our galaxy is colliding with two others right now and has been for a while. Earths magnetic feild is getting weaker.Tons of scientific proof. Most of it , is our fault.
By the way eric: It is not just the mayan calendar that fortells of a great time of doom and despair. The bible predicts the “7 years of Tribulation” , 7 years of catastrophe and it all seems to point to the times that you live in. NOSTRADAMUS the famous prophet who can see the end of the world says there will be ” Flying dragons with flowing hair swirling and screaming” Sounds like a helicopter. “Undestructable chariots belching fire” Sounds like tanks. Dont u see the wars??? even if 2012 did not exist, there is still the world wide problem of war.
about 1 year ago
There is no scientific proof at all.
Everything you have heard is hooey (excuse the language)
Dec. 21, 2012 is the day that the Mayan Calendar completes a cycle (It has to do with the movement of the stars which the Mayans used to keep time with). That is all. No doomsday.
Everything you have heard about the end of the world is fake. People are trying to scare you. If you ask scientists, and astronomers, and physicists, they will not be scared. Because they are educated enough to separate the science, from the pseudo-science.
So don’t worry
Edit:
This is in response to the stuff Siva Prakash posted. I don’t want you to get the idea that any of it is credible. It’s the usual stuff the 2012 lunatics come up with.
#1. Just because the Mayans made a calendar, doesn’t mean they can predict doomsday. Many civilizations before them were just as good at math. The Greeks, Romans, Chinese, Arabians, all used math to high precision. The Mayans are no different. They just happened to worship different gods and make up different prophesies
#2 This is completely made up. Even now, there is no way to predict solar storms. Every decade or so, the sun goes through a “sunspot” cycle. This happened all throughout our planet’s history, and it will happen again. You and I have unknowingly lived through such cycles. Nothing about the current cycle, or future cycles suggest it will be any different.
#3 The “Atom Smasher” (correctly known as the Large Hadron Collider) will not create a black hole. Even if it does, the black hole will be so tiny, that it will disappear almost instantly.
Particles from the sun are constantly smashing against the earth’s protective ozone layer with MORE energy than the LHC can produce. None of these collisions have resulted in apocalyptic black holes, so there is absolutely no reason to believe that a particle accelerator with less energy can end the Earth.
#4 Complete crap. People have been interpreting the bible wrong for hundreds of years. Here’s what the bible actually has to say:
“But of that day or hour, no one knows, neither the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father”
That means mankind cannot predict the end of the world. Only god knows.
#5 That volcano will not erupt again for another hundred thousand years. Even if it WAS close to eruption, scientists could not predict the date with such accuracy. A margin of error of about 10,000 years is more likely
#6 I don’t even know where this comes from. Just dismiss it.
#7 Pole shifting will most likely not happen again for thousands of years, and scientists are not knowledgeable enough about the subject to make a prediction so accurate.
It’s made up.
about 1 year ago
No.
about 1 year ago
to make it short…no. don’t even think about it. the world will end when you’re not expecting it. definitely not 2012.
about 1 year ago
No point in being scared. If it happens, it happens. We all hope it will not. There are sites where you can inquire on scientific studies that predict catastrophes on Dec212012..
I’m not really sure why the End of the World Scare is the designated popular rumor when it comes to 2012.. Most theories relating to it do not even mention the end of the world.., rather, it is the end of an age.., not the end of the world. It could mean a lot of things.
edit: Commercials are Brainwashing is spot-on.. She is right.
about 1 year ago
If you remember, the last “doomsday” was supposed to be June 6, 2006 (6/6/06). The only thing cataclysmic that happened was the Los Angeles Angels beat the Tampa Bay Devil Rays in a less than Biblical meeting. http://mlb.mlb.com/news/wrap.jsp?ymd=20060606&content_id=1492291&vkey=wrapup2005&fext=.jsp&c_id=mlb
about 1 year ago
*face palm*…no.
You could call the reasons that people are talking about proof if you believe in them, but they are no way scientific evidences, because most of the scientist society denied them.
You might want to read this to laugh at all the time people had doomed the world to end-and failed:http://randi.org/encyclopedia/appendix3.html
Another thing: why should you be scared about the end of the world? Is there anything you can do, being scared? Just relaxed, and accept it peacefully. You might want to wait for the end of the world like me: sitting at the balcony of my apartment, drinking coffee and watch people going crazy.
about 1 year ago
No but that movie in November 2009 looks awesome!
about 1 year ago
The Mayan prophecies speak to us of the changes towards the fifth Ajaw (fifth sun), on December 21, 2012. This date begins the period of 5,200 years. This is a cycle of wisdom, harmony, consciousness and the return of the NATURAL ORDER.
It is not the end of the world as many from outside of the Mayan tradition have misinterpreted it to be. The fifth cycle will be a fusion of both feminine and masculine energies. It will be a transition where there won’t be any more confrontations between the polarities. It will bring balance and there won’t be hierarchy of one over the other.
about 1 year ago
Mayan calendar ends that year is the only fact; funny thing,
Today is August 11. The Mayan calendar began on august 11, 3114 bc.
Time; the Mayans started counting it August 11, 3114 BC. Astronomical year numbering begins the year after.
This is very cool published today;
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/2049779/a_first_time_3113.html?cat=42
about 1 year ago
The world will not end on 12-21-2012, at least not according to the Maya, who knew about as much about our planet’s future demise as Gordon-Michael Scallion, St. Malachy, Edgar Cayce, Zecharia Sitchin, Nostradamus, or the 7th Day Adventists of 1843, namely, nothing.
The Maya had several calendars. One is known as the Long Count calendar, which is reset to day 0 every 1,872,000 days. The next reset date, by some calculations, is December 21, 2012. Obviously, this calendar is of no interest to the Maya any longer, since their civilization collapsed over a thousand years ago. (Though there are people today who are the descendants of the Maya and the culture lives on through them.)
This date is of interest only to certain doomsday prophets and New Agers. What the New Agers fail to tell you is that the alignment of celestial bodies occurs routinely
about 1 year ago
its not check this out