Critically examining the "End of the World"
Relating time travel to the Mayan calendar date, 2012?
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Question:
I was doing a search on time travel & I came upon an online document which was a 3 part story about 2 guys in canada, and using “power points” or some such to time travel. In short, the story at the end had said that the one man traveled ahead to 2010 or 2012, not exactly sure. He then says in the story that he tried to travel past the year 2012 and could not, like some strange force was restricting him from going further. I don’t remember details on this, but I do remember him saying he did something, but I don’t remember what that something was, and he got past 2012, and nothing was there. I told my brother this, and he said, yea, according to the Mayan calendar 2012 is the date. This shocked me cause I had no clue about this Mayan calendar thing. Below is a link for reference.
http://mysite.verizon.net/resoxkyi/theyear2012scam/id36.html
It’s funny as to how people just totally dismiss anything they feel is totally fake, when there could be plausibility to it.
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about 1 year ago
can’t travel ahead in time……………..
speed of light defeats that…………….
mayan calendar ended because they weren’t around to complete a new one…..disappeared….
just goofy reading material is all.
about 1 year ago
See the reference for a couple of suggestions on why this wouldn’t be the end of the world. I expect this event to be as significant for Mayan computers as Y2K was to ours. Probably less significant, since they could watch our experience and still have plenty of time to compensate.
We’ve been fiddling with various calendar schemes for a long time. We’ve even redefined the second.
about 1 year ago
Sure the Mayan calendar ends in the year 2012. But we will not. There’s always some theory of doom in the near future. Well they don’t seem to ever happen. Then someone comes up with something new. Remember Y2K? The year 2000′s was the end since I was a kid. Jesus was supposed to come back after 2000 years. Where the heck is he? It happens over and over. When 2013 arrives they’ll make up something else. The Mayan calendar is the most accurate calendar ever made. More accurate than our own. But they could only fit so much on that stone tablet. Supposing time travel was possible. Nobody would ever die. How do you know that you’re not sitting where you are because someone from the year 3000 is visiting us? Please don’t dismiss my idea. It’s an original. But I love to listen to all the stories and possibilities. I know you’ll love a radio show called “coast2coast”. It’s broadcast world wide. Here check out the website. It’s very addicting and I listen to it every night when I go to bed.
about 1 year ago
Exxtraordinary claims require extraordinary proof. There are so many claims about different things it is not possible to act on all. For instance, people still claim perpetual motion machines, but no physicist will investigate. Why? Because it would overturn a good part of physics, which they have faith in. It is not worth their time because the claim is so unlikely, and there is an opportunity cost to dropping real research to investigate everyone who says they trisected an angle, or 9/11 was done by the government, or whatever the impossibility being considered is.
Scientists do not believe time travel is technically possible for us to do (whether it ever can be is another question). And every year there are dozens, if not hundreds, of claims that the world will end. When you combine what is considered impossible with what has been cried wolf! so often and has not happened, it is no wonder almost no one will take it seriously without more than an unsupported story to back it.
about 1 year ago
I’m not going to address the time travel thing very much. That’s not my area of expertise. The Mayan calendar is.
First off, it’s NOT ending. Time doesn’t end, calendars don’t end. You probably have a calendar on your wall or desk right now which “ends” on 12-31-2006.Oh no! What do you do? You go out and buy the next one.
There are 2 things going on. The first is the end of the 12th Baktun/start of the 13th Baktun. (A baktun is a unit of time approximately 396 years long). 13 is one of the Maya’s sacred numbers. The first day of the 13th Baktun is 12-21-2012 (this is the so-called “end date” everyone’s babbling about).
ALSO on 12-21-2012 (almost as if the Mayans who invented their calendar planned it that way…hmm..) there is a grand astronomical alignment which only happens every 26,000 years. On this morning, the winter solstice, the sun will rise through the dark area of the Milky Way and symbolically be “reborn” which a lot of people think means the end of the world (not true).
If your time-travel guy was depending on some kind of metaphysical energy linked to the old sun or the 12th Baktun to carry him through time, then no, he couldn’t have gotten past 2012. But somehow I doubt that’s what was going on.