Do you believe that the world will end in 2012? why or why not?

Question

Do you believe that the world will end in 2012? why or why not?

Answer 1

By early in July 2008 questions about 2012 had been asked more than 10,000 times.  I have given a version of this answer more than 140 times.  See also -

http://robotics.caltech.edu/~mason/Delus...

This stuff is all lies and fraud to get people buying faked up books, videos, watching nonsense shows on TV and directing traffic to fraudulent websites.

Pole shifts - no, not a chance.  The Earth’s axis of rotation is stabilised by the Moon’s gravity.  

Magnetic poles flip - no, they will just keep moving as usual.  They are likely to change ends at some time in the geologically near future but it will take hundreds to thousands of years to happen.  Meanwhile, the magnetic field will not disappear, but it will probably get more complex.  

Mayan calendar - one of their calendars ends in 2012. There is no prediction attached to this and even if there was, it would be astrology and that has been disproved so many times that it's not worth any more words.

Solar maximum - expected in 2011, not 2012 and it happens every 11 years anyway.

Predicted planetary “alignments” are completely false.  The positions of the planets will be about as far from an "alignment" as you can imagine.  The next "alignment" of the major planets is expected sometime after the Sun burns out.  Even if it did happen the question would arise "So what?"  Where is the physical connection between Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn etc?  

Gravity?  Like to calculate how strong the gravitational effects of Mars, Jupiter and Saturn is on Earth?  Multiply the masses of the planets together, divide by the square of the distance between them and then multiply by the gravitational constant, which is a rather small number.  Now add them all together and you still don't have a hill of beans.

Newton knew how more than 200 years ago, but our planetary alignment freaks never care to because the result would make them look as silly as they are.  

Venus will transit the Sun in June 2012, just as it did in 2004 and on a regular roughly 110 year cycle before that.  No noticeable effect then except on astronomers, some of whom will take measurements, no expected effect this next time.

Planet X / Niburu / black hole / brown dwarf / wandering planet - No.  It was predicted for 2003 by a loony woman who claimed telepathic contact with aliens.  No sign of it then and still no sign of it.  If this big nasty exists it must be quite close by now and visible with a fairly ordinary astronomical telescope.  Where is it?  The assumption that it can only be seen from the southern hemisphere and therefore astronomers don’t see it is nonsense, there are many large optical and some radio astronomical telescopes in Chile and Australia.

Even the fraud who invented the Nibiru scare, Zecharia Sitchin, disagreed with the Planet X nonsense.  



25,800 year cycles.  This is called "precession of the equinoxes" and was discovered a bit more than 2100 years ago. It has been happening since the Earth formed billions of years ago and will not stop, start or change direction in 2012.    There is no particular significance in the direction the poles of rotation happen to be pointing at present or in 2012.  

The Bible codes were disproved within months of the first book coming out, similar coded messages can be found in any random book or even newspapers using the same "anything goes" methods faked up by the author, Michael Drosnin.  He used the codes to predict a nuclear war starting in 1997.  Ooops.  

Revelation - nobody ever made sense of that, the evidence for that is that there are so many different interpretations.  It has been used to predict the end on dozens of dates from the year 500AD right up to April 2008.

Nostradamus never predicted anything accurately and he may not have intended to.  Many editions of his quatrains contain faked verses inserted long after he died.

Galactic central plane - we are near it, so astronomers say, but we have always been near it, though nobody actually knows exactly where it is.  No exact "alignment" is possible because of the angle of the ecliptic to that of the galactic central plane.  A rough “alignment” of Sun, Earth and the galactic centre happens twice every year and nothing happens.  Even if there was an exact “alignment”, the question would be "So what?"

Photon belt - this one is almost the silliest of the lot.  The Earth was expected to enter this region in 1997 with remarkable effects.  Ooops.  The “photon belt” is also said to be around the "7 Sisters".  Our solar system is heading away from them, not towards them.  It does not exist anyway.

This is all fake scholarship, pseudo-science, lies, superstition and abject delusion.

Answer 2

2012 is just and end point to the ancient mayan calendar in which it's supposed to JUST start over.

no end of world goin then.

Answer 3

No...I'm going on religious grounds...The Bibles says that no man will ever know the date of the end of the world...so because it's predidcted..it won't happen.

Answer 4

NOPE. astroid will kill us all in 2029.

and they said the same thing 8 years ago

Answer 5

No, because there's NO evidence to suggest that 2012 is in any way significant.

Answer 6

I tend to be skeptical of doomsday predictions. They predict the end of the world, and that end doesn't come. So another prediction comes out, and that also fails to come true. It's as if some people WANT the world to end... and I prefer to avoid people like that.

Answer 7

If you really wanna know about the world in 2012, then here it is

There is no any certainty but still, the world will not end in 2012 which is almost 85% sure.

As you have asked the question under astronomy and space, it really does matter with the end of our world because our world is inside a deep silent space. But no one knows when this silent ness of cosmic environment may turn out into chaos.

May be tomorrow or today or even a minute after, our world may end with a sudden disaster. Asteroids, comets and other heavenly planet may be in a collision course to our earth. Moreover the sun which is a fortune for us may turn to unfortune. Solar flares are the one which are ejected from sun’s belly are the constant threats to us which can travel through space in a matter of minutes towards earth that may bring a doom in this world.  

Hence, there’s no any assurance that our world may end in that exact point coz it may be at any point of time.

Answer 8

No, because I am a time lord and I have been there.

Answer 9

nope we have about 100k years til the andromida galexy collides with ours and then will most likely wipe out the earth...

Answer 10

No, because I have no evidence that it will end in 2012. And without good reason, I don't want to be go chicken little.

Also in the last 30 years of my life, there had been roughly 25 apocalypses, which never happened, because they had been only based on what the voices inside their heads told insane people. Why should it be different in 2012?

Answer 11

any time someone says something... anything... with no evidence behind it to refute, I label them a Troll.

I like Trolls.  

I was at a renaissance faire this last weekend where I listened to a young man dressed as a Troll, sing songs (accompanying himself on an accordion), then when everyone walked away after his show was over, a tiny girl with fresh face paint came up to him and was crying because she missed his show (to get her face painted)... so, the Troll sat her down and did his act just for her.

Yeah, Trolls.

Okay, so we need to come up with another name for you.

the 2012 issue is a dead one.  There is no evidence that anything unusual will happen that year and MUCH of the claims are false... outright lies, or misdirections.  Nearly all the credibility of the Hoax is from a video played on the history channel over and over.  With a little luck, Teachers organizations will condemn THC and forbid schools to use its broadcasts.  After all... if you put a show on that is 100% fake, how do we know that all the others aren't faked too?

(hey, if you faked a show about faking the Moon landing, would that make it true?)

Answer 12

No.

Answer 13

No. The world has existed for billions of years. I doubt that it will be destroyed in my life time seeing as the odds are so slim.

Answer 14

I think the good lord has somehting greater in store for us. We have a lot of learning to do.

Answer 15

the world coming to an end in 2012 admits of two interpretation. 1. it may mean end of days, having something to do with how man, from time immemorial, counted his days on earth.  thus, 2012 will be the end point as well as starting point of another cycle. The  mayan calendar and hindu mahabharata 'myths (?)' are embraced in this view; or, 2.  it may mean the literal end of the world, repeating the same event which brought about the present condition of our planet, earth, aka Gaiea: its present position in the solar system, and its continuous 'healing' from a violent incident involving the 'four winds,' one of which cleaved our planet, which 'cleavage' we now refer to as the wide watery expanse of the pacific ocean, among others.