Doomsday december 21st 2012. World will end. Is this to be believed?

Question

There are rumors about the world going to end on dec 21 2012.

Based on predictions of Nastrodamus , Mayan calender, Chinese predictions and the bott technology.

Is the world really going to end? how many think it will and how many think its a fake or exagerated prediction?

Answer 1

The short answer to your question is no. the world is not going to end in 2012. There is no scientific proof, or evidence for that matter. People think that the world is going to end because that’s when the mayan calendar ends. If this is why the world is going to end then we might as well say that the world is going to end on December 31 2009 because no calendars have been printed for 2010 yet. Its an absurd idea that has been shamelessly endorsed by yahoo, google, the news media, and even the history channel.

that’s the short answer. Here’s the long one:

There are a couple theories on how the world will supposedly end in 2012. I will give you examples, and shoot the ideas down for you.

The most popular idea is that planet x, is going to come to the earth and block the sunlight. First of all, it is not “the planet x” it’s “a planet x”. planet x is a generalized term that caught on a couple hundred years ago that was used to describe unknown planets of our solar system. Neptune was once a planet x. astronomers calculated that the orbital period of Uranus was affected by another object, probably a planet, that was beyond Uranus. They calculated the orbital period of this planet x, and found where it would be at a specific time. They saw the planet, and it was no longer considered planet x. it got its name- Neptune. Scientists miscalculated the orbital period of Neptune being affected by another planet, but by chance their miscalculations revealed Pluto. This icy world was also considered planet x, and was first seen in 1930. It was considered a planet until 2006 when it was demoted to a dwarf planet, and now a plutoid. Sedna, quaour, eris, and ceris were all considered planet x’s, and were eventually classified as plutoids.

Now that you know the true definition of a planet x, lets talk about the scientific improbabilities of a planet x that is going to travel all the way to the earth. First of all, I have gone to college, and received a PhD in astronomy and astrophysics and I have never heard of nibiru. According to recent data, there may be another planet larger than earth lying in the kupiter belt. this planet would have to be more than 5 light years away. So if it were to suddenly travel at light speed, the fastest possible speed an object can achieve, it would take the planet 5 years to get here. 2012 is less than 4 years away. Besides the mathematic problems, there are scientific problems too. First of all, there is no force that would make the planet travel at light speed. Second, it would have to get through the beatings of countless asteroids, and the gravitational pull of the four gas giants of the outer solar system - Neptune, Uranus, Saturn, and Jupiter. I wouldn’t be surprised if it became a moon of one of those planets on its way. Anyway, if it did get through the gas giants, it has to get through another asteroid belt, as well as mars. It will most likely be shot into outer space, or into the sun where it will burn up. If it did manage, by some miracle, to get in front of the earth, it would be in a different gravitational shell. It would be closer, which means it will orbit the sun faster than the earth, therefore it will move away from us. So that’s not going to happen.

Another theory is about the asteroid. Its going to hit earth or whatever. Here’s why it won’t work: the asteroid has to take the same path to get to the earth as planet x, but it is even smaller, and will take more of a beating. If it got through everything, it would just crash into our moon probably. If it did come to earth, the atmosphere would burn it up so much that there would probably be nothing left for it to hit earth.

All other theories are just as absurd. Nothing is going to happen in 2012, except for the same things that could happen any other year.

Answer 2

<sarcasm>

The world will definitely end this time.  The last few thousand times someone claimed the end of the world was near, they turned out to be wrong, but this time it's really gonna happen.  How do I know?  I read it on the internet; it must be true.  Plus, it involves numerology, the most reliable branch of science in existence.

</sarcasm>

Don't be daft.

Answer 3

The Mesoamerican Long Count calendar, notably used by the Maya civilization among others of pre-Columbian Mesoamerica, completes its thirteenth b'ak'tun cycle since the calendar's mythical starting point (equivalent to 3114 BC August 11 in the proleptic Gregorian calendar, according to the "GMT-correlation" JDN= 584283).[6] The Long Count b'ak'tun date of this starting point (13.0.0.0.0) is repeated, for the first time in a span of approximately 5,125 solar years. The significance of this period-ending to the pre-Columbian Maya themselves is unclear, and there is an incomplete inscription (Tortuguero Monument 6) that records this date. It is also to be found carved on the walls of the Temple of Inscriptions in Palenque, where it functions as a base date from which other dates are computed.[7] However, it is conjectured that this may represent in the Maya belief system a transition from the current Creation world into the next.[citation needed]

December 23 — The alternative date for the completion of the thirteenth b'ak'tun cycle in the Maya calendar, using a version of the GMT-correlation based on a JDN of 584285 (a.k.a. the "astronomical" or "Lounsbury correlation"), which is supported by a smaller number of Mayanist researchers.[8]

Answer 4

It make more sense if it was the 20th as the date would then be 20/12/2012 guess we'll find out !

Answer 5

GUTTED! Thats just before my 21st birthday! Just my luck!

Answer 6

No.

Scientists don't expect anything out of the ordinary to happen in the year 2012, or specifically on the date December 21, other than the solstice, which happens every year.

None of the "predicted" happenings for 2012 hold up under close scrutiny. "Planet X" and "Nibiru" simply don't exist. The Mayan calendar ends a cycle, but there were no predictions of the end of the world. The Sun doesn't line up with the galactic centre; it's 6 degrees off. No asteroids or comets are actually predicted to hit Earth.

All of this stuff was put together by sensationalists in order to promote their books and TV shows, and shamelessly promoted by the History Channel. Don't take any of it seriously!

Answer 7

This world has had a lot of disasters, and it always will. There has been a lot of predictions of the world coming to an end , and none of them have come true. Many predictions have been misinterpreted and exaggerated. I am sure that our modern scientists know more than the ancient Mayans knew. Dec. 21, 2012 will come and go with no more than the usual amount of disasters.

Answer 8

its going to come true just like Y2K.

Answer 9

No, the world will explode but there will be a few survivors.  If I was you I'd buy survival gear and move to high ground.

Answer 10

thought it was dec 23?  Guess we're going away 2 days sooner than expected

Answer 11

I think we're going to make it, so you'd better not quit your job and cash in your savings.

Answer 12

you tell me. Hey - I want the opportunity to grow up as you did

Answer 13

i hope not. and thats because i love my family. but i have no friends or social future so tbh if every other human being on earth apart from my family died, i wouldnt particularly care

Answer 14

The world actually ended with the invention of the internet.

Answer 15

Nostradamus never predicted anything correctly.

The Mayan calendar reaches the end of a cycle. They never predicted the world will end at that date.

Chinese predictions - never heard of any.

Bot technology. That's a new one to be added to the list.

You forgot to mention pole reversal, galactic alignment, collision with the planet Nibiru, solar storms, Large Hadron Collider - the list is getting longer all the time.

I should, of course, mention that all the above predictions are complete tosh and have no scientific basis whatsoever.

Answer 16

The world is going to end a few years later I think but the end is nigh !

Answer 17

NO!

Answer 18

well i doubt it.

nastrodamus predictions have been linked and manipulate to fit diff rent events and there isnt ant proof, like the one for 9/11

"In the City of God there will be a great thunder, Two brothers torn apart by Chaos, while the fortress endures, the great leader will succumb",

The third big war will begin when the big city is burning"

- Nostradamus 1654

that has just been INTERPERTAED  to mean that but for it to work we have to assume "the City of God" is New York City, then the "two brothers torn apart by Chaos" must be the fallen towers of the Word Trade Center. The "fortress" been the Pentagon, the "great leader" succumbing to Chaos must be the United States of America, and "the third big war" can only mean World War III.

so as you can see its not very accurate, therefore i wouldnt take what he says as proof, also touching on what Scienceman said the second expilnation is plausable, yes he has a phd etc.. and im just a collage kid but asteroids big enough to cause massive distruction have hit earth before so why not again?! 64 million years ago in fact. there is ALOT of evidance to suggest it was an asteroid caused the extinction of the dinosaurs.

so the answer to your question is NO.