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Question

Do you think that the mayans are correct regarding 21st december,2012?What does your research say?Is it true that our earch will not end for one billion years,as my friends say?They say that "our earth wont end upto one billion years".

Answer 1

Well the Mayans are correct... but we aren't....

The Mayans never said the world would end 12/21/12. This whole thing about the world ending was the result of a misinterpretation of their long-count calendar which was then exploited by a bunch of conspiracy theorists. The world isn't going to end that day. Even a Mayan king predicted that the celebration of the anniversary of his ascension would occur some thousands of years after this date. That would make no sense if he really believed the world would end in 2012!

Answer 2

be silly, believe what you wanna.

(here's your tinfoil hat)

seriously, the Mayans didn't predict ANYTHING!

there was a TV show... you believe TV, right?

7 castaways on a Island... no, wait... it was about 2012.

the year is 2008... when your calendar ends, do you slit your wrists and eat rat poison? (actually, I hope not, you could be a scarred, poison surviver... in which case... CONGRATULATIONS on surviving!  Woo woo!)

No, we go out and buy a new calendar.

Answer 3

my, my, my... so many misinterpreted statements. faraz, please don't listen to your friends when it comes to science.

the 2012 thing is bogus.

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. to get to earth 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.

and the running theory is that the sun will swell into a red giant in about 5 billion years, swallowing the first 2 planets of the solar system, and definately destroying all life on earth.

Answer 4

your friends are wrong...ask your teacher she/he will definately say nooo its all hoggggwaaaaaassssshhhhhhh!!! my research? there is no research to be done. its like someone asking you if the tooth fairy was real you had to show your "research". how can you research such an absurd thing that is entirely fictional

Answer 5

OK count to one million, sooner or later your going to ask "why am i counting to a million?" now plant your calender out to say 3000 years from now. sooner or later you will ask "why am i doing this, i will be dead and gone" so you will stop.

that is why the Mayans calender stopped, they got tried of counting.

Answer 6

As (becoming) spaceflight engineer, I can only tell you: The Mayans knew it better, as all 2012 crackpot scientists today. They had very  accurate knowledge about the solar system and did not predict any apocalypse at all.

All they predicted was the day, when the biggest possible party in the Mayan cultural life was about to be celebrated.

Answer 7

I'm not a scientist but that isn't real.  Mayan's calendar is very very accurate but it happened to have stopped at 2012 and didn't go any further.  They have to stop at some point because they can't make the calendar go forever..  So some people interpret it as the end of the world.