World's End?

Question

Is the world really gonna end on december 21, 2012? My friends keep freaking me out, and im kinda scared... lol

Answer 1

I am scared also there are many rumours floating about, 2012. The witches are very worried about it and see it as a war. Others have said it is a hoax this could also be true. Keep both options open but never give up hope.

Answer 2

Thats according to an old mayan calender, but i think were safe. A lot of other events on that calender have been proven wrong. Well at least i hope, thats when i graduate!!

Answer 3

Show them this simple explanation.

Answer 4

No, no one has anything to prove it. The reason that is circulated is because in the Mayan calendar, its circular structure could only go to that date.

Answer 5

There have been many predictions of the end of the world, some by people famous for making predications that "came true".

They have all turned out to be nothing.

Answer 6

no not 2012, its going to be 4012.000.58.0 AD, I am pretty sure but let me call up my favorite spiritual medium and she can tap in to the 12 dimension where Nostradamus is and she can confirm it with him.

No its not going to end in 2012 that is mayan FOLKLORE.

Answer 7

This question has been asked and answered so many times...

The Mayan calendar comes to an end on that date. The Mayans didn't even predict that their own civilization would fall a few years later, so I doubt that they had any useful insight into the end of the world.

Answer 8

No one knows the exact date of the worlds end.

Answer 9

all this is based on a Mayan legend that is just that a legend. no one knows when the world will end and it is not something to worry about. if it  were true what could you do about it.......nothing.

Answer 10

Nobody had proves that the sun is going to die but that might take billions of years.

Answer 11

Everything in life comes to an end at some point - just nobody knows when.

Answer 12

No, this myth came about because the aztec calender ends on december 12th 2012, But hey my calender ends in 2009 but im not waiting for the end of the world. =)

Answer 13

nope, don't worry about the world ending for another few billion years.

Answer 14

There's no evidence to prove it.

Answer 15

Not you and not your friend and nobody knows just god and maybe your friend saw ''Doomsday'' a new movie about the world's end that's gonna happen in ''2012'' and he believed the movie's ''STORY'' so please help him for me, believe me he needs help.

Answer 16

It is a really sick cruel joke, the people that created this Hoax should be put in a mental hospital for the criminally insane.

Do NOT believe a word of it.

Answer 17

Research for youself. you are sitting in front of a computer ya know.

Answer 18

No, it's a hoax.  Your friends are nitwits.

Answer 19

This may seem to be the most ridiculously longest answer ever, but as a scientist and historian, I believe in being thorough because this is one topic where I find most people are ill-informed. There are 2 coinciding reasons for the confusion over 2012; the Maya and the Sumerians. Here's the facts on both cultures.

__________The Maya and 2012__________

The only culture using the year 2012 as a future reference point is the Maya on their LONG COUNT Calendar (The Mesoamerican Long Count Calendar). What most people are not aware of is that the Mayans had several calendars. The Long Count Calendar was one of which various PREDICTIONS were said to happen, but have not always been accurate as time has shown us. Yes, they were master astronomers, but they were NOT psychic advisors to the stars. I’ll give you an example to prove my point. In their 13-Baktun Great Cycle - a cycle of approximately 5125 years on the Long Count Calendar – the Maya predicted that their God "KULKUKAN" was going to return to them on a certain date. Instead, the Conquistadors showed up in the 17th century and aggressively converted the Maya to Christianity, destroying almost all of the Mayan’s codec’s. Even before this event, the Maya civilization nearly brought itself to extinction in the 8th and 9th centuries due to what most scholars accept as overpopulation and exhausted food resources. It was for this reason the Maya were unable to start a new age on their calendar system. Again, the Mayans DID NOT predict the world was going to end. Doomsayers really spin this out of proportion without accurate knowledge of historical facts and cosmology. The Mesoamerican Long Count calendar forms the basis for a New Age belief that a “cataclysm” will take place on or about 21 December 2012; a forecast that mainstream Mayan Scholars consider a misinterpretation. The term "Apocalypse" or "Cataclysm" as the Maya scribed it, literally means uncovering or revealing. This definition was understood, even at their time of writing. No matter what conspiracy theorists want to believe, the truth is, the Mayan Long Calendar speaks of the end of one cycle of time moving into the next on December 21, 2012. Here’s something else the doomsayers “conveniently” overlook. Maya stele occasionally show dates beyond 2012. Most of these are in the form of "distance dates," where a Long Count date is given with a distance date to be added. For example, on the “Tablet of Inscriptions” from Palenque, the Maya archeological site near the Usumacinta River in the Mexican state of Chiapas, a Long Count was found with a distance date of 21 October 4772 – almost 3,000 years into the future. The king Pacal of Palenque predicted that on this date the 18th Calendar Round anniversary of his accession will be celebrated, suggesting that he obviously did not believe the world would end in 2012.



Now, from the cosmological point of view, research into the nature of December 21, 2012, reveals that a rare celestial alignment culminates on this date; and amazingly, the Mayans knew this. What occurs here is an alignment between the galactic and solar planes. Specifically, the winter solstice sun will conjunct the Milky Way, which is the edge of our spinning galaxy as viewed from earth. Furthermore, the place where the sun meets the Milky Way is where the "dark-rift" in the Milky Way is. This a black ridge along the Milky Way caused by interstellar dust clouds. On winter solstice of 2012, the sun will be right in this dark-rift and the orientation is such that the Milky Way will rim the horizon at all points around. Thus, the Milky Way "sits" on the earth, touching it at all points around, opening up the cosmic sky portal. The galactic and solar planes are thus aligned. "Sky portal" is just a term to describe the "opened sky" scenario apparent when the Milky Way rims the horizon. This is not to be confused with the "dark-rift" itself. Overall, the dark-rift is best understood as the birth canal of the Cosmic Mother when relating to Mayan culture. And the date of this alignment is, again, the end date of the 13-baktun Great Cycle. This all suggests that the ancient Maya were aware of the impending alignment and considered it to be of such importance to be a major transition point, the Creation of a new World Age.

So, for those of you still unconvinced and bound to mythological ideas better suited for Hollywood Filmmaking, if the Maya were so keen into predicting the future, one would come to theorize that they would have foreseen the demise of their own race and more than likely, prevented it from happening. I'm sure if their culture would have survived in large numbers, they would have continued their calendar system.

__________Planet X and the Sumerians__________

What most astronomers in search of Planet X do not realize is that an ancient civilization over 6,000 years old strangely knew about another planet in our solar system. The Sumerian's are the 1st recorded civilization on Earth. They produced over 100 of Earth's 1st modern civilizations and were located in a land known as Mesopotamia, Babylon, originally called Sumer, modern day Iraq. The Sumerians invented writing, math, agriculture, medicine, courts, laws, judges, schools, and astronomy, all of which has been found to exist in the form of a written language and stone artifacts with pictograms. They have left us 1000's of cylinder seals and stone tablets which tell about their daily lives. They also recorded sacred texts on some of these tablets which tell us that if you were to ask a Sumerian man, "How do you know all this advanced math and astronomy?" they would have responded, “We have left you the answer in stone.”

The Sumerians had some of the most advanced astronomical data ever recorded. They proved to be master astronomers by having cited accurate distances between the planets and even the correct color schemes of the outer planets. This should not have been possible without the aid of telescopes from a 6,000 year old civilization. They recorded (accurately) all the planets we know of, but included an additional planet which they called "NIBIRU." They said our solar system has 12 members in that they counted nine planets (including Pluto) plus our sun (10) our moon (11) and the (12th planet) which is on a highly elliptical orbit and only passes around the sun every 3,600 years. How did they do this? The Sumerians say, "All that we know, we were taught by the Anunnaki." The term ANUNNAKI means "those who from heaven to earth came." The Sumerians also claim to have lived amongst their “Living Gods.” The Anunnaki taught the Sumerians how to record (in stone) the location from which they came. The Anunnaki live on the 12th planet in our solar system which is called NIBIRU. The number (12) has proven to be the root of many sources of information derived from the Sumerian culture that we still use today. (12 hours in a day / night) (12 inches in a foot) (12 in a dozen) (12 tribes of Israel) (12 Disciples of Jesus) (12 Greek Olympians) (12 houses of the Zodiac)

The astronomy community has always been very effective at finding new objects in our vicinity, even before professional telescopes. Need I cite an example for proof? Okay . . . Hale-Bopp Comet. If a planet 4-8 times the size of earth comes anywhere near us, trust me, we would have found it by now. And if it were going to strike or pass by Earth in 2012, it would have begun to appear in our night skies as the second brightest object other than The Moon. And by 2010, we will start seeing it in the day time just like we do the moon at times.

__________Conclusion__________

Aside from the Mayan prediction for an end of an age in 2012 and the beginning of a new, there is no Sumerian astronomical reference citing a Planet X / Nibiru is anywhere near us or will be near us anytime soon.

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srry about that i am board, think i am about to go to sleep

Answer 21

yup, we all gonna die, do the best things you always wanted to do before you die

Answer 22

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.

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