World coming to an End?

Question

is the world ending on december 12th,2012. i hear all the planets will align, causing the earth to explode. do you believe this ?

Answer 1

no the planets wont elighn and earth wont explode.its a huge elighnment around the stars.theirsa small chance that the earth will turn upside down

Answer 2

Yes the world is coming to and end, but it will be a little later than 12,12,2012, try adding a few billion years to that

Answer 3

its not happening this way

the theory is that in the centre of the milky way there is a huge black hole which will allign in a straight line with earth on 21st december 2012.This will cause o polar shift which may make alaska moove to the equator.If this polar shift is rapid life could be wiped out due to tsunamis and earhtquakes.If it is slow then there would be damage but humans will not be eradicated

there is mythology behind this too

the mayan calender stop in 2012 and the chineses oracle also predicts some thing bad is going to happen

Answer 4

It might end next month. Google "Atom Smasher".

Answer 5

1) How would the earth explode?

2) There's a THEORY of something called 'nibiru' or 'planet x' where an unknown 'planet' or asteroid will come close to the earth, it about 2/3 of the size of jupiter, it wont collide but the gravitational pull COULD cause devastating effects

3) I CAN GUARENTEE YOU $1 MILLION THAT THIS WONT HAPPEN

Answer 6

If this is some numerology thing, 12/12/12, then no. The birth of Christ wasn't known within a year, and was probably wrong by seven.  If so, the world has already ended.

If this is the Mayan calendar thing, then no.  The Mayan calendar doesn't end in 2012, it just starts a new cycle.  They're dead.  If they could predict the end of the world, but not prevent their own end, that would be bizzare.

Even if all the planets align, the gravitational forces turn out to be minimal.  It's about as much as Jupiter acting alone, which it does every year.  We're still here.

Answer 7

No, it isn't and the date is December 21, 2012, the planets aren't going to align, and the Earth isn't going to explode.  This is just the latest in a series of phony doomsdays that have been predicted every few years throughout history.

Here are the claims, along with the actual facts for each:

The Mayan Calendar - Their calendar was done in ages or cycles and their years ended at the winter solstice.  The current cycle ends December 21, 2012.  They didn’t predict the end of the world, it was only the end of that cycle.  Their civilization died out several hundred years before the end of the cycle, so no new cycle was added.

Alignment with the Galactic Center – The alignment was supposed to be in 1998.  We will be 6 degrees off from true alignment in 2012.  Because the sun is one-half of a degree wide, it will take the December solstice sun 36 years to precess through the Galactic equator This happens every 26,000 years. The Earth has been through it 173,076 times and humans 7 times.  

Polar shift – the poles are moving all the time and we don’t notice.  A complete 180 degree reversal occurs over a period of thousands of years.  The North Magnetic Pole is slowly drifting across the Canadian Arctic. The Geological Survey of Canada keeps track of this motion by periodically carrying out magnetic surveys to redetermine the Pole's location. The most recent survey, completed in May, 2001, determined an updated position for the Pole and established that it is moving approximately northwest at 40 km per year.  Although fast by geological standards, reversals are by no means quick on the human time scale. They take roughly 5,000 years, with estimates ranging from 1,000 years and 8,000 years.



Niburu (Planet X) - It doesn't exist. The Doomsayers predicted that it was to hit Earth in 2003. When it didn't show up, they just moved it out to 2012 to coincide with the end of the Mayan calendar.

Apophis (2004MN4) – A yellow alert for this asteroid (for the 2029 pass) was originally issued in 2001.  After more points were added to its orbit, they found it wasn't going to hit us and the alert was canceled.

Photon Belt - (1) No photon belt or other such region of increased energy has been discovered. Photons in any case are merely particles of electromagnetic energy, which we commonly experience as light. Upon exposure to excess photons the most common transformation of your being is sunburn.

(2) There's no "anomaly" near the Pleiades star cluster. The Pleiades are surrounded by a nebula, or gas cloud. This cloud is composed not of photons but of dust and hydrogen gas.

(3) The earth isn't heading toward the Pleiades but away from them. In the 1850s it was conjectured that the earth orbited the Pleiades, but this has long since been discredited.

(4) Paul Otto Hesse is unknown to astronomers. Someone dug up a reference to a 1986 book by him in German whose title translates as "Judgment Day: A Book to Mankind That Speaks of Things to Come." 'Nuff said.

Answer 8

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 crackpots in order to promote their books and TV shows, and shamelessly promoted by the History Channel. Don't take any of it seriously!

For specific information on the planetary "alignment," please see this article I wrote:

http://www.starrynight.com/sntimes/2008/...

Answer 9

No. Planets will not align. This is a 100% known fact. All that will happen is the Mayan calendar will start a new millenium.

Answer 10

right at this exact moment in time, the planets are in better alignment than they will be in 2012.

believe me?  I DON'T CARE IF YOU DO!

check out this nifty model of the Solar System and roll it ahead to Dec 21(get your doomsday messages correct), 2012.

Neato!

Answer 11

By early in July 2008 questions about 2012 had been asked more than 10,000 times.  I have now 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.

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 "exact alignment" of the major planets is expected sometime long 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 are 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.  The total effect of all the planets on Earth is millions or billions of times less than that of the Moon and the Sun.  When the Moon and the Sun line up in an total or near eclipse, does the Earth explode?

Newton knew how to calculate this about 300 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.

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.

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.



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.  Oops.  

Revelation - nobody ever made sense of those febrile maunderings, 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.  Oops.  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.