is the world coming to an end?

Question

just wondering

Answer 1

eventully everything comes to an end.
Why so morbid? its not like your poor and live in a 3rd world country, be happy, show some appriciation for everything

Answer 2

Ever since the Horrendous Kablooie and formation of the solar system, we've been coming to an end. The irreversible progression of entropy as spelled out in the 2nd Law. Of course, every century and millenia, the soothsayers have been predicting the end of the world. It's an astronomical certainty that the Earth will be turned into a burnt crisp when our Sun Supernovas 4 billion or so years from now, not that we care.

The thought that by the very nature of entropy the ultimate and only possible future for man is annihilation has infiltrated our culture like a paralysis. "How is it possible to understand life when the entire world is ordered by a law such as the second principle of thermodynamics, which points to death and annihilation?" This is what philosphers since the early Greek days have been wondering...

There are many forms of extinction you may not have heard of. For example super-volcanoes, the most destructive force on this planet. An eruption would destroy a vast area of land and trigger a nuclear winter. The whole of Yellowstone is a massive super volcano - and it is 40,000 years late in its cycle of eruptions. Scientists have been noticing some strange tectonic activity in the park…

The combined nuclear capacity of the US and USSR is more than enough to kill every human on this planet. Nuclear Holocaust is the stuff of nightmares but the Cuban Missile Crisis showed us how close we can come so easily. But there are little known incidents in which nuclear submarines have been shockingly close to launching, with no crisis elsewhere.

There is also the threat from bacteria and viruses. Bacteria are becoming immune to our antibiotics at a much faster rate than we are discovering new ones. Eventually we will have nothing left to fight them with. Terrorists and leaders of rogue states have long been trying to produce large quantities of tropical viruses, such as Ebola and Lassa Fever. New technology allows these viruses to be engineered to be more contagious, stronger and harder to kill. Their effect on the human body is already terrifying.

The Bible prophesises the end of the world in the Battle of Armageddon. Many scriptures in the Bible describe this event, and give clues to how and when it may happen. Several of them seem to point to a date of 2007 for the return of the Antichrist and the beginning of the Battle. They depict in detail how the Battle will be fought - it starts with an alliance of Arab nations invading Israel.

Millions could also die with rising sea levels. If the Antarctic ice sheet were to melt then sea levels around the world would rise by 55 meters, completely flooding hundreds of large cities such as Los Angeles, New York and Tokyo. Now there is a large amount of evidence that the ice sheet is thinning and global sea levels are starting to rise. With the predicted rise in global temperatures over the next century the rate of melting can only increase.

New experiments being carried out at a particle accelerator called the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) could have unthinkable consequences. There, and at other such places, scientists are attempting to recreate the big bang - the event that formed the universe. Some predict that they could cause a black hole which would consume the Earth, others that it could turn Earth into a planet of 'strange' matter, leaving it with no substance, and another possibility is that an explosion would be released from the lab with infinite energy.

The most famous example of an event that could cause Armageddon - is a Near Earth Object (NEO). There are millions of these capable of hitting the Earth with apocalyptic force. Impact would cause vast fireballs, huge earthquakes to ripple round the globe and towering dust clouds that would cause a nuclear winter. Apophis will have a near miss in 2029 with a 1-in-300 chance of impact in 2036, can we nudge it from it date with destiny before then?

Answer 3

According to the Book of Revelation, last book of the Bible, it will. And then there will be a new creation that will not end, is seems.

Even without the Biblical teaching you have to deal with the scientific law of entropy, and by that law, the world would have to come to an end, if I understand it right.

Answer 4

Eventually

Answer 5

Read "The Long Emergency" by James Howard Kunstler or see the movie "An Inconvenient Truth" . Both are forecasting some pretty horrific conditions to our current world if we don't do something about it.

Answer 6

It might. I wouldn't spend any time worrying about that, though, because there are other things way more important. Like paying your rent and stuff. :)

Not trying to throw religion at you, but the bible says that 'not even the angels in heaven know the day nor the hour'.

Answer 7

Yep. Scientist predict that the Sun will get so close to the Earth that it will eventually vaporize it... But of course none of us will be around to see the fireworks...

Answer 8

If we continue heating it, aour planet could collapse soon. We have to try not to waste aour resources and educate future generations about that matter.

Answer 9

May be as we know it but not really ending completely.

Answer 10

Not yet but soon , because each time the water its reducing itselves thanks to the human so ....

By example in Africa theres few water then in all the world