when will the world end?

Question

Im.. kinda scared, i mean it was supposed to end so long ago...... but i mean will there still be civilized people like us in the 4000's.....

Answer 1

Your would will end when u die. And don't believe those bullshit from whatever religion(if you know what I mean). They kept making prediction of the world end. But always wrong. They kept doing to make people scare and believe. Now tell me how many different prediction of world end u have heard? That how many time they have lie to you. Live your life happily and forget about this lie.

PS: If they are real their wouldn't miss the prediction! THEY ARE FAKE.

Answer 2

Soon. Very soon.

Look at it this way:

Suppose I give you two jars filled with marbles. I tell you that each jar has many black marbles, but in each there is also one red marble. You reach in and pull out a red marble. I then tell you that one of the jars has 100 marbles in it, the other 1000 (they're big jars, and small marbles). You cannot see in the jars, and I've rigged one with a false bottom, so the marbles are at the same height in each jar.

Which jar did you pick from?

Common sense: you should provisionally conclude that you chose from the jar that makes your red marble more rather than less likely, given the new information you have. And that's the jar with only a hundred marbles.

Now, instead of marbles and jars, think about how many humans ever will have lived in the universe, when everything comes to an end in the distant future. Of course you don't know when the human race will end, but you do know where you are in human history so far. Given that information, when will the human race likely end?

Well, why shouldn't you reason the same way you did with the marbles and jars? That is, you should provisionally choose the story about the apocalypse that makes your existence more rather than less likely, and if the world ends soon, then that likelihood is greater than if the human race went on and on into the future (think how unlikely that would be!)

So, for the same reason you guessed the 100-marble jar, you should also guess that the world will end soon.

Answer 3

December 21, 2012

Answer 4

1. The 2nd Law of Thermodynamics states that the quality of all energy in the Universe is degraded irreversibly....the inexorable death of the universe is not only predicted, its mandated by entropy.

2. It's an astonomical surety that our Sun will supernova in a billion years, leaving the earth a burned crisp...

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?"

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 Russia 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 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. This term describes asteroids and comets passing close to Earth. 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 is estimated to near miss in the year 2036.

Answer 5

It really depends on what you define as the world ending.

If you mean civilisation, then that could and may be relatively soon. Like the next few thousand years. Asteroid, man-made destruction etc.

But if you mean actual destruction of the planet, then not for a long time, billions of years when the sun implodes and sucks everything up.

It is very, very unlikely to end in your lifetime. So don't worry.

Answer 6

Unless you're a vampire or a cyborg, you only have 100 years or so here, and the world is guaranteed to be around that long at least.

There's no reason to be scared about the world - your biggest concern should be avoiding auto accidents and crime so you can get as many of those years as possible.

Answer 7

I like to watch PBS and I know that there is always discussion about when it will end and how it will end. It really does sound scary and it so scared me out of my mind. I try to soothe myself by thinking that I'll be gone when it happens...whenever it happens.

Anyway, I don't think anyone really knows when the world will end. But personally, we end when we last breathe. As for Earths' life.. who knows. but it's still a long way to go unless out of nowhere.. an asteroid or meteor strikes it (lthe cause of Dinosaurs' extinction) or a natural disaster befall it like floods or heat or whatever. But so far.. we're ok.

Answer 8

Yes, there will definitely be civilized people like us in the 4000's.
The world is not going to end in any foreseeable future.

Don't worry. Don't worry about the world so much. Nothing is going to happen. Instead take care of yourself and your life.
That will be more beneficial to you than to worry about things that anyway are not going to happen.

Answer 9

In 4,000 it won't matter to you if there is a civilization because you will be dead. All of us on yahoo tonight will be dead. I know this sounds negative and cynical but it's a fact. What's more significant is that some of us will be dead tomorrow and others the day after that because "tomorrow is promised to no man". If you are concerned about your personal future, perhaps you should be doing some soul searching and consider your spiritual needs.

Answer 10

july 8 2008 at 2:08 am