Did the Maya predict the beginning of the universe? If so does science support there theory?

Question

How did they have such precise astronomical estimations?

Answer 1

To predict something is to speak of it before it happens. (That's what the prefix "pre-" means!). Nobody on any planet anywhere, in this galaxy or any other galaxy, could possibly have predicted the beginning of the universe, as there weren't any stars and there weren't any planets before the universe began!

So the question cannot be answered as its presumption of the situation is an impossible one and could not have occurred.

I am also struck by the contradiction of the words "precise" and "estimation" with one another. Surely "estimates" by their very nature are approximate not precise?

Are you asserting that the Mayans made measurements that when scientific instruments were able to be used (that had not been invented then) after their civilisation perished, confirmed their results? Can you name three or four such results?

Āryabhata (AD 476 – 550) the first of the great mathematician-astronomers of the classical age of Indian mathematics and Indian astronomy, computed Earth's circumference as 24,835 miles, and this was only 0.2% smaller than the actual value of 24,902 miles. That's pretty impressive: how do the Mayan results compare with that?

The subtext of your questions is the assumption that if the Mayans record-keeping and calculations were accurate (I remain to be convinced about that but evidence would convince me, assertions will not) then it follows that their predictions for the year 2012 are equally good and worth listening to and taking seriously.

Sorry but that doesn't follow at all, I am afraid. Especially when those predictions involve modern knowledge the Mayans could not possibly have had, such as there being such a thing as the Milky Way galaxy, our being part of it, it having a Galactic Centre and our position in the Orion Arm of its barred spiral structure being "aligned" (whatever that may mean!) with that Centre.

These things being beyond their knowledge, how can they feature in their predictions? That they do so only indicates the gullibility of people who believe everything that they read about the Mayans and cannot distinguish what must be a later addition to the body of Mayan wisdom by a modern interpreter from what was conceived and written by the Mayans themselves.

A year or so ago, someone asserted on these pages that the Mayans had predicted an asteroid would strike Earth in 2012. That was jolly clever of them, I suggested. nobody knew there were such things as asteroids before 1801 and the term was only coined in 1802, how could they possibly have known that? Plainly that was added by another hand in the last couple of hundred years!

Methinks I sniff a whiff of propaganda in the air, though quite why anyone should want us to get all gooey-eyed and impressed with the Mayan Civilisation's achievements (without stating what they were!) rather eludes me ...

Answer 2

mayan didnt announced about the end of the earth but media and press made it scary...agree wid nrao yes 21 dec 2012 was the date of end of their calender ,,,,not the end of world.By December 2012,worlds vibrational frequency got doubled from 8 herts to 16.8 hertz.....mean earth was ascending and entering in higher dimension.Planetearth had been continuously ascending since late 1980's and its vibrational frequency had been increasing ever since. In early 1990's, it was vibrating at the frequency of 7 hertz resonance. By December 2012, it started vibrating at the frequency of 16.8 hertz resonance. That means the vibrational frequency of Earth will became double. More vibrational frequency indicates more purity and the energy, earth was heading towards higher dimension. So, that was the period when the our planet was going to ascend into the fourth dimension, becoming more pure, divine and full of love energy.

People were talking that time about saving planet earth, but it was not correct. It was because of our ego that we talk like this. Planet earth has its own consciousness and is already ascending to higher dimension. We should rather be talking about saving ourselves, about saving fellow human beings. All individuals have different consciousness levels and are still vibrating at much lower frequencies. More than 2/3 of our population is vibrating at below average frequency level. That's the reason in every such human being only 3.5% The low DNA activation influences thinking of mankind, making them think negatively thus generating negative energy. Collective generation of negative energy will take mankind towards disaster. As on today 2/3 rd of the population has to be saved from the destructive negative energy field of ego, greed, hatred, resentment, holding on to herd mentality and trying to create herd of people which can be dominated by individuals and so on.

Answer 3

I don't discount the possibility that God started this particular show with the big bang. Red shift and radio static prove the Big Bang happened--so there's no denying that. But incredible claims require incredible proof. Show me a shred of physical evidence of the correctness of Islam--nothing anecdotal, nothing derived from conjecture or wit, and I'll investigate it further. But judging from what I know of Islam, I do not believe that it is correct. The main problems with Islam, in my opinion, is the Sharia law. Which has done nothing but keep every Islam nation from ever prospering. How many Islamic nations have won a war since Sharia was adopted and maintained? None? Yeah. I think that's the number. While that's not any sort of proof--I think it's a fun anecdotal fact. So, yeah, your God fine by me. I don't mind your faith in him. But when millions of people--bear in mind, these people before Islam were the most scientifically and academically advanced in the world--are living on less than 50 cents a day, and blowing themselves up for the after-life, it draws away from the good things in the faith.

Answer 4

Matt. Not sure/havent studied the Mayan Take on The "Beginning" but after a few minutes Study/Research of The "Mayan Calendar" and The Polal Shift, (Predicted 12/23/2012 ??) I got Plenty Scared, and havent been back for more Info. JUST Like when I looked Into the Reptillian. (have You noticed Vid/PHOTOS of CondiRice, its her EYES Dude.) howz about that MONSTER Chainknee ??) Not sure if Mayan Peoples were brought up on this FANTASTIC, EXTRAORDINARY VIDEO ( I watched til 1hr. 2min) I found a view about Origin of Religion . FF>> to aprox. 25:00 mins into Tape (to 37:00) THOUGHT PROVOKING to say the LEAST !! .. http://zeitgeistmovie.com/

Answer 5

Think about it, Matt. How could the Maya predict the BEGINNING of the universe? Or calculate it? They didn't.

The only thing they were good at predicting was the end of their calendar on 12/21/2012. There's NOTHING in their calendar that says anything about the end of the universe, the end of Earth, or the end of Time -- just the end of their calendar calculations.

Even the so-called "alignment" is a very rough alignment.

Why do "silly goose" people insist that they know the Mayans better than the Mayans did? Why do people think that "YouTube" is anything more than entertainment for weak minds?

Answer 6

They were fixated on time. The basic motivator was both agricultural and religious. The calendar predicted when to plant, adjjst their irrigation and when the next child should be sacrificed.

Answer 7

No, and no. Anyone can do precise astronomy with adequate measurements and records.