I keep hearing that the world is going to end on December 21, 2012...where are people getting this theory from?
2007-07-03 06:25:40 · 14 answers · asked by Lindsay 3 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
That's as far as the Mayan civilization projected their calendar to. So now everyone thinks they had some sort of inside track and predicted the end of the world. In reality, the just stopped projecting their calendar because they got as far as they could.
2007-07-03 06:29:17 · answer #1 · answered by Lady Geologist 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Mayan peopel were geniuses and marked recorded and accurately predicted astromical events. The 2012 thing actually happens about every 5125 years (so the time of the birth of the world was: about 3113BC by there reckoning). This is due to the fact that there is a galatical eclipse in which the sun is in the center of the milky way (or appears to be.) And the entire milky way is spread out on the entire hemisphere and every single part is visible. This center is actually a nebula cloud that is called the Dark Rift. The Mayans believed that a god is born and reborn through the direct "tunnel or birth canal" formed in the sky with the sun, earth, and Dark Rift. They also called this the Road to the Underworld.
2007-07-03 08:37:13 · answer #2 · answered by Darth Futuza 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm pretty sure the Mayan calendar doesn't "end." I thought the Mayans just predicted that it was the end of a Great Cycle, and that some big transition would take place. The most dangerous large object from space that we know of is going to pass us almost a decade later than 2012.
Besides, how do you define the end of the world? For us? For all life? That's a big egocentric - the physical rocky planet of Earth doesn't care a bit if we all die, and it will keep spinning if we do, no problem. Or does the Earth itself get smashed to smithereens? That would be tricky - another small planet slammed into Earth a few billion years back, forming our moon, and yet Earth didn't disintigrate.
EDIT: Check this out: http://www.abhota.info/end1.htm - it's a history of all the endtime prophecies man has ever made in five thousand years, none of them fulfilled.
2007-07-03 06:32:46 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
it is the end of the mayan calendar, it is when our solar system lines up with the plane of our galaxy for the first time since humans walked the earth (this may increase the gravitation pull on us by other stars), it is the end of the 11 years solar cycle (the sun flips polarity, which increases solar storm activity), and the earth may also flip polarity (north and south pole switch) --- does this mean the end? who knows, but it is a lot of things happening at the same time. this could throw off the earth's usual orbit or hurl more asteroids at us.
hope this is helpful --- it is ok to be concerned, but don't be paranoid
2007-07-03 22:33:47 · answer #4 · answered by Ted M 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ditto on the "people are morons" response. But, yeah, that particular date is the "end" of the Mayan calendar. Of course, the morons are too dumb to realize that the Mayan calendar simply starts over....just like ours does every January 1st.
I've already lived through several magical dates upon which the world was supposed to end.
2007-07-03 06:47:29 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The mayans were very smart and everything that they have predicted to happen (meteor showers, eclipses, anything to do with space and time && the calender [lunar]) has come true. People are scared because it might just be the end of the world. what is suppossed to happen is a black hole will line up with the earth and the sunn. thats it, we dont know if we will get sucked in and die or nottt &hearts
2007-07-03 07:38:41 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
as above so under...the mayans knew this and different rules of the distant stars the talked approximately as themselves starborn and teenagers of sunshine. there is going to be an journey interior the heavens which will reason a pivotal shift in human expertise catapulting us right into a sparkling way of questioning and not in basic terms the mayans envisioned this the Hopis, Dogons, Vedic, Egyptians, between others all have some sort of prophecy regarding this time. we can in all probability pass from linear questioning to multi-dimensional perspective even if it is going to look as though some thing catastrophic to those that are actually not arranged for it
2016-10-03 12:05:18 · answer #7 · answered by dorais 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's the day the Mayan calendar ends.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_calendar
2007-07-03 06:28:47 · answer #8 · answered by Brian L 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wow, I hope not. I plan to be in medical school during that time and I really want to become a doctor
2007-07-04 06:12:20 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because people are morons. Remember Y2K? Remember the folks who killed themselves when comet Hale-Bopp came by?
2007-07-03 06:29:59 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋