whats going to happen on December 21, 2012?

Question

im sure some of you have heard about the mayan calendar and the accuracy involved in it. according to them the moon, earth and the sun are all suppose to align on the date which means that the north and south pole can be moved to another part of earth which could be a major disaster.

Answer 1

Well this is a new twist to the "alignment" that it is claimed will occur that day. People usually spout some rubbish about being aligned with the Galactic Centre (as if the Mayans knew anything about galaxies, that they had a centre, and that we were part of one!). But this is credibly something the Mayans could have conceived of as it was within their experience and understanding.

But surely there are only two alignments of these three bodies possible (the sun cannot be in the centre between the earth and the moon)? viz a solar eclipse and a lunar eclipse. And it would be long odds against either happening on any arbitrary day chosen at random, so why should 21 Dec 2012 be any different?

And even if there were an eclipse that day, why would it precipitate any kind of catastrophe? Alignments are fortuitous and without any meaningful significance. Only superstitious fatalists waste their time trying to construct a meaning for them from the pseudo-science of astrology.

I think the whole of the 2012 phenomenon (how it is getting a grip on people's minds) is essentially a philosophical debate about determinism and free will. There are those who believe that mankind can create its own destiny and the future is not pre-ordained. And there are those who think it has all been planned and decided already, we cannot swerve from the predetermined course and who turn themselves into passive spectators and consumers of whatever nonsense people with an agenda tell them is about to happen.

We live in a scientific age, where the scientific method should be our guiding light as regards making predictions for the future. but so many people are still living in the Dark Ages where mysticism is equated with possessing knowledge.

The only thing that can ever alter this is schools and parents training young minds to think independently and to question what they are told. That way true knowledge lies.

Answer 2

these are things i have copy/pasted together from other peoples answers and websites:


There is nothing special about 2012. I did the research when I first heard the theories, and I was decidedly opposed to the whole idea after I was finished. The whole idea is based on the Mayan calendar, which was based on the moon. There are a great many cosmic movements that can also be deduced by looking at the moon. Lots of paths have the same mathematics in the universe. Yes, December 21, 2012 marks the end of the Mayan Long Count Calendar. More conventionally for their time, however, this is the winter solstice. Another date you can mark by the passage of the moon. People are taking the Mayan texts out of context when they assume the end of the calendar cycle is THE END. It's the end of the cycle, not the end of the world.
A new cycle simply begins.

I read about photon belts, and the idea that we will be passing through one approximately around 2012,
and how that was supposed to act as cosmic rays, which are essential for genetic mutation, which is basically
evolution at the fundamental level. I believe a square kilometer only receives about 6 cosmic ray particles every
year, so passing through a belt of them would be quite a thing i'm sure, tiny particles smashing through our DNA
and changing us forever. Unfortunately, there is no such thing as a photon belt, and we are not passing through one.
Cosmically, our solar system is completing a full orbit of the GALAXY in 2012. The only hypothetical is that we will
experience some kind of shift related to our centering, something to do with the orbital path of our solar system.
But, the universe has a much longer clock than we do, and i think any ill-effects would be felt over a much longer
scale than our lifetime, or likely the lifetime of our species.



The 2012 event is based on two things. One is real, one is fake.
The real one is that there is a once in 26,000 year galactic alignment at dawn (7:14 a.m., not 11:11 a.m. as many claim. 11:11 a.m. is the exact moment of the solstice) when the sun will appear to rise out of the dark area of the Milky Way. John Major Jenkins wrote an entire book about this called Maya Cosmogenesis 2012.
Since the dark area of the Milky Way was thought to be the birth canal of the universe, this would mean the sun was coming out of the birth canal at dawn, or being reborn. The birth of a new sun heralds a new world age.
Problem with this: due to the slowness of the precession of the equinoxes, we are in that alignment right now. (1 degree in 70 years)
The false event is the so-called "ending" of the Mayan calendar. The calendar in question, the Long Count, is what its name implies. It is simply a count of days. It doesn't end on that date or any other. (In fact, there are long count dates going out to 2054.) It does go from 12 Baktuns to 13 Baktuns(like a millenia,or like us going from 99 to 00) on that date, and probably would have been an occasion of festivals and celebrations for the ancient Maya if it happened during the peak of their society. I don't believe any modern Maya use or follow the Long Count anymore.

Answer 3

In 2012 the sun will be ending a regular 11 year cycle. However, it will also be the end of a 26,000 cycle called the procession of the equinoxes. The culmination of these two events, among other celestial cycles that are to complete in 2012, is why the planets are heating up, why the weather is getting freaky, and why everyone is acting strange. Keep in mind that out bodies are controlled by electrical impulses that can be affected by outside stimuli. If the sun gets crazy, so do we.
Scientists are predicting a very active sunspot cycle. One that will put the one in 2001 to shame. In that one, communication satellites were damaged and there were problems with power grids around the world. They are suspecting that the gamma rays will be significant enough to potentially destroy some satellites and some ground equipment. Worse, they are certain of a big CME (Coronal Mass Ejection). Their only hope is that we are not facing that side of the sun when it happens.

Answer 4

The moon has an orbital period of 29 days. This means the Sun, Moon, and Earth align every 14.5 days (once at full moon and again at new moon.) That's twice per month. Why would an alignment in December 2012 be any different?

The Mayans failed to predict the arrival of the Spaniards. What makes you think they could predict the end of the world?

Don't believe everything you see on TV.

Answer 5

I just don't know where people come up with this load of crap.

The Mayans ran out of interest in continuing their calendar because it was a cyclic event and because their society was in utter decline. They certainly did not possess the technology or wisdom to predict the future. They, like many primitive (and the key word is "primitive") cultures, struggled to put order into an unpredictable world. They were driven by their religious leaders to provide the legends of the past and the spectres of the future. It was all about mind control.

And so, now, here we are, 500 years later, and, voila! The Mayans have succeeded in controlling the weak-minded of the 21st century who pretend to know the science of which they speak. Some pseudo-expert is selling another book, and you're buying it. Shame, shame, shame.

Answer 6

Global Warming will end!
Listen to the wack-o's on Coast-to-Coast late nite A.M. radio every night. (Find a radio station in your area. It's fun for insomniacs). George Noury is host on weeknights, along with Art Bell on weekends. They eventually will have a guest that will talk about the subject or a caller that will ask about it. You can also go to their website (given below in sources) and search for past broadcast information. I've taken the following from their website but there are many more references going back years:
"Dr. Gaspar explains how the Mayan Calendar is based on the two most prominent ice age cycles, thus its 2012 end date will herald in an ice age. Nostradamus, Revelations, and Native American and other animal symbologies will line up in a perfectly constructed theory to show that the ancient sages knew about these apocalyptic recurrent cycles. A possible polar axis shift is waiting for us in the next 5-12 years to end global warming. "

Answer 7

The solstice occurs on twenty first December 2012. and that's it. To be happening with, right here's a record of issues that isn't ensue in 2012, somewhat December twenty first: Planetary alignments: There are no. Alignment of solar with centre of galaxy: won't be able to ensue because of the fact the centre of the galaxy isn't interior the airplane of the Earth's orbit. as quickly as in 26,000 year alignment of the solstice solar and galactic equator: got here approximately in 1998. Did something ensue consequently? needless to say no longer. Alignments mean no longer something in measurable actual words besides. Passing of the image voltaic equipment in the process the galactic obligatory airplane: won't ensue for 30 million years or so. Planet X/Nibiru: would not exist. If it became the size the claimants describe and following the trajectory they point out, it would now be seen to each man or woman with a pair of binoculars. Pole shift: Magnetic pole reversal takes 1000's of years and would possibly no longer start up for 1000's of years. there isn't any reason to link it with 2012. As for rotational pole shift, that should take a great number of tension on the earth. the place is that this tension going to come again from? image voltaic storms: The solar is as a results of gain a optimum in its 11 year cycle in 2013, no longer 2012 as some doom retailers inform you. No reason to assume the subsequent top would be to any extent further energetic than conventional. 26,000 year precessional stream of Earth's axis: would not 'start up', 'end' or 'wobble' yet consists of on easily and missed via all. The doomsday cranks choose to let us know that loads of different cultures predicted the top of the international for this date. That and 'predictions' via the Bible, I Ching and Nostradamus have all been contrived to agree wth this date and are all fake.

Answer 8

On that date the sun will rise and the sun will set. All the nonsense about catastrophic alignment disasters is just that...pure *NONSENSE.* The last time the upcoming alignment happened was some 26,000 years ago and nothing happened.

Answer 9

If the theory is right, then on December 21/2012, this well be either just the last date and years on these calenders, or it will be the end of life as we know it here on Earth.

We will just have to weight to see what will take place, maybe nothing, then again who knows.

Answer 10

Nothing will happen. I do not believe for one second that the Mayans could predict the future.