when will the world end?

Answer 1

12/21/2008

Answer 2

Eventually the sun will expand (like all stars do) and in the process burn up the earth with it. Life will probably have long left the planet by then, with the earth being ridiculously close to the sun in the years preceding the actual consumption point. Don't worry though, this isn't going to happen for billions of years.

If by the "end of the world" you mean the point where humans are extinct, that may very well happen years earlier. Of course our technology might be so advanced by then that it's impossible to say how we'll be doing in a mere 5000 years from now.

As for end of the world dates from soothsayers, religions, and other people, this is certainly not science. It's just superstition and imaginative numerology. People have been making predictions for the end of the world for thousands of years now, only to see their predictions failing. Remember the whole Y2K scare?

Oh, and reading vague passages from old religious books, and trying to match them up to what we know today, doesn't make them science books.

Answer 3

In order of probability from most to least likely to bring about the end of human life on earth.

1. Nuclear war or some other man self inflicted cause. (5 - 150 years)
2. Comet impact or large asteroid (5 - 10,000 years)
3. Sun going red giant (4 to 5 billion years)
4. Moon leaving orbit or moving far enough to where the effect causes the earths rotation to become unstable. (6 -8 billion years)
5. Collision with the Andromeda galaxy (about 4 billion years from now)
6. quasar explosion shock wave from less then 1000 light years away. (anytime between now and 10 billion years)
7. Earth swallowed by a black hole. (5 and 10 billion years)
8. Highly increasing expansion rate of the universe rips the fabric of time and space causing all atomic bonds to break apart. ( about 20 billion years)

Answer 4

An alien I met at the Holiday Inn in Paramis, NJ told me the world was going to end on February 14th, 2014. Valentine's Day. Bummer

Answer 5

Good question. One I think everyone would like to know...
it depends on your definition of "the end of the world."
If you mean the end of all life, then I doubt it'll be too many more decades now... based on a lot of things our atmosphere (more than just the air but the ground and all things we require to live) just can't handle the burden. That's my oppinion.
Many would like to think otherwise of course. But this is more of an oppinion question since no one actually knows.
Isaac Newton predicted the end of the world in 2060. That could be... there are lot's of theories but no final answers to this question. We probably won't know until it's far too late.

Answer 6

the sun will dies around 4 to 5 billion years from now. earth will die possibly about 3 to 4 billion years from now. humanity a lot less than that, possibly no more than another 5 hundred thousand years at max. these are definite, non of these things can survive or exist more than these period of time. however there are many other things that could kill life on earth and possibly drive humanity to extinction, e.g. a super giant volcano, a comet colliding to earth etc... those things will certainly take us back to the stone age, whether it will drive humanity to extinction isn't clear, personally i doubt it. from history we have learned that life will continue on earth as long as the sun is at its present state, if it expands which will eventually do, earth will no longer support life. also every 500 thousand years or so all the species on earth will evolve, so humanity will be replaced by another race.

Answer 7

It has - many times and will again and again the world is ever evolving and ending so it is a relative question to which world you would like to see end.

Answer 8

Naaah, much faster, around 3000 AD, when the magnetic poles will swap places and the world as we know it will be gone. We'll probably be either extinct or on the brink of extinction, but rest assured, life will still exist on Earth. Magnetic pole changes have taken place before in Earth's history and plants and animals still live here.

Answer 9

The answer is readily available in the Muslim Holy book (Quran), just get a translated version, and you will find the answer. Though this book, has been revealed 1400 years ago, but scientists up to date discover things that have already been described in details .....many many years ago!!! one great example is the development of an embryo in the woman womb, it was explained in such details as if there were an ultrasound or X-ray 14 centuries ago!!

Answer 10

Could be tommorow or could be a billion years from now. It could end at anytime but none of else will ever have the right answer to that