There's a movie called "2012: Doomsday", That December 21. 2012 is the end of the world by Mayan calenders ?

Question

And other civializaton also said that the polar caps will change, and a Well know program called Web-Bot predicted it. Is there something to this prediction?

Answer 1

For the Mayans, time was cyclic, not linear. To understand their calendar, one needs to understand this. To us, time goes in a straight line. The year 2000 is 100 years after 1900. We can't go back or around again; what's passed is passed. The Mayans didn't view time like that. They viewed time like the seasons. When an old cycle ended, a new began. The ending of a cycle didn't mean the world was going to end. That's like saying that the end of winter (or any season) is the end of the world.

It is true that the polar caps will change sooner or later. North will become south and south will become north. This change is a routine phase the earth goes through every several thousands of years.

Answer 2

First of all the winter solstice, if you don't know occurs when the earths axel tilt is furthest away from the sun, so i don't know where you've got the idea that it might end the earth? it happens every year? and the idea that the world is gonna end on 21st december 2012 originally came from the mayan long count calender and 2012 is said to be the end-date of a 5,125-year-long cycle in the Mayan Long Count calendar. in ancient prophicies it says the earth will collide with another planet or be consumed into a blackhole. However scientists have dismissed the apocalypse forecast on the grounds that the anticipated events are precluded by astronomical observations, or are unsubstantiated by the predictions that have been generated from these findings.

Answer 3

If you will look at the history of the earth, about 50,000 yrs ago, we had a climate change and the earth as it was changed to a different climate as well as new species of animals and plants evolved.
A great change is about to come but not the end of the world as some would have you believe. A new cycle of environmental change is about to happen and, historically speaking, about every 10,000 to 5,000 yrs, a great change has been seen or recorded over the years.
A good example is the middle east and Asian desert areas. They used to be green and lush over 5,000 yrs ago and now they are mostly desert and you can see where the oceans, rivers, and lakes have receded. Volcanic eruptions were common all over the globe and right as the "ice age" was recedeing many cultures have recorded large explosions of God like proportions hitting the earth similar to nuclear blasts (meteors hitting the earth) large earth quakes and even the land bridge between Alaska and Russia even dissapeared near that time as well. Everything comes in cycles. Even the Mayan Calendar is said to be calculated over 7,000 years of observances. After a cycle of the calandar, it would be ritually broken when a new one was made to start the new cycle.
A new enviromental change may be on it's way but to predict its actual arrival is a little far fetched.

Answer 4

OK, People! I just want to know who the heck empowered an extinct culture to predict the end of the world? Just because they ended their calendar in 2012, does not mean that that was a prophecy! They could not even prepare for their own demise!!!

No one ever talks about The Roman Empire predicting anything, now do they?

This is a very old, very boring, and very silly conversation. And Yes, Elvis is dead! He was not abducted by aliens, nor bar-tending in Iowa.

No, Michael and Latoya Jackson are NOT the same person!

Who cares is Oswald REALLY shot Kennedy or not--Kennedy is still dead!

No, you will never know what happened in the past, or what's happening now at Area 51! Give it up!

Answer 5

The Mayan calender ends on that date, it doesn't predict the end of the world. Fact is, it was a very accurate calender, so people were curious as to why it ends on that date. What I believe to be true (as this comes from unsubstantiated sources) is that their calender is based on cycles within cycles, and then it ends at the end of one of the largest cycles. Which is a rather mundane and logical place to end it. But you know how badly the History Channel needs ratings, so they have to make it seem all mysterious and stuff.

Answer 6

I don't really understand where all the fear is coming from. The Mayans Calendar, which is not predicting the end of the world in 2012, but the start of a new era on December 21st, 2012. The year 2012 marks the end of the "Great Cycle." When it came to mathematics, time and calendars, the Maya were geniuses. Believing that time repeated itself in cycles.

Answer 7

Why would you think that the Mayans would be right about the end of the world? True, they were decent astronomers for their time, but why would a basically stone age people have knowledge about the end of the earth?

Basically the end of their calendar signals the end of one of their ages, it does not mean that they thought the world would end.

Answer 8

Look at it this way, every Doomsday prediction ever made has been wrong, hasn't it? It's a fair bet we'll still be here on December 22nd 2012.

We'll find out for sure on December 21st, 2012, won't we?

Answer 9

I think it has to do with the cycle of the sun as 2012 is when the sun will be in one of it's most active periods, maybe that's why the ice caps are melting both here and on mars.

Answer 10

Actually, I don't think it says the world will end. I think it says there will be a major change. Whether it's cosmological, societal, or climatic is unknown because most of the Mayan literature (which would have aided translation) was destroyed by conquering armies.