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There is a lot of hype going around about the end of the world and how it is almost here. With dozens of different theories being thrown around the public, no one is exactly sure which theory to believe or not.
According to the NASA website, everybody thought that the end of the world was May 2003, from a “planet heading towards Earth.” When this ended up not happening, the date was moved to December 2012. Many of the people that generally believe that the world will end then have not made any initiative to research such theories or even tried to find arguments that back up their view. It is tough to find proof that the world will end and that something unusual will happen on Dec. 21, 2012.
Most of the proof leads towards this because nothing will happen to the planet in 2012. NASA has confronted some of the popular theories and disapproved six of them.
Most of the proof leads towards this because nothing will happen to the planet in 2012. NASA has confronted some of the popular theories and disapproved six of them.
Theory 1: One of the most famous is that the Mayan calendar ending on Dec. 21, 2012, give or take a day or two, will mean the world will end. However, the Mayan calendar is exactly what it states. It is a calendar for the Mayans. Instead of going by months and only being 365 days, the long-count Mayan calendar is 1,872,000 days, and resets to zero when it has ended.
“This date is the end of the Mayan long-count period but then, just as your calendar begins again on Jan. 1, another long-count period begins for the Mayan calendar,” according to the NASA website. Just because another Mayan calendar is resetting, it does not show any evidence of the end of the world.
Theory 2: Another famous theory is that the Earth will go through a “polar shift,” which is where the Earth’s rotation reverses due to an extreme gravitational pull, causing continents and oceans to collide. This, however, is impossible.
According to NASA, “Many of the disaster websites pull a bait-and-shift to fool people. They claim a relationship between the rotation and the magnetic polarity of Earth, which does change irregularly, with a magnetic reversal taking place every 400,000 years on average. As far as we know, such a magnetic reversal does not cause any harm to life on Earth.”
Theory 3: Nibiru, formally known as Planet X, is yet another theory of doomsday. It is said that this planet or object in the universe is heading towards Earth, and will strike in December of 2012. This theory is strictly impossible, due to the fact that this “Planet X” does not exist.
According to NASA, “If Nibiru or Planet X were real and headed for an encounter with the Earth in 2012, astronomers would have been tracking it for at least the past decade, and it would be visible by now to the naked eye. Obviously, it does not exist.”
Scientists these days can look out into the universe and see out farther than any of us can imagine. If anything is coming, we will know it.
Theory 4: It is also said that a giant solar storm is to hit in December of 2012. Although this theory is actually true, the solar storm will not be any different than the ones in the past, which have not destroyed us.
According to NASA, “Solar activity has a regular cycle, with peaks approximately every 11 years. Near these activity peaks, solar flares can cause some interruption of satellite communications. But there is no special risk associated with 2012. The next solar maximum will occur in the 2012-2014 time frame and is predicted to be an average solar cycle, no different than previous cycles throughout history.”
This type of topic forces everyone to have an opinion, because the situation includes everyone.
However with all of the scientific evidence, there really is nothing to be afraid of. The world ending in 2012 is just as possible as the world ending tomorrow, or the next day. It is highly unlikely the world will end for millions of years. The world has been around for this long, and it will continue to be here. We will all continue to live with it too. Don’t feel like your life is limited, because the world’s not going to end.
