The Year 2012

The Year 2012 – Is it Science or Superstition?

By Cozee Cackel adapted from an original article by Chitraparna Sinha.

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There is a lasting debate regarding the year 2012 phenomenon about whether it has a scientific basis behind it or it is merely a superstition. The 2012 phenomenon is made up of a series of transformative events and eschatological beliefs. According to the Mayan calendar, year 2012 has been prophesied as the end of the world.

eschatological
es•cha•tol•o•gy
[es-kuh-tol-uh-jee]

–noun Theology
1. any system of doctrines concerning last, or final, matters, as death, the Judgment, the future state, etc.
2. the branch of theology dealing with such matters.

There are also numerological and astronomical calculations that support this fact and give this event both a superstition as well as a scientific background. Many movies and documentaries have been made on this topic as to whether it is superstition or science. Many books and articles also have been written on this topic.

According to scientific calculations, the earth might collide with another planet or a black hole. The year calculated for this event is the year 2012. However, the superstitions of the Mayan civilization do have some anecdotal evidence like the weather changes and the increase of many natural calamities are the many scientific theories that prove the Mayan beliefs to be true. The year 2012 is actually the end of the very long Mayan Calendar forecasting the apocalypse on that particular year. So the recent increase in the world’s natural calamities and global warming affects further act as fuel to the fire.

Nostradamus

– The famous astrologer prophesied the rising of the seas and the increasing number of cyclones and storms in 2012. Now moving towards scientific observations, a series of events have been predicted by the scientists in 2012 like the orbit of the earth will move in such a way towards the sun that it will have effects on the earth’s energy. Further the earth’s magnetic fields are said to be weakened causing the poles of the earth to be reversed leading the earth to capsize. Even the winter solstice of the year 2012 is going to coincide with a dark rift of the galaxy. We saw the ice ages when this happened the last time. This could mean that the present situation that we are experiencing may come to an end.

Consequences of such events?

Now what are the results and consequences of such events? The earth might flood, the earth might turn upside down on its axis, or it may result in solar storms that would destroy or disturb the satellite and communication systems of the world. Some people say that the year 2012 phenomenon is just a superstition.

We know that superstitions and an apocalypse cannot be identified with one another. Thinking about superstitions also makes us think about lucky or unlucky numbers. There is a superstition that the bad luck or good luck of a thing, event, or a person depends upon the repetition of three times any number.

Dates having the same number thrice carry a lot of superstitions with them. This is another fact on which the date 12/21/2012 is predicted as dooms day or the date of the apocalypse. In the past it had been predicted that the date 1/1/2001 was believed to have crashed the computers of the earth. This never really had a great effect like people thought. The superstition that numbers repeated thrice may be unlucky or lucky in their own way may or may not have merit in any particular instance. But if it does we can see the debate of the coming year 2012 phenomenon as being a superstition or a science. The result of that debate is yet to be known.

ScienceCasts: Why the World Didn’t End Yesterday

Published on YouTube Dec 11, 2012

NASA is so sure the world won’t come to an end on Dec. 21, 2012, that they already released a video for the day after.

More questions about December 21, 2012? http://www.nasa.gov/2012/

Personal Viewpoint

On a personal level it’s hard for me to believe the end of the world will come in less than two years. Just considering the past there have been other predictions of the end of the world and all have been wrong. Checking out some of the videos on YouTube and other sources you could easily believe this and many other catastrophes will come true. I’m not a scientist, but there was one or maybe a few videos that indicated the earth would cross the plane of the galaxy (the Milky Way). If that is true there could possibly be some disturbance felt on earth, but the magnitude of any such crossing is yet to be known.

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