The prophecies and science behind 21st Dec, 2012
Cataclysmic events unfolded in Roland Emmerich’s film 2012 – the earth’s core began heating up due to solar flare bombardment, California was engulfed by the Pacific Ocean, the Yellowstone Supervolcano erupted, megatsunamis thundered at every country’s shores – and one would imagine Emmerich was a little boy immensely enjoying destroying every conceivable object in his line of view! While most level-headed people enjoyed the effects of the film and let the subject be, there are many equally sane people worried if really all they had before their inevitable end was three years… just a little more than a thousand days… With numerous books and roughly six million websites dedicated to the predictions and prophecies about the year 2012, and 21st December 2012 to be more particular, most of us are being pulled in by these Doomsday prophecies.
The entire hoopla began with the predictions of the Mayan civilisation that say an alignment of the planets in our solar system, which happens only once every 6,40,000 years, will occur on 21st December, 2012 and lead to a catastrophic event. Astronomy was one of the strengths of this race, and they had managed to calculate the length of the lunar month with near accuracy some thousands of years ago. Now, along with their worrying prophecy, their Long Count calendar, credited for its accuracy, ominously ends on the same date.
Another ancient prophecy is by Sumerians circa 5000 BC about a planet Nibiru, which would collide with our planet – in 2003. But, while it obviously failed to do so, the date was moved to 2012, by theorists who probably consider the year to be a much safer bet for widespread calamities! For the record, as of now, there is no planet with that name.
2012 is going to be the year when solar storms will bombard the Earth, which NASA confirms will not cause life to end, but could temporarily cause power outages and the suspension of other services powered by electricity. The Yellowstone volcano in USA is supposed to blow up anytime too. Said to erupt every 6,50,000 years, it threatens to fill the atmosphere with ash, cloud the sky and throw Earth into a 15,000-year-long frozen winter.
Then there is the Bible that talks of the approaching Armageddon, where the final conflict between the Christ and Antichrist will occur. The Vedas say that this would be the time of the end of Kali Yuga, which had commenced in 3102 BC. Many other cultures are said to follow this chorus, and let’s not even start on the grim picture painted by Nostradamus…
NASA has been particularly dismissive of the 2012 prophecies. "There apparently is a great deal of interest in celestial bodies, and their locations and trajectories at the end of the calendar year 2012. Now, I for one love a good book or movie as much as the next guy. But the stuff flying around through cyberspace, TV and the movies is not based on science. There is even a fake NASA news release out there..." says Yeomans, NASA Senior Research Scientist.
There are as many theories about the world ending in 2012 as there are about the same theories being products of over-imaginative and psyched minds. On Facebook, an open party – Night of Mayhem – has been announced for everyone on Earth for 1st January, 2013, just in case the floods don’t occur, the earth doesn’t rip apart, and humanity survives 2012. As of now, 42,177 people have RSVP''d as ‘Attending’. Rather than worry about events we can’t really do much about, I suggest we take all these theories with a pinch of salt and plan for a grand New Year Party for 2013!
Cataclysmic events unfolded in Roland Emmerich’s film 2012 – the earth’s core began heating up due to solar flare bombardment, California was engulfed by the Pacific Ocean, the Yellowstone Supervolcano erupted, megatsunamis thundered at every country’s shores – and one would imagine Emmerich was a little boy immensely enjoying destroying every conceivable object in his line of view! While most level-headed people enjoyed the effects of the film and let the subject be, there are many equally sane people worried if really all they had before their inevitable end was three years… just a little more than a thousand days… With numerous books and roughly six million websites dedicated to the predictions and prophecies about the year 2012, and 21st December 2012 to be more particular, most of us are being pulled in by these Doomsday prophecies.
The entire hoopla began with the predictions of the Mayan civilisation that say an alignment of the planets in our solar system, which happens only once every 6,40,000 years, will occur on 21st December, 2012 and lead to a catastrophic event. Astronomy was one of the strengths of this race, and they had managed to calculate the length of the lunar month with near accuracy some thousands of years ago. Now, along with their worrying prophecy, their Long Count calendar, credited for its accuracy, ominously ends on the same date.
Another ancient prophecy is by Sumerians circa 5000 BC about a planet Nibiru, which would collide with our planet – in 2003. But, while it obviously failed to do so, the date was moved to 2012, by theorists who probably consider the year to be a much safer bet for widespread calamities! For the record, as of now, there is no planet with that name.
2012 is going to be the year when solar storms will bombard the Earth, which NASA confirms will not cause life to end, but could temporarily cause power outages and the suspension of other services powered by electricity. The Yellowstone volcano in USA is supposed to blow up anytime too. Said to erupt every 6,50,000 years, it threatens to fill the atmosphere with ash, cloud the sky and throw Earth into a 15,000-year-long frozen winter.
Then there is the Bible that talks of the approaching Armageddon, where the final conflict between the Christ and Antichrist will occur. The Vedas say that this would be the time of the end of Kali Yuga, which had commenced in 3102 BC. Many other cultures are said to follow this chorus, and let’s not even start on the grim picture painted by Nostradamus…
NASA has been particularly dismissive of the 2012 prophecies. "There apparently is a great deal of interest in celestial bodies, and their locations and trajectories at the end of the calendar year 2012. Now, I for one love a good book or movie as much as the next guy. But the stuff flying around through cyberspace, TV and the movies is not based on science. There is even a fake NASA news release out there..." says Yeomans, NASA Senior Research Scientist.
There are as many theories about the world ending in 2012 as there are about the same theories being products of over-imaginative and psyched minds. On Facebook, an open party – Night of Mayhem – has been announced for everyone on Earth for 1st January, 2013, just in case the floods don’t occur, the earth doesn’t rip apart, and humanity survives 2012. As of now, 42,177 people have RSVP''d as ‘Attending’. Rather than worry about events we can’t really do much about, I suggest we take all these theories with a pinch of salt and plan for a grand New Year Party for 2013!
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