When I heard this news I was very shock..and day after day the news is very disturbing. I think you have some question about this. About the world is going to end in the December 21th,2012. The Earth (or at least a big portion of human beings in the planet) will stop existing. Stop schedule your careers, do not bother buying a house, now you have the time, four years of time, to enjoy yourselves before… the end.
This is all crazy talk? We have all know before these predictions of the day of the final judgment, still we are here, and the planet still here, why is 2012 so important one? Well, the Mayan calendar stops at the end of the year 2012, beating for above all the classes of religious, scientific, astrological and historical reasons for which this calendar anticipates end of the life we know as it. The Mayan prophecy is gaining force and appears to worry to people in all the areas of the society. Forget Nostradamus, forget the bugs Y2K, forget the credit crunch, this event is predicted to be enormous and many create sincerely that this one is going to happen for true. Planet X could even make a reappearance.
For all those 2012 Mayan believers of the prophecy towards outside there, I have the bad news. There is no doomsday in 2012, and here it is why…
The Mayan calendar
The calendar was constructed by a civilization called the Mayans around 250-900 AD. The evidence of the empire of the Mayan stretches around majors parts of the southern state of Mexico and reaches down to the present geologic locations of Guatemala, of Belize, of El Salvador and some of Honduras. The people who lived in Mayan society exhibited written abilities very wells and had an amazing capacity when constructing cities and the urban planning. The Mayans is probably most famous for intrincate building and magnificent pyramids. The people of the Mayan had an enormous impact in Central American culture, not just within their civilization, but with other indigenous populations in the region. The significant digits of Mayans still live today, continuing their historical traditions.
The Mayans used many diverse calendars and saw time like meshing of spiritual cycles. Where as the calendars had the practical of applications, such as social, agricultural tasks, commercial and administrative, there was a very heavy religious element. Every day had spirit patron, meaning that every day had specific use. This puts greatly in resistance with our modern Gregorian calendar that determines administrative, social and economic the dates mainly.
Venus Express Observation
The Mayan calendars were short mostly. The Tzolk’ in calendar lasted by 260 days and the Haab’ approximated the solar year of 365 days.Then Mayans combined the Tzolk’ and the Haab’ to form the “Calendar Round”, a 52 cycle that lasted Haab (around 52 years, or the approximated length of a generation). Within the round calendar they were the trecena (cycle of 13 days) and the veintena (cycle of 20 days). Obvious, this system would be only of use when considering the 18,980 unique days on the course of 52 years. Besides these systems, the Mayans also had the “cycle of Venus”. Being sharpened astronomers and high exact they formed a calendar based on the location of Venus in the sky nocturne. They are also possible made equal with the other planets in the Solar System.
To use the round calendar is great if you simply wanted to remember the date of your birthday or important religious periods, but what about the history? There was no way to record a older date than 52 years.
The Mayans had a solution. To use an innovating method, they could be extended in the round calendar of 52 years. Until this point, the Mayan calendar could have sounded a little archaic – after all, it was based possibly on the religious belief, the menstrual cycle, mathematical calculations to use numbers 13 and 20 as the low units and mixes heavy of astrological myth. The unique main correlation with the modern calendar is the Haab’ that recognized there was 365 days in a solar year (it is not clear if the Mayans accounted for leap years). The answer to a longer calendar could be found in the “long count”, a calendar that lasted 5126 years.
The Mayans make me very impression personally with this system of the dating. For the starters, it’s numerically trustworthy and it can establish historical dates clearly exactly. Nevertheless, it depends on a base unit of 20 (where the modern calendars use a low unit of 10). So how does this work?
The Mayan long count begins in “0.0.0.0,0 ″. Each zero go from the 0-19 and each represents an account of Mayan days. Therefore, for example, the first day in the long count is denoted like 0.0.0.0 .1. In 19 day we will have 0.0.0.0,19, in the twentieth day it goes upon a level and we will have 0.0.0.1.0. This count continues until 0.0.1.0,0 (near a year), 0.1.0.0,0 (near 20 years) and 1.0.0.0,0 (near 400 years). Therefore, if I choose an arbitrary date of 2.10.12.7,1, this is represents the Mayan date of approximately 1012 years, 7 months and 1 day.
Now is getting interesting, but what it has this been able to do with the end of the world? The Mayan prophecy is based entirely on the assumption that something bad is going to happen when the Mayan long count calendar finish. They divide to the experts as far as when the long account finishes, but as the Mayan used the numbers of 13 and 20 in the root of their numerical systems, the last day could happen in 13.0.0.0 .0. When this happens? Well, 13.0.0.0,0 represents 5126 years and the begun long account in 0.0.0.0,0, that corresponds to the modern date of the 11 of August of 3114 BC. You have seen the problem yet? The Mayan long count finishes at 5126 years later on December 21st of 2012.
Day of the final judgment
When something finishes (even something so innocent as an old calendar), people seem to think upon the most extreme possibilities of the end of the civilization we know as it. A brief exploration of the Internet will rise most popular to some very strange ways for us, with little logical thought, be wiped off the face of the planet. The archeologists and the mitologistas on the one hand think that the Mayans predicted an age of the explanation when comes 13.0.0.0,0 around; there is not really much evidence to suggest the day of the final judgment will happen. If something the Mayans predicts a religious miracle, not any sinister thing.
The myths are abound and seem to supply of fuel arguments of the film. It seems the new Indiana Jones and the kingdom of the crystalline skull is even based around the Mayan myth that 13 crystalline skulls can save humanity of certain condemnation. This myth says that if the 13 old skulls do not meet at the suitable moment, the Earth will be struck off its axis. This could be great plotline for the blockbuster movie, but also it emphasizes the big drum that can be shaken, igniting upon religious, scientific and not-so-scientists ideas that the world is chaos.
Can Earth wipe out by asteroids? (NASA)
Some of the more popular space threats for the Earth center and of the humanity in the planet X that wiping the majority of the life of the planet, meteorite affect, black holes, solar blazes, ray range explode of systems of the star, a fast age of ice and a change (magnetic) polar. There is as much evidence against these things that happen in 2012, it is hardly impressive how much of a following they have generated. Each of the “aforesaid threats” needs its own devoted article as far as there is no hard evidence to support the big drum.
But it continues being the fact, the Mayan prophecy of the day of the final judgment is based purely on a calendar that have not designed to calculate dates beyond 2012. The Mayan archaeo-astronomers are even in the discussion if the long count is designed to be readjusted to 0.0.0.0,0 after 13.0.0.0,0, or if the calendar continues simply to 20.0.0.0,0 (approximately 8000 AD) and then ones readjust. As Karl Kruszelnicki writes shining:
“… when a calendar comes to the end of a cycle, as soon as it rolls above in the following cycle. In our western society, every year the 31 of December is followed, does not stop the end of the world, but before the 1 of January. 13.0.0.0,0 in the calendar Mayan will be followed by 0.0.0.0,1 – or so good-ol’ 22 of December of 2012, with only some days to Christmas.”
Believe or not is up to you guys I just so you the fact.
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this is not truth because no one can predict the end of the world!and god never do it again because that is in the bible!