When will the world end?

In fact, many people clearly know that this is just a superstition and a scam, but there are still different degrees of doubts in their hearts, mainly because people are afraid of unknown disasters. NASA's Institute of Space Biology has also received many people's questioning letters or online messages about this matter. Recently, David Morrison, a senior scientist of the Institute, and others scientifically interpreted the mysterious Mayan prophecy for the general public and refuted some absurd remarks. 1, mysterious prophecy 1: doomsday scientists debunked the so-called "doomsday" prophecy for the first time by using the Mayan calendar. The Mayan calendar did not end in 20 12, so the Mayans themselves did not regard this year as the end of the world. However, 20 12 12 2 1 (winter solstice) is definitely an important day for the Mayans. Anthony Avini, an archaeologist at Colgate University in the United States, is an expert on Mayan culture. Avini said, "In the Mayan calendar, 1872000 days is a cycle, that is, 5 125.37 years." Maya counted time more carefully than many other cultures. Avini said that the Mayans once invented the so-called "long calendar", which traced the initial calculation time back to the origin time of Mayan culture, that is, 3 1 1 August 4 BC11year. According to the "long calendar", the winter solstice of 20 12 means that the time of the current era is over, that is, a cycle of 5 125.37 years has been completed. So the long calendar starts from the "zero day" and starts a new cycle. Avini believes that "this is just an idea of re-timing, which is exactly the same as restarting our life for a year or a week every New Year's Day or Monday morning." In Avini's view, Maya's prediction that 20 12 12 2 1 is the end of the world is a misunderstood statement. That day is the "zero day" in the Mayan calendar, which means the end of a cycle and the beginning of a new era, not the end of the world. 2. Mysterious prophecy 2: polar reversal Some predictions about the end of the world claim that by 20 12, the earth will have polar reversal, the crust and the surface will suddenly separate, and magma inside the center of the earth will spew out. Separated continents will fill the sea with the whole mankind, and disasters such as earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanoes will appear together. Scientists refuted these so-called predictions. Adam Malouf, a geologist at Princeton University in the United States, has made in-depth research on "bipolar exchange" and Mayan prophecy. Maarouf believes that some magnetic signs in rocks indicate that the earth may have experienced such drastic magnetic field changes, but this process is a slow process that lasts for millions of years, so slow that human beings simply do not feel this change. 3. Mysterious prophecy 3: Astronomical phenomena overlap Some astrologers believe that there will be "astronomical phenomena overlap" in 20 12. This "celestial overlapping" phenomenon occurs every 26,000 years. According to the prediction of "overlapping celestial bodies", the route of the sun in the sky will pass through the center of the Milky Way. Many people worry that this dislocation of celestial bodies will lead the earth to be pulled by more powerful unknown cosmic forces and accelerate the destruction of the earth. Either it may lead to the exchange of the earth's poles, or it may form a huge black hole in the center of the Milky Way. Morrison firmly denied this statement. He explained, "In 20 12 years, there will never be such a terrible phenomenon of' sky overlapping', or only some normal sky phenomena will appear. For example, every winter solstice, when the sun looks from the earth, it looks like it is in the center of the Milky Way. Some astrologers may be excited about this phenomenon, but for scientists, this phenomenon is nothing special. It will not cause changes in the gravity of the earth, solar radiation, planetary orbits and other things, nor will it have any impact on life on the earth. This is nothing strange. Only people who think that the world will end will regard these ordinary astronomical phenomena as threats. " Regarding the problem of "celestial body overlapping", David Stewart, a Maya expert at the University of Texas, said, "No ancient Mayan books or works of art mentioned this problem." Avini also believes that the long Mayan calendar ends with the winter solstice of 20 12 years, which reflects the astronomical achievements of Mayan culture. Many people learned how to accurately predict the solar eclipse and other astronomical phenomena by observing the astronomical phenomena, and also mastered the relationship between agricultural seasonal cycle and some astronomical phenomena, and Mayan calendar is closely related to agricultural seasonal cycle. 4, mysterious prophecy 4: unknown planet hits the earth Some people predict that a mysterious planet X is flying in the direction of the earth. It is said that if the planet hits the earth head on, the earth will disappear. Even if the two are just brushed lightly, it will cause changes in the gravity of the earth, leading to a large number of asteroids hitting the earth. Will this unknown planet really appear at 20 12? Morrison gave a negative answer to this question. "Impossible. It can be said most directly that there is no such celestial body. " This prediction about an unknown planet hitting the earth first appeared in 2003. A woman claimed that she had received a message from a planet in the universe. Morrison stressed, "It has been several years since 2003. If such a planet really exists in the solar system, astronomers must have begun to study it in the past decade. We should be able to see it with the naked eye. Therefore, this so-called unknown planet does not exist. " 5. Mysterious prophecy 5: Solar storm hits the earth. In many disaster predictions about 20 12, the sun is the most important enemy of the earth. It is said that it will produce a fatal solar flare in 20 12, which will scorch the human beings on the earth. In fact, solar flares are regular, and their outbreak period is about 1 1 year. Violent solar flares may destroy communication facilities and other things on the earth, but scientists have never said that the sun will release a solar storm strong enough to scorch the whole earth, at least not in the short term. Morrison explained, "unless the sun obviously doesn't follow its cycle." We predict that the peak of this solar flare cycle will not be 20 12, but in the next year or two. "6. Mysterious prophecy 6: Did the Mayans really predict that 20 12 was the end of the world? Did the Mayans ever predict that 20 12 would be the end of the world? If not, what year did they accurately predict? Many scholars have conducted in-depth research on some evidences of Mayan culture, and found that the Mayans did not actually leave any clear records about what will happen in 20 12 years. However, the Mayans did inherit a handwritten scroll, which is the famous Dresden Codex. On the last page of the Dresden manuscript, there is a description of the doomsday scene. This scenario assumes that a flood will destroy the whole world. However, this assumption of the end of the world exists in many cultures, not just Mayan predictions. Avini believes that this idea can not be regarded as evidence, let alone as a prophecy. On the contrary, Avini thinks that the Mayans were actually not good at prophecy. He explained, "Their understanding of time is mostly about the past, not the future. When you learn about the records of long calendars, you will find that most of them are about the relationship between Mayan rulers and their ancestors. The more the rulers talk about their origins, the more they can explain the legitimacy and legitimacy of their position. I think this is why Maya rulers used long calendars. Therefore, the long calendar is not to predict the future, but to prove the past. "I found this for you online. My own idea is that if it is the end of the world, then everyone will die. What is there to be afraid of? However, we may have regrets, so we do what we want. Besides, I think. People are too curious. And panic. If its title is not "20 12" but "30 12", who will care and think this movie is very good? Big deal, go and see if Yamaraja culture is true or not. I think the earth will be destroyed one day, but not so soon. Maldives will soon be submerged by the sea. Then, slowly, more cities will become oceans. Slowly, maybe there will be no continent on the earth. As for the life span of the earth, I am not a scientist. I don't know. Ha ha. /Don't panic.