I believe something will happen in the year 2012.
Now I don't think it will be the end of the world or anything crazy like that... Just something that people will take and make BIGGER than it actually is.
I believe the ancient civilizations were more intelligent than we are now; with time, humans have grown lazy. Within the past 50 years, we have been developing technology to do our work for us, and we advance it continuously. I personally think that by not doing the work ourselves causes us to miss certain points, which is why the ancient civilizations were capable of these significant calculations and predictions. They actually did their work and excersized their brain power. (Please don't take this the wrong way. I'm not calling people "stupid". I'm simply stating that we are taking advantage of the technology that we have available to us today.) Therefore, the ancient civilizations had much stronger minds than modern-day people (Personal opinion; disagree if you want, I don't care.) I personally have not heard of any new math being developed within the past 10-15 years but yet, there are all of these unsolvable theories, etc. 50 years ago and beyond the great scientists invented the math to solve these "problems". Now days it seems as if we're searching for ways around these situations.
The prediction of a "catastrophe" within our world in 2012 may be correct. However, I do not think of this to be a true catastrophe. It is true, magnetic poles have a tendency to change. The Sun's changes something like every 11 or 22 years (not positive). I'm not the most intellectual with this, but I do know that the magnetic cycle has something to do with object size, etc. so the sun's poles will change much more than the Earth's. Honestly, scientists don't know what will happen when the Earth's poles change, nor when it will happen. For all scientists know the pole change could start tomorrow because there is no documentation of the last Pole Change. These predictions of the pole change and when it will happen are most likely based off of research between different stars and doing a ratio-based estimation.
The "Planet X" thing is bull. It has been proven that we cannot detect nearby objects very easily, nor can we detect distant objects easily. The last major "possible" impactor that passed by the earth was in 2006. Guess what: we did not even know it existed until within a month of its passing... It passed within the moon's orbit. So... What makes scientists believe that they can detect something four years away? There are so many other things effecting it that they can't accurately detect these objects.
As for another catastrophe that could destroy our worlds, that could be the Sun, however based on scientific research of our Sun and other Suns, our Sun is nowhere near time to go Supernova(big explosion). Our Sun, last I heard, is somewhere around the middle of its lifetime. They estimate the Sun to be what, 4 billion years old? (I'm not exact because I'm not interested in doing the quick research to get the exact numbers.
) That means that we have another 4 billion years to go before our sun goes boom!.
Great comments, most of you. Really learned some interesting facts/ideas through reading the posts and I'm a science geek so I enjoyed it.
Comments/constructive criticism is welcome.
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