The ‘end of the Mayan calendar’ approaches on the 21st December, according to some. Hysteria ensues as those of us who love a good doomsday story are scaring little children and peddling our fears all over the internet. Well, really!
The ancient Mayan people had an incredible sense of the longevity and vastness of time, demonstrated by their calendar which spans time periods of trillions and trillions of years. Despite this however, they believed that the Earth was created just over 5 thousand years ago. We now know the Earth to be much older. So although these ancient people were wrong about the date of Earth’s Creation to the magnitude of 4.54 billion years, why are some of us willing to believe that they could be able to predict the Earths demise with pinpoint accuracy? To the actual day?!
There are some amusing predictions of how the world will actually end – some people are saying that all of the planets in our solar system shall align; damaging our sun and causing huge tides and earthquakes that smite us all (FYI the planets fall into alignment fairly regularly.. a couple of times a century at least, and each time, we manage to survive it. They shall not be in ‘alignment’ this year, not even this decade, and even when they are the effect upon Earth’s tides shall be so negligible as to be ignored – remember how far apart the planets are!). Another theory is that the cosmos shall pitch the fictional planet ‘Nibiru’ at us in a galactic game of marbles Continue reading
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