What do you think will happen in 2012?will it be apocalypse?or will the world end?

The whole 2012 doomsday thing is a hoax, and there is absolutely no scientific evidence that anything earth-changing will happen. First of all, the Maya didn't predict the end of the world. Their calendar simply reaches the end of a cycle, and they had specific names for much longer periods of time, up to 62 million years.

If they thought the world was going to end after a cycle of less than 6000 years, why would they bother? Their calendar was highly accurate, as was their knowledge of the apparent motions of the sun and moon (which is how eclipses are predicted--no fancy telescopes needed), but they did *not* possess any "lost" astronomical knowledge or predictions of future events on Earth. Second source below is a quote from a modern Maya priest regarding 2012.As for Nostradamus, he didn't give any specific dates for anything (he was too smart to make that mistake in his "predictions", which the 2012 doomsayers aren't).

The Bible doesn't make any date-specific predictions, either; in fact it specifically states that the end of the world *cannot* be foretold. Now, let's look at some of the other "predictions" that have been made about 2012... "Planet X," a.k.a. Nibiru, doesn't exist.

If it did, it would have been visible in amateur telescopes decades ago, and its gravity would be affecting the orbits of everything else in the solar system. The sun will not flare up and poison the earth (it goes through regular 11-year cycles of solar flare activity, and 2012 is just another predicted peak). The earth's poles are not going to shift.

The geographic poles can't shift (the earth can't flip over or reverse its rotation). The magnetic poles can and do shift, but this takes thousands of years, and the earth's magnetic field never disappears completely. The sun will not line up with the center of the Milky Way (it can't; the center of the galaxy is in the wrong part of the sky).

There is no such thing as a "cosmic winter solstice. " The planets are not going to align (it's physically impossible; and even if they could, their combined gravity wouldn't be enough to disrupt anything on earth). There is no such thing as a "photon band" near the Pleiades, or anywhere else.

Photons are units of light energy; they radiate freely through space and do not collect in concentrated bands. Meteorites strike the earth's surface every day, and they will continue to do so in 2012. There are no known meteoroids, asteroids, or comets on course to strike the earth in 2012.

Destructive earthquakes happen all the time, and they can't be predicted for a specific date (or even a specific year). Nuclear wars have been predicted since nuclear weapons were invented. We haven't blown ourselves up yet, and there's nothing special about 2012 that would make things any different.

Do you remember the Y2K doomsday predictions? The 2012 doomsday predictions are just as accurate. The people behind the 2012 hysteria are in it for the money.

They sell lots of books and videos to people who don't know any better. A lot of them were saying the same thing about 2003, and when the earth survived they picked 2012 because of the supposed significance of the Mayan calendar. When 2012 comes and goes and we're all still here, they'll just pick another date and sell more books and videos.

http://2012base.com/Other/2012_Debunked/ http://2012forum.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=494 http://www.universetoday.com/2008/05/19/no-doomsday-in-2012/ (NOTE: This is a cut-and-paste of my standard answer to most questions about 2012, and I guess I'll keep using it until the hysteria fades. ).

I assume you are referring to the movie and about the end of the Mayan calendar. In Medieval times people started to panic when the Christian calendar was about to turn 1000, and we saw at least a little of that again when 2000 came around. Yet the world is still here.

Our brains seem to be wired to notice certain patterns including zeros. We divide our centuries up into decades. Our most important anniversaries seem to end in zero.So we read that the Mayan calendar is going to end its cycle in 2012 and wonder if it means something.

I don't know what is going to happen in 2012 but there is utterly no reason to believe the Mayan people had any special insight into the future. If they could do that I'm sure they would dominate the world today.

Just for the record, the apocalypse is the end of the world. Just thought I'd clarify that. I don't think so.

I think it's all just a bunch of bull that the media is feeding to us just because they've got no better stories to cover.

I predict that 2012 will be the most boring year on record and virtually nothing will happen.

The games of the XXX Olympiad in London. Everything else is up for debate.

Am planning to see some fireworks! I love catastrophes I just get this really cool sensation. I believe it's survival instincts surging through.

I'm a very weird person, those this make me a bad person as well? To give you a direct answer, I think cosmic stuff will happen. Not that it could destroy this very fragile and insignificant planet.

But I think It's a date to look forwards to. It could bring in new tech and new advancements not just doom. I guess your best answer is to wait and see for yourself.

Don't be scared, we are all here besides you.

I believe that the US will have a presidential election, and the world will have an olympic games. As to the End of Times, Apocalypse, Rapture, etc. , we simply do not have sufficient information as to when the world "will end". Certainly our sun will extinguish within the next few hundred million years, and we will have thousands of devastating natural events during that time, but no prophecy provides a distinct date for the Big Sleep.

However, this does typify the inevitable "sky is falling" debate which crosses our headlines every few years. It is our fallible human nature to look at a shadow (or numbers, or stars, or religious text) and provide irrational reasoning for pure panic. We like to be scared.

As a species, we like to startle ourselves, and what better way than to place the frailty of life - of every life - at stake.

I think that some thing will happen like a war or something. The mayan's wernt stupid. Most of the things we have today wouldnt be here or as good if it wasnt for the mayan civilization.

They were master builders and great astronamers. It may not be the end of the world but I do belive someting will happen.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.