XYZ Fancy Doom

I know it is weird, but their love to see destruction is so much that they can't contain their excitement. For those who do not know me so well, I h-a-t-e forwards... especially those which have things like "if you are a true friend then forward it to 'a million people',  including me ..." and crap that sounds similar to what I just mentioned. My idea of having an e-mail id is to simply use it to exchange information that is of some relevance to me or to others.

What e-mail am I talking about?? Check it out.

7 reasons the world will end in 2012

Scientific experts from around the world are genuinely predicting that five years from now, all life on Earth could well finish. Some are saying it'll be humans that set it off. Others believe that a natural phenomenon will be the cause. And the religious folks are saying it'll be God himself who presses the stop button...

1. Mayan Calendar

The first mob to predict 2012 as the end of the world were the Mayans, a bloodthirsty race that were good at two things: Building highly accurate astrological equipment out of stone and Sacrificing Virgins.

Thousands of years ago they managed to calculate the length of the lunar moon as 329.53020 days, only 34 seconds out. The Mayan calendar predicts that the Earth will end on December 21, 2012. Given that they were pretty close to the mark with the lunar cycle, it's likely they've got the end of the world right as well.

2. Sun Storms

Solar experts from around the world monitoring the sun have made a startling discovery: our sun is in a bit of strife. The energy output of the sun is, like most things in nature, cyclic, and it's supposed to be in the middle of a period of relative stability. However, recent solar storms have been bombarding the Earth with so much radiation energy, it's been knocking out power grids and destroying satellites. This activity is predicted to get worse, and calculations suggest it'll reach its deadly peak sometime in 2012

 

3. The Atom Smasher

Scientists in Europe have been building the world's largest particle accelerator. Basically its a 27km tunnel designed to smash atoms together to find out what makes the Universe tick. However, the mega-gadget has caused serious concern, with some scientists suggesting that it's properly even a bad idea to turn it on in the first place. They're predicting all manner of deadly results, including mini black holes. So when this machine is fired up for its first serious experiment in 2012, the world could be crushed into a super-dense blob the size of a basketball.

 

4. The Bible says...

If having scientists warning us about the end of the world isn't bad enough,religious folks are getting in on the act as well. Interpretations of the Christian Bible reveal that the date for Armageddon, the final battle between Good an Evil, has been set down for 2012. The I Ching, also known as the Chinese book of Changes, says the same thing, as do various sections of the Hindu teachings.

5. Super Volcano

Yellowstone National Park in the United States is famous for its thermal springs and Old Faithful geyser. The reason for this is simple - it's sitting on top of the world's biggest volcano, and geological experts are beginning to get nervous sweats. The Yellowstone volcano has a pattern of erupting every 650,000 years or so, and we're many years overdue for an explosion that will fill the atmosphere with ash, blocking the sun and plunging the Earth into a frozen winter that could last up to 15,000 years. The pressure under the Yellowstone is building steadily, and geologists have set 2012 as a likely date for the big bang.

6. The Physicists

This one's a case of bog-simple maths mathematics. Physicists at Berkeley Uni have been crunching the numbers. and they've determined that the Earth is well overdue for a major catastrophic event. Even worse, they're claiming their calculations prove that we're all going to die, very soon - while also saying their prediction comes with a certainty of 99 percent- and 2012 just happens to be the best guess as to when it occurs.

 

7. Slip-Slop-Slap- BANG!

We all know the Earth is surrounded by a magnetic field that shields us from most of the sun's radiation. What you might not know is that the magnetic poles we call north and south have a nasty habit of swapping places every 750,000 years or so - and right now we're about 30,000 years overdue. Scientists have noted that the poles are drifting apart roughly 20-30 km each year, much faster than ever before, which points to a pole-shift being right around the corner. While the pole shift is underway, the magnetic field is disrupted and will eventually disappear, sometimes for up to 100 years. The result is enough UV outdoors to crisp your skin in seconds, killing everything it touches. 

The mail ended with a huge 'smiley' with an enthusiastic "So, What Dya Think?!"

You really should have been there to see how amused I felt while reading this. I want to tell you how much I differ with all that has been said in the mail. People really tend to believe it as it sounds pretty convincing, and I want to personally tell you guys that it takes just a little bit of research to confirm what is the truth.

And now I shall tell you why there will be no "End of the World" by 2012:

 

1st -- the Mayan calendar never said that there will be an end of the world... if you see it in Wikipedia you will notice that there are cycles of eras. A well-known TV channel featured this and it still is believed by all that December 21, 2012 is end of the world... (Man! How did people become so smart suddenly...??? And we call ourselves advanced?! Maybe we should go back in time and ask the stone age people. Maybe they will give us a more accurate date than the Mayans) In a nutshell, the date is controversial... there is no proof. It merely marks the end of one era and the beginning of another. Too much misuse... no, abuse of imagination results in such flimsy, baseless and ridiculous theories. Mayans were a mysterious lot... but I don't think they gazed into the crystal ball! They were jobless enough to go around hunting for (ahem!) virgins and sacrifice them... now you know, ladies and gentlemen, why the civilization ceased to exist today.

 

2nd -- variations in the intensity of solar cycles have been a very normal thing... every 10 - 11 years the intensity is high... and the same will happen roughly around 2012. There is nothing new about solar storms... the next high intensity is also gonna be the same as the previous ones. For more information, read about 'Schwabe cycle' in solar cycle.

 

3rd -- the particle accelerator is an instrument that will generate enough speed to see what happens when two particles collide. I know that "it is believed" the universe started out with a big bang and stuff, but when the scientists attempt to do an experiment that will collide particles at the speed of light... believe me... mini black holes (even if they form!!) will never be able to gobble up the equipment owing to its atomic size... it requires certain parameters... and its not a monster that will grow in size with every little thing it eats up. It is too dramatic for the scientific mind. Simply put, it’s a harmless thing, but it takes in a lot of energy and money... the latter which I would like to have.

 

4th -- I don't believe it... 2012? So, suddenly the ancient Hindu scriptures talk about 2012?Suddenly, the Bible too is screaming that 2012 is the end of the world? Well, the same was told when 2002 happened. And here I am - still waiting for the damn catastrophe and somehow it seems too silly to happen "according to a book". The one who came up with this must be some looney guy.

 

5th -- coming to Yellow Stone... I have read enough about it from the time I have been in school... one of nature's wonders… if my educational background has some authority over my logical ability, volcanoes do not erupt "periodically"; if that was the case then people living close to volcanic regions would vacate at the "right" time. I know that Yellowstone Caldera is among the largest supervolcano but saying that it will erupt in 2012 is just plain nuts. There is no damn proof... unless the volcano wrote a letter to the one who took pains to create this chain-mail.

 

6th – umm... Let me get this straight... some not-so-great university has mathematicians who... out of nowhere... announce that they have the date for doomsday? yeaaah right!  Wonder what the mathematicians in Harvard are doing... hmm... they must be counting sheep.

 

7th – yes, the poles do swap. And yes they do protect us from radiation... but what strikes me as absolutely absurd is that suddenly the process stops... and that too for JUST 100 years... while it is otherwise moving at a fast pace?? It is plain bullshit! I have never heard of such a crazy theory. Stand aside Newton… your laws are just about to be proved wrong. The shift has accelerated but predictions have been tough as the speed is extremely random. Exposure to UV in the past couple of millions of years (while the earth swapped polarities) has not been a factor that caused the great extinction...  however, the electrical equipments and satellites will be in deep shit. In any case the magnetic field of earth is largely an unexplored area and many scientists are still trying to generate a pattern. So claiming to know the earth's magnetic field is a far cry.