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Will The World Really End On 2012.21.12? Will the world end on December 21, 2012? The unsettling evidence behind ancient astrologers' claim and the film they inspired. Continued from Page 13 According to Lawrence Joseph, author of a book called Apocalypse 2012, unspecified gravitational and energy forces may be acting on us from the centre of the milky way — and, comets and asteroids. But to do any real dangers of global warming, some experts if disrupted, he speculates they would throw our damage, an object would have to be more than suggest that the Earth’s magnetic field — which bodies and our planet out of kilter, resulting in a mile wide. Such big hits are rare and the last is crucial for deflecting solar radiation and catastrophe. was 65 million years ago, leading to the channelling it into belts that harmlessly circle He compares this to the way in which extinction of the dinosaurs. the planet — will diminish to the point where it even a momentary disruption of electrical Searches of the cosmos for potential can no longer protect us from the sun’s rays. power can cause the clocks on DVD players and collisions up to 100 years into the future by This could lead to an epidemic of microwaves to blink meaninglessly. But this NASA’s Near Earth Object Program led to them cancers and a major disruption of the food theory is debunked by David Morrison of reporting that there are no serious threats in the chain. NASA. offing and, even if a sizeable projectile did hit Compasses would stop working, ‘The galactic centre is very far away, us, it might not wipe us out altogether. animals would be unable to find their way back approximately 30,000 light years, so it has ‘There would be global firestorms and to breeding grounds, and the weather would negligible effects on the solar system or the severe acid rain,’ says Don Yeomans, manager become less predictable. Earth,’ he says. of the programme. The Earth would become unstable, ‘In fact, the sun goes in the general ‘But all of these effects are relatively unleashing a series of natural disasters. direction of the galaxy’s centre every December short-term, so the most adaptable species, like Such a lingering end to humanity’s time and nothing at all happens.’ cockroaches and humans, would be likely to on Earth might not be the stuff of Hollywood Morrison also refutes a popular internet survive.’ blockbusters, but it lends a chilling resonance to theory that worldwide devastation will be According to Bill McGuire, Professor of the final lines of TS Eliot’s famous poem The caused by Earth’s magnetic polarity suddenly Geophysical and Climate Hazards at University Hollow Men, penned in the aftermath of World changing and throwing its direction of rotation College London, we are 12 times more likely to War One. into experience the explosion of a super-volcano — This is the way the world ends. ‘The Earth has been rotating in the same defined as an eruption that expels 1,000 cubic This is the way the world ends. This is direction for the past four billion years,’ he says. kilometres or more of debris, enough to the way the world ends. Not with a bang but a ‘The magnetic polarity does change every few obliterate an area the size of Yorkshire. whimper. [] hundred thousand years and the last time was The site that currently gives most cause about 400,000 years ago, but there is no for concern is Yellowstone Volcano in the A Few Comments People evidence to suggest that it will happen again any American state of Wyoming, which continues to time soon. rumble ominously and could explode with the Are Making About ‘Even if it does, it has no bearing on the force of 1,000 Hiroshima bombs and plunge the direction in which the Earth spins, and there is planet into a nuclear winter. December 21 2012 no reason to think it will do any other harm.’ ‘There would be great clouds of sulphur One idea with at least some credibility is gas that would mix with the water in the “The major contributors of environmental that the Earth will one day be hit by a large atmosphere to form a veil over the Earth, cutting destruction where raised with the Christian faith. extra-terrestrial object. But David Morrison out sunlight and dramatically cooling the That very religion that was forced into the Americas dismisses the idea put forward in the film that Earth’s surface,’ says Professor McGuire. with fire and blood. And with blood I mean the this will be a mysterious planet known as Nibiru ‘Plants would be unable to blood of the native people of this land who treated — long the subject of speculation among the photosynthesise and there would be widespread this earth as a sacred temple gifted by the great gloom-mongers of cyberspace. crop failures, famine and starvation. spirit. The forests and animal life and nature where and are to be treated with respect because we are all Niburu was supposedly first identified ‘A super-volcano probably wouldn’t kill connected because by natural law we need each by the Sumerian people, who lived 5,000 years all of us, but there would be a devastating other. Like a pathogenic infection but with politics ago in what is now southern Iraq and it is said to impact on our global economy and society.’ and organized religion have humans spread.” be heading towards Earth at an alarming rate. One thing the scientists agree upon is ToltecEagle501 Astronomers insist that there is no such that life on Earth will one day come to an end. planet but, much to Morrison’s frustration, this The constantly diminishing supplies of “My hope is that all this Hollywood nonsense only increases suspicion that governments hydrogen in the sun, as in all ageing stars, will eventually inspires people to seek out more of the worldwide are concealing its existence to avoid cause it to swell up and become what truth about the Mayan Calendar. Does it end? Yes global panic. astronomers call a ‘red giant’. It will then engulf and No. The cycles and long count continues on and ‘The simple laws of planetary motion us before collapsing in on itself and becoming a yes, they did make reference to years far in the tell you that if this thing really was only three ‘white dwarf’. future. The portion of the calendar that tracks evolutionary consciousness does end. But as usual, years away from hitting Earth, it would be the The good news is that this is unlikely to Hollywood got it wrong. It's end date is October 28, brightest thing in the sky apart from the sun and happen for another four billion years or so. And 2011. But have no fear, it doesn't mean the end of the the moon,’ he says. since none of the other aforementioned fates is world. Only the end of the '9 underworlds' of ‘It would have been tracked by likely to befall us for a very long time to come, evolution after which many are expected to emerge thousands of amateur and professional if at all, we are probably safe to get on with our with a new enlightenment. But just as school gives astronomers all over the world. You just can’t Christmas plans for 2012. us the lessons to learn and it's our free will whether hide a planet.’ We cannot be too complacent about we choose to learn or not, the same holds true for a Fictitious though planet Nibiru is, the mankind’s longevity, however. higher level of consciousness.” Earth has always been subject to strikes by Quite apart from the much trumpeted Tiruinks