5 Signs the World is Really Ending. The end of the world is just around the corner — on the 21st of December — marking the end of the 5,125-year “Long Count” Mayan calendar. Panicking Russians and Chinese have been buying up candles (because the world’s end means we’ll be in the dark) while Americans are apparently snatching up survival shelters. Pedro Celestino Yac Noj, a Mayan sage, is far more relaxed about the matter. According to the Telegraph, he has marked the end of the old calendar by burning seeds and fruit at a ceremony and Cuba, noting that “The 21st is for giving thanks and gratitude and the 22nd welcomes the new cycle, a new dawn.” Be that as it may, we are prone to a fascination with the apocalypse and the end of times. Five recent developments that show the real end of the world is, for better or for worse, nigh. 1.
In early December of this year, it was time for shorts and sleeveless shirts in Chicago, the “windy city,” with the temperature at 72 degrees in some areas. 2. The-end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it-1999537. It's true that the Mayan odometer will hit zeros on 21 December 2012, as it reaches the end of a 394-year cycle called a baktun.
But this baktun is part of a larger 8,000-year cycle called a pictun, and there's no evidence that anything astronomically untoward will happen as the current baktun slides into the next. However, that hasn't stopped the feverish speculating that sells books and cinema tickets. What kind of catastrophe would it take to end the world?
Astronomical intruders provide a potentially serious threat. Impacts can be caused by stray rubble from the Asteroid Belt and the rocky snowballs that travel in highly elliptical orbits in the comet cloud. That's good news. Then there's the "Big One". A hundred million years sounds like a safe buffer, but the next one could happen at any time. When massive stars exhaust their nuclear fuel, the result is a titanic explosion called a supernova. A supernova is a small squib compared to a hypernova. 5 Natural Disasters Threatening the End of the World. Earth is currently the only world where the human race lives and so its survival is critical for the continuation of the species.
And yet that survival exists on a knife's edge with near apocalypse or extinction possible not only by humanity's own hand, such as nuclear or biological warfare, but by many natural disasters as well that there may be no defence against. Here are five possible natural disasters that could cause the end of the world. Asteroid Impact The favourite 'weapon' of destruction in blockbuster Hollywood movies such as Armageddon and Deep Impact, asteroid impact is a very real threat and is what experts believed caused the extinction of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago.
The main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter is believed to have up to 1.7 million asteroids and more than 200 are already known to exist that are over 100 kilometer in size. Supervolcano Eruption Gamma Ray Burst. End Of The World - End Of The World Predictions. 2012 phenomenon. A date inscription in the Mayan Long Count on the east side of Stela C from Quirigua showing the date for the last Creation.
It is read as 13.0.0.0.0 4 Ajaw 8 Cumku and is usually correlated as 11 or 13 August, 3114 BCE on the Gregorian calendar. The date of 13.0.0.0.0 4 Ajaw 3 K'ank'in is usually correlated as 21 or 23 December 2012. "21 December 2012" and "2012 December 21" redirect here. For general information on this day, see December 21. The 2012 phenomenon was a range of eschatological beliefs that cataclysmic or transformative events would occur on or around 21 December 2012.[1][2][3][4][5][6] This date was regarded as the end-date of a 5,126-year-long cycle in the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar,[7] and as such, festivities to commemorate the date took place on 21 December 2012 in the countries that were part of the Mayan civilization (Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador), with main events at Chichén Itzá in Mexico, and Tikal in Guatemala.[8][9][10] Apocalypse[edit]
End of the World: 10 Disasters That Could End It All At Any Given Second - Best of the Web Directory. 1.
Particle Accelerators Physicists have long theorized that particle accelerators could destroy the earth. When electric fields are used to accelerate protons they could collide at speed fast enough to create black holes or bits of altered matter. These small black holes would slowly engulf our planet. The pieces of altered matter, called strangeletes, would destroy any ordinary matter they came in contact with, eventually annihilating the entire planet. Video Clip: Clip detailing the construction of the world's largest particle accelerator near Geneva, Switzerland. 2. Although the concept of black holes was conceived in 1915 by Einstein (some may argue earlier) they were not accepted as fact until Stephen Hawking and Roger Penrose proved their existence in 1970. 3.
Gamma-ray bursts are extremely powerful, estimated to have 10 quadrillion times more energy than our sun.