Saturday, January 19, 2013

The End...?

The prophecies and science behind 21st Dec, 2012

Cataclysmic events unfolded in Roland Emmerich’s film 2012 – the earth’s core began heating up due to solar flare bombardment, California was engulfed by the Pacific Ocean, the Yellowstone Supervolcano erupted, megatsunamis thundered at every country’s shores – and one would imagine Emmerich was a little boy immensely enjoying destroying every conceivable object in his line of view! While most level-headed people enjoyed the effects of the film and let the subject be, there are many equally sane people worried if really all they had before their inevitable end was three years… just a little more than a thousand days… With numerous books and roughly six million websites dedicated to the predictions and prophecies about the year 2012, and 21st December 2012 to be more particular, most of us are being pulled in by these Doomsday prophecies.

The entire hoopla began with the predictions of the Mayan civilisation that say an alignment of the planets in our solar system, which happens only once every 6,40,000 years, will occur on 21st December, 2012 and lead to a catastrophic event. Astronomy was one of the strengths of this race, and they had managed to calculate the length of the lunar month with near accuracy some thousands of years ago. Now, along with their worrying prophecy, their Long Count calendar, credited for its accuracy, ominously ends on the same date.

Another ancient prophecy is by Sumerians circa 5000 BC about a planet Nibiru, which would collide with our planet – in 2003. But, while it obviously failed to do so, the date was moved to 2012, by theorists who probably consider the year to be a much safer bet for widespread calamities! For the record, as of now, there is no planet with that name.

2012 is going to be the year when solar storms will bombard the Earth, which NASA confirms will not cause life to end, but could temporarily cause power outages and the suspension of other services powered by electricity.


Source : IIPM Editorial, 2012.
An Initiative of IIPMMalay Chaudhuri
and Arindam Chaudhuri (Renowned Management Guru and Economist).

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