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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 Chichn Itz in Mexico, and Tikal in Guatemala.
[8][9][10]

Various astronomical alignments and numerological formulae were proposed as pertaining to
this date, all unequivocally rejected by all scholarship. A New Age interpretation held that the
date marked the start of a period during which Earth and its inhabitants would undergo a positive
physical or spiritual transformation, and that 21 December 2012 would mark the beginning of a
new era.
[11]
Others suggested that the date marked the end of the world or a similar catastrophe.
Scenarios suggested for the end of the world included the arrival of the nextsolar maximum, an
interaction between Earth and the black hole at the center of the galaxy,
[12]
or Earth's collision
with a planet called Nibiru.
Scholars from various disciplines quickly dismissed predictions of concomitant cataclysmic
events as they arose. Professional Mayanistscholars stated that no extant classic Maya
accounts forecast impending doom, and that the idea that the Long Count calendar ends in 2012
misrepresented Maya history and culture,
[3][13][14]
while astronomers rejected the various
proposed doomsday scenarios aspseudoscience,
[15][16]
easily refuted by elementary
astronomical observations.
[17]

There is a strong tradition of "world ages" in Mayan literature, but the record has been distorted,
leaving several possibilities open to interpretation.
[23]
According to the Popol Vuh, a compilation of
the creation accounts of the K'iche' Maya of the Colonial-era highlands, we are living in the fourth
world.
[24]
The Popol Vuh describes the gods first creating three failed worlds, followed by a
successful fourth world in which humanity was placed. In the Maya Long Count, the previous world
ended after 13 b'ak'tuns, or roughly 5,125 years.
[25][Note a]
The Long Count's "zero date"
[Note b][Note
c]
was set at a point in the past marking the end of the third world and the beginning of the current
one, which corresponds to 11 August 3114 BC in the proleptic Gregorian calendar.
[26][7]
This means
that the fourth world reached the end of its 13th b'ak'tun, or Mayan date 13.0.0.0.0, on 21 December
2012. In 1957, Mayanist and astronomer Maud Worcester Makemson wrote that "the completion of a
Great Period of 13 b'ak'tuns would have been of the utmost significance to the Maya".
[27]
In
1966, Michael D. Coe wrote inThe Maya that "there is a suggestion ... that Armageddon would
overtake the degenerate peoples of the world and all creation on the final day of the 13th [b'ak'tun].
Thus ... our present universe [would] be annihilated [in December 2012]
[Note e]
when the Great Cycle
of the Long Count reaches completion."
[28]
eomagnetic reversal[edit]
Another idea tied to 2012 involved a geomagnetic reversal (often incorrectly referred to as a pole
shift by proponents), possibly triggered by a massive solar flare, that would release an energy equal
to 100 billion atomic bombs.
[115]
This belief was supposedly supported by observations that the
Earth's magnetic field is weakening,
[116]
which could precede a reversal of the north and
south magnetic poles, and the arrival of the next solar maximum, which was expected sometime
around 2012.
[117]

Most scientific estimates, however, say that geomagnetic reversals take between 1,000 and 10,000
years to complete,
[118]
and do not start on any particular date.
[119]
Furthermore, the U.S. National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration now predicts that the solar maximum will peak in late 2013
or 2014, and that it will be fairly weak, with a below-average number of sunspots.
[120]
In any case,
there is no scientific evidence linking a solar maximum to a geomagnetic reversal, which is driven by
forces entirely within the Earth.
[121]
Instead, a solar maximum would be mostly notable for its effects
on satellite and cellular phone communications.
[122]
David Morrison attributes the rise of the solar
storm idea to physicist and science popularizer Michio Kaku, who claimed in an interview with Fox
News that a solar peak in 2012 could be disastrous for orbiting satellites, and to NASA's headlining a
2006 webpage as "Solar Storm Warning", a term later repeated on several doomsday pages.
[102]

Planet X/Nibiru[edit]
Main article: Nibiru cataclysm
Some believers in doomsday in 2012 claimed that a planet called Planet X, or Nibiru, would collide
with or pass by Earth. This idea, which appeared in various forms since 1995, initially predicted
Doomsday in May 2003, but proponents abandoned that date after it passed without
incident.
[123]
The idea originated from claims of channeling of alien beingsand is widely
ridiculed.
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Astronomers calculated that such an object so close to Earth would be visible to
anyone looking up at the night sky.
[123]

So the Mayan apocalypse didn't happen after all, despite our best efforts to encourage
it with a minute-by-minute live blog.
But relax - there are plenty of other doomsday scenarios to cling to, even if you feel
let down this time.
Scientists reckon we have between half a billion years (due to falling levels of
carbon dioxide) to a billion years (due to expansion of the sun) left before Earth is
uninhabitable, and a mere 22 billion years before the universe explodes as it
cannot expand any further.
Can't wait that long? Then the good news is there is an apocalypse planned for
much, much sooner.
Egyptian biochemist Rashad Khalifa predicted in 1968 that the world would end
in 2240.
He came to that conclusion after claiming to have cracked the Quaran Code - a
series of hidden messages in the holy book of Islam.
The good news? The Quaran Code apparently also shows that all believers will
be saved, regardless of their religion.
Sunni Muslim scholar Said Nurs was a bit more pessimistic.
The theologian dubbed The Wonder Of The Age by his followers translated many
of Muhammad's sayings and found that one implied the world would end in 2129.


Gog and Magog descend from the heavens to scourge the Earth.
Armageddon outta here: Will the world end in six years?
American psychic Jeane Dixon's prediction is even more concerning.
Before her death in 1997, the one-time adviser to First Lady Nancy Reagan
claimed Armageddon would come in 2020.
Dixon was famous for predicting the assassination of President Kennedy, and
became a favourite of President Nixon's at a result - but she also predicted that
Nixon would win the 1960 election, that World War III would begin in 1958 and
that the Russians would put the first man in the moon. Oh, and Dixon once also
claimed that the world would end in 1962.
Bleakest of all is the conviction of Dr. F. Kenton Beshore that the world could end
in 2018.
Beshore, founder of the World Bible Society, is described by the apocalypse-
friendly Rapture Ready website as "extraordinary, humble, fun-loving, yet
serious" and draws his inspiration from the works of evangelist Hal Lindsey, who
claimed that the world would end in 1998.
Beshore claimed Lindsey had got his maths - based on the length of a Biblical
generation - wrong and that we'd all be toast between 2018-2028.
Let's hope the prophets of doom go the same way as the proponents of the
Mayans..