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The 2012 date was also loosely tied to the long-running concept of the photon belt, which predicted a form of interaction between Earth and Alcyone, the largest star of the Pleiades cluster. The Maya were brilliant mathematicians, astronomers and engineers, and my next guests are here to set the record straight. McKenna expressed "novelty" in a computer program which produces a waveform known as "timewave zero" or the "timewave". The idea is not to mock those who fear such claims, but to offer solid scientific reasons for their dismissal. Sometimes it feels like emptying the sea with a bucket trying to do something about it ,but though there are huge numbers of people scared like this, they are also individual people and every one you can help is a real person who was upset and scared and now is relieved and relaxed.
Its supposed end date was tied to astronomical phenomena by esoteric, fringe, and New Age literature that placed great significance on astrology, especially astrological interpretations associated with the phenomenon of axial precession. Many assertions about the year 2012 form part of Mayanism, a non-codified collection of New Age beliefs about ancient Maya wisdom and spirituality. At least one suicide was directly linked to fear of a 2012 apocalypse, [140] with others anecdotally reported. The UFO conspiracy TV series The X-Files cited 22 December 2012 as the date for an alien colonization of the Earth, and mentioned the Mayan calendar "stopping" on this date. Religious leaders, scientists, and even a hen (or so it seemed) have been making predictions for the end of the world almost as long as the world has been around.But work by Yeomans and other scientists has resulted in identification of some 94 percent of space bodies large enough to be a global threat. As these promotions did not mention the film itself, many viewers believed them to be real and contacted astronomers in panic.
FLATOW: Well, you've spent years piecing together the Maya's murals, studying their writings and culture. Nibiru “would be the brightest thing in the night sky, everyone would be able to see it,” Lepo says.Many misinterpreted this to mean an absolute end to the calendar, which tracked time continuously from a date 5,125 years earlier, and doomsday predictions emerged. The number 13 plays an important role in Mesoamerican calendrics; the tzolkʼin, or sacred calendar, was divided into 13 months of 20 days each. The twelve constellations that line the ecliptic are known as the zodiacal constellations, and, annually, the Sun passes through all of them in turn. They even built a temple where every equinox, one of its corners casts a shadow that looks like a snake.
Other speculations regarding doomsday in 2012 included predictions by the Web Bot project, a computer program that purports to predict the future by analyzing Internet chatter. Academics in China attributed the widespread belief in the 2012 doomsday in their country to a lack of scientific literacy and a mistrust of the government-controlled media. Many of my books are about planetary protection issues and also human exploration and other topics in astronomy.Subscribe to our events calendar to stay up to speed on all things happening in social sciences at UCI. Timewave zero" is a numerological formula that purports to calculate the ebb and flow of "novelty", defined as increase over time in the universe's interconnectedness, or organized complexity. a b c "Miles llegan a Chichén Itzá con la esperanza de una nueva era mejor" [Thousands arrive to Chichén Itzá with the hope of a new better era]. Europe [ edit ] Pic de Bugarach, Camps-sur-l'Agly, France; a target of "esoterics" who believed that some great transition would occur in 2012 Şirince, İzmir Province, Turkey, a village of around 560 inhabitants, has a "positive energy" according to some doomsday cultists, who say that it is close to an area where Roman Catholics believe the Virgin Mary ascended to heaven.
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