Question: is the world going end this year???
Keywords: 2012
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As a scientist I would have to say we can’t be completely sure but there is no evidence that the world will end. Not yet anyway.
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Hi Lachy and James,
I really hope not as i have a holiday planned for next year. It should be ok, I dont think i will cancel my holiday
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I heard it was just the end date of a 5,125 year long mesoamerican calender
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weve had about 515 leap years since ceaser invented the calender in 45 bc, but the mayan calender didn’t have leap years, so technically the world souldve ended 7 mounths ago, if you believe in 2012 being the end. and i thought i was bad at math!
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I’m tempted to say no. But that would not be scientific. Scientists (I’m talking about experimentalists) can never prove anything to be 100% true. Everything is subject to some level of error and a very important part of science is understanding the sources of error in your experiment or observation and understanding how those errors affect your conclusions. So, I cannot categorically say that the world will not end this year. However, I estimate that there is less than one chance in a billion that this will happen, so a probability of less than 0.0000001% Probably much, much less. So, don’t stress about it.
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It would be terribly unscientific of me to say that it definitely will not but I can say this, all of the current theories suggesting it will are based on mythology and there is no proven scientific evidence that it will.
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As the others have pointed out, it is unscientific to make a categorical statement and declare that the world will not end this year. However, i will behave as though it isnt going to end this year, and keep my holiday plans for next year locked in.
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