End of the world is near, December 21, 2012, to be exact, according to theories based on the ancient Maya recognized predictions. But man can truly meet the end of the year 2012-drowned in the apocalyptic flooding, walloped by a secret planet, baked by the sun is angry, or thrown into the sea by accelerating the continent. And if the ancient Maya empire peaked between 250 and 900 years in what is now Mexico and Central America-really predict the end of the world in 2012. At least one aspect of 2012, the end-of-the-world hype is, for some people, all too real, fear.
NASA has received thousands of questions about the 2012 doomsday prediction, some of them disturbing. Fortunately, with the help of scientists, most of the 2012 predictions cataclysms easily explained.
Mayan calendar does not end in the year 2012, as some have said, and the first ever seen that year as the time the end of the world, archaeologists say. But the December 21, 2012 (give or take a day) it remains important for the Maya. This is a time when the largest major cycle in the Mayan calendar-1, 872,000 the day or year-to overturn 5,125.37 and a new cycle begins. Maya remain on the scale of a few other cultures have been considered.
During the heyday of the empire, Mayan Long Count to find a long-circular Mayan calendar transplanted cultural roots all the way back to creation itself. During the winter solstice in 2012, a time-out in the current era of the Long Count calendar, which begins on what the Maya saw as the dawn of the last period of creation: August 11, 3114 BC Maya writing that date, which precedes their civilization thousands of years, as Day Zero, or 13.0.0.0.0.
In the month of December 2012 ended a long and complex, cyclical calendar will roll back to Day Zero, the beginning of another big cycle. The idea is that when a new, that the world will be updated again, often after a period of stress in the same way we update the time on New Year's Day.