Sunday 16 December 2012

21-12-2012: The world will end!!!!! Or not.

The world will end on 21/12/2012.
Yes it will, atleast that is what the doomsday proponents and media has to say.
And to support their claim they present the following ideas which I will try to nullify one by one.

Claim 1: Our planet will collide with another planet called Planet X or Nibiru on that day destroying everything. 

Contradiction: Today is 16th of december and there are only about 5 days left. Now a planet of the size of  Earth or even Pluto would be seen from low powered telescopes and be reported by millions of observers from across the world. But nothing has been reported yet. Forget that, with just 5 days left the planet would be very close to us by now and should be one of the brightest objects in the night sky. Has anyone seen anything yet??? NO. And on that no body, no astronomer has ever cataloged this planet ever. So will it appear out of no where and hit us ???? Think for yourself.

Claim 2: The Earths Poles will shift and everything will come to and end.

Contradiction: Well which poles ???? There are two poles of earth, Magnetic and Geographic. To rotate the geographic poles of a planet of the size Earth, basic physics tells us that the amount of energy required will be so monumental that unless a planet atleast 100 times the mass of earth does collide with Earth this can never happen. In fact my estimate of even 100 times can be unfounded and the size and mass may be thousands of times more.

If it is about Magnetic pole, then I would say YES the process of Magnetic pole shift has already begun. Generally earth's magnetic poles reverses every 20-25 million years and this one is long overdue. But the process itself takes millions aof years and we are in no imminent danger. Also when the pole shifts it will be more of a danger to certain animals and some of our instruments than us directly. So don;t worry, nothing is shifting as of now.

Claim 3: The Solar flare will destroy us.

Contradiction: Solar flares are generated by cycles of solar maxima and solar minima. This is due to a simple funda that the sun is a gigantic ball of hot plasma and its dynamics creates huge magnetic flares which spew out billions of tonnes of charged particle, some of which may head for earth. In fact occasionally  such particles do hit the earth but our magnetic shield saves us from its harms. The only thing that it can harm are our communication satellites and not US.

Claim 4: Kalki Avatar is coming.

Contradiction: By far this is the most stupid reason I have found so far. God, if it exists, has no other work than becoming Kalki and ending us and that too when we have less than a week left and Kalki has not revealed itself so far, if it at all exists. This is one of those news propounded by popular hindi news channels. They are experts in GENERATING NEWS.

So guys, believe me, there is no fear of the world coming to an end. Atleast not now.

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