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create auroras and can cause damage to satellites and power lines, still it’s “nothing that causes lasting damage,” Yeomans said. There are records of a solar “super storm” reaching earth in 1859. Although that caused little damage back then, there are fears that such a storm would inflict much more harm now, as that our world is far more dependent on electronics. Still, “there is no evidence that one will happen on Dec. 21 next year,” Yeomans said. “It’s impossible to predict solar activity that far out, and even an extremely strong solar storm wouldn’t bring the apocalypse that much fear”.
Pole dancing
The biggest, and as far as possible best scientifically substantiated argument, was about the poles of the Earth shifting around. The Earth has two kinds of poles, its geographical poles, which mark the planet’s axis of rotation. And its magnetic poles, which are associated with the planet’s magnetic field that makes our compasses point toward north. Some feared that either or both of these poles would flip in 2012. However, the geographical poles cannot flip because the moon stabilizes our planet’s spin. The magnetic poles do flip sometimes, but on time scales of about 500,000 years. These shifts are not sudden, but take place very gradually over thousands of years, “and there’s no evidence of a flip on Dec. 21, 2012,” Yeomans said. “Even if they did flip, it would not cause any real problems, other than us having to change our compasses from north to south.”
Spiritual new age of men
Coming back to the Mayan calendar, according to most historians the best way to interpret the calendar in a more spiritual way . The Mayans belief was that on 21-12-2012 the then known world
would end. Resulting in a, spiritually, “better” world. It is no coincidence that their calendar ends on the exact same day on which the world and sun are on the “equator” of the milky way galaxy. The Mayans thought that when this happens, Earth would be open to “spiritual glares from space” resulting in a spiritual and according to them morally “better” world. So even if the Mayans were true about the world, as we know it, ending on December 21th. The thought that in the worst case scenario it would’ve ended in exactly the same way as it was before December 21th. Ultimately, smart people can believe weird things for many numbers of reasons, Yeoman noted. For instance, real data is often confused with junk science, while anecdotal evidence and passionate arguments on the Internet and on television shows purporting to be fact are often mistaken for the real thing. “Scientists really have their work cut out for them,” Yeomans said. “We really have to do a better job educating people about science.”
Sources
http://www.space.com/topics/latest-news-for -nibiru-2012-and-planet-x/ http://www.space.com/16409-doomsday-fears-2012-mayan-calendar.html http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=RaKcPEBiZZw
INTERFACE
January 2013