2012: the beginning of the end or Why there will be no end of the world?

Remember the fear of Y2K (2000)? He came and went without any problems due to adequate planning and analysis of the situation. December 21, 2012, the date played out in many films with beautiful special effects will not be the end of the world, as far as we know. It will, however, be the date of the next winter solstice.

Much like Y2K, 2012, has been analyzed and assumptions about the end of the world have been well studied. Unlike some general ideas, the concept of “science” disappears when we pull the ears of the end of the world by 2012. NASA scientists have answered frequently asked questions regarding 2012 below.

Question (Q): Are there any threats to the Earth in 2012? Many websites say the world will end in December 2012.
Answer (O):Nothing terrible will happen to Earth in 2012. Everything will be fine with our planet for more than 4 billion years, and trustworthy scientists around the world do not know any threat associated with 2012.

Q: What is the origin of the prediction that the world will end in 2012?
A: The story began with the assumption that Nibiru, a planet, as if discovered by Sumerians, was heading toward Earth. This disaster was originally predicted in May 2003, but when nothing happened, the end of the world date was moved forward to December 2012. Then these two fables were associated with the end of one of the cycles in the ancient Mayan calendar during the winter solstice in 2012 - from here they predicted the end of the world on December 21, 2012.

Q: Does the Mayan calendar really end in December 2012?
A: Just as the calendar on your kitchen wall does not cease to exist after December 31, the Mayan calendar does not cease to exist on December 21, 2012. This is the end date of the Mayan long account period, but then - as the calendar starts again from January 1 - another long account period begins.

Q: Is there a phenomenon in which the planets line up so that they affect the Earth?
ABOUT:In the next few decades, planetary groupings are not expected, the Earth will not cross the galactic plane in 2012, but even if the grouping occurs, its impact on the Earth will be insignificant. In December of each year, the Earth and the Sun line up with the approximate center of the Milky Way galaxy, but this annual event does not matter.

Q: Is there a planet or a brown dwarf called Nibiru or planet X or Eris, approaching the Earth and threatening our planet with widespread destruction?
ABOUT:Nibiru and other tales of fictional planets are an online hoax. There is no factual basis for such statements. If all sorts of Nibiru or Planet X were real and flew to a meeting with the Earth in 2012, astronomers have been tracking it for at least the last ten years, and it will be visible to the naked eye. Obviously, it does not exist. Eris is real, but it is a dwarf planet similar to Pluto that will remain in the outer solar system; she will not be able to approach the Earth more than 4 billion kilometers.

Q: What is the theory of pole reversal? Is it true that the earth’s crust does 180 degrees of rotation around the core in a matter of days, if not hours?
ABOUT:In the process of the Earth's rotation, a U-turn is impossible. There are slow movements of the continents (for example, Antarctica was near the equator hundreds of millions of years ago), but this is not related to theories about the change of poles. However, many catastrophe sites have created bait to fool people. They claim that there is a connection between the rotation and the magnetic polarity of the Earth, which changes irregularly (pole changes occur every, on average, every 400,000 years). As far as we know, such pole changes cannot cause any harm to life on Earth. Yes, and it is unlikely to happen in the next few millennia, in any case.

Q: Is the Earth at risk of a meteorite in 2012?
ABOUT:Earth has always been the subject of comets and asteroids, although large collisions are very rare. The last major clash was 65 million years ago, and this led to the extinction of the dinosaurs. NASA astronomers today conduct a study called the “Spaceguard Survey” to find any large asteroids approaching the Earth, long before the impact. We have already determined that there are no threatening asteroids as large as the one that killed the dinosaurs. All this work is done openly. Its results are published every day on the NASA NEO Program Office website, so you yourself see that nothing predicts a collision in 2012.

Q: What do NASA scientists think about the predictions of the near end of the world?
ABOUT:Is at least one statement about natural disasters or dramatic changes in 2012 scientifically based? Where is the proof? They are not, and for all fictitious statements, whether they are created in books, films, documentaries or on the Internet, we cannot change this obvious fact. There is no convincing evidence for any statement made in support of unusual events relating to December 2012.

Q: Is there a danger of giant solar storms predicted for 2012?
ABOUT:Solar activity has a regular cycle, with peaks approximately every 11 years. These peaks in solar flare activity can cause some interruptions in satellite communications, although engineers are devising electronics that are protected from solar storms. But there are no particular risks associated with 2012. The next maximum solar activity will occur in 2012-2014 and, according to forecasts, will not go beyond the usual solar cycle, no different from previous cycles throughout history.