5 Mayan Apocalypse Myths Debunked

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By Stephanie Pappas, LiveScience Senior Writer | LiveScience.com

On Friday, Dec. 21, some say, the Mayan apocalypse will arrive and the world will end. Fortunately, it won’t.

A bold claim, we know, but if it’s good enough for NASA, it’s good enough for us. The space agency has already issued a press release dated Dec. 22 entitled “Why the World Didn’t End Yesterday.”

The Mayan apocalypse predictions arise from a misunderstanding of the ancient Maya Long Count Calendar, which wraps up a 400-year cycle called a b’ak’tun on Dec. 21, 2012, the day of the winter solstice. This just so happens to be the 13th b’ak’tun in the calendar, a benchmark the Maya would have seen as a full cycle of creation.

Did you catch that? Cycle. In other words, the Maya had a cyclical view of time and would not have seen the end of their calendar cycle as the end of the world. It wasn’t until Westerners began reinterpreting the calendar in the past couple decades that it got its apocalyptic overtones.

Mayan apocalypse rumors have proliferated on the Internet, running the gamut from beliefs that Dec. 21 will bring a new era of peace and universal understanding to predictions of a devastating astronomical event. We’re all in favor of world peace, but we’re here to put your fears to rest about the likelihood of planetary annihilation. Read on for five common Mayan apocalypse fears and why they won’t come true.

Prediction 1: The sun will kill us all

Much has been made by Mayan doomsday fear-mongers of the fact that the sun is currently entering a maximum activity phase. The sun rotates through periods of quiet and activity that peak roughly every 11 years; active periods are marked by an increase in solar storms and flares.

Some of these flares can indeed influence Earth. When the sun releases electromagnetic particles in such a way that they interact with our atmosphere, solar storms can disrupt telecommunications, though there are ways to protect satellites and other electronics. These charged particles are also responsible for the aurora — the Northern and Southern Lights.

Predictions of a Dec. 21 solar storm that will devastate the planet are not based in reality, according to NASA scientists. This particular solar maximum is one of the “wimpiest” in recent history, according to NASA heliophysicist Lika Guhathakurta, who spoke during an online panel on the Mayan apocalypse on Nov. 28. In other words, scientists have no reason to expect solar storms capable of disrupting our society.

Prediction 2: The Earth’s magnetic poles will flip-flop

What is it with the Mayan apocalypse and electromagnetism? This rumor holds that the North and South Poles will suddenly and catastrophically change places on Dec. 21.

The idea isn’t as totally leftfield as it sounds: The Earth’s magnetic field does actually flip-flop occasionally, though not in the course of a day. The pole swaps happen over the course of hundreds of thousands of years, according to NASA. The switching of magnetic poles could lead to a slight increase in cosmic radiation, but previous flip-flops have not disrupted the life seen in the fossil record.

Predicting the magnetic-pole switch is also tough. The last swap occurred about 780,000 years ago, which puts the planet about due for another change in the next several thousand years. However, there has been at least one period where the magnetic poles stayed put for 30 million years.

Prediction 3: Planet X will collide with Earth

Planet X, sometimes known as Nibiru, does not exist. Nevertheless, some doomsday theorizers have predicted that on Dec. 21, this “rogue planet” will slam into Earth, annihilating all life.

Planet X rumors got their start in 1976, when the late author Zecharia Sitchin claimed to have translated a Sumerian text to rediscover the lost planet Nibiru, which allegedly orbits the sun once every 3,600 years — supposedly explaining why modern man and telescope had failed to notice this planetary neighbor. In 2003, self-described psychic and alien-channeler Nancy Lieder warned that this planet would collide with Earth. When that didn’t happen, the date got pushed back to 2012 to coincide with Mayan apocalypse myths.

Of course, a planet set on a collision course with Earth in mere days would be extremely visible to the naked eye. In fact, Nibiru should have shown up as nearly as bright as Mars in the night sky by April 2012, if that scenario were true. Given NASA’s capacity to peer into deep space, a nearby planet headed for Earth is not going to escape detection.

“We would have seen it years ago,” said Don Yeomans, the manager of NASA’s Near-Earth Object program office in Pasadena, Calif.

Prediction 4: The planets will align

Another fear is that the planets will align on Dec. 21, somehow impacting our planet. This one is easy to debunk. Take it away, NASA:

“There are no planetary alignments in the next few decades,” according to the space agency’s 2012 doomsday myths webpage. “[E]ven if these alignments were to occur, their effects on the Earth would be negligible.”

There have been planetary alignments in 1962, 1982 and 2000, according to NASA, and we’re all still here.

Prediction 5: Total Earth blackout

This rumor, circulating in spam emails, claims that NASA is predicting a total Earth blackout between Dec. 23 and Dec. 25. Way to ruin Christmas!

Some emails claim that this blackout will occur as the result of the sun and Earth aligning for the first time, while others spin a wild tale about Earth entering “a still ring” called the Photonic belt. Whatever the alleged cause, this is simply not going to happen, according to NASA.

“There is no such alignment,” agency officials write.

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One Response to 5 Mayan Apocalypse Myths Debunked

  1. Contention to the prediction of Mayans

    As per the predictions of the Mayans, “the world will end on December 21, 2012.” The prediction (as understood, and translated by “modern” man,) was “That all life on earth may be extinct on that day”. The Earth will not come to an end. The prediction by “Mayans” was based on their lack of understanding of the method and platform on which the Earth’s mode of function was based. Because all matter on Earth, were engineered and supported by the subliminal Spirit that humans refer to as “TIME”.

    (Answers to questions pertaining to the universe, the earth, living, the meaning and purpose of life, condition, mode of living, our method of reasoning, meaning of mechanisms and functionality of human’s body; are provided for our understanding (in plain sight), but yet, we are seeking answers from the wrong sources.)

    Life of any living system is a physical unit of Time, and each unit is programmed precisely to support such system for unspecified period until such unit ends naturally or abruptly impacted. And, the purpose of each living systems is to serves as oscillating, and nourishment propellant, whereby the condition of inhaling oxygen and exhaling carbon dioxide, supports and charges the realm of Time, towards eternity. The Earth is a built-space, (comparable to) a condominium-basilica, engineered by the Spirit of Time as a self-supported manifestation galleria from where all Eco-inclusions collaterally support her realm continuously. (Such as what motor oil does for the crankshaft in your automobile.)

    (“Self-supported Manifestation galleria”: This condition is identical to humans’ desires for roof over their heads, (in which one builds a house 😉 and food for daily survival by which humans fetched food for consumption repetitively. The behaviors are genetically inherited from the Spirit of Time (which endows human existence,) which equally needs the rhythms of all living system for self-nourishment continuously.
    (Another practical example is relevant in all invented devices by human, especially those having a life-span (such as automobile and other mechanical devices), also must be filled with fuel, or charged repetitively, or need some type of power source for it to function. All these conditions were programmed in human’s genes and translated in their mode of thinking, which in turn, are translated in the functionality of devices invented by humans.)

    As you are well aware, the Mayans are ancient civilizations that once exist, and on this day, the generation that made the prediction has ceased to exist. Their civilization was brought to existence in Time, by which they have eventually succumbed to her impact, to the effect that they are now considered “a lost civilization”.
    The mode of function and technicality of the earth that puzzles the minds of astronomers, as well as sciences, cannot be solved solely through science reasoning, religion, or astronomical reading; but through a condition as reasoned by individual such as Thomas Edison, and Alexander Graham-Bell, (and in this era, William Gates, Jr.), in which the result of their thoughts, (otherwise translated as “invention”) was triggered by the Spirit of Time to benefit all humans.

    Narrative Physics:
    The following narrative physics may help a reader understand the condition applicable to the origin of the Earth, and her mode of function, as well as the meaning and purpose of all corporeal substances that exist in it. In the nature’s law, (as legislated naturally), the following conditions are prevalent:

    No actions occur without a PLATFORM which decisions for further development are to be made.
    Then, no DEVELOPMENT without a stage of preparedness,
    And, ACTION produces CHANGES.
    And changes lead to PERMANENT condition. Therefore, all process leading to present state of the Earth was coordinated by the impact of Time.

    The sciences are in “firm-grasp” of possible origin of the Earth, I applaud their effort; but so far, the purpose and meaning of humans’ life here on Earth cannot be explained by religions, astronomers or sciences because they simply don’t know. If the sciences are willing to learn, then this narrative-physics may help sciences, (astronomers and proponent of other doctrines) to eliminate the confusions that exist in most of their teachings.

    The missing puzzle in science theory, (as well as established doctrines and astronomers), was their ignorance (of the existence) of Time. To summarize such is to categorically inform all sides that the first molecular component that ever exists needed the impact of Time to grow from one stage to the next. (Which means that caterpillar cannot become a butterfly without the impact of Time.) As well as the first series of humans that ever lived, who are considered human ancestors , (in any dynamic that triggered their existence); they must have lived under the natural law of Time-by which a condition of physical growth must applied to them, and such growth could only occur through impact of Time.

    To understand further, let us gear back to moment of initial known as “the beginnings”.
    (Briefly, we can spend hours discussing the “the beginning”, but for now, the footnote is that: “The beginning” can only be defined as a reference point in a time-frame, simply because the “beginning” cannot begin without Time existing spherically; it is in such condition that “the beginning” can actually begin.)

    1. The “Beginning”: PREPARATION-PLATFORM.
    The “beginning” is not known to humans. But, for any act to materialized, a PLATFORM is needed, and only TIME (can be summarized to have) assumes the first position for all occurrences in the universe to begin to unfold.

    2. TIME produces DEVELOPMENT, without Time, no development of any type is possible. Therefore,
    TIME must be the platform from where all events in the universe are being coordinated.
    (Through my researches: (a.) nothing in the universe could have existed without the impact of Time
    (b.) Human’s act, behavior, function, reproductive format and mode of living are collectively abstracts of the Time’s mode of function.)

    3. ACTION
    The cataclysmic blasts (often refer to as “Big Bang”) was correct as per science theory. But in spite of that; the societies of sciences are yet to offer a solid footnote to punctuate their theories, and to offer specifics on the purpose of human on earth, after all, there is a reason human’s devised automobile. Therefore what was the purpose of human on earth?

    4. CHANGES
    Action (in any format) leads to changes, and the applicable change in this effect is the permanent condition of the earth.

    5. PERMANENT conditions.
    Permanent condition is the physical constituent of the Earth with all collateral inclusions, (e.g. Today.) Therefore, all process from the “beginning” till today could not occur without the impact of Time.

    As previously stated, for any result to materialize, there must be a “DECISION-PLATFORM”, followed by DEVELOPMENT, only then a certain ACTION (that produces results,) is possible. The final result of all the processes leading to the physical state of the universe was, and still being coordinated by TIME.

    All physical action, activities of any type, (Example such as: “On to your MARKS, Get READY, Go”) are all action governed by the five steps as listed above without a privilege for (even a slight) deviation. In the sentence such as: “On-to-your-Marks”, before the command that summon such order, there must have been some type of preparation.
    (Therefore, in this narrative, consider the point of “Go” to be the moment of the “Big-Bang” occurrence. Then, “On-to-your-marks”, “get- ready” were preparation era leading to the decimated impacts refer to as the “Big-Bang””, and such preparation era was being ignored in sciences theories. The applicable processes leading to the eras of “On-to-your-marks” and “Get-ready” were incubated and nurtured to point of occurrence by Time.)
    Because, (in any action,) no result without a platform, no development without preparedness, no action without certain development, and no result without action. For these reasons, the first condition that must be in place for the planet earth to thrive, progress, and be elevated to the present stage could only become relevant through Time impact.

    All living substances, (as well as man-made objects, somehow must, and,) will succumb to the impact of Time regardless of duration. Because, lifespan of all substances are determined by the degrading aspects of Time; and if someone is curious about the origin of the earth; the suggested lesson could be to examine human’s reproductive format that occurs after interaction by two opposite-sexes, through random chance, a female conceived, and 6,480 hours after such interactions another human is born. The same parallel could be drawn on the possible format of the origin of earth. Origin of the earth was translated by science as “something-came-out-of-nothing”, but TIME-impact was being incorrectly summarized as “NOTHING” by the sciences. The purpose of the Earth could not be explained by either Science or any teaching doctrines, but for the first time in the history of the humankind here are few and accurate explanations on the purposes of the earth:

    1. The Purpose of the Earth:
    The earth is a condominium basilica, engineered by the spirit of Time, which currently serves as a (self-supported) manifestation galleria, from where all Eco-inclusions supports lives of all living matters, and in turn- all living matters collaterally supports the realm of Time continuously. Similar abstract by human is the development, and construction of any built-spaces that are used for habitat, or which supports human’s mode of living in any format. (A house is such an abstract example, as well as built-structure such as Hoover dam, built as a devise for conditional purpose of generating electricity that benefits humans collectively.)

    2. Mechanisms that Made Life Possible:
    Life is a span of time. Such span is attributed to all organisms in order to fulfill the assignment of “living”. The condition of all living organisms serves collectively as a unit of propellant that supports and nourishes the realm of Time continuously.

    3. Living:
    Living is coordinated by Time-impact. The span is determined by the duration which organism, (through the dynamics of designed-progression in which units of all complex molecule formed a collateral adaptation and function as a unit for specific duration.) The dynamic of occurrence from beginning to the final point, (when all molecule compounds ceases to function), the duration of such effect is translated by human as “Life”. Duration of all life, in all aspects benefits the spirit of Time. And, through sheer design, all living substances that attain life are programmed to replicate similar kind.

    4. The Purpose of Human on Earth:
    All lives function through General-Order Principle. (“Go-Principle” is author specific term for nature’s law legislated through Time impact, which elevates all corporeal substances to their permanent stages.) In these laws, all living entities are programmed to be ineligible to partake in all form of natural maintenance of the Earth. (Such as: humans are not privilege to calibrate the Sun, or to prevent rain, but humans can invent umbrella, and mechanical apparatus that can re-condition the air and Water.) But inventions used for physical blight-prevention (of the earth,) are randomly embedded in human’s mind. Such conditions are causes for invention of various devices, as well as formulas and calculation used to develop equipment for blight prevention of the earth.)

    5. The Reason for Life:
    Life is a method mechanized by Time. The collateral purpose was for the Spirit of Time to exist in physicality for a specific duration. The Spirit which exists in Humans is the highest level of manifestation. (The manifestation conditions as stated were translated in monetary denomination developed by humans, the highest the value or usefulness, the more importance and it becomes.)

    The embedded secret in the Mayans prediction, (as well as famous astronomers,) was the probability sentiment, and such probability in the case of Mayans prediction for December 21, 2012 has a ZERO chance of occurrence, and the prediction is hereby rendered meaningless.
    The Mayans are the case example of my theory that Time governed the universe. Because, on this day, the early Mayans (that made the prediction,) have been waxed permanently to nonexistence by the degrading aspect of Time. And, when tomorrow comes, the Mountains will remain where they are, and the Spirit of Time will be longing still; supporting lives for all her bearing in the universe. Nothing exists, or ceased to exist without the impact of Time. “Time is God”.

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