Does the Mayan calendar really predict the world will end in 2012?
December 21st of the year 2012 is the day time as we know it will end. So at least claim the Maya’s, that ancient civilization that lived in the Mesoamerica’s since 2,600 BC. The Maya’s had an extremely complicated method of keeping track of time, based on three separate calendars. The most important, most encompassing of these calendars holds the `Long Count’: the period from the beginning until the end of time. And on December 21st 2012, the Long Count expires. It will be point zero. Time will be up for the Universe. It will be, literally, the end of days. Big deal, you might say. Still, there’s a couple of very interesting (and disturbing) facts about the Maya calendar’s end. Most intriguing, 21-12-2012 is not a day like any other. Up in the sky, an extraordinary and incredibly rare event will take place. The Sun will move to a unique spot in the sky — and hold still for a while, since it is solstice day. The Sun will sit precisely on the heavenly crossroads between the Milky Way a
