How accurate are the predictions “about DECEMBER 21 2012”?
It depends on your faith in the Mayan religion. The Popol Vuh (a holy scripture of the Mayan religion) tells that we are living in the fourth world. According to the Mesoamerican Long Count calender, the 3rd World ended with the 13th b’ak’tun, a long count date of 12.19.19.17.19. There will be another 12.19.19.17.19 occurring on December 20, 2012. The fourteenth b’ak’tun will commence on the long count date 13.0.0.0.0, which is December 21, 2012. Also, if you put much stock in New Age faiths, Dec 12, 2012 can be important. Several misinterpretations of the Mayan faith have been used as the basis for a belief that the ending of the 13th b’ak’tun means an end to all existence. According to learned research, not even the Mayans believed the universe would end. I haven’t heard about a planet coming between the Earth and the Sun before. There is a theory that the Earth is supposed to be perfectly aligned with the Solar plane on Dec 12, 2012, which is supposed to cause a great deal of damage
They are all “extremely accurate” in that they use the same date (2012.12.21) for the date. Other than that, they are all part of the Big 2012 Hoax Off. A hoax is a lie that is made knowingly, just to scare people. Some people just love to scare others (think of Halloween); some people scare others to get something out of them (often: money). In this particular case, the date was chosen because on that day, some old Mayan day-count calendar reaches a round figure in their counting scheme (they do not use a base-10 numbering scheme, like ours). It will be day number 13.0.0.0.0 and the next day will be 13.0.0.0.1 and so on. The Mayan astronomers who were the ones who developed this calendar, left us writings about astronomical event that will be visible from Earth well after the year we call 2012; they use their day-count calendar to give the dates. Obviously they expected neither the world nor their calendar to end. The ‘end-of-the-world’ predictions come from charlatans who had a book
YouTube is not an accurate source of scientific information. Scientists don’t expect anything out of the ordinary to happen in the year 2012, or specifically on the date December 21, other than the solstice, which happens every year. None of the “predicted” happenings for 2012 hold up under close scrutiny. “Planet X” and “Nibiru” simply don’t exist. The Mayan calendar ends a cycle, but there were no predictions of the end of the world. The Sun doesn’t line up with the galactic centre; it’s 6 degrees off. No asteroids or comets are actually predicted to hit Earth. All of this stuff was put together by crackpots in order to promote their books and TV shows, and shamelessly promoted by the History Channel. Don’t take any of it seriously!
The predictions about it are as inaccurate as thinkable – it model is based on fictional evidence. The planet they talk about does not exist. The group of people, who claim it does exist and will hit Earth in 2012, have their information from a woman, who claims to talk to aliens over an extraterrestrial implant in her head. She already predicted the passage for 2003 and corrected it afterwards. 😉 Others jumped on the train and connected the Planet X stuff with other myths, like the Maya predicted the end of the world (Which is, again wrong). If it would exist, it would now be easily visible, as it has to be as close as Saturn, for reaching us at the predicted date. Saturn is easily visible and even a object which is not reflecting as much light, would already have to radiate a strong blackbody radiation, appearing as warm close object in IR. Astronomers search the sky constantly for fast moving objects, and scan the whole sky about three times every year. In the future, such surveys
