Mayan Calendar the end in 12-21-12

I wasn’t going to do this topic because the Mayan calendar is only a date with no specific prediction of a cause of the end. But with the new movie 2012 there was a segment on CNN about how people think the world is going to end on December 21 2012.

There is no reason to fear this date! There is a very logical reason that the Mayan calendar ended on December 21 2012. The Mayan civilization only lasted until about 1300 CE (common era, aka AD). During their rain they made much advancement in science and math including advance geometry, the use of zero in mathematics, and astronomy. When they viewed astronomy they noticed that every thing in the sky happens in cycles. We now know this is because of how things orbit and rotate, the earth rotates around its axis, then the earth rotates around the sun, and the sun rotates around the galaxy. With these cycles were used to give predictions and they made predictions for much longer then their emptier would last.

So why does it stop on December 21 2012? The answer is simple, when the priest were making the prediction for the cycles they decided to stop when their ‘long count’ would restart on the date 13.0.0.0.0 which turns out to be December 21 2012. (the day before is 12.19.19.17.19)

Further more the reason to stop on this day is because the Mayans (as well as other cultures) realized that on this day there is a vary rare galactic alignment. This is when the path of the sun intersects the Milky Way at a 90 degree angle. This alignment only happens once every 26,000 years.

If we assumed that the end of the world when our calendar ended then when I post this the end of the world will probably be December 31 2010, because we don’t make calendars for that far in the future. But every year we make a new calendar. So we never reach the end. This is the same idea with the Mayan calendar. You can’t expect that they would make there calendar to last forever; they had to stop at some point. The galactic alignment is as good as any.

This date in nothing to fear. The fear comes from the idea that an ancient calendar doesn’t have anymore dates on it. But all calendars end at some point they can’t go on forever the only difference between out calendar and an ancient one is that we are still here to write more days.