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Year 2012

Year 2012 the sun will be aligned with the centre of the milky way galaxy, for the first time in 26,000 years. The vast majority believes that world is going to experience a cataclysmic or transformative events will occur in the year 2012. The prediction is based primarily on that claim to be the end date of the Mayan calender.

Does actually Mayan calendar ends in 2012, no it is the beginning of new era. It is like an odometer, as each section of the odometer reaches 9 and then clicks over to 0, the next number to it starts a new cycle, so when all the numbers again reach 0 all the way across odometer - the last number will change from 1 to 2 and the new cycle starts all over again.

But will the world come to an end, well, there are several reasons to be taken under consideration:

1. Mayan Calendar

The first to predict 2012 as the end of the world were Mayans, a bloodthirsty race that were good at two things - building highly accurate astrological equipment out of stone and sacrificing virgins.

Thousands of years ago they managed to calculate the length of lunar moon as 329.503020 days, only 34 seconds out. The Mayan calendar predicts that the earth will end on December 21, 2012.

2. Sun storms

Solar experts around the world made a startling discovery, our sun is in bit of strife. The energy output of the sun is, like the most things in nature, cyclic and it's supposed to be in the middle of a period of relative stability. However, recent solar storms been bombarding the earth with lot of radiation energy. It's been knocking out power grids and destroying satellites.

3. The atom smasher

Scientists in Europe have been building the world's largest particle accelerator. Basically, its a 27 km tunnel design to smash atom together to find out what makes the universe tick. However, the mega gadget has caused serious concern, with some scientists suggesting that it was a bad idea to turn it on in the first place. They are predicting all manner of deadly results, including mini black holes. So when this machine is fired up for its first serious experiment in 2012 the world could be in serious trouble.

4. Super volcano

Yellowstone national Park in US is famous for its thermal springs and old faithful geyser. The reason for this is simple - it is sitting on top of the world's biggest volcano and geological experts are beginning to get nervous. The Yellowstone volcano has a pattern of erupting every 650,000 years and we're many years overdue for an explosion that will fill up the atmosphere with ash, blocking the sun and plunging the earth into a frozen winter that could last up to 15,000 years.

5. Earth's magnetic field

We all know that the earth is surrounded by a magnetic field that shields us from most of the sun's tradition. The magnetic poles we call North and South have a nasty habit of swapping places every 750,000 years or so - and right now we're about 30,000 years overdue. The scientists have noted that the poles are drifting apart roughly 20-30 kms each year, much faster than ever before, which points to a pole shift being right around the corner. While the pole shift is under way, the magnetic field is disrupted and will eventually disappear.

Will it be the end or a new beginning. Well, will have to wait and see.