Head2Head - The world WILL be ending in 2012

Written by Kaylee Heinz '12
            5 reasons the world will end in 2012: Scientific experts from around the world are genuinely predicting that five years from now, all life on earth could be well finish. Some are saying it’ll be humans that set it off and others believe that a natural incident will be the cause. The religious persons are saying it’ll be God himself who presses the stop button. We may never know until that day comes.

My first reason is the Mayan Calendar. The first mob to predict 2012 as the end of the world were the 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 the lunar moon as 329.53020 days, only 34 seconds out. The Mayan calendar predicts that the Earth will end on December 21, 2012. Given that they were pretty close to the mark with the lunar cycle, it’s likely they’ve got the end of the world right as well.

Another reason is sun storms. Solar experts from around the world monitoring the sun have made a startling discovery: our sun is in a bit of trouble. The energy output of the sun is, like most things in nature, cyclic, and it’s supposed to be in the middle of a period of relative stability. However, recent solar storms have been bombarding the Earth with so much radiation energy. It’s been knocking out power grids and destroying satellites. This activity is predicted to get worse, and calculations suggest it’ll reach its deadly peak sometime around 2012.         

A Third reason is the atom smasher. Scientists in Europe have been building the world’s largest particle accelerator. Mainly it’s a 27km tunnel designed to smash atoms together to find out what makes the universe tick. They’re 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 crushed into a super-dense blob the size of a basketball.

The Bible says, if having scientists warning us about the end of the world isn’t bad enough, religious people are getting in on the act as well. Interpretations of the Christian Bible reveal that the date for Armageddon, the final battle between Good an Evil, has been set down for 2012. The I Ching, also known as the Chinese book of Changes, says the same thing, as do various sections of the Hindu teachings.

My fifth reason is the super volcano in Yellowstone national park in the United States. The reason for this is simple.. It’s sitting on top of the world’s biggest volcano, and geological experts are beginning to get worried. The Yellowstone volcano has a pattern of erupting every 650,000 years or so, and we’re many years overdue for an explosion that will fill the atmosphere with ash, blocking the sun and plunging the Earth into a frozen winter that could last up to 15,000 years. The pressure under the Yellowstone is building steadily, and geologists have set 2012 as a likely date for the big bang.