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We all know the Earth is surrounded by a magnetic field that sheilds us from most of the sun's radiation. What you might not know is that 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. Scientists have noted that the poles are drifting apart roughly 20-30kms each year, much faster than ever before, which points to a pole-shift being right around the corner. While the pole shift is underway, the magnetic field is disrupted and will eventually disappear, sometimes for up to 100 years. The result is enough UV outdoors to crisp your skin in seconds, killing everything it touches.
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This is true except for the last sentence. The Earth's magnetic field will not disappear but simply weaken. During the change the Earth will have about 8 different poles surrounding it acting as a temporary magnetic field. The UV rays will not fry your skin and whatnot, this is just a scae tactic. Only difference this will make is we are more prone to lose electrical support during a solar storm or wind and you will see auroras as far down as London.
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This one's case of bog-simple maths mathematics. Physicists at Berekely Uni have been crunching the numbers. and they've determined that the Earth is well overdue for a major catastrophic event. Even worse, they're claiming their calculations prove, that we're all going to die, very soon - while also saying their prediction comes with a certainty of 99 percent- and 2012 just happens to be the best guess as to when it occurs.
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These people can't call themselves physicists. Since the dawn of time man has always been trying to date the end of the world. Last time so called physicists determined the end of the world was in the year 1999 with the Y2K scared. Supposedly they did the number crunching and the pimp slapping with the science and technology. By the time the year 2000 came nothing happened at all.
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Scientists in Europe have been building the world's largest particle accelerator. Basically its a 27km tunnel designed to smash atoms together to find out what makes the Universe tick. However, the mega-gadget has caused serious concern, with some scientists suggesting that it's properly even a bad idea to turn it on in the first place. 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.
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This has been 100% disproven. The particle accelerator does not create mini black holes. Yes they smash atoms together but not to create black holes. I don't remember completely but it has to do with studying the debris that is caused from the impact. The only known thing capable of producing such a highly dense "blob" the size of a basketball is a supernova blast. When a large enough star collapses into a supernova, the blast rips away all protons and electrons leaving just a highly dense basket-ball sized blob of nutrons. The blast from smashing two atoms together can't compare the amount of pressure and reactions during a supernova.
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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.
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Many people interpret their last date in the calender as being the end of the world simply because it stops at that specific date. Don't forget when the Spaniards came to Central America and came across the Mayans, they burned ALL of their texts and codices. The only codices we have today are used in every day life and that's the 365 day calender. The Mayans had a better understanding of time then we currently do. They infact had 3 calenders, one of 365 days, another of 200 some odd days, and another smaller one (I forgot the length). These 3 calenders when put together were used to determine certain events (not specific, it would either determine is something catastrophic were to occur, etc.). Their view of time was that time went in a cycle of 5000+ years each cycle. We are in the 5th cycle I believe, i know it's the last one that's for sure, of the Mayan's time cycle. It could simply mean that the cycles will begin again, after all everyone notices how history tends to repeat itself. Unfortunately 99% of the written texts by the Mayans have been completely destroyed, and thus limiting our knowledge on their science.