The end of the world

[salcicha]

Okay, I may sound like a broken record but the 2012 "end of the world" doomsday. Follow me here.

 

In basic terms, time repeats itself. In a theory of time every moment in time must eventually repeat itself. So, hypothetically, the big bang can be explained as a human event.

 

Look at the LHC (i believe that is what it is called) that is soon to create a synthetic "big bang". Well, if this theory of time is true, then I believe that the big bang was created in a lab and we are stuck in an infinite loop. Every time the big bang is created it starts the line over, not like time travel, but rather following time laws of massive events repeating themselves. That would explain gravity as well because it has always been, its just being repeated over and over again.

 

This misses the very key point as to how we all got her in the first place, but its a way to look at the end of the world.

 

Another option, Harvard studies have proven that energy can be created from nothing. Atoms are appearing constantly and disappearing in the vacuum of space every day. This explains the big bang in a way that "all the atoms appeared and stayed there so long that eventually a reaction occurred" but, here's the thing let's say, hypothetically, that there are a limited amount of atoms in existence, and really we aren't creating the energy from nothing but its energy appearing and disappearing.

 

So, 2012 is the date when we run out of energy. Then what happens? Does gravity become too great and crush everything in the universe in on itself?

 

 

 

What do you have to say on this matter?

Edited February 23, 2010 by salcicha

[vordhosbn]

It sounds like a cool scenario for a sci-fi movie.

[Galindo]

Stop worrying people seriously.

[Mr Skeptic]

Well, lets see:

1) First of all, no one is creating a big bang anywhere, and most definitely not in the LHC. Some retarded journalists may have said so, but all they are doing is creating some ultrahigh energy-density situations, similar to what may have existed a short period after the Big Bang. However, this has nothing to do with, say, the expansion of spacetime like there was at the Big Bang.

2) No one says time must repeat itself. There are a few theories that have a closed timelike loop, sure, but they don't require any repetition of events as far as I know.

3) We're not running out of energy by 2012. We'll have plenty of energy for billions of years and then some. The sun will last an absurdly long time, and if we figure out fusion then we can just gather the hydrogen from the sun and burn it ourselves. We'll have long enough to figure it out...

[Galindo]

The alien is back. A lot of people need to think about their past actions.

[JohnB]

Does he have any spare energy?

[HOMER-16]

The mayans only say that is a time of great change, nothing more!

[Mr Skeptic]

The mayans are long dead. They didn't see us coming.

[insane_alien]

they also predicted many events after 2012 so thinking that they thought that meant the end of the world is a bit ridiculous.

[VedekPako]

Actually, the Mayan calender just ends at 2012. It's an inference that it means the end of the world.

[KennyC]

...

 

So, 2012 is the date when we run out of energy.

 

What do you have to say on this matter?

 

No. 2012 is when the LHC finally goes "on-line" and the universe starts over.

[Cap'n Refsmmat]

No. It's just when we finally understand the universe... so it's destroyed and replaced with an even more absurd one.

[KennyC]

No. It's just when we finally understand the universe... so it's destroyed and replaced with an even more absurd one.

 

Dang! Shouldaknown!

 

[insane_alien]

No. 2012 is when the LHC finally goes "on-line" and the universe starts over.

 

despite the fact that the LHC is already online

[Mr Skeptic]

But they're not upgrading to full power until 2013 last I heard. That is so going to ruin the fun. They should get it done a year earlier I say!

[jen_a_n]

If the world ends in 2012 I will have spent my whole life in school, I shouldd go on a big vacation that summer or do something crazy jussttt in case lol.

[Phi for All]

If the world ends in 2012 I will have spent my whole life in school, I shouldd go on a big vacation that summer or do something crazy jussttt in case lol.

I recommend the Yucatan peninsula of Mexico. Right on the Caribbean, gorgeous beaches, Mayan calendars EVERYWHERE!

[Mr Skeptic]

I recommend the Yucatan peninsula of Mexico. Right on the Caribbean, gorgeous beaches, Mayan calendars EVERYWHERE!

 

Plus, you can visit a historic site!

[Baby Astronaut]

Actually, the Mayan calender just ends at 2012. It's an inference that it means the end of the world.

Does the calender really end....or simply resets? I thought all calenders "end".

[Radical Edward]

I am convinced that the universe will end on the 31st december 2010, because that is the end of the calendar.

[npts2020]

We could start our own 2012 cult to take over the world after it all ends.

[Rickdog]

Or, maybe start selling the "new" edition of the Mayan Callendar, for the next so and so years, and make some profit in the making.

[VedekPako]

I'm going to sell, "How to Survive the Apocalypse" handbooks.

 

Then, after 2012, it's "How not to be so Gullible" books.