21st Dec 2012, DoomsDay: a myth or a reality?

Last Month, Dec 2008, i had been to my home to pay a visit to my family. Every time i go home, i bring back something or the other. Need not be a thing or an object with physical existence. And this time, i bought back with me a good knowledge on the concept of what many historians refer to as the "Doomsday"; according to which, the world would end on 21st December 2012.

DoomsDay: A myth or a reality?

My first reaction to this was "bull***t"; a conventional mode of reception, of an uncanny, eldritch and irrational notion splattered at the cranial nerves of one's brain, waiting to be conducted to the five senses.."Oh! bulllllllll***@#$*@^#". Well! as i stand on my feet, a month after this knowledge, let me tell you one thing - there is something coming in our way. Whether we like it or not is another question all together. I would request you to take the best out of this journey; the journey through the pages of history, to reveal the inextricable blending between the myth and the reality.

Before we start off, let me take you through some background studies on one of the oldest Civilisation, the world has witnessed- The Mayan's. Do you know one thing: our present day forecasters still advert to the Mayan Calendar for the Solar Eclipse and Cosmic calamities because of the fact that they are 100% accurate, even to the minutest of a second. The Mayan Civilisation, existed in parts of South America. Well i don't want to drag through their civilisation aspects. But what you would be interested to know is about their calendar. They had three main calendar's namely:

• Religious Calendar (with 13 weeks, each of 20 days - 260 days on a whole)
• Solar Calendar (with 18 months, each of 20 days)
• Long Count Calendar (the one that counts years as an never ending one)

The Long Count Calendar would be the one that we should look up to analyse, for the simple reason that it bought this theory of "DoomsDay" into our future. As per this calendar, there are no dates coming after 21st Dec 2012. "I know that you are not convinced yet, just because a slushy calendar told me that there is no date after 21st Dec2008 doesn't mean that i am a psycho believing in all these s***. Dude! I am on the wagon too!". But let me tell you, its too early to take a stand.

"Planetary placements"

Our Solar System

As you all might know, our Mother Earth is the third planet from sun, in the solar system. This aids in a favourable environment for life to thrive. But don't you think we are pretty close to a ball of flaming gas? Lets park that question for a while. You must have heard about the concept of centre of gravity- "Oh! yes,yes! balancing a book on a finger and stuffs like that..". Well our solar system also has got a centre of gravity. And as our school level physics theory goes, the centre of gravity will move closer to the heavier mass. Hmm... Earth is small and lighter, but what about Jupiter, dude? A simple revolution of Jupiter around the sun would be enough to intimidate sun to propel its fury of solar flakes and CME (Coronal Mass Ejection). Among these, the solar flakes will return back to sun, but the CME's would love to visit other members of the solar system. Well, then you could say that we have Saturn. Yes! if Jupiter and Saturn are on the either side of the sun, then the centre of gravity will reside within sun (which will now be in between the two larger planets)- minimal solar activity. Imagine the scenario, when these friends are on the same of the sun - extreme solar activity would be the result. Well the next time they coincide on the same side of the sun, would be on 21st December 2012. Gotcha! Two heavy mass planets on the same side of sun, extreme solar activity. "Dude! I can hear something ringing... oh! the bells, in u'r ear's buddy". Still i am not convinced, that might have occurred a couple of 1000 times until now, taking into account of 11.12 yrs. of revolutionary cycle of Jupiter.

"Our Galaxy - The Milky Way"

Our Galaxy - Milky Way

All of you know that Milky Way is the galaxy that we reside on... I hope there is no objection on that statement at least. Well we're located somewhere on the edge of the disc, slightly on top of the narrow disc. But very soon we'll be moving to the bottom of the disc. This change, from top to bottom, begins on December 21, 2012.
Yes, that's right. On the same day when our Sun is at it's solar maximum, something will happen that's never happened before -- the ecliptic of our solar system will intersect with the Galactic plane, called the "Galactic Equator" of the Milky Way!

If you imagine our solar system as a bunch of peas on a plate, with a huge meatball in the center, imagine the Milky Way as a city-size pizza with the "Guiness World Book Record Meatball" in its center!
Prior to December 2012 we have been drifting on the top of the pizza, never really able to see the bottom. The plate and pizza are not parallel. They are moving at different angles. We've been drifting down, down, down... and on December 21st, 2012, we will be exactly level with the crust -- forming an "x" at the Galactic Equator where galactic gravity is the strongest. After 2012, if we are still here, we will be passing through the bottom zone, viewing the Milky Way pizza from the South.
Yes, there's even more!

Change in the galactic center

By some amazing coincidence, not only will we be intersecting with the Galactic Equator, but we will be doing this precisely aligned with the center of the Galaxy where there is maximum mass! More mass means more gravity. More gravity means more influence from those barycentre's in our Sun. That means exponential increases in solar disruptions -- all coinciding on the same day! Whew!

Comments

What makes 2012 significant is that it coincides with the alignment of the center of the Milky Way galaxy, our sun, earth, and the large planets. If it was not for this fact I would say that 2012 was just another Y2K hoax. But the astronomy makes it believable.
It looks like this gravitational cosmic tsunami could cause the sun to scorch the earth. That means that the only immediate survivors would be people in the underground cities, caves, and submarines. However, even these people may not survive too long because such an event ( gravitational surges ) might bring on earth quakes and volcanic activity, flooding, and the such. These events might collapse underground cities and caves. Huge tidal floods might flood subways on the eastern seaboard.
However, if just a few did manage to survive. They would not be able to come out of their underground dwellings for some time, because the earth's protective magnetic shield may be gone.
If the upper atmosphere and the earth's atmosphere was able to repair itself say in even a short period of time of one year, the survivors would face a barren world. All surface vegetation and animal life will have been destroyed. The surface of earth might perhaps look like a barren planet. The only possible source of food for those few survivors might be the ocean. Plant life and sea life might survive this event to some small degree. However, there is one problem...more than likely all the plankton will die. They live at the surface of the water and will be destroyed by the radiation.
Plankton is the basic building block of life for many living organisms in the ocean. Plankton is the biggest generator of oxygen on the planet. With plankton gone and the forest gone, what is going to provide and create oxygen for the planet?
It doesn't look good for the few that survive 2012. It may very well be the end of the world. Unless, a greater power comes to rescue us. But are we worth it? Man is a miserable creature that kills and destroys himself and other living things.

"Coming Soon!! A description or theory by Mayan's on the concept DoomsDay"

Signing Off

Aackose Mentu Lal