i personal dont believe it but many groups have predicted it ex: mayans,hopi indians,the bible St Malachy predicted the world will end with the 112th pope; pope bendict is our 111th pope. Why would all these people predict the same date?
It does not matter how long a book it is , it depends what is inside it.
What errors? Of course they arent perfected yet thats why they are still studying them.
Is this enough for you smart one ?
The hot big bang theory has been extremely successful in correlating the observable properties of our Universe. However, there are some difficulties associated with the big bang theory. These difficulties are not so much errors as they are assumptions that are necessary but that do not have a fundamental justification. The required discussion is technical, so we will be content with a rather superficial statement of the three basic problems that are associated with the big bang and how they might be cured by a new idea that arises from considering the implications of elementary particle physics for cosmology.
The Horizon Problem We have already encountered the horizon problem in conjunction with the discussion of the cosmic microwave background: when we look at the microwave background radiation coming from widely separated parts of the sky, it can be shown that these regions are too separated to have been able to have ever communicated with each other even with signals travelling at light velocity. Thus, how did they know to have almost exactly the same temperature? This general problem is called the horizon problem, because the inability to have received a signal from some distant source because of the finite speed of light is termed a horizon in cosmology. Thus, in the standard big bang theory we must simply assume the required level of uniformity. The Flatness Problem The experimental evidence is that the present Universe has very low geometrical curvature in its spacetime (it is nearly flat). Theoretical arguments that are well established but too complex to go into here suggest that this is a very unlikely result of the evolution of the Universe from the big bang, unless the initial curvature is confined to an incredibly narrow range of possibilities. While this is not impossible, it does not seem very natural. The Monopole Problem The only plausible theory in elementary particle physics for how nuclei in the present universe were created in the big bang requires the use of what are called Grand Unified Theories (GUTs). In these theories, at very high temperatures such as those found in the instants after the Universe was created the strong, weak, and electromagnetic forces were (contrary to the situation today) indistinguishable from each other. We say that they were unified into a single force. Although there is as yet no certain evidence for the validity of such theories, there is strong theoretical reason to believe that they will eventually turn out to be essentially correct. Our current understanding of elementary particle physics indicates that such theories should produce very massive particles called magnetic monopoles, and that there should be many such monopoles in the Universe today. However, no one has ever found such a particle. So the final problem is: where are the monopoles?
Because they were written as theories, and because i was reffering to writing's that were written before modern times.
i think that the world is not going to end in 2012 they probably just thought that it was a very large number or that they liked that number or somthing.
There's no point in arguing the bible because it's an unfalsifiable item whose legitimacy can neither be wholly proven nor disproven. The problem is that when people who have faith in the bible use it in arguments, they back it up with the evidence of "yes the bible is true, it says so in the bible", which is known as 'begging the question', which essentially means you cannot use the thing you're trying to prove to prove itself (it's a fallacy).
Now, when it comes to the bible and doomsday prophecies, there have been many, many different 'end of the world's throughout history. None of them have been accurate, since we're all still here. I would hesitate from using the bible, Nostradamus, etc. because these predictions have been wrong over and over again, and offer no physically visible or scientifically viable proof to back up their claims.
And as it says in many a scientific journal, the world will end when the sun explodes, which won't be for billions of years... and the human race will likely have died off or found another fertile, liveable planet.
by then we will have moved to mars or even another solar system so we would be fine, i think the Mayans were crazy and thought that the world would end then everyone would very hyped up.
