2012 - Global Trends
2012 is considered to be such a portentous year for the planet that Hollywood even made a movie about it. It was, sad to say, all doom and gloom with a lot of fire and brimstone thrown in for good measure.
So, why has 2012 caught people’s imagination? What is there about the year ahead that is so awe-inspiring?
In a nutshell, the ancient Maya developed a sophisticated and extremely complicated calendar that spanned the millennia and it stops, according to many scholars, on 21 December 2012.
Too add fuel to the fire of speculation, it is said that the earth will align with the Galactic Centre on that very day, which could have some very undesirable consequences for our planet.
Let me assure you, this is nonsense. Yes, the solar system, which includes planet Earth, will cross the galactic equator – an imaginary great circle dividing an equally imaginary celestial sphere – but (and it is such an important but) this happens twice a year, every year. Actually, there is a little bit more to it than this but for our purposes here, it is all we need to know.
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