Tonydarling, 58

I believe that the world will change in 2012 and I will survive On the 21st of December 2012 the world as we know it will come to an end. The sun will be eclipsed by all of the planets simultaneously and the gravitational pull on the sun will rip off a large chunk of flaming gas which will travel towards Earth as a solar flare of catastrophic proportions which has not been seen for 260,000 years. No one knows what the result will be, but only the well prepared will survive. However The belief that the Mayan civilization's Long Count calendar ends abruptly on December 21, 2012, is a misconception due to the Mayan practice of using only five places in Long Count Calendar inscriptions. On some monuments the Mayan calculated dates far into the past and future but there is no end of the world date. There will be a Piktun ending (a cycle of 13 144,000 day Bak'tuns) on December 21, 2012. A Piktun marks the end of a 1,872,000 day or approximately 5125 year period and is a significant event in the Mayan calendar. However, there is no historical or scientific evidence that the Mayas believed it would be a doomsday. Some believe it will just be the beginning of another Piktun