Proponents argue that planetary alignments will occur in 2012 and will cause problems, probably the destruction of the only living planet Earth. The idea of the world ending in 2012 isn’t true. The world isn’t going to end on December 21, 2012, just the Mayan Calendar ends.

One of several Mayan calendars is the Long Count calendar, which is reset to day 0 every 1,872,000 days or 7057.5 years. The next reset date, by some calculations, is December 21, 2012. This is not a prediction of the end of the world. The Mayan Calendar has to end someday. Besides, nobody can predict when the end of the world is. You shouldn’t always believe what you hear from other people. The scientific evidence about 2012 doesn’t side with it. Such rumours are dangerous causing anxiety and depression among the believers.

According to NASA scientist, the widespread internet rumor that the world will end in 2012 due to some event is a hoax. They attribute the hype to ‘cosmophobia’ fueled by fake science websites and people trying to cash in on public lack of knowledge. The so-called ‘Doomsday Objects’ are contradictory in nature and description. There is no place for these objects to lurk undetected in the solar system.

The claims of alignments in 2012 and the consequences in general are also false. It is known that planetary alignments occur frequently with no ill effects, and are insignificant to everyone except the astronomers and scientists conerned. They do not cause noticeable effects on the Earth or on the Sun. There will be no spontaneous magnetic field reversal in 2012, that field reversals take a minimum of several hundred years, and that they are caused by the internal geodynamo, not by external agencies such as nearby passing planets.

History has countless examples of people foretelling the end of earthly life. But, all turned out to be false.

A majority of Mayanist scholars (as opposed to proponents of Mayanism and the 2012 doomsday) do not think that the 2012 date relates to a prediction of an apocalypse. In Nepal, neither NAST nor any government authorities has come forward to remove the illusion on this issue, thanks to the political scenario. Take life in a positive manner doing what is good serves the purpose rather than running after silly doomsday projections.