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Do date and time actually really mean anything when thinking of the mayan apocalypse, or any apocalypse?

  • I'm sure lots of changes in time have taken place since the mayan calendar. the mayan calendar was written in 3372 bc and finished around 3120 bc? the calendar with leap years was created by caesar around 32 bc. and 2012 is a leap year, therefore if the mayan calendar was translated correctly, it is one day off? when i was thinking about that, i was wondering, do time and date really mean anything in the world? if units of time were never invented, there would basically be no way for the mayans to predict anything. they wouldnt be able to say, "The world ends in this many years." nor would they be able to say, "the world will end in the future." *****so im thinking really deeply for me, (lol im 14)**** but when i think about any given date i feel a sense of irrelevance. dates were mainly invented to keep track of time. time is a never ending cycle, if the world ends, time will still be there. time is like, a man made thing. we think of time as hours, seconds, years, millenniums... but the real thing that time is is something that goes on and on and takes you from this moment to that moment, even if nothing changes in that time. yes time is a complex thing. so anyways.i left out a bit of my thinking because i cant put it into words, but my conclusion is that time does not matter in a destined apocalypse, because time was made by man. does this make sense? lol ik im over-analyzing a lot, but im in a mood where im just thinking about everything. so leave me alone. D:

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    There's actually no evidence that the Mayans even believed in an apocalypse.

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Date and time are based on the rotations of the planets - but yes it is OUR reference and so any notion of "2012" is arbitrary and thus there is no point in Doomsday armageddon predictions.

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SmartAZ

This: http://randomfunnypicture.com/funny-pictures-cartoon/the-truth-behind-the-mayan-calendar/ should clarify the entire Mayan calendar issue for you.

{DvT}JonahHex

Well first of all. No one can predict an apocalypse if they lived in the times of the Mayans as they had no technology. The only reason that people think that was because Mayans were able to make a calendar system. Because of this, they continued to work so they would know years later when it was. But anyways, you are correct. Time is infinite. The time we measure, is all dependent on the Earth. One year is one trip around the sun. One month is 1/12 of the way around the sun. It was off of some event when whoever decided to start measuring time. But really, said person could be off, as the Earth could have entered orbit around the sun at a totally different location then when we say our year begins.

Aaron

The Mayans never came out and said that the world would end in 2012. Instead, the Mayans predict the start of a new age, which I highly doubt will happen either. 2012 is the end of a Mayan "Baktun" a period of thousands of years. New cycles of the calendar have been discovered, going far past 2012. The Mayans couldn't even predict their own destruction by Hernan Cortes.

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No need to put yourself down because of your age! As a fourteen year old your brain is virtually adult, it's just experience and learning you lack, not cognitive ability. Measuring time is indeed fairly arbitrary but the passage of time is real. You could compare it to measurements of distance. It's impossible for a natural mountain made primarily of granite to be more than 13.4 km high on this planet, so there is a real limit there, measured in metric units. However, time varies according to various factors such as gravity and velocity, and also the subjective experience of time is very different to time considered in a scientific sense. I think this is what you're getting at, and i suggest you look at Heidegger's and Henri Bergson's views of time.

grayure

You're asking this question in the wrong category. This is a science forum for questions about astronomy and space. Scientists don't believe in apocalypses, so you won't get any answers from them. You might try the "Religion & Spirituality" category, though I gather that the people there don't believe in an apocalypse either.

GeoffG

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