According to the predictions, the end of the world should have come at least five hundred times. The last prophecy that caused the most hype was the promise of the Maya Indians, whose calendar was limited to December 21, 2012. Millions of people were preparing to celebrate this day as the last in the history of mankind, but nothing happened. How real are such predictions, and when will the end of the world nevertheless come?
Options for the death of the world
There are a huge number of predictions and prophecies that promise humanity a relatively quick death. People were carried away with theories of this kind in antiquity, however, only in the modern world did the number of such predictions approach the absurd. Only in 1999 and 2000, the end of the world was to come about twenty times. Various scenarios of the death of human civilization were offered by religious figures, occultists, prophets, astrologers, historians, sociologists, sectarians, contactees with extraterrestrial civilizations - in general, almost everything.
Mass culture could not help but respond to such a popular topic. A lot of apocalyptic films were shot, in the colors demonstrating various scenarios of the end of the world.
Prophecies about the coming end of the world can be divided into several main groups. Thanks to the widespread spread of Christianity, many apocalyptic scenarios are somehow connected with the coming of the Antichrist. A sufficiently large number of forecasts are based on various mathematical calculations: the sacred numbers obtained as a result of addition or multiplication of one or another date are declared indisputable evidence of an imminent apocalypse.
However, some predictors do without arithmetic, confining themselves to interpretations of the motion of celestial bodies and their positions relative to each other, and sometimes simply referring to divine revelation. Finally, a large group of forecasters are pessimistic scientists, fearing a meteorite fall, changing magnetic fields of the Earth, radioactive clouds and nuclear war.
One of the culprits of the coming end of the world, many pseudoscientists called the Large Hadron Collider, the launch of which was to create a black hole that could absorb the entire Earth.
