Can Science Beat The Doomsday Theory? (part 1/2)
Unfortunately, the Earth will die. It’s a guaranteed fact. In approximately 4 billion years the sun will have depleted its limited supply of Hydrogen, and start to burn the heavier elements. This will cause the Sun to expand and take out the entire inner Solar system (Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars). The Earth will be toast, literally.
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This is in fact the only guaranteed doomsday. Whatever happens, the Earth will die when the Sun expands. There will be Asteroid strikes, ‘killer’ solar flares and other such astronomical disasters, but the Earth itself will live on.
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So what is this theory about Doomsday in 2012? That’s a bit too soon.
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Frasier Cain (publisher of Universe Today) mentioned that the site had been getting a lot of keyword searches including ‘2012’ and ‘doomsday’.
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What these people searching for?
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Iain O’Neill from Discovery News produced an article on this doomsday theory, and it quickly became the most popular article in the sites 10 year history. He proceeded to write articles on numerous other doomsday theories, including Planet X, ‘Killer’ solar flares and a doomsday comet. Each article in turn racked up the count. Millions of people had read his 2012 series.
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Carl Sagans famous quote ‘extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence’ was a key towards the scepticism of the doomsday theory. But where was the ‘extraordinary evidence’. It seemed that people were making claims that had no physical evidence to back them up.
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O’Neill received endless amounts of comments on his articles. Some worried readers had thanked him for settling there minds, while numerous numbers of people hurled abuse at him, claiming that he was a ‘government agent trying to hide the truth’. Other people merely couldn’t accept the science. He even received people using misinterpretations of Religious teachings to ‘prove’ he was being naïve by saying there was no rapture coming upon us.
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‘Those were fun times. I had never received hate mail before’ – Iain O’Neill quote.
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No matter how much O’Neill fired back at these conspiracy nuts and doomsayers, they simply wouldn’t accept the science, saying that they didn’t need some scientist blogger telling them they were wrong.
Continued on Can science beat the doomsday theory part 2/2 to be added soon.
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