Mayan calendar may not end in 2012: prof – National Post

Gillian Grace October 20, 2010– 1:51 pm. We’ve all listened to the forecasts regarding the Mayan schedule, which, it’s stated, comes to an end on December 21, 2012, taking down with it the globe as well as one extremely badly scripted hit starring John Cusack.

Buta phase in a brand-new book Calendars as well as Years II: Astronomy as well as Time in the Medieval as well as old World (Oxbow Books, 2010) might shake off all those ominously entitled Discover Channel specials.

According to LiveScience, Gerardo Aldana, a teacher at the University of California, composes that techniques of transforming the Mayan schedule to our very own, Gregorian schedule are unreliable. Exactly how imprecise? Attempt, Prof. Aldana says, perhaps 50 to 100 years.

As LiveScience records:.

Those that like absolutely nothing even more than an excellent armageddon, support up. The schedule’s finishing can be years away– or also extra impending than we believed if the days are that off.

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We’ve all listened to the forecasts regarding the Mayan schedule, which, it’s claimed, comes to an end on December 21, 2012, taking down with it the globe and also one really badly scripted smash hit starring John Cusack.

According to LiveScience, Gerardo Aldana, a teacher at the University of California, creates that approaches of transforming the Mayan schedule to our very own, Gregorian schedule are imprecise. Attempt, Prof. Aldana says, possibly 50 to 100 years.

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