{"id":393845,"date":"2022-01-13T22:59:50","date_gmt":"2022-01-13T19:59:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/did-the-world-actually-end-in-2012\/"},"modified":"2022-01-13T22:59:50","modified_gmt":"2022-01-13T19:59:50","slug":"did-the-world-actually-end-in-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/did-the-world-actually-end-in-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"#Did the world actually end in 2012?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a36e668c7a47\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a36e668c7a47\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/did-the-world-actually-end-in-2012\/#Reality_No_thanks\" >Reality? No thanks<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/did-the-world-actually-end-in-2012\/#Quantum_echoes\" >Quantum echoes<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/did-the-world-actually-end-in-2012\/#Roll_credits\" >Roll credits<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/did-the-world-actually-end-in-2012\/#Fade_to_black\" >Fade to black?<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/did-the-world-actually-end-in-2012\/#One_last_mystery\" >One last mystery<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>#Did the world actually end in 2012?<\/strong>&#8221;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-cdn.tnwcdn.com\/image?fit=796%2C417&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn0.tnwcdn.com%2Fwp-content%2Fblogs.dir%2F1%2Ffiles%2F2022%2F01%2Funiversetoilet.jpg&amp;signature=a0e4750243a93ed52695c9c95bc299bc\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n                            Numerous reputable <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a> sites and <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a> personalities have spent the past couple of weeks <i>alleging<\/i> that the current year is \u201c2022.\u201d How can they be so sure?<\/p>\n<p>Here at Neural we believe in <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/sciencee\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"5\" title=\"Science\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">science<\/a>. And the presence of evidence isn\u2019t necessarily evidence that we\u2019re present. That\u2019s why we\u2019re not willing to concede that it\u2019s 2022 yet.<\/p>\n<p>                <iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/fast.wistia.net\/embed\/iframe\/2767e997um?videoFoam=true&amp;autoPlay=true\" title=\"\" allowtransparency=\"true\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" class=\"wistia_embed\" name=\"wistia_embed\" allowfullscreen=\"\" msallowfullscreen=\"\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>What if the world really did end on 21 December 2012? The fact that you\u2019re reading this makes it a bit hard to accept, but we think we can make a pretty strong argument.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Reality_No_thanks\"><\/span>Reality? No thanks<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>The first challenge we need to overcome is reality. We could take the philosophical view and point out that all of this could actually be a space turtle\u2019s dream. Or, perhaps more believably, a computer simulation.<\/p>\n<p>Oxford philosopher Nick Bostrom\u2019s simulation argument hypothesizes that we\u2019re either in a simulation now, or people in the future aren\u2019t capable of creating one.<\/p>\n<p>Per his<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.simulation-argument.com\/simulation.html\"> 2003 paper<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>At least one of the following propositions is true:<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<ol>\n<li>The human species is very likely to go extinct before reaching a \u201cposthuman\u201d stage<\/li>\n<li>Any posthuman civilization is extremely unlikely to run a significant number of simulations of their evolutionary history (or variations thereof)<\/li>\n<li>We are almost certainly living in a computer simulation. It follows that the belief that there is a significant chance that we will one day become posthumans who run ancestor-simulations is false, unless we are currently living in a simulation<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>But that\u2019s too easy. If Bostrom\u2019s been right all along, and we\u2019re all just digital entities, then none of this really matters anyway. CTRL+ALT+DEL and restart the program, amirite?<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Quantum_echoes\"><\/span>Quantum echoes<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>The most widely accepted grand theory on our existence is the Big Bang theory. For whatever reason, about 14 billion years ago the universe exploded into existence from a single point.<\/p>\n<p>When we think of an explosion we tend to imagine something out of a Michael Bay film. But the Big Bang was incomprehensibly big. Everything that was ever going to be in the entire universe was contained in the single point that emptied itself out to become the entire universe. That\u2019s a lot of boom.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists believe they\u2019ve witnessed \u201cquantum echoes\u201d of the Big Bang by observing fluctuations in quantum fields.<\/p>\n<p>Per a 2015 research paper by <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/pdf\/1501.05682.pdf\">Blasco et al.<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Let us reflect for a second upon the comparison of these two outrageously different timescales: Plank time and the age of the Universe. Intuitively, one would think that any effect imprinted on the response of the detector in the early Universe would most likely have been already washed out, and hence there is little hope in finding any trace of early Universe physics in the response of the particle detector today.<\/p>\n<p>Surprisingly this intuition is wrong.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>It turns out that time functions fundamentally differently across the quantum and classical realms. Recent research demonstrates that both quantum gravity and <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">general<\/a> relativity could function in a paradigm where time itself exists as discrete chunks of \u201cspacetime.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In essence, this means you could zoom into the fabric of the universe so far that, like <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/marvelcinematicuniverse.fandom.com\/wiki\/Ant-Man_(film)\">Ant Man in the MCU films<\/a>, you reached a quantum bedrock made up of individually-measurable units of spacetime.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Roll_credits\"><\/span>Roll credits<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Physicists are trying to wrap their head around the Big Bang because it represents the only single point in our universe\u2019s history where <i>the same thing<\/i> h<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ened to <i>everything<\/i> at the same time.<\/p>\n<p>Arguably, however, everything is happening to everything all the time. Scientists believe the universe is <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/feature\/goddard\/2019\/mystery-of-the-universe-s-expansion-rate-widens-with-new-hubble-data\">expanding at an increasing rate<\/a> as as result of the Big Bang. And that means discrete chunks of spacetime would be either tearing, displacing, or stretching.<\/p>\n<p>If spacetime is malleable and fluctuates depending on the configuration of the cosmic background environment, then that means our perception of time is almost certainly distorted in comparison to the edges and origin point of the universe.<\/p>\n<p>Humans, standing on Earth, witnessing the end of the universe could theoretically see it coming for billions of years before they themselves were destroyed by whatever comes after the universe\u2019s outward expansion.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s theoretically possible that every time we gaze up and see the light that\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">travel<\/a>ed for millions or billions of years, we\u2019re watching the credits roll at the end of the universe.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Fade_to_black\"><\/span>Fade to black?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>But that\u2019s still not very satisfying. If we\u2019re just waiting for a tidal wave of nothingness to envelope us all, then again: there\u2019s no point.<\/p>\n<p>And, if there\u2019s no point, then let\u2019s use Occam\u2019s Razor to make things as scientifically simple <i>and plausible<\/i> as possible.<\/p>\n<p>What if we\u2019re able to make observations despite the fact that we no longer exist? Remember the above line about spacetime being malleable?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If spacetime is malleable and fluctuates depending on the configuration of the cosmic background environment, then that means our perception of time is almost certainly distorted in comparison to the edges and origin point of the universe.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In a universe where time is made up of discrete chunks of malleable spacetime, the area of the universe where we live could be temporally displaced to such a degree that we\u2019re watching the end of everything wash over us as spectators from the beyond.<\/p>\n<p>Earth and the Sun and our entire galaxy could have been physically displaced (destroyed) by whatever\u2019s ended the universe, while the wackiness of quantum physics could allow for the temporal displacement to simultaneously hold us in a sort of <i>observation-friendly suspension\u00a0<\/i>independent of our own inexistence.<\/p>\n<p>The simplest explanation is that the Big Bang only took up a micro-fraction of a second, but the displacement of <i>every single<\/i> discrete chunk of spacetime caused entire pockets of existence to erupt and observe, despite the fact that the overall consensus of discrete spacetime chunks would agree that the contents of those pockets don\u2019t still exist.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"One_last_mystery\"><\/span>One last mystery<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>All of this is interesting, but astute readers will notice that none of this explains why we\u2019re claiming the universe ended in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s what NASA <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/topic\/earthfeatures\/2012.html\">had to say<\/a> about that:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>News flash: the world didn\u2019t end on Dec. 21, 2012. You\u2019ve probably already figured that out for yourself. Despite reports of an ancient Maya prophecy, a mysterious planet on a collision course with Earth, or a reverse in Earth\u2019s rotation, we\u2019re still here.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Interesting. NASA claims \u201cthe world didn\u2019t end\u201d but offers only anecdotal evidence. That sounds pretty suspicious.<\/p>\n<p>Once again, at Neural we\u2019re erring on the side of due diligence and Occam\u2019s Razor.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s far easier to come up with a plausible theory on how the universe ended in 2012 than it is to explain what the hell\u2019s been happening on Earth for the past decade.\n                        <\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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