In case you don’t know about probability: a probability of 0 means “definitely will not happen”, and a probability of 1 means “absolutely certain to happen”, while 0.2 means “maybe”, 0.9 means “probably”, etc. Technically there is a probability that the Earth will end in 2012 – there is also a probability that it will end in 2000000012. In both cases the probability is, roughly speaking, 0.0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001
or thereabouts.
Some people say that the world will end in 2012 because the Mayan calendar, which was made by a now-extinct civilisation who lived in Central America, doesn’t have any dates beyond 2012. It’s an attractive idea to think that they knew something that we don’t, but there is no scientific evidence to suggest that anything catastrophic is due to happen next year, so I don’t think we have anything to worry about! It’s more superstition than science, I would say!
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