The year 2020 has been pretty horrible so far due to the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic, and a conspiracy theorist is now claiming. The world will end on June 21 next week.
Over time these lost days add up, and now a conspiracy theory has been reduced, claiming that we should actually be in 2012, not 2020.
The year 2020 has been pretty horrible so far due to the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic, and a conspiracy theorist is now claiming the world will end on June 21 next week.
The theory sounds completely strange, is based on an ancient calendar and a Mayan end of the world prediction. It is to be noted that Gregorian calendars are now used by most people across the world, but this calendar came into existence in 1582, and before this, people used different calendars to keep track of dates. Two of the most popular calendars were the Julian calendars and Mayan.
According to experts, the Gregorian calendar was introduced to better reflect Earth's time to orbit the Sun. But it is believed by many people that as many as 11 days were lost from the year that was once determined by the Julian calendar.
In a since-deleted tweet's, scientist Paolo Tagaloguin reportedly said: "Following the Julian Calendar, we were technically in 2012. The number of days has lost in a year due to the shift into Gregorian Calendar is 11 days. For 268 year's using the Gregorian Calendar ( 1752-2020 ) times 11 days = 2,948 days. 2,948 days / 365 days (per year) which is 8 years".
Following this theory, June 21, 2020, would be December 21, 2012.
Following this theory, June 21, 2020, would be December 21, 2012.
It may be recalled that in 2012, December 21 was expected by some as the end of the world by conspiracy theorists.
NASA said that the story started with claims that Nibiru, a supposed planet that was discovered by Sumerians, is headed toward the Earth. This catastrophe was initially figured for May 2003. Still, when nothing happened, the doomsday date was moved forward to December 2012 and linked to the end of one of the cycles was in the ancient Mayan calendar at the winter solstice in 2012 - hence the predicted doomsday date of December 21, 2012."
The space agency previously explained: "For any claims of disaster or dramatic changes in 2012, where is the science? Where is the evidence? There is none, and for all the fictional assertions, whether they are made in books, movies, documentaries or over the Internet, we cannot change that simple fact. There is no credible evidence for any of the assertions made in support of unusual events taking place in December 2012."