What do you know about 2012 - I want to know everything you know about it?

Answer 1

The special significance of the year 2012, which is, of course, the next year after this one (as I type) is that the calendar used by the ancient Mayan civilization ended at the equivalent of the year 2012 (although of course that year was not assigned the same number by the Mayans, who were not Christians and who did not count years starting with the birth of Jesus).

Many people have wondered why the Mayan calendar ended in 2012, and one speculation is that the Mayan calendar ended in 2012 because the Mayans knew that life on Earth would not continue past that year. However, this is a very wild hypothesis which is not particularly believable. There is no good reason to think that 2012 is the year that life (or perhaps just the human race) will end on Earth, and there is also no good reason to think that the ancient Mayans had some secret knowledge of the future that we do not have in the 21st century.

It is more likely that the reason that the Mayan calendar ended in 2012 is that, at the time that calendar was made, 2012 was so far in the future that there didn't really seem to be any need to make plans past that date.