According to some researchers, there is a myth that on December 21, 2012 the world as we know it will come to an end based on a calendar the Mayan civilization left behind.

The thought of the end of the world has been on the population’s mind for decades, but it wasn’t until now that we are a month away people are really starting to talk about it.

In an article published in the History website, there has been discoveries in a Mayan site in Guatemala that prove the calendar is part of a cycle.

Popular cultures have taken for granted that the Mayan civilization predicted an apocalypse at the end of the calendar’s cycle.

Evidence that this calendar is only a cycle not the only calendar was found, and is in a bunch of scribbles that were found in Guatemala.

People are using the Mayan calendar as a reference of the world’s existence when in reality the calendar is referencing to intervals also known as baktuns.

One painting specifically noted the existence of 17 baktuns, proving the infamous doomsday wrong.

Physics/Astronomy instructor Thad Szabo said, “The length of one baktun is a little under 400 years.

The last one ended on Sept. 18, 1618. “There was nothing of astronomical interest on this date. It was a new moon, but that happens every 29.5 days.

He goes on to say, There are no ties between the Mayan calendar and events in the cosmos.”

The end of the world is one of those things people fear the most.

Szabo explains how the world will come to an end but not due the Mayan Apocalypse theory, but by the sun’s natural life cycle.

“With the amount of hydrogen the sun has, it will have a main-sequence lifetime of about 10 billion years. The sun is already 4.6 billion years old,

so in about five and a half billion years, it will become a red giant. At that point, it will be large enough that its outer layers will be at the distance

of Earth’s orbit.”

He also elaborates how the world as we know it will end.

“Earth cannot survive those temperatures, so the ‘end of the world’ will be in about 5,500,000,000 years.”

Cerritos College students seem to believe the world’s ending will take place, but not based on the Mayan calendar.

Business administration major Karina Miranda said, “I don’t think it’s true, people use it to scare you.”

She goes on to say, “The world will end when god wants it to end.”

Business administration major Jaime Delgado gave his opinion about the doomsday saying, “I think it’s a bunch of crap that the world is going to end. The Mayans just ran out of room.”

He also believes that the thought of someone believing the world is ending in a month is stupid.

“A buddy of mine is going out loud, taking out mad loans,” Delgado said.

Though this discovery tells a lot, people will not find out whether the end of the world will be December 21, 2012 until that day comes.