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Thread started 07/18/16 2:43pm

morningsong

The World is Ending in 2060

According to Sir Isaac Newton.

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His famously analytical mind worked out the laws of gravity and unravelled the motion of the planets.

And when it came to predicting the end of the world, Sir Isaac Newton was just as precise.

He believed the Apocalypse would come in 2060 – exactly 1,260 years after the foundation of the Holy Roman Empire, according to a recently published letter.

Luckily for modern scientists in awe of his achievements, Newton based this figure on religion rather than reasoning.

In a letter from 1704 which has gone on show in Jerusalem's Hebrew University, Newton uses the Bible's Book of Daniel to calculate the date for the Apocalypse.

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The note reveals a deeply spiritual side to a man more usually regarded as a strict rationalist. Newton, known as the founder of modern physics, secured a royal exemption from ordination in the Church of England – something normally expected of academics in

his day – so he would not have to follow its teachings.

But he confidently stated in the letter that the Bible proved the world would end in 2060, adding: "It may end later, but I see no reason for its ending sooner."

Continuing in a decidedly sniffy tone, he wrote: "This I mention not to assert when the time of the end shall be, but to put a stop to the rash conjectures of fanciful men who are frequently predicting the time of the end, and by doing so bring the sacred prophesies into discredit as often as their predictions fail."

The exact words from the Book of Daniel that inspired his prediction are not clear.

But he got at least one thing right – in another document, he interpreted biblical prophecies to mean that the Jews would return to the Holy Land before the world ended.

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Newton, who died 280 years ago, wrote that the end of days would see "the ruin of the wicked nations, the end of weeping and of all troubles, the return of the Jews (from) captivity and their setting up a flourishing and everlasting Kingdom".

Yemima Ben-Menahem, one of the curators of the exhibition, said: "These documents show a scientist guided by religious fervour, by a desire to see God's actions in the world."

The papers – including more prosaic notes about his income and the price of tin – lay in a trunk at the house of the Earl of Portsmouth for 250 years before being auctioned in the late 1930s.

Since 1969, many have been locked away in Israel's national library.





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Reply #1 posted 07/18/16 2:53pm

EmmaMcG

Aw no. Guess I'll have to cancel those 70th birthday plans...
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Reply #2 posted 07/18/16 4:41pm

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Guess I won't be around for the end of the world... lol Darn! mad

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Reply #3 posted 07/18/16 4:48pm

CharlieGriffin

Oh, I'll only be 110 years old then. No problem! lol

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Reply #4 posted 07/18/16 5:02pm

XxAxX

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smile

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Reply #5 posted 07/18/16 5:12pm

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EmmaMcG said:

Aw no. Guess I'll have to cancel those 70th birthday plans...

And I was going to take you to Denny's

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Reply #6 posted 07/18/16 5:14pm

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Will John Cusack be in the new movie?

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Reply #7 posted 07/18/16 7:35pm

EmmaMcG

kpowers said:



EmmaMcG said:


Aw no. Guess I'll have to cancel those 70th birthday plans...

And I was going to take you to Denny's



:-)
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Reply #8 posted 07/18/16 9:21pm

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Well I will be in heaven by then so it won't matter lol headbang

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Reply #9 posted 07/18/16 11:41pm

morningsong

I kind of chuckle because he did this basically to shut up the doomsday sayers of his day. It was like oh shut the heck up, the end of the world ain't coming for another 350 years.
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Reply #10 posted 07/19/16 3:46am

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Those of us that have "visions" &/or see things in our Dreams will NEVER know the Day or Time of the end of the world...Believers are not supposed to dwell on it, but just be READY....Not even the Angels in Heaven know...

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Reply #11 posted 07/19/16 4:58am

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EmmaMcG said:

Aw no. Guess I'll have to cancel those 70th birthday plans...

Well in that case let's go to Denny's in 2059

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Reply #12 posted 07/19/16 5:18am

nonames

The world is ending??? Again???

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Reply #13 posted 07/19/16 10:52am

morningsong

Chancellor said:

Those of us that have "visions" &/or see things in our Dreams will NEVER know the Day or Time of the end of the world...Believers are not supposed to dwell on it, but just be READY....Not even the Angels in Heaven know...



Tryin' to make it sound like bible speech, you need to quit. That ain't what the bible said.

Stop trying to get my thread moved. This is about a scientist.

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Reply #14 posted 07/19/16 1:03pm

EmmaMcG

kpowers said:



EmmaMcG said:


Aw no. Guess I'll have to cancel those 70th birthday plans...

Well in that case let's go to Denny's in 2059




Yay!! smile
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Reply #15 posted 07/20/16 1:50pm

RodeoSchro

I'll either be 100 or 101, depending on when in 2060 we go kaboom.

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Reply #16 posted 07/20/16 9:18pm

nursev

I'll have checked out by then so its cool cool

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Reply #17 posted 07/21/16 10:38am

thedoorkeeper

Wake me when it's over
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Reply #18 posted 07/21/16 1:40pm

morningsong

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Wake me when it's over

okay sleepy head.

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Reply #19 posted 07/21/16 6:35pm

luvsexy4all

it may end in 2006 ,,but the world AS U KNOW IT ends 2017

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Reply #20 posted 07/26/16 8:03pm

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nursev said:

I'll have checked out by then so its cool cool


I'll b 82....I hope to have been checked out. Anything ilast 80 is too much for me.
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Reply #21 posted 07/26/16 8:27pm

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EmmaMcG said:

Aw no. Guess I'll have to cancel those 70th birthday plans...


giggle

I'd be turning 90 so, I'll be ready. grandpa

By St. Boogar and all the saints at the backside door of Purgatory!
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Reply #22 posted 07/31/16 3:04pm

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eek eek

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http://nypost.com/2016/07/31/nasa-plans-to-launch-study-of-asteroid-that-could-destroy-earth/
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NASA plans to launch study of asteroid that could destroy Earth

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NASA is planning to launch a probe to study an asteroid that could one day pulverize the Earth.

The asteroid, named Bennu, crosses Earth’s orbit once every six years and has gotten ever closer since it was discovered in 1999, astronomers told the Sunday Times of London (paywall).

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In 2135, Bennu will fly between the moon and Earth — a hair’s breadth in space terms, the Times reported. That’s so close that gravity from the Earth could effect Bennu’s orbit, “potentially putting it on course for the Earth later that century,” said Dante Lauretta, a professor of planetary science at Arizona University.

Bennu is about 1,600 feet in diameter and travels around the sun at an average of 63,000 mph.

The chance of an impact is small but significant, and if it happens, would be equivalent to triggering 3 billion tons of high explosive, 200 times the strength of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima.

“Bennu falls on the boundary, in terms of size, for an object capable of causing a global catastrophe,” Professor Mark Bailey of Northern Ireland’s Armagh Observatory told the Times.

The scenario eerily replicates the danger depicted in the 1998 movie “Armageddon,” in which Willis’ character was sent to implant a nuclear weapon to destroy an asteroid aiming for the Earth.

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NASA will launch the Osiris-Rex probe mission to Bennu in September.

The probe’s journey will involve a year of orbiting the sun to build up speed before it slingshots back around Earth, using the planet’s gravity to align its orbit with the asteroid’s, the Times reports. They will rendezvous in August 2018.

Osiris-Rex will then spend a year mapping the asteroid and then hover above its surface to pick up some rubble, before flying back to Earth.

For scientists, the chance of obtaining chunks of a carbonaceous asteroid is exciting. “Bennu is a carbonaceous asteroid, an ancient relic from the early solar system that is filled with organic molecules,” Lauretta explained to the Times. “Asteroids like Bennu may have seeded the early Earth with this material, contributing to the primordial soup from which life emerged.”

For the rest of the world, Osiris-Rex’s most important task may be the measurements it makes of a newly discovered force called the Yarkovsky effect, that can send asteroids careening around the solar system and potentially toward Earth.

This force makes Bennu’s trajectory hard to predict, but scientists know its position has shifted 100 miles since 1999.

“We need to know everything about Bennu — its size, mass and composition,” said Lauretta. “This could be vital data for future generations.”

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Reply #23 posted 08/05/16 2:03pm

Kobe

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That's ok... I expect to be dead before it lol

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Reply #24 posted 08/06/16 7:23am

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nonames said:

The world is ending??? Again???


it already ended, we just haven't noticed yet because we're too distracted by other shit.

we're like the coyote in roadrunner. we're already past the cliff, running on air... but hey,
let's enjoy it while it lasts. because every end is a new beginning anyway.

smile

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Reply #25 posted 08/06/16 9:50am

jayspud

Apparently he did not actually believe the world would end in 2060, not that whether he did or did not has a real influence on what will actually happen. Unless you believe everything is predetermined.

https://isaac-newton.org/...date-2060/

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Reply #26 posted 08/06/16 11:50pm

morningsong

IstenSzek said:



nonames said:


The world is ending??? Again???




it already ended, we just haven't noticed yet because we're too distracted by other shit.

we're like the coyote in roadrunner. we're already past the cliff, running on air... but hey,
let's enjoy it while it lasts. because every end is a new beginning anyway.

smile


The irony of Sir Isaac Newton the author of the nature of gravity and Wiley Coyote. I can see the whole wtf moment on Newton's face seeing that.
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Reply #27 posted 08/06/16 11:53pm

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jayspud said:

Apparently he did not actually believe the world would end in 2060, not that whether he did or did not has a real influence on what will actually happen. Unless you believe everything is predetermined.



https://isaac-newton.org/...date-2060/





What did Newton believe would happen around the time of 2060?

Newton was convinced that Christ would return around this date and establish a global Kingdom of peace. “Babylon” (the corrupt Trinitarian Church) would also fall and the true Gospel would be preached openly. Before the Second Coming, the Jews would return to Israel according to the predictions made in biblical prophecy. The Temple would be rebuilt as well. Slightly before, or around the time of Christ’s return, the great battle of Armageddon would take place when a series of nations (the “Gog and Magog” confederacy of Ezekiel’s prophecy) invade Israel. Christ and the saints would then intervene to establish a worldwide 1000-year Kingdom of God on earth. Citing the prophet Micah Newton believed this Kingdom would usher in a time of peace and prosperity, a time when people would “beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks” and when “nations shall not lift up a sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more” (Micah 4:3). Although the documentary chose not to focus on this message of hope, Newton did believe that there would be a positive outcome to the war and destruction that would take place at the end of time. Newton took seriously the prophetic vision of world peace found in Isaiah 2 and Micah 4—a vision that sees Jerusalem as the beginning of peace. It is thus perhaps appropriate that the largest collection of Newton’s prophetic papers now resides in Jerusalem.


hmm hmmm
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Reply #28 posted 08/07/16 10:54am

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morningsong said:

IstenSzek said:


it already ended, we just haven't noticed yet because we're too distracted by other shit.

we're like the coyote in roadrunner. we're already past the cliff, running on air... but hey,
let's enjoy it while it lasts. because every end is a new beginning anyway.

smile

The irony of Sir Isaac Newton the author of the nature of gravity and Wiley Coyote. I can see the whole wtf moment on Newton's face seeing that.


falloff

and true love lives on lollipops and crisps
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