Worried About the Mayan Calendar Prediction of the World Ending?

4,290 views · Published 10 December 2012 · 1:10 · Indexed 28 October 2026

Channel: Berkeley Lab · 2012 · Science & Technology

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Berkeley Lab cosmologist David Schlegel knows that the Maya did not predict the end of the world on December 21, 2012. But as someone who studies the stars and galaxies every day, he also knows that the universe is full of mysteries that will keep cosmologists busy for eons to come.

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