The number nine has been endowed with a special significance in many different spiritual and religious traditions. Nine was the number of muses in Greek mythology and Nine were the number of worlds in the Scandinavian. Nine was the number of doors to the holiest part of the temple in Jerusalem and the month of [...]

Waiting for the “end of the world” on December 21, 2012? There is a “good news” for you: the Mayan calendar does not, and cannot, point at this date. Why? Because it ends more than a year … earlier, on October 28, 2011! While the first date, presented in public media as a predetermined “doomsday”, [...]

For scary speculation about the end of civilization in 2012, people usually turn to followers of cryptic Mayan prophecy, not scientists. But that’s exactly what a group of NASA-assembled researchers described in a chilling report issued earlier this year on the destructive potential of solar storms.
 

 
Entitled “Severe Space Weather Events — Understanding Societal and [...]