Sir Isaac Newton Predicted World Will End in 2060 AD.
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Isaac Newton predicted end of world - in 2060
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Renowned British scientist Sir Isaac Newton, the father of modern physics and astronomy, predicted the world would end in 2060 in a 1704 letter that has gone on show in Jerusalem.
A famed rationalist who secured a royal exemption from the ordination in the Church of England that was normally expected of academics of his day so he would not have to follow its teachings, Newton nonetheless based his prediction on a Biblical text.
Working from verses in the Book of Daniel, the elaborator of the classical laws of gravity, motion and optics argued that the world would end 1,260 years after the foundation of the Holy Roman Empire in western Europe in 800 AD.
The letter, on show at Jerusalem's Hebrew University as part of an exhibition entitled "Newton's Secrets", is part of an array of papers of the British scientist bequeathed to the institution by a wealthy collector of scientific manuscripts.
The university says it is the first time the letter has been put on public show since 1969.
Newton's late 17th century work at Cambridge University was the foundation stone of modern science until the discovery of relativity and quantum mechanics in the last century.
But it has long been known that the ground-breaking physicist from Grantham in England, also took a keen interest in superstitions of his day that have long since fallen foul of modern science.
Newton spent four years in the 1670s preparing a work on alchemy, the notion that base metals can be turned into gold.
- AFP
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/06/18/1954208.htm
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I wonder how true is this, since it came from the revered Sir Isaac Newton, the father of Calculus and Gravitation.
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too many of these going around......
i oni believe in one....
live each day as if it's your last. -
51+ years from now... I will be 76+
Argh... heck it
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Originally posted by FireIce:
too many of these going around......
i oni believe in one....
live each day as if it's your last.But then again, this is Sir Isaac Newton, not some gypsy with a crystal ball at the carnivals.
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guess he was a drunk 62 year old when he wrote that
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i would be in heaven watchin as the world end...wow wee!
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ill be like what,68 by then :D
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Stupid sgForums, cannot cut and paste. @#$*&(!@$#_*@!
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Originally posted by eagle:
51+ years from now... I will be 76+
Argh... heck it
Somebody re-calculated Newton's date, said that the End of Days (EOD) will occur in 2013, not 2060 posited by Newton, by then you would be 29 y.o.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=75434
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wtf! my insurance haven mature yet! KNN
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I will be 69 years old by then. But think I have not lived enough by then.
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will de lah. that time. a 69 years old corolla will be a antique car liao. expensive expensive
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Dont worry, there's wall e who will continue living on earth until the time is right to send human back to earth again.
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Originally posted by corebooster:
will de lah. that time. a 69 years old corolla will be a antique car liao. expensive expensive
LOL! What's that got to do with a corolla? My dad no longer own a toyota corolla riao.
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ask ur dad go buy back! lol. will worth alot in 69 years time1
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Oh my. It's within my lifetime. No grandchildren for me
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Originally posted by Raubtier:
Oh my. It's within my lifetime. No grandchildren for me
u can u canu get married now.
u have a child in 2009
make sure ur child gets a child in 2029.
weee.
n bam 2030 u are a grandfather/mother.
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Originally posted by Raubtier:
Oh my. It's within my lifetime. No grandchildren for me
think cancer, SARS, dengue, bird flu, AIDS, melamine, nuclear reactor. -
oooooo sianz by 2060 i only 68 yrs old
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Originally posted by corebooster:
ask ur dad go buy back! lol. will worth alot in 69 years time1
In what sense? I thought a Honda Civic will worth more, since it depreciation per year is lesser than a Corolla?
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cools !! diaster ... I will survive this ~
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great, i'd be 70 and prolly have already died from diabetes
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the prediction is based on bible.
if bible true and calculation true, world will end.
if either is not true, world will not end.
i think the calculation is true.