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by Gun-Metal on October 10th, 2006

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When will the world end?

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  • by va_freaking_nessa on December 29th, 2006

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    The Mayan calendar, which happens to have predicted every major occurrence during our lifetimes, ends abrubtly on December 24, 2012...

    "Earth will end up in the sun, vaporizing and blending its material with that of the sun," said Iowa State University's Lee Anne Willson. "That part of the sun then blows away into space, so one might say Earth is cremated and the ashes are scattered into interstellar space."

    Willson and her colleague George Bowen studied other red giants, medium-sized stars like our sun that are near death, and used their findings to calculate the fate of Earth.


    As the sun burns its core of hydrogen, gravity will force a collapse. When compacted, the sun will heat up and burn the small amount of hydrogen that remains in a shell wrapped around the star's core. This will force the sun to expand into a red giant. Eventually, the core will heat up enough to burn stored helium and the sun will fluctuate in size before collapsing into a white dwarf.

    "Earth will get scorched as part of the process the sun will go through as it transforms from being a red giant into a white dwarf," Willson said.

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