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 went on show in Jerusalem on Sunday. 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 said it was the first time the letter had 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, England, also took a keen interest in superstitions of his day that have long since fallen foul of modern science.

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This guy was the father of modern physics and astronomy. This prediction definetly has some weight to it.

i dont wanna die

Whoa! i never heard of this one. and it's coming from Newton. is there any proof that it's authentic?

I just heard the report on FNC. We'll see if he's right or not.

No... No it doesn't. He based his prediction on a story book of faith. So instead of using science to predict his end of the world date, he used faith and after over a thousand apocolypse predictions it's safe to say this man is wrong.

well, the end of world varies i guess =\ anyway most if not all of the predictions are far fetched

I wouldn't worry about the end of the world, even though it was the great Isaac Newton making the prediction.

What people don't know about Newton, that althuogh he was the father of modern rational, empircal science, he was also deeply steeped in mysticism. In fact, later scholars worked very hard to "clean up Newton." That is, they gleaned away all his mystical works with alchemy and other stuff, and only allowed the world to see his stuff that agreed with "establishment" scientific community.

Newton was also obsessed with the concept of the "Blessed Trinity" -- a concept which he hated, and spent many long hours arguing against. Newton also saw himself as "A Magician" who was one of a long line of "enlightened" beings dating back to the ancient Babylonians. He actually had many wild beliefs that were the holdover of the previous centuries of more mystical thinking -- but none of this takes away from the hard science he produced and the solid work he did.

their are too many end of world predictions ! theirs still the 2012 one to come and now its supposed to be 2060 hmmmmm, their just all the same

hmm. i'm gonna be 70 years old when 2060 comes. hmm let's see if Sir Isaac Newton is really right.

I'll be 80. I say, if it happens, no biggy for me personally. My life would have been lived to the fullest by that time.

I'll be dead.

It would be cool if the world ends the way it ended in war of the worlds,But this time nobody survives...

I guess he just got caught up in all those things back then. I wonder if Newton would still have chosen to believe in those things if he lived today. Probably not.

I have no idea. How old I will be when 2060 comes around. >.<

well to find out you take the year you were born in and substract it from 2060 and viola! you know how old you will be in 2060.

ill be dead most probably.

do not worry, yes 2060 is an important year and by then all non-believers of christ would have perished. but 2060 is not the end of the world- it is the end of an age, the time when man will no longer be able to rule the earth through government, the time that the 6000 years of man controlled order will fall, and above all else it is the second coming of jesus christ.

i dont wanna die

I hope Newton was wrong.
2060 is not nearly soon enough for me. ;)



P.S. There is hard evidence that the supposed "millenaristic" fears around the year 1000 were highly exaggerated by some historians. At any rate it seems they were not at all as widespread as popular historiography would have us believe. (See for example Delumeau & Heullant-Donat, L'Italie au Moyen Age, Paris, 2000).

If 2060 is the end of the world as all previous ages knew it, my best guess that the internet, alternative energy, cell phone/computers, and rapid travel are what does it since when are so close to that date now.

Perhaps it is a single planetary culture being born that it just was not possible to have before. As long as they keep tacos, hamburgers, and moogoo gaipan I think I will be ok.

What sucks is we won't get to find out if he was right because we're all gonna die on Dec 23 2012. And if we somehow survive that one, then surely we'll perish when the asteroid hits in 2035.

- uth
-- proud survivor of the May 5, 2000 pole shift, and the July 1999 "Great King of Terror from the sky" as seen by Nostradamus, as well as the long forgotton March 1982 "Jupiter Effect" planetary alignment calamity

Welcome back Bella Anqelique. It seems as though you have been away for a long while.


I find dec 23 2012 to be an interesting date. Could you give any reasons uth as to why you choose Dec23.

Thanks. No people I would rather hang with as the whole world implodes. : )

Actually I think its dec 20, 2012, my mistake.. sheesh I would have been dead 3 days before I expected it.

It's the date that the Mayan long count calendar ends.

LOL love the way you think there

heard it was Dec 21 2012 @ 11:11 AM (or was it PM? I forget)

Yeah... your oh-so-wonderful-demi-god jesus stated promised he'd return in the lives of his deciples, however he never did. So don't hold your breath for his return or the demise of athiests/jews/muslims/Buddhists/pagans - OH and don't hold your breath for him saving christians either, he stated that he should not be worshiped but for his followers to worship god how he did, and with all christians worshiping jesus first and god second... well... don't fret. The bible has predicted over a thousand apocolypse's and the Earth is still turning .

I will ignore your post because everything that have the word Christ makes non sense today,the world have more religions that Christian.

It seems that the Newton died yesterday for the world receive this new,why people talks to the world about this only now?
For me its another date for Humankind being afraid of lolol,when we reach to 2050 people will find another date for the same lolol.

Why doesn't it explain in his theory in detail?

too bad it's in 2060 & not 2007.
anything that kills people off, i'm for it.

Isaac Newton may have founded the law of gravity, but that doesn't mean he knows everything through equating.
especially since this "prediction" is from a book of unproven stories.

this "clever" man stuck nails under his eyes to discover that the color white is a combination of all colors in a spectrum.
sources? some show on PBS.

Earth will never die but people sure will...Go to hell newton..

not necessarily the end of the world, but maybe a dark period in human history? like say....from a war maybe? or an iceage? If the earth has seasons like summer fall winter and spring. Why not the solar system? Our solar system doessss rotate around a black hole in the Milky Way galaxy. Everything in the universe has a cycle.

the solar system doesn't have an atmosphere or a Sun shining against it for a season to occur.
seasons are limited to planets only.

i'll leave you to be ripped apart by the other posters now. xo

When I was a kid, that date terrified me!!

Yes, i agree that the solar system like the planets rotate around a black hole that is located at the center of the galaxy. but that doesn't mean that planetry systems also have season. seasons only occur in a planet. and because planet earth is special ( because it's tilted ) we have 4 seasons.

My fault, wrong analogy, sorry for that.
Of course solar systems don't have seasons, but it probably has some kind of cycle. My point is that "the end of the world" doesn't have to mean total annihilation of the earth and everything on it.

Well, im new here, and i like this forum mostly because the majority of people here are open minded.

If you want to know how Newton figured it out, check out this link:
http://www.isaac-newton.org/update.html

Personally, I think he did it for two reasons: 1) because it was intellectually stimulating and entertaining, and 2) because he wanted to calm down all the doomsday freaks.

- Sir Isaac Newton

well. yes , true and true. there's this thread that i've been to. saying that this 2012 the solar system completes it revolution around the center of the galaxy ( milky way ) saying it's a end and beginning of an era.


yes, he was smart and it calmed the people for a short period of time. until some psycho again predicted it at much earlier year and there again it was. panic and confusion.

NOBODY is going to die. This life is just a trial and a school. Isaac Newton did a whole bunch of studying and I think he got an A or an A-, I'm not sure.