Shocking Revelation: Scientist Pinpoints Date When Humanity’s Fate Will Be Sealed—Are We Ready?
So, it turns out we might want to hold off on clearing out our closets and selling the car just yet—but only just barely. Back in the swinging ’60s, a sharp Austrian physicist named Heinz von Foerster cooked up what he called the ‘doomsday equation,’ boldly pinpointing the exact day humanity might squeeze itself out of existence: November 13, 2026. Yup, that’s just weeks away—and no, I’m not making this up! Now, before you start planning your last supper, remember we’ve been down this apocalyptic road before—2012, the Rapture last fall… you name it. But what makes Von Foerster’s prediction so juicy is how he extrapolated centuries of population data, suggesting an ever-accelerating growth rate that would, in his words, leave our great-great-grandkids squeezed to death rather than starving. Charming, right? The catch? Experts today give this gloomy forecast the side-eye since population growth has definitely hit the brakes, making that infinite squeeze look less and less likely. Still, it’s a wild ride through mathematical doom and cosmic fate—because if not this November, then when? Ready to dig deeper into the equation that nearly lost us? LEARN MORE
A physicist made a ‘doomsday’ prediction about when the world would end and, sorry to tell you all, it’s just weeks away.
If you’ve been around as long as I have, then you’ve probably lived through a fair few of these end-of-the-world predictions, such as the prediction that ‘the Rapture’ would be happening last September, or that the Mayans had marked out 2012 as the end of life as we know it.
But now there’s another end date on the horizon, and it seems we don’t have too long to prepare.
The prediction was made in a study from the 1960s by Austrian scientist Heinz von Foerster.
Von Foerster worked out the so-called ‘doomsday equation’, in which he aimed to pinpoint the exact moment humanity would die out, signalling the end of the world or at least humans’ role in it.
A scientist pinpointed the exact date he reckons the world will end (Getty stock image)
The Doomsday equation: how it works
To work out that date, von Foerster examined 24 estimates of the world’s population spanning a couple of thousand years and discovered that growth was accelerating.
He found that while it used to take centuries for the population to double, this had been sped up and now each new doubling happened quicker than the last.
Von Foerster claimed that if this pattern continued, then eventually there would be no time at all between doublings and hence things on Earth would get a bit cramped, to say the least.
“Our great-great-grandchildren will not starve to death; they will be squeezed to death,” he wrote.
Which all sounds very unpleasant, doesn’t it?
Von Foerster claimed that this ‘doomsday’ event would take place on 13 November 2026, which – at the time of writing – is just 84 days away.
In his paper, which was aptly titled: ‘Doomsday: Friday, 13 November AD 2026’, von Foerster wrote: “At this date human population will approach infinity if it grows as it has in the last two millennia.”
He also wrote that he hoped that ‘at some time, somehow, something will happen that will stop this ever-faster race to self-destruction’.
Are we all ready for apocalypse? (Getty stock image)
And thankfully, you’ll be pleased to know that more than 60 years on from the paper’s publication, demographic and maths experts don’t think the theory holds water, because since the 1960s the population rate has slowed down quite a bit, so the levels of population growth predicted in the study didn’t happen as von Foerster predicted.
Although the global population now stands at a whopping 8.2 billion, the rate at which it is increasing has markedly slowed down.
The UN now predicts the population will peak in just 60 years in the 2080s at 10.3 billion, and by 2100 will have fallen by around 700 million.
During the 1960s, the population would double around every 32 years or so, but fast-forward to today, and it takes about 83 years, showing a significant slowing down and meaning that von Foerster’s concerns about us all being ‘squeezed to death’ on a planet that can no longer sustain us aren’t likely to happen in the next couple of months.
If you’re after a more ‘up-to-date’ idea of when the world might end, then you might be interested in a recent study by scientists from Toho University in Japan who collaborated with NASA.
According to the study ‘The future lifespan of Earth’s oxygenated atmosphere’, the fate of life on Earth is tied to the lifespan and evolution of the Sun.
The results from 400,000 computer simulations predicted that our planet will become unlivable in the year 1,000,002,021.
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