Isaac Newton had a terrifying prediction for when he thought the world would end, and it’s actually not that far away.
If you’re reading this, the chances are you’ll still (hopefully) be alive when this happens, so put it in your calendar.
Joking, of course, but when someone as influential as Newton makes a claim, the world listens.
After all, the 17th-century scientist is credited with formulating the laws of motion and universal gravity, which is, yeah, kind of a big deal.

Isaac Newton predicted when the world would end (Getty Images/Bettmann)
Stephen Snobelen, the Director of the Newton Project Canada, has explained Newton’s strong religious beliefs, and how much of an impact it would have on our future.
“Newton believed both in God and that the Bible was a revelation from God,” he wrote in a blog post.
“He also believed that God was not bound by time as are humans, allowing Him to see the ‘end from the beginning’.
“Thus, to use Newton’s own words, he was convinced that ‘the holy Prophecies’ of the Scripture are nothing else than ‘histories of things to come’ (Yahuda MS 1.1, folio 16 recto).

The end is near, apparently (Getty Stock Images)
“At the same time, biblical prophecy is written in highly symbolic language that requires skilled interpretation.
“Newton rose to this challenge as he attempted to discover the future of the world in the words of the prophets.”
To come to a date, Newton worked out some equations on a piece of paper, with Snobelen saying the calculations used were ‘simple arithmetic that could be performed by a child’ based around various time periods.
And the date he came to? 2060.
Ah, well, we’ve had a good run, haven’t we?

Newton is of the most influential scientists of all time (Getty Stock Images)
Although Newton warned that there would be ‘wars and cataclysms’ in the run-up to 2060, Snobelen added: “For Newton, 2060 A.D. would be more like a new beginning. It would be the end of an old age, and the beginning of a new era.”
He went on to say that Newton likely would have expected that ‘Christ would return and set up a 1000-year Kingdom of God on Earth’.
“Citing the prophet Micah, Newton believed this Kingdom would usher in a time of peace and prosperity, a time when people would ‘beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks’ and when ‘nations shall not lift up a sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more’,” he explained.
Whether his predictions turn out to be accurate or not is anyone’s guess – let’s all catch up in 36 years and see where we are, eh?
The Insta story would be very lit indeed.
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Topics: Science, Weird, History, Conspiracy Theory

The late Stephen Hawking thought the world was going to end sooner than we might think.
It’s a grim subject to consider on a Tuesday morning, but here we are.
One of the most famous scientists of all time once made a damning statement about our future if we continue on our current trajectory.
Hawking was no stranger to setting predictions about our future, though this stands as one of his most famous, as he gave us a year to look out for.

His prediction about our future was harrowing (Bruno Vincent/Getty Images)
The famous physicist and author of The Theory of Everything foresaw a grim scenario for us in just under 600 years.
Prior to his passing back in 2018, he explained that factors such a population growth and energy consumption could transform the Earth into a ‘giant ball of fire’, unless we changed something.
The former University of Cambridge mathematician explained his prediction of our impending doom at the Tencent WE Summit in November, 2017, as he revealed that the world’s population up to that point was doubling every 40 years.
He explained: “This exponential growth cannot continue into the next millennium,
“By the year 2600, the world’s population would be standing shoulder to shoulder, and the electricity consumption would make the Earth glow red-hot.
“This is untenable,” Hawking said in his computer-generated voice.
It has recently been reported Hawking’s chilling claims have been backed up by NASA, though they have since denied this, as a spokesperson highlighted to Newsweek: “NASA has not made this claim.”

Come 2600, Hawking believes that Earth could look something like this (Getty Stock Photo)
The space agency are worried about global threats to humanity though, adding: “For more than 50 years, NASA has studied our home planet, providing information to directly benefit humanity and producing observations that can only be gathered in space that address some of the areas that Hawking mentioned.”
So, is it too late to make a change?
Hawking had previously explained to the BBC in 2016: “Although the chance of a disaster to planet Earth in a given year may be quite low, it adds up over time and becomes a near certainty in the next thousand or 10,000 years.”
He attributed this prediction to global warming, climate change and the greenhouse effect as the main causes of bringing Earth to its demise.
In the years since, it doesn’t look like humanity has changed much in these departments.
The end of the world may actually be closer than previously predicted, as Hawking also pointed towards nuclear war, artificial intelligence and pandemics as existential threats.
Two down, one to go.
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Topics: Stephen Hawking, Global Warming, Science

There are some places on Earth where time and weather work a little differently, such as Antarctica.
This patch of ice and snow is where you’ll find the North and South poles, and where you can also see penguin colonies.
But it’s so much more than that.
TikToker Matty K Jordan shocked viewers when he revealed just what an average midnight looked like on the continent, and people can’t get their heads around it.
While what goes on in the Antarctic is a mystery for a lot of people, it’s actually pretty cool.
According to the British Antarctic Survey, Antarctica is ‘the world’s most important natural laboratory’ and also ‘a place of great beauty and wonder’.

Matty K Jordan showed his viewers what to expect in Antarctica (TikTok/@Mattykjordan)
The website explains: “Its frozen wastes have fired the public imagination for generations, and around 30,000 tourists now visit the Antarctic each year to experience what life is like in the Earth’s last great wilderness.”
But if you can’t afford the cost to visit, you’ll be unaware of its strange weather.
Specifically, its constant stream of sunlight for months and months on end.
Twenty-four-hour sun sounds like a dream to many, but how would you feel having to go to sleep when it looks like it’s still midday?
As for what it looks like, it’s magical.
Matty captured a video at six minutes past midnight for his viewers, to show them exactly how much light he sees while he’s working in Antarctica.
He shared his clip, which begins with him exciting his home and opening the doors to the outside.
Then, as soon as the door is open, he’s hit with the clearest sunlight you’ve ever seen.
It’s nothing but clear skies and brilliant white for miles to see.

Midnight is very light (TikTok/@Mattykjordan)
Of course, viewers were left baffled and couldn’t understand how it could be so light all the time.
One person wrote: “How do you sleeeeep??”
Another said: “The next sunset isn’t until when?!?”
Someone else commented: “Places like this always remind me of 30 Days of Night.”
One user joked: “At least you have sun, in the UK we have a few hours of grey sky and then it’s dark again.”
Another laughed: “How do you know when to call it a day?”
That’s actually a perfectly good question.
Apparently, it’s all down to the Hemisphere.
The Southern Hemisphere is tilted toward the Sun, and receives a greater amount of sunlight in the Antarctic summer.
According to Robert Schwarz, who was stationed in the Antarctic for around 15 years as part of the Keck project, it’s mesmerising to be around.
He filmed a timelapse while at his location, which shows the bright sun floating above the horizon for five whole days in 2017.
The footage he caught shows it just circling the horizon constantly, with the sunlight never lapsing.
However, that all changes from the period of April to August as the Hemisphere tilts away.
Anyway, it’s all down to science, and that’s pretty cool.
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Topics: Science, TikTok, Travel, World News, Weather

If you’re often sat there wondering what it would be like to fall into a black hole, then you’ve come to the right place.
While we aren’t here to judge you for thinking about death by black hole in your spare time, it is certainly a mind-boggling concept.
Even NASA categorises the quintillion black holes in space ‘among the most mysterious cosmic objects’ that are ‘not fully understood’.
“These objects aren’t really holes. They’re huge concentrations of matter packed into very tiny spaces,” the space agency explains.

YouTuber Zack D. Films has made an eerie black hole simulation video (YouTube/@zackdfilms)
“A black hole is so dense that gravity just beneath its surface, the event horizon, is strong enough that nothing – not even light – can escape.
“The event horizon isn’t a surface like earth’s or even the sun’s. It’s a boundary that contains all the matter that makes up the black hole.
“There is much we don’t know about black holes, like what matter looks like inside their event horizons.
“However, there is a lot that scientists do know about black holes.”
Here’s where YouTuber Zack D. Films comes in, the content creator who shares simulation videos of the most random and interesting s**t you can think of.

Viewers have been left terrified (YouTube/@zackdfilms)
He’s made simulations of countless things, from how drinking too much water can kill you, and what that looks like, to a simulation of what happens to your brain when you die.
In one of his YouTube Shorts, the video-maker showed us what he thinks would happen if we fell into a black hole.
“If you fell into a black hole, the gravitational pull would stretch you out in a process called spaghettification,” he began.
“As you get closer, the gravity at your feet would be much stronger than at your head, pulling you longer and thinner.
“Eventually, you’d pass the event horizon. At this point, time would appear to slow down for an outside observer, but for you, time might seem to speed up.
“Finally, you’d be crushed by the immense gravity, merging with the singularity at the black hole centre, lost forever in its depths.”
As expected, the comments section was filled with horror, as one viewer wrote: “That’s the scariest human I’ve seen. Thanks to whoever volunteered to do this.”
“I think the scariest part of this is dying in a way that no other human had died before, making it the loneliest, unpredictable and most terrifying death ever,” another penned.
“Not sure whats scarier, the idea of becoming spaghetti or the human model used for this animation,” a third agreed.
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Topics: Science, Weird, Space, YouTube, Horror

Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson once shared a terrifying prediction about when an asteroid could possibly hit Earth.
In an unearthed interview with Conan O’Brien in 2007, Tyson spoke about the threat of an asteroid named Apophis.
Asteroids – which are sometimes referred to as ‘minor planets’ – are rocky remains left over from the formation of the solar system.
When asked about the discovery of Apophis, which had taken place three years earlier, Tyson explained what could happen if it ever hit Earth.

Neil deGrasse Tyson spoke about the threat of the asteroid, Apophis (John Lamparski/Getty Images)
“If it strikes and hits the centre of where we think it will be, it will plunge into the Pacific Ocean, cavitate the ocean with a three-mile wide hole, three miles deep,” he said.
“At that point, a pulse of water rushes towards the coastline of North America, then the water will slosh back in.
“You get these pulses, every pulse that hits the coast, it reaches those million dollar homes in Malibu, brings them out to the ocean, rushes them back, and they don’t have the same shape they used to.
“There’s a one in 45,000 chance that it will hit. We’ve got top people working on this problem.”
Tyson explained that if it did hit, it would be on 13th April, 2036. However, in a later interview, Tyson said that there would also be a ‘close approach’ in the year 2029, too.
The astrophysicist explained that the disaster wouldn’t necessarily mean millions of fatalities, due to the fact we would be aware that the asteroid was approaching in enough time.
The asteroid Tyson was referring to, named Apophis, was discovered on 19 June 2004 by astronomers Roy Tucker, David Tholen, and Fabrizio Bernardi at the Kitt Peak National Observatory in Arizona.
According to NASA, since its discovery, scientists have been tracking the asteroid to understand it’s trajectory.
“NASA has redirected a spacecraft to study the asteroid,” they explain. “The spacecraft was sent to study Apophis during the asteroid’s 2029 Earth flyby.
“OSIRIS-APEX will fly-by Apophis on April 23, 2029, at a distance of about 2,500 miles (4,000 kilometers).
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It’s expected to pass close to Earth in 2029 (Getty Stock Photo)
“It will then rendezvous with Apophis in June for an 18-month campaign to map the asteroid’s surface and analyze its chemical makeup.”
During the investigations, the spacecraft will take images of the asteroid, meanwhile, Earth-based telescopes will also closely observe its movements.
“In the hours after the close encounter, Apophis will appear too near the Sun in the sky to be observed by ground-based optical telescopes,” NASA further explain. “This means any changes triggered by the close encounter with Earth will be best detected by the spacecraft.
“Apophis is about 1,100 feet (340 meters) in width. It’s expected to safely pass close to Earth – within 19,794 miles (31,860 kilometers) from our planet’s surface – on April 13, 2029. This will be the closest approach to Earth by an asteroid of this size that scientists have known about in advance.”
NASA explained that the risk of it hitting our planet in 2029 and in 2036 had been ruled out, however, after ‘revising’ their data recently, it was discovered that a very small chance of a collision could happen if one particular event occurred.
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