Articles tagged with: Geryl
2012 Movie Prescient about Neutrinos?
Most of the 2012 movie was based on the ideas of Patrick Geryl, possibly via my site. But the idea of neutrinos from the Sun being the culprit, I have no idea where the screenwriters got that from. It was such a ridiculous idea that Scientific American chimed in:
The premise: the sun’s 11-year activity cycle reaches a peak in 2012… For some reason, the neutrinos from the sun start behaving differently: they begin interacting frequently with matter, rather than largely passing through it harmlessly. The filmmakers could have easily invented entirely new particles for the job—call them bambinos, say—but perhaps that’s too silly.
In the movie, the “neutrinos” heat up Earth’s inner core, making it boil. That in turn destabilizes the overlying layers (outer core and mantle), making the crust buckle, rise and shift by thousands of kilometers.
Way back in 2009 scientists all knew that neutrinos pretty much did not interact …
2012 Movie: Geryl, Suicide & the Chinese
Most major newspapers had an article on the new 2012 movie when it opened recently. The Spectator ends their review with something I found amusing & strangely prophetic:
When the remnant of humanity — and a Noah’s ark sampling of animals — has to be herded into movie’s own, apocalypse-proof arks, it’s Chinese engineering, not American, that proves equal to the task. “Leave it to the Chinese,” says somebody. “I didn’t think we could do it in the time available.” That sounds to me like a self-fulfilling prophecy. For a start, all our best technical talent has given up working on military hardware and is now concentrating on computer-generated imagery.
Suicide
More serious now, the idea of 2012-related suicide. Tens of millions of people will enjoy the movie for what it is – popcorn entertainment. A few will unfortunately consider it to be an accurate adepiction of an event that will certainly occur, …
