Jun
12
How is the Mayan Calendar Accurate?
The MAyan Calendar expires in 12/21/2012.
Why? Why do scientists depend on this calendar so much?
Will we have a new calendar system? Why’re they “Accurate”?
Answer by Castile
We don’t use that calender.
Know better? Leave your own answer in the comments!
It doesn’t expire at all. 12/21/2012 simply marks the beginning of the 13th baktun cycle of the Meso-American Long Count Calendar.
Scientists do NOT depend upon this calendar, except for archaeology. We have a “new” calendar; it’s called the Gregorian (or Western) calendar.
It’s also not particularly accurate. The Meso-American Long Count Calendar contains the significant error of not incorporating any concept of a leap year, thus it loses a day every four years.
12-21-2012: So it does.
Why? All calenders have a beginning, some have an end.
Dependence: science doesn’t use this calendar. Never has. Apart from scientists researching the Maya culture, of course.
New calendar: possible, but highly unlikely.
Accuracy: it may have been an accurate calendar for people who did not have a concept for seconds.
look at this iPhone App. The Mayan Myths.
the mayan calender is far superior to the calender we use today. to get any more accurate a person would have to use an atomic clock. the mayan calender is accurate to less than 1/4 of a second per year