I went and seen it last night and it was pretty good as long as you can put the hokey parts out of the way like jumping rvs, huge cracks in the road not blowing out your tires, flying huge planes like they are fighter jets, etc.
I was disappointed that they did not go more into the history of why this is even being talked about.
Because they did not recreate the disasters being discussed or associated with the 2012 hysteria. They took an everyday event and blew it up.
Neutrinos are super small particles that pass through solid matter effortlessly. They are so small that there is almost no chance of them interacting with any sub-atomic particles in matter. You have them streaming through your body even as you read this. Image two cells in your body with the same amount of distance between the earth and the sun. Now throw a Volkswagen Bug through the mid point between the two and you have the idea of the size of a neutrino.
The science behind 2012 is that the neutrino levels increased so significantly that it was colliding with matter within the earths core. Any sub-atomic particle they encounter is summarily destroyed or damaged creating a chain reaction.
They only problem is, and the reason that I was disappointed in the movie, is that these same collisions(interactions) would be also evident in humans. The neutrinos would damage cells, strip away segments of DNA, and cause gross aberrations in the body leading to a myriad of conditions, chiefly cell mutation, cancers and destruction or interruptions of organ functions (brain). These events would happen at an alarming rate and would show almost immediately as the entire human population would be affected. Long before anything happened to the earth.
Of course they could say that the increasing gravity on the neutrinos path to the core caused them to condense but this too would be wrong. Neutrinos have a non-zero mass and travels near the speed of light. Gravity being the weakest force by far in the universe it would have very little if any effect on the neutrino.
"The towers are gone now, reduced to bloody rubble, along with all hopes for Peace in Our Time, in the United States or any other country. Make no mistake about it: We are At War now -- with somebody -- and we will stay At War with that mysterious Enemy for the rest of our lives." H.S.T. 09/12/01
Sucks when fictional movies aren't sticking to real life!
Well when it is fictional but they choose to use bonafide science they should at least include it all. It has nothing to do with it being fiction or not. If it was made up (fictional) science I wouldn't have said one thing about it. It is a little insulting to the people who watched it that were intelligent enough to understand the science behind it.
I also never said it was a bad movie. I thoroughly enjoyed it. Just merely disappointed they used a scientific premise and ignored a major component of it.
"The towers are gone now, reduced to bloody rubble, along with all hopes for Peace in Our Time, in the United States or any other country. Make no mistake about it: We are At War now -- with somebody -- and we will stay At War with that mysterious Enemy for the rest of our lives." H.S.T. 09/12/01
I saw 2012 on the weekend. I enjoyed it. I liked the part about the Queen of England being saved as one of the few people to go on that spaceship. That was funny.
Also interesting:
- One of the workers got squeezed in the gears of the machine - Workplace Injury
- Dalai Llama saw an avalanche, but didn't hesitate to sound the alarm few seconds before he died
I'd put it in the same category as "The Day the Earth Stood Still". Not as good as "The Day After Tomorrow", so take that as you will. Then again I watched it in a packed theater with 3 cackling Ladyboys sitting next me who wouldn't stop talking about all the "laaw" (handsome) guys in the movie
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