Saturday, November 23, 2024
Advertisement
  1. You Are At:
  2. News
  3. World
  4. Know the Formula to calculate Doomsday

Know the Formula to calculate Doomsday

New Delhi: December 21st 2012 - This date was regarded as the end-date of a 5,126-year-long life  cycle on earth  in the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar. But nothing such happened, despite this there are still

PTI Updated on: April 25, 2013 7:23 IST


Some researchers have attempted to devise a mathematical formula to help predict when such an event might happen. This formula is is known as the “Doomsday Argument”.



The Doomsday argument (DA) is a probabilistic argument that claims to predict the number of future members of the human species given only an estimate of the total number of humans born so far.





Advertisement

Read all the Breaking News Live on indiatvnews.com and Get Latest English News & Updates from World

Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement