I’m not sure what we’ve done to deserve this at the start of the week, but one TikToker’s video about how Isaac Newton predicted that the world would end in the year 2060 has decided to go viral.

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I suppose that means that a load of people actually believe that this is a possibility? Take a look at the evidence presented below by Newton (via this TikTok girl) and see what you think:

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He [Newton] got the 2060 because he believed it would be 1,260 years that the corruption of the church would reign.

He played around with a lot of different start dates, but he settled on the year 800 AD, because [that’s when] Charlemagne would become the first holy Roman emperor.

Sir Isaac Newton said the world was going to end in the year 2060. When this information became public in 2003, people were shocked. In his manuscripts [Newton] believed that 2060 would be the return of Christ.

He didn’t say it was the end of the world. He said there’ll be war, famine, plague – the same thing everyone else says.

Newton said it would only be the end of the world as we know it because Babylon will fall and there will be a kingdom of saints on earth, that the second coming of Christ would happen and that it would be a millennium of peace.

This is what we call ‘millenarianiam’. And this is a fundamental transformation of society. It’s the belief that radical changes to society are going to happen after a major radicalism.

Yeah I was hoping for a bit more than just some dumb prophecy linked to the verses of the Bible? Call me crazy but I just don’t think they’re that relevant anymore? I know that Newton discovered gravity and that’s kind of a big deal, but I think he might be wrong about this one.

Hopefully I live to 2060 to see it out, but I can’t really see this coming true? Can you?

For more of the same, check out the Sick Chirpse Guide To The End Of The World. Essential reading.