“We all will witness the ruining of world or the day of Kayamat. I will be too old and without teeth probably!’ According to a letter of great Newton, the discoverer of law of gravity said that total annihilation of civilization will be in 2060.
He believed that world would end exactly 1,260 years after the foundation of the Holy Roman Empire. But today’s modern scientists
believe that this calculation was based on religion not the reasoning. This letter is on display in Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Newton’s calculation for the apocalypse year is inspired by the Bible’s Book of Daniel. The note revealed that he was spiritual.
He firmly supported the Bible’s prediction about the end of world that is due in year 2060. He wrote,
It may end later, but I see no reason for its ending sooner. This I mention not to assert when the time of the end shall be, but to put a stop to the rash conjectures of fanciful men who are frequently predicting the time of the end, and by doing so bring the sacred prophesies into discredit as often as their predictions fail.
But exact words of from the Book of Daniel that inspired his prediction are not visible clearly.
Newton, who died 280 years ago, said in his letter ,
The ruin of the wicked nations, the end of weeping and of all troubles, the return of the Jews (from) captivity and their setting up a flourishing and everlasting Kingdom.
But one of the curators of the exhibition, Yemima Ben-Menahem said,
These documents show a scientist guided by religious fervor, by a desire to see God’s actions in the world.
If Newton’s prediction is true, I wish, I could die before 2060 because I wouldn’t want to see my children and grandchildren dying before me.
