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World will end today... (Well it is 9/9/09 - and the doom-mongers are predicting

a disaster)

By Daily Mail Reporter

Last updated at 1:27 AM on 09th September 2009

If you're reading this, then it's pretty safe to say that he world hasn't ended.

Today, the ninth day of the ninth month of the ninth year, was heralded by some

doomsayers as the end of the planet.

Over the past few weeks, web chatrooms devoted to alien conspiracies, doomsday

cults and numerology - the belief that numbers have mystical significance - have

been buzzing with talk of 09/09/09.

Some warned of an outbreak of killer swine flu. Others that the world would be

sucked into a black hole created by the Cern particle collider in Switzerland.

Instead, the most exciting thing likely to happen today is the release of a

Beatles computer game and the announcement of a new Apple iPod.

It's been a miserable few years for fans of Armageddon dates. The millennium

passed without a single horseman of the apocalypse, while 06/06/06 turned out to

be a rather uneventful Tuesday.

Believers had high hopes for 09/09/09, particularly in the UK where 999 is the

emergency phone number.

Users of the alien-earth.org website combined Nostrodamus, the Book of

Revelation and the Mayan prophecies with fears about the Cern Large Hadron

Collider in Geneva in their gloomy predictions.

'Note that 999 is 666 upside down,' wrote one. 'Did Nostrodamus warn us from 400

years ago about creating a Doomsday Machine with the Cern LHC?'

On www.revelation13.net, numerologists were concerned about swine flu. 'The

world population officially reaches 6.8billion near November 2009, and

Revelation 6:8 is about the fourth horseman, Death, so will death ride then?

Could this be a mutation in swine flu H1N1 making it a deadly worldwide plague?

'Note that " nein " in German means " no " so 9-9-9 could mean " no-no-no " .'

However, numerologist and 'soul coach' ine Rose said: 'Nine is the number of

completion so hopefully more positive things will start to happen.

'We have all had a tough nine years and there have been all sorts of tests for

people all over the world.'

Scientists said numerology and the belief in special dates was hokum.

Professor French of Goldsmiths, University of London and editor of The

Skeptic Magazine, said: 'Numerology, like any other system of divination, has no

validity whatsoever with the exception that sometimes your belief that a day is

auspicious may affect your behaviour.

'If a deeply superstitious person is anxious about driving on Friday 13th it's

possible they may be more likely to crash.

'We are very good at seeking out meaning and patterns in randomness - it's one

of the reasons humans are such a successful species. But the price is that we

see significance in things that aren't there at all.'