Humm, maybe there are a few physical reasons to wonder what’s coming up the next few years. We are hearing a lot about 2012; here is a brief scientific view.

Douglas Mefford explores the possible future at EduBook

Sometimes it pays to take a conspiracy theory with a grain of salt. However, the recent new US Military policy to classify as “Secret” any incoming asteroids and meteors that explode in the atmosphere screams of some kind of COVER-UP!

For 15 years the data coming from the nuclear bomb test detecting satellites has been available to scientists. This has helped them learn more about potentially deadly space rock impacts as well as offering the public an explanation for mysterious explosions in the sky.

Just last year this data helped track asteroid 2008TC3 to the ground so it could be recovered and add to our knowledge of what these objects are made of. Now our military says we are not allowed to know what is blowing up in the sky above us!

Leonard David explains this shocking development at Space.com

Part of the mission of the LHC is to create micro black holes to study the physics of these anomalous objects in a laboratory environment. There are those who say the results will be the creation of a black hole that will suck the whole planet into itself. Most physicists say the holes will degenerate too quickly.

While they repair the LHC after the first failed attempt that broke it, scientists have been redoing the math to see if they missed anything. New research has shown that these black holes could last for longer than a second. Will that be too long for survival?

Once more arXiv.org/abs/0901.2948 has the brief and the PDF of the study.

There are also more easily understood explanations and hundreds of comments to further your knowledge of this “sucking” problem on The arXiv Blog.

For over 60 years the plastic trash from around the Pacific Rim has been slowly accumulating at the junction of several ocean currents in the Pacific Ocean. Estimated at twice the size of Texas, this island of trash, known as the “Eastern Garbage Patch” is lurking about halfway between Hawaii and the mainland United States.

Worse than just sea-going litter, the toxins in much of this waste is finding itself entering the human food chain through the fish that absorb the floating bits. Only now are efforts being made to understand this mess, much less find ways to clean it up.

Guy Newey of AFP takes you on a Voyage to the Center of the “Plastic Vortex”

While recent discoveries in archeology keep indicating an asteroid strike 65 million years ago wiped out the large dinosaurs, that was but one of many extinction-level events that have affected our planet.

Scientists take a closer look at the remains of several other major die-off points in our biological history to see how far away an exploding star would have to be to keep from having hazardous to fatal effects on our planet and ourselves today.

Read, “The Death Star Crashes” by David Hambling