End Of The World 2012?

Back in '96, I communicated with, and then met, Terence McKenna to discuss certain problems with the mathematical foundations of his "Timewave Theory".  He later named my critique of is theory the "Watkins Objection".

As there seems to be more and more interest in this, with 2012 approaching, I've written up a brief, non-technical account of the "Watkins Objection", which can now be found here:

http://www.secretsofcreation.com/2012.html

Despite my problems with the Timewave, I'll always be grateful to Terence McKenna, though, because it was he who first got me thinking about prime numbers. 

In my initial email to him, sent while I was working on my PhD thesis, I had offered my mathematical services, should he require them to further clarify or elaborate his theories. In his response, he told me that he had "an idea involving prime numbers" which he wanted me to look at – but he didn't tell me what it was. I didn't find out for months (and when I did, it was easy to dismiss it – he was hoping that his Timewave might be able to predict new, large prime numbers, thereby bringing it fully to the world's attention...anyone who's studied a bit of higher mathematics and who looks at the way that he generated his graph from the 384 "data points" will immediately be able to see that this is not going to happen!).

But, in the intervening months (this was '94 or '95), I had excitedly tried to imagine what Terence McKenna would be thinking about prime numbers. I tried to "get inside his worldview" and then think about prime numbers. And this led to some very strange thoughts! These strange thoughts were the beginning of my interest in number theory (a branch of mathematics I had previously been largely unfamiliar with), culminating in the recent (June 2010) publication of The Mystery of the Prime Numbers (Volume 1 of the Secrets of Creation trilogy).

I will take a look at this. I was never overly convinced of the timewave theory once I found out the mckenna had moved the target date from that of his original forcast to that of Dec 21st 2012. Interesting work never the less and something that I will do more research on.