Chapter 2: Time Runs Amok
Isaac Newton filled 4,500 pages and spent 50 years calculating the date of the end of world – the result was the year 2060. In the Mayan calendar, the “end of the sun” falls in 2012 (on either 21 or 23 December). Someone with a love of symmetry amended it to 20.12.2012.
A lot of people think about dates in general because there is a significant but inexplicable link between numbers and life, between numbers and history. In the past, numbers were used only for sequencing. When there are only a few houses, they are given names, like the house of a friend of mine in Malta – the Villa Mozart – or the one behind me (through the wall and over the stone ramparts of the German ambassador’s) – that used to be called The Rostov House. People started being given numbers on
