The significance of that date is that the Earth and the Sun line up with the center of the galaxy and the superstitious interpret that as a portent of doom.
I personally would like to believe that on 12-21-2012 the "old world", all of the superstitions and ptolmaic conceits will end and we will start to really understand the universes and our place in them. But I don't.
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