Where did the rumor about the end of the world on November 13, 2026 come from?
🖋️ Majdi Al-Kos.
BBC Arabic
As Friday, November 13, 2026 approaches, the "end of the world" hypothesis has been raised again on social networks and in several media outlets in the Arabic language; A date linked to a scientific study published 66 years ago that examined the future of population growth on Earth.
This widely circulated narrative refers to a study that three researchers published on November 4, 1960 in the American scientific journal Science under the controversial title "Doomsday: Friday November 13".
The authors of this study argued that if world population growth continues in the same pattern observed for the past thousand years, their mathematical model shows that the human population will theoretically reach infinity in November 2026.
But are the researchers really talking about the destruction of humanity? And is this date a scientific sign of a cosmic disaster or an event that could end life on Earth?
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