A text message being sent through mobile phones that the American continent will fall in gloom while Asia will remain full of sun shine for one and half days (36 hours) on January 1, 2009 after a period of 2,400 years, is scientifically incorrect.
"Scientifically it is impossible that one part of the earth will remain under the sun for 36 hours and the other in darkness and can only happen if the earth ceases its movement," said Dr Muhammad Shahid Qureshi, Director Space and Planetary Astrophysics at Karachi University.
Probably, this belief has either originated from Hindu mythology of India or Maya mythology of the Central America, but has no links even to the ancient classical and modern day physical science that the earth will stop its rotation.
He made it clear that the earth completes its axis of rotation in a period of 26,000 years in a perpendicular circle around the sun. He said that he fails to recognise the coherence and relation between the both methodologies that one big part of the earth can fall in gloom and the other can remain under the sun for a longer period than normal and physical science contradicts such kind of notions. He said that it is a rumour.
The message that is being sent frequently nowadays says "on January 1, 2009, the sun will be visible for 36 hours (1.5 days). During this period US will remain in the darkness and a period of three days will be converted into two days. This happens after a period of 2,400 years."