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Michael Moran & Matthew Fulton

Sir Isaac Newton's haunting Armageddon date prediction from 1704 has people worried

Sir Isaac Newton's prediction on when the world would come to an end from way back in the year 1704 is causing people to fear the legendary scientist may have been right.

One of the most famous British personalities of all time, the mathematician, astronomer and physicist among other things, prophesied that the world could could face doomsday in the year 2060, reports the Daily Star.

Newton's history-making discoveries in the field of science, most notably the laws of gravity, have some thinking he could not make the same unsubstantiated end-of-the-world forecasts that modern TikTok 'time travellers' and soothsayers have with little basis.

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