(UNDATED)–Tomorrow isn’t just any Friday the 13th. According to a famous 1960 science paper, it’s supposed to be the end of the world. Back in November 1960, physicist Heinz von Foerster and his team published a study in the journal Science using a mathematical formula to project human population growth. Their equation hit a point of infinite population-and what they jokingly warned would be humanity getting “squeezed to death”-on Friday, November 13, 2026.
Fortunately for all of us, global birth rates slowed down dramatically starting in the 1990s, officially canceling tomorrow’s mathematical apocalypse.
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