Austrian physicist Heinz von Forster made a prediction that went viral on social media, suggesting that the world might end in November of this year.
Previously, this Austrian physicist pointed to Friday, November 13, 2026, as the date he called 'Doomsday'. However, he clarified that he did not mean the actual cessation of world existence.
Forster's model was built on 24 population estimates over a period of about two thousand years. He noted that the time required for the population to double was steadily decreasing.
According to his calculations, if this acceleration continued unchanged, the interval between doublings would theoretically shrink to zero, and the population would approach infinity. Nevertheless, such an outcome is practically impossible.
In this case, the term 'Doomsday' denoted the failure of the mathematical model itself at a certain point, not a catastrophic event leading to the end of the world. The model subsequently lost its basis because global population growth slowed down starting in the 1960s.
Although the population increased from approximately 3 billion in 1960 to the current 8.2 billion, the annual growth rate decreased from about 2.2 percent in 1963 to approximately 0.84 percent in 2026, which increased the calculated doubling time of the population from 32 years to approximately 83 years.