Checked reel · 3 Nov 2026
That claim came from viral social media clickbait, and Loeb publicly debunked it himself, confirming he never made any such prediction. The November 13, 2026 date comes from a 1960 paper in Science by physicist Heinz von Foerster. He used a mathematical formula to show that if global population kept accelerating at 1960 rates, it would hit infinity on that date. It was a theoretical warning about overpopulation, not an apocalypse forecast, and birth rates have dropped drastically since.
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