One of the more devastating possibilities regarding 2012 comes from a theory that the galactic alignment the Maya may have been targeting could also be the due date for a major cosmic inundation. Scientists have long known that some galaxies appear to be exploding from the core out. Astrophysicist Paul LaViolette suggests that not only is this much more common than previously thought, but our own galaxy may also be in the middle of this process and a giant galactic superwave may well be about to arrive.