THE BIG RIP

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It is a hypothesis formulated in the article “Phantom Energy and Cosmic Doomsday”, published in 2003,  about how the Universe could come to an end.

Considering the existence of Dark Energy, — which is a theoretical form of energy that has a repulsive pressure, opposing gravity — it would be responsible for affecting the Universe expansion. If the amount of energy increases over time, behaving differently from The Standard Model [in which it remains constant], in billions of years from now, the pressure could be so intense that it would rip stars and planets from their orbits, then Dark Energy would overcome all forces and lead to all atoms being disintegrated.