Not with a bang, but with a Big Rip: how the world will end

Guardian ^ | 7-2-2015 | Hannah Devlin

[Citizen Zed]

Everything we know, and everything else besides, burst into existence at the Big Bang. Now scientists have concluded that we could be heading for an equally dramatic cosmic finale: the Big Rip.

A new theoretical model suggests that as the universe expands, everything, from galaxies, planets and atomic particles to space-time itself, will eventually be torn apart before vanishing from view.

There’s no need for immediate alarm, however: the extreme sequence of events is predicted for around 22 billion years from now.

[Jim from C-Town]

Women and minorities effected worst and White Men are too blame.

[Safrguns]

God says that the heavens will vanish suddenly with a large roar... and that the elements will melt with great heat.

[MHGinTN]

Yup. The Bible explains that God has spread the Universe out like a sheet, a tent. Science has discovered that the sheet is stretching. Science has discovered that in this stretching out of the heavens, potential energy is being added tot he fabric of spacetime, and now at an increasing rate of stretch. The Bible tells us that God Speaks and worlds leap into existence. Science has estimated that our current stretched spacetime has the energy to pop into and out of existence particle pairs amounting to the amazing figure of 10⁶³ particles. That's a lot of potential material for 'worlds'. The Bible teaches that a day is coming when God will roll up the heavens like a scroll ... the Bible also teaches that at the end of the Great Tribulation, God is going to call a do-over into existence, having destroyed the Universe as we now know it. In terms of Physics, that is going to take a whole lot of energy to accomplish.

Science tells us that the potential energy now found in one cubic meter of empty space (not occupied space) is the equivalent to the energy 100 million suns put out in a second. The zero point field is everywhere in the Universe.

[5thGenTexan]

I was thinking Duct Tape.

[C. Edmund Wright]

EXACTLY what I was referring to!

The whole notion of space time, first understood by Einstein, should convince people frankly. As a human, we cannot even comprehend that is before, or after, all of time.....or what is beyond all of space....let alone explain it.

[JRios1968]

There’s no need for immediate alarm, however: the extreme sequence of events is predicted for around 22 billion years from now.

And someone will blame it on George W. Bush and the Koch Brothers.

[boycott]

King James Holy Bible says everything’s gonna BURN!

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Not the believers.

[US Navy Vet]

We will be looking on from the sidelines.

[SparkyBass]

Cutting the Intergalactic Cheese

[Quickgun]

Yep. Taco Bell endangering the environment....

[mmichaels1970]

If you could get in a spaceship and travel to the edge of the universe, what would be on the other side of the edge?

I believe you'd never get there, you'd just keep going in circles...circumnavigating the universe if you will.

[ExCTCitizen]

The liberals will blame it on the Tea Party and ask for a BIG RIP tax to fight it...

[rikkir]

Your journey would reverse in a parallel universe. You might even pass yourself. :)

[Beowulf9]

“If you could get in a spaceship and travel to the edge of the universe, what would be on the other side of the edge?”

I’ve wondered this for years.

[Cboldt]

The short answer is “you can’t get there,” because no such place exists. It’s like asking “If you could get in a sailboat and travel to the edge of the earth, what would be on the other
side of the edge?”

[M Kehoe]

The model also states that WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE!

Sorry for shouting.

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[Demiurge2]

And in the last days, the Lord said, “Pull my finger.”

[rikkir]

That’s interesting. I didn’t remember that from the Bible, but it coincides with some physicists theory our universe was formed by energy from a parallel universe expanding into the void. That we live in a sheet multiverse.
The existence of God as an omnipotent being from a parallel universe makes sense to me. What other power other than God’s manipulation of the energy could have sparked the beginning of our universe.
Advances in science allow us to better see God’s wonders.

[MHGinTN]

*In my best Mister Burns voice* Eeexcellent. The spacetime Universe of our measurements is not being measured in ‘all’ dimensions, just the ones we can access directly or indirectly. In a way, you could say the Universe of our perception is oriented to dimension Time in a linear fashion. But there is planar and volumetric Time, also, but beyond our perceiving because we are limited to electromagnetic energy reactions (temporally linear in nature) to measure and collect data.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

If you could get in a spaceship and travel to the edge of the universe, what would be on the other side of the edge?

A pretty good view of the next universe closest to this one. Think of bubbles in a glass of seltzer.