the universe will rip and kill everything including us?????????

Question

The Big Rip: New Theory Ends Universe by Shredding Everything


Their answer is that the eventual, phenomenal pace would overwhelm the normal, trusted effects of gravity right down to the local level. Even the nuclear forces that bind things in the subatomic world will cease to be effective.

"The expansion becomes so fast that it literally rips apart all bound objects," Caldwell explained in a telephone interview. "It rips apart clusters of galaxies. It rips apart stars. It rips apart planets and solar systems. And it eventually rips apart all matter."

He calls it, as you might guess, the Big Rip.


ex. a car gaining 60 mph every second eventually it will go so fast that all the parts of the car willl rip or break


so let me get this str8 a billion years from now the universe will juss rip and kill us?

Answer 1

You and I, each of us, we ARE the Universe.

Answer 2

errr, it won't happen in a billion years. More like 20 billion years. And it is actually only one of many theories regarding the death of the universe. Science isn't advanced enough to figure that at this point.

Some other options include

-The Big Crumbling: basically, over the next couple trillion years, one of the fundamental constants of physics changes, causing matter as we know it to break down

-The Big Crunch: This is an older theory, not widely accepted anymore. It holds that one day, gravity will overcome the universe, and the universe will shrink into an infinitly small, infinitly dense point, a singularity, and possibly oscillate into a new big bang and a new universe. It has not had wide acceptance since the universe was proven to be accelerating.

-One theory (doesn't have a catchy name) holds that the universe will keep expanding undisturbed until there is nothing but oblivion, with an odd black hole here and there, Those too, eventually evaporate due to hawking radiation, and on a large enough timescale (think hundreds of trillions of years) those too will pitter out, leaving the universe an infinte sea of nothingness.

fun stuff, huh? Don't worry, none of it will happen for a long time, enough for us to come up with something

Answer 3

Well that is a theory.

It's forecasted time of occurance is a Billion Years from now.
Have you noticed that not many folks around you live to be a Billion Years old? So, no person anywhere around here will know if the theory is good or bad, correct or wrong...

Theories are a dime a dozen. While some may be interesting, I wouldn't loose any sleep over the ones that
project forecasts of events several billions of years in the future. There is really not much you can do to alter the destiny of the Earth and Mankind. You could rent a street corner and set up shop as a preacher of doom and gloom. You could purchase a variety of whips and chains to flail yourself with for allowing this terrible predicted thing to happen. Or you could take two asperin and get a good night's rest.

Answer 4

There are two main opposing theories concerning the end of the universe. One is the big crunch, in which the universe will get crunched up into one big black hole, and we will all get compressed to death. The other one is the Big Rip or Big Freeze, in which the universe will continue to expand forever until everyone is ripped apart or freezes to death. So, yes, you are correct, we will all get compressed or ripped. Sounds like a happy ending to the story!

P.S. Some scientists say that intelligent life will be able to deal with the Big Crunch or Big Rip/Freeze and life will exist forever.

Answer 5

It's possible, but I think the time frame you mention seems a bit soon. You'd think in the Universe would have a longevity of more than 14.5 billion years or so.

Also, that's a theory, not a fact. That means a Scientist thinks it's possible and has evidence to support his claim, but not enough to prove it.

Answer 6

Highly doubtful, but even if that is true, why worry, when it is still several billion years away, and you will be long dead before that scenerio unfolds? I don't think it would play too much of an important factor in your afterlife.

Answer 7

I never heard of the universe ripping

Answer 8

ya i guess but before that the sun will expand (when it starts to get old) and it will expand so close to earth that every thing will die

Answer 9

well I can't see where you asked a question, you made a statement, and no matter how strange and unfounded it may seem everybody is intitled to their own opinion.

Answer 10

Its true we will die before the end we have nothing to fear but fear itself...and creepy clowns creepy clowns are never good