Phantom Energy: Dark Energy withw<−1Causes a Cosmic Doomsday

2003/02/25 by Robert R. Caldwell, Marc Kamionkowski, Nevin N. Weinberg · 21 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena #Space Science and Extraterrestrial Life #astro-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevlett.91.071301

published as Phys.Rev.Lett. 91 (2003) 071301 · 4 pages, 2 figures, latex

arxiv created 2003/02/25 · openalex publication_date 2003/08/13 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/04

Abstract

We explore the consequences that follow if the dark energy is phantom energy, in which the sum of the pressure and energy density is negative. The positive phantom-energy density becomes infinite in finite time, overcoming all other forms of matter, such that the gravitational repulsion rapidly brings our brief epoch of cosmic structure to a close. The phantom energy rips apart the Milky Way, solar system, Earth, and ultimately the molecules, atoms, nuclei, and nucleons of which we are composed, before the death of the Universe in a "big rip."

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