A Big Rip instead of Big Crunch?

[Boud Roukema]

There's a very nice discussion by George Ellis et al on "multiverses"
here:

http://de.arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0305292

i've put it on CosmoNews:

http://adjani.astro.uni.torun.pl:9673/zwicky/CosmoNews

pozd
boud

On Fri, 29 Aug 2003, Andrzej Marecki wrote:

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> PHYSICS NEWS UPDATE
> The American Institute of Physics Bulletin of Physics News
> Number 651 August 28, 2003   by Phillip F. Schewe, Ben Stein, and
> James Riordon
>
> THE BIG RIP: A NEW COSMIC DOOMSDAY scenario takes the present
> acceleration of the expansion of the universe to new extremes.
> Dartmouth physicist Robert Caldwell and his colleagues Marc
> Kamionkowski and Nevin Weinberg at Caltech have determined that if
> the supposed dark energy responsible for the acceleration is potent
> enough not only will the space between galaxies continue to increase
> but that the galaxies themselves will fly apart as will, at
> successive times stars, planets, and even atoms and nuclei.  Since
 ...