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Cosmic Queries – Cosmic Collisions

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The Big Bang and the Big Rip Are Causly Connected

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Is it possible the big bang and the big rip are causly connected? I heard from a ance you twuber once that the amount of energy needed to split elementary particles such as quarsis so infinitely great that the very act would mathematically create new elementary particles, rather than actually splitting them. The namesake of this format, cosmic queries, became a book published by a national geographic a couple of years ago, and is an r section on how the universe will endit. And all the hypotheses are there, including the big rip, which would happen in 22 billion years, if, in fact, the acceleration of the universe continues.

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