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Cosmic Queries – Cosmological Curiosities

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The Big Rip

At that moment, the universe will tear because it will no longer be able to stretch in response to that force. We call it the big rip and it will happen if nothing else is in the way. It's going to happen in 22 billion years. And so I wouldn't worry about it. The sun will be dead long before that happens.

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