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What is the Big Rip?

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

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The Big Rip

The big rip is sort of like a super accelerated version of what we already think is happening to our universe. Current accepted idea of the cosmology of the universe is that the universe is expanding and that that expansion is accelerating meaning things are getting further and further apart. The big rip is like a super charged version of that that's going to accelerate the acceleration of that expansion so that everything gets pulled apart to the tiniest bits at the end of time. Daniel: I don't know if you're supposed to eat a banana burrito or smoke it.

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