google big rip, it is an interesting read.
Interesting indeed.
“The Big Rip is a cosmological hypothesis first published in 2003, about the ultimate fate of the universe, in which the matter of the universe, from stars and galaxies to atoms and subatomic particles, is progressively torn apart by the expansion of the universe at a certain time in the future. Theoretically, the scale factor of the universe becomes infinite at a finite time in the future.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Rip
Re: Big Rip
It sounds like the hypothesis relies on the expansion energy growing stronger and stronger, until, at some point, it would be great enough to rip individual objects apart, even atoms.
No “Big Rip” in our Future: Chandra Provides Insights Into Dark Energy