There will come a day when everything we know – galaxies, stars, planets, and eventually even the atoms that make up your body – will literally be torn apart by the unstoppable force of the expansion of the universe. There will be no structures left, just cold, empty space filled with lonely particles. Sounds like a sci-fi horror movie scenario? Meanwhile, this is a serious, mathematically justified possibility, which has just been strengthened by new calculations by Chilean physicists. Learn about the theory of the Great Rip.
