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Universe to end with 'Big Rip'

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At a public talk at the Australian Astronomical Observatory in Sydney in July, Nobel Laureate Professor Brian Schmidt described how our universe is rapidly expanding. Professor Schmidt said only 4.5 per cent of the universe is made up of things we can see while the rest is invisible. Dark matter makes up 24 per cent and dark energy the remaining 72 per cent. Once this dark energy takes over, it will cause more space to expand, creating more dark energy, "which can then push harder against gravity, creating even more space". "The creation of space eventually can happen even more quickly than light can travel." This could lead to one of the "craziest theoretical ideas" and one of Professor Schmidt's favourites - the Big Rip. The professor said “This “ Big Rip ” might be the way our universe ends and it may happen on literally a human time scale" in other words Professor Schmidt is supporting concepts that I have already published in b