(from Nature.com)
According to a Spanish researcher, the universe may not rip itself to shreds after all. We’ve known for several years that the expansion of the unverse is accelerating, the recent ‘Big Rip’ theory says this will end in the galaxies, planets, and eventually subatomic particles themselves will be torn to pieces by the ever-increasing pressure of ‘dark energy’. But maybe not.
Whew!
With apologies to Dave Barry, I’ll conjecture that the galaxies are accelerating away from us just to get away from this guy.