"The big break" will destroy the universe, including this one

Ethan Siegel, an astrophysicist, author and professor at Oregon's Lewis and Clark College, unveiled a new theory called the great break that the history of the universe could repeat.

Siegel said that "black energy" could play an important role in the future of the universe, according to the British newspaper Express.

The Big Break theory is not entirely new: it was founded in 2003 by three astronomers, Ruby Calwell, Mark Kamionkowski and Nevin Weinberg, in an article titled "Ghost Energy and the Resurrection of the Universe". ".

The model predicts that if the universe continues to grow at the current speed, it will reach a stage where all the forces that sustain it will experience a dark energy.

Black energy is a mysterious force that accounts for 68% of the universe, and it is thought that if it dominates gravitational, electromagnetic and nuclear forces, the universe will be torn apart.

In 2015, she released an improved version of the theory, predicting that the probability of such a breakup, the big breakup, would be about 22 billion years later.

But while many warn that it means the end of life as we know it, Siegel suggested that it could be a "recycling" of the universe, explaining in an article in Forbes magazine last September: "If the big break occurs, all the universe will return to the very beginning". And in the early stages that led to the Big Bang. "

He explained that the Big Bang was characterized by a state of high density and temperature, while the big break would be the opposite, ie characterized by a cold and huge expansion.

For some, the Big Bang is characterized by the fact that all the matter and energy of the universe is compressed into a tiny space, while the great break will extend to more than a billion light-years. Siegel added, adding that this rupture would lead to a new big explosion.

He said that with the great break, everything in the universe can be removed and only the cosmic tissue will disappear.