<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><DIV>"Phantom Energy"--Is that when you think you have energy, but when you get up off the couch you realize you really don't?</DIV>
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<DIV>Donovan Arnold<BR><BR>--- On <B>Sun, 5/15/11, Ted Moffett <I><starbliss@gmail.com></I></B> wrote:<BR></DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: rgb(16,16,255) 2px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px"><BR>From: Ted Moffett <starbliss@gmail.com><BR>Subject: [Vision2020] Phantom Energy: Dark Energy with w<-1 Causes a Cosmic Doomsday<BR>To: "Moscow Vision 2020" <vision2020@moscow.com><BR>Date: Sunday, May 15, 2011, 8:37 PM<BR><BR>
<DIV class=plainMail>Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 071301 (2003) [4 pages]<BR><BR><A href="http://prl.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v91/i7/e071301" target=_blank>http://prl.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v91/i7/e071301</A><BR><BR>Phantom Energy: Dark Energy with w<-1 Causes a Cosmic Doomsday<BR><BR>Robert R. Caldwell1, Marc Kamionkowski2, and Nevin N. Weinberg2<BR>1Department of Physics & Astronomy, Dartmouth College, 6127 Wilder<BR>Laboratory, Hanover, New Hampshire 03755, USA<BR>2Mail Code 130-33, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena,<BR>California 91125, USA<BR><BR>Received 20 February 2003; published 13 August 2003<BR><BR>We explore the consequences that follow if the dark energy is phantom<BR>energy, in which the sum of the pressure and energy density is<BR>negative. The positive phantom-energy density becomes infinite in<BR>finite time, overcoming all other forms of matter, such that the<BR>gravitational repulsion rapidly brings our brief epoch of
cosmic<BR>structure to a close. The phantom energy rips apart the Milky Way,<BR>solar system, Earth, and ultimately the molecules, atoms, nuclei, and<BR>nucleons of which we are composed, before the death of the Universe in<BR>a “big rip.”<BR><BR>© 2003 The American Physical Society<BR><BR>URL:<BR><A href="http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.91.071301" target=_blank>http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.91.071301</A><BR>DOI:<BR>10.1103/PhysRevLett.91.071301<BR>PACS:<BR>98.80.Cq<BR>--------------------------------------------<BR>Vision2020 Post: Ted Moffett<BR><BR>=======================================================<BR>List services made available by First Step Internet, <BR>serving the communities of the Palouse since 1994. <BR> <A href="http://www.fsr.net/" target=_blank>http://www.fsr.net</A>
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