End of Times! How Close Are We?
| Big Rip
Author Zahid Ikram
Until the dawn of the 20th
century, the only view prevailing in the world of science
was that "the universe has a constant nature and it has
existed since infinite time." However, modern research,
observations, and calculations carried out by means of
modern technology have revealed that the universe in
fact had a beginning and that it constantly "expands."
At the beginning of the 20th century, the Russian physicist
Alexander Friedmann and the Belgian cosmologist Georges
Lemaitre theoretically calculated that the universe
is in constant motion and that it is expanding.
This notion was confirmed by the use of observational
data in 1929. While observing the sky with a
telescope, Edwin Hubble, the American astronomer,
discovered that the stars and galaxies were
constantly moving away from each other. This
discovery is regarded as one of the greatest in the history
of astronomy. During these observations, Hubble established
that the stars emit a light that turns redder according to
their distance. That is because according to the known laws
of physics, light heading towards a point of observation
turns violet, and light moving away from that point assumes
a more reddish hue. During his observations, Hubble noted a
tendency towards the color red in the light emitted by
stars. In short, the stars were moving further and
further away, all the time. The stars and galaxies
were not only moving away from us, but also from each other.
A universe where everything constantly moves away from
everything else implied a
constantly expanding universe.
The observations carried out in the following years verified
that the universe is constantly expanding.
In order
to gain a clearer understanding of this, let us imagine the
universe to be the surface of a balloon being inflated. In
the same way that the more the balloon is inflated, the
further away the points on its surface move from one
another, celestial bodies also move away from one
another as the universe expands. This was
theoretically discovered by Albert Einstein, regarded as one
of the greatest scientists of the 20th century. However, in
order to avoid violating the "static universe model"
that was generally accepted at that time, Einstein laid that
discovery aside. He would later describe this as the
greatest blunder of his life.
From the moment of the
Big Bang, the universe has been
constantly expanding at a great speed. Scientists
compare the expanding universe to the surface of a balloon
that is inflated.
The Universe is expanding, it has been mentioned in
Quran:
سُوۡرَةُ الذّاریَات
وَٱلسَّمَآءَ بَنَيۡنَـٰهَا
بِأَيۡيْدٍ۬ وَإِنَّا لَمُوسِعُونَ (٤٧)
The Stutterers
51:47
And it is We Who have constructed the heaven with
might, and verily, it is We Who are steadily expanding
it.(47)
سُوۡرَةُ الذّاریَات
اور
آسمانوں کو ہم ہی نے ہاتھوں سے بنایا اورہم ہی اسے وسعت دے رہے
ہیں(۴۷)
The word "heaven," as stated in the verse above, is used in
various places in the Qur'an. It is referring to space and
the wider universe. Here again, the word is used with this
meaning, stating that the universe "expands." The Arabic
word "moosiaaoona" in the term "inna lamoosiaaoona,"
translated into English as "it is We Who are steadily
expanding it", comes from the verb "evsea," meaning "to
expand." The prefix "la" emphasizes the following name or
title and adds a sense of "to a great extent." This
expression therefore means "We expand the sky or the
universe to a great extent." This is the very conclusion
that science has reached today.
One suggests that phantom energy
causes divergent expansion, which would imply that the
effective force of dark energy continues growing until it
dominates all other forces in the universe. Under this
scenario, dark energy would ultimately tear apart all
gravitationally bound structures, including galaxies and
solar systems, and eventually overcome the electrical and
nuclear forces to tear apart atoms themselves, ending the
universe in a "Big Rip".
Find more at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Rip
End of
Times... How Close are We?
There are some very speculative ideas and facts about the
future of life on earth, destruction of our solar system,
Galaxies and whole Universe...
The Collision of the Asteroids
Extinction Level Event (ELE)
Collision of Near Earth Objects (NEO)
Life Cycle of Sun
Super Solar Storm
Gama Rays Burst & Betelgeuse Goes Hyper-Nova.
Heat Death
Big Rip
Big Crunch