Charles Liu

It's not a textbook or anything, but it's like, here, you want some answers?

Here they are.

Well, it's a little bit different, but we'll address that big rip part first.

Yeah.

Okay.

Remember, this question, which is a great question, by the way.

Love our Canadian friends who come up with great questions, come up with great answers, too.

The issue is...

that the big rip is a scenario of the expanding universe and the end of the universe that is true only if dark energy has a particular kind of characteristic where it's kind of negative, okay?

That's known often as the phantom energy scenario of dark energy.

And for that to be true, then that would mean that when quarks split up because of some sort of internal energy, not like what we're trying to do, but like some sort of a dark energy split, they won't create new quarks.

Why not?

Because of the dark energy characteristic.

The phantom dark energy itself basically allows for the creation of negative particles or negative energy particles.

And these things don't exist as far as we have ever found.

It doesn't become corks anymore.

Oh, so it's a different- You wind up with a decay of sorts.

It's a different reaction.

Right, right.

So you're not worried about that aspect of things if it's not a big rip.