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Phantom Energy and Cosmic Doomsday

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Cosmologists have long wondered whether the Universe will eventually re-collapse and end with a Big Crunch, or expand forever, becoming increasingly cold and empty. Recent evidence for a flat Universe, possibly with a cosmological constant or some other sort of negative-pressure dark energy, has suggested that our fate is the latter. However, the data may actually be pointing toward an astonishingly different cosmic end game. Here, we explore the consequences that follow if the dark energy is phantom energy, in which the sum of the pressure and energy density is negative. The positive phantom-energy density becomes infinite in finite time, overcoming all other forms of matter, such that the gravitational repulsion rapidly brings our brief epoch of cosmic structure to a close. The phantom energy rips apart the Milky Way, solar system, Earth, and ultimately the molecules, atoms, nuclei, and nucleons of which we are composed, before the death of the Universe in a ``Big Rip''.

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Open case for a closed universe

hep-th · 2025-10-15 · unverdicted · novelty 6.0

A no-go theorem proves flat and open FRW universes cannot be nonsingular, geodesically complete and ANEC-consistent while closed universes can, with positive curvature mimicking phantom dark energy at the 1% level.

Singularities in loop quantum cosmology

gr-qc · 2025-07-10 · unverdicted · novelty 6.0

Loop quantum cosmology models harbor physical singularities or inconsistent space-time structures, with a new effective Friedmann equation revealing a sub-Planckian bounce after a singularity at infinite scale factor resembling a time-reversed big rip.

An Interplay Between Fractional Calculus and Holographic Dark Energy

gr-qc · 2026-06-21 · unverdicted · novelty 5.0

Introduces Fractional Holographic Dark Energy (FHDE) via fractionally corrected entropy from a modified Wheeler-DeWitt equation and studies its late-time cosmology, field reconstructions, and extensions to modified gravity theories.

$\Lambda$CDM-like models with future singularities

gr-qc · 2019-07-16 · unverdicted · novelty 5.0

Dark energy models with pressure defined as a function of scale factor match ΛCDM observations today but develop finite-time future singularities, including exact scalar field representations and calculated effects on matter perturbation growth.

Quintom Model Perturbations

astro-ph.CO · 2026-06-25 · unverdicted · novelty 4.0

A two-field quintom model reproduces w0waCDM perturbation features and is mildly favored over it in Bayesian fits to BAO, CMB, and SNIa data.

Finite scale factor and future singularities

gr-qc · 2019-07-16 · unverdicted · novelty 3.0

Dark energy models with pressure as a function of scale factor produce type I-IV finite-time future singularities that exhibit similar late-time behavior.

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Showing 13 of 13 citing papers.

  • Affine ANEC selects the closed FRW branch for geodesically complete cosmology gr-qc · 2026-05-18 · unverdicted · none · ref 58 · internal anchor

    Affine ANEC obstructs non-static flat and open FRW from being null geodesically complete while ANEC-satisfying, but allows explicit scalar-field realizations for closed FRW with NEC-respecting matter.

  • A Spectrum of Cosmological Rips and Their Observational Signatures astro-ph.CO · 2025-12-23 · conditional · none · ref 12 · internal anchor

    A unified dark energy model with sigmoid correction generates a spectrum of rip futures that all fit DESI, Pantheon+, and CMB data at the same level as ΛCDM.

  • Open case for a closed universe hep-th · 2025-10-15 · unverdicted · none · ref 25 · internal anchor

    A no-go theorem proves flat and open FRW universes cannot be nonsingular, geodesically complete and ANEC-consistent while closed universes can, with positive curvature mimicking phantom dark energy at the 1% level.

  • Singularities in loop quantum cosmology gr-qc · 2025-07-10 · unverdicted · none · ref 30 · internal anchor

    Loop quantum cosmology models harbor physical singularities or inconsistent space-time structures, with a new effective Friedmann equation revealing a sub-Planckian bounce after a singularity at infinite scale factor resembling a time-reversed big rip.

  • An Interplay Between Fractional Calculus and Holographic Dark Energy gr-qc · 2026-06-21 · unverdicted · none · ref 286 · internal anchor

    Introduces Fractional Holographic Dark Energy (FHDE) via fractionally corrected entropy from a modified Wheeler-DeWitt equation and studies its late-time cosmology, field reconstructions, and extensions to modified gravity theories.

  • A Friendly Phantom: Late-time AdS-to-dS transition and cosmological tensions gr-qc · 2026-06-09 · unverdicted · none · ref 3 · internal anchor

    Ph-Λ_sCDM realizes sign-switching dark energy via a phantom scalar on a tanh potential, enabling controlled AdS-to-dS transition without Big Rip.

  • $\Lambda$CDM-like models with future singularities gr-qc · 2019-07-16 · unverdicted · none · ref 12 · internal anchor

    Dark energy models with pressure defined as a function of scale factor match ΛCDM observations today but develop finite-time future singularities, including exact scalar field representations and calculated effects on matter perturbation growth.

  • Quintom Model Perturbations astro-ph.CO · 2026-06-25 · unverdicted · none · ref 66 · internal anchor

    A two-field quintom model reproduces w0waCDM perturbation features and is mildly favored over it in Bayesian fits to BAO, CMB, and SNIa data.

  • Interacting $k$-essence field with non-pressureless Dark Matter: Cosmological Dynamics and Observational Constraints astro-ph.CO · 2025-09-11 · unverdicted · none · ref 78 · internal anchor

    Interacting k-essence dark energy and non-pressureless dark matter models with two interaction forms are shown to reproduce major cosmological epochs and fit observations comparably to LambdaCDM while admitting late-time de Sitter attractors.

  • Effective Phantom Dark Energy: What Cosmological Reconstruction Does and Does Not Imply astro-ph.CO · 2026-05-26 · unverdicted · none · ref 70 · internal anchor

    Effective phantom dark energy is a background-level reconstruction that does not imply fundamental pathologies such as ghost instabilities or null energy condition violation by the underlying stress tensor.

  • Finite scale factor and future singularities gr-qc · 2019-07-16 · unverdicted · none · ref 13 · internal anchor

    Dark energy models with pressure as a function of scale factor produce type I-IV finite-time future singularities that exhibit similar late-time behavior.

  • Modified Gravity Theories on a Nutshell: Inflation, Bounce and Late-time Evolution gr-qc · 2017-05-31 · accept · none · ref 247 · internal anchor

    Modified gravity theories supply viable mathematical frameworks for inflation, bounces, and dark energy eras that match observational data.

  • Observational tests of \texorpdfstring{$\Lambda(t)$}{Lambda(t)} cosmology in light of DESI DR2 physics.gen-ph · 2026-04-17 · unverdicted · none · ref 43

    MCMC constraints on two Lambda(t) models with DESI DR2, CC, and Pantheon+ data yield H0 ~72.5-73 km/s/Mpc, Omega_m0 near standard values in joint fits, and n~0.3 indicating mild deviation from LambdaCDM.