KnowraBig RipLinked fromLinked fromThe 7 pages that link to Big Rip, each with the reason it gives.All 7Broader topic 2Compared with 5Cosmological constantCompared with: It would follow from evolving dark energy, not an ordinary positive cosmological constant.Heat death of the universeCompared with: It predicts disruption before equilibrium rather than a gradual exhaustion of usable energy.Big CrunchCompared with: It predicts expansion becoming destructive rather than reversing into collapse.Timeline of the far futureCompared with: It contrasts with gradual cooling and dilution if dark energy evolves in a particular way.Ultimate fate of the universeCompared with: It requires dark energy to become more repulsive with time than in the standard forecast.