Submitted by Tank_AT t3_11r2ae9 in askscience
Aseyhe t1_jc7ncfu wrote
Reply to comment by mesouschrist in Does space expansion occur uniformly in all directions and dimensions? by Tank_AT
That happens only if dark energy is phantom energy, which is not really supported by observations or theory, but can't be definitely ruled out either. Essentially what happens is that in these models, the pressure of the dark energy fluid is sufficiently negative that expansion raises its energy density. With higher energy density, its gravitational repulsion becomes stronger. Eventually the repulsion becomes strong enough to separate atoms.
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