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Coined by physicist Robert R. Caldwell in 1998, in reference to the Star Wars movie "The Phantom Menace", in his paper "A Phantom Menace? Cosmological consequences of a dark energy component with super-negative equation of state" referring to the phantom energy menace that would lead to the Big Rip.
出典:Wikipedia
出典:『Wikipedia』 (2011/04/30 18:32 UTC 版)
Phantom energy is a hypothetical form of dark energy with equation of state
. If it exists, it could cause the expansion of the universe to accelerate so quickly that the Big Rip would occur.