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34. Phantom dark energy will cause the universe to expand at an accelerating rate which will eventually surpass the speed of light making the universe expand faster than the observable universe, and since no fundamental forces can interact with energy or matter that leaves the observable universe objects held together by these forces will come undone, tearing apart galaxies and then stars and then atoms until finally the fabric of spacetime itself is ripped apart.