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English
Etymology 1
From phantom + energy.
From the mysterious nature of this energy loss.
Noun
phantom energy (uncountable)
- (energy efficiency) The energy that is lost due to standby electronic activity of equipment that is "off", on standby or sleep mode.
Etymology 2
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.
Noun
phantom energy (uncountable)
- (cosmology, astrophysics, astronomy, physics) A category of dark energy, where dark energy is not fixed in amount nor in density, and continuously increases over time.
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See also
- Big Rip (destruction of the Universe caused by ever increasing dark energy (ie. phantom energy))
- vacuum energy