zero-point energy!

[otcartsid]

Last night was the first time I heard about it so yeah I'm pretty curious about what people think of it

[Jay-qu]

you didnt happen to be watching star gate did you? I havent heard of zero-point energy anywhere outside of Science Fiction...

From what I have heard it extracts energy from the vacumm of space

[InfiniteNow]

Try searching also for "Casimir Effect" and/or "Paul Dirac."


Cheers.

[armofreek]

there is a zero-point energy gun in Half-Life 2, but thats a video game... that'd be coooooool though

[otcartsid]

haha no, Jay-qu. I have never seen Star Gate. Yesterday evening I was sitting in my "attention & memory" class (psych) and we watched this video called Beyond Science. It was pretty entertaining but yeah it was more a criticism for what we started talking about in class (why smart people believe weird things)

[otcartsid]

Originally Posted by InfiniteNow

Try searching also for "Casimir Effect" and/or "Paul Dirac."


Cheers.

thanks for the tip!

[otcartsid]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-point_energy

[TheFaithfulStone]

you didnt happen to be watching star gate did you? I havent heard of zero-point energy anywhere outside of Science Fiction...

It's real enough. It's also of zero usefullness.

It's doubtful that you could ever really tap it, although it's conceivable you could use it's properties to do some wacky stuff with "space expansion" and stuff like that.

So yeah, Zero-point energy is a real thing - but it's just an interesting quantum effect, not a coal mine in outerspace.

TFS

[InfiniteNow]

Originally Posted by TheFaithfulStone

So yeah, Zero-point energy is a real thing - but it's just an interesting quantum effect, not a coal mine in outerspace.

Yet...