otcartsid Posted January 11, 2006 Report Share Posted January 11, 2006 Last night was the first time I heard about it so yeah I'm pretty curious about what people think of it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay-qu Posted January 11, 2006 Report Share Posted January 11, 2006 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
InfiniteNow Posted January 11, 2006 Report Share Posted January 11, 2006 Try searching also for "Casimir Effect" and/or "Paul Dirac." Cheers. :rolleyes: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
armofreek Posted January 11, 2006 Report Share Posted January 11, 2006 there is a zero-point energy gun in Half-Life 2, but thats a video game... that'd be coooooool though:hyper: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
otcartsid Posted January 11, 2006 Author Report Share Posted January 11, 2006 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) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
otcartsid Posted January 11, 2006 Author Report Share Posted January 11, 2006 Try searching also for "Casimir Effect" and/or "Paul Dirac." Cheers. :rolleyes: thanks for the tip! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
otcartsid Posted January 11, 2006 Author Report Share Posted January 11, 2006 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-point_energy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheFaithfulStone Posted January 12, 2006 Report Share Posted January 12, 2006 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
InfiniteNow Posted January 12, 2006 Report Share Posted January 12, 2006 So yeah, Zero-point energy is a real thing - but it's just an interesting quantum effect, not a coal mine in outerspace.Yet... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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