phantom energy

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Etymology 1

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From phantom +‎ energy. From the mysterious nature of this energy loss.

Noun

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phantom energy (uncountable)

  1. (energy efficiency) The energy that is lost due to standby electronic activity of equipment that is "off", on standby or sleep mode.
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Etymology 2

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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.

Noun

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phantom energy (uncountable)

  1. (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
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  • Big Rip (destruction of the Universe caused by ever increasing dark energy (ie. phantom energy))
  • vacuum energy