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phantom energy en · NOUN · etymology 1

Etymology

From phantom + energy.

Meanings

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

Relateds

phantom energy drain · phantom drain · phantom energy loss

phantom energy en · NOUN · etymology 2

Etymology

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.

Meanings

1. (uncountable) A category of dark energy, where dark energy is not fixed in amount nor in density, and continuously increases over time.

Coordinates

quintessence · cosmological constant

Hypernyms

dark sector · energy · dark energy

Relateds

vacuum energy · Big Rip

wikipedia: Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace · wikipedia: en:Robert R. Caldwell