phantom energy
The energy that is lost due to standby electronic activity of equipment that is "off",…The energy that is lost due to standby electronic activity of equipment that is "off", on standby or sleep mode.
Meaning
2 senses(uncountable)The energy that is lost due to standby electronic activity of equipment that is "off", on standby or sleep mode.
(uncountable)A category of dark energy, where dark energy is not fixed in amount nor in density, and continuously increases over time.
Origin
From phantom + energy. Coined by physicist Robert R. Caldwell in 1998, in reference to thFrom phantom + energy.
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.
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