phantom energy

From phantom +‎ energy.

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.

• phantom drain
• phantom energy drain
• phantom energy loss

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"^[1] referring to the "phantom energy menace" that would lead to the Big Rip.

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.

• dark energy
• dark sector
• energy

• quintessence (a category of dark energy)
• cosmological constant (a category of dark energy, where dark energy is constant in density)

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