Phantom Energy Definition
The energy that is lost due to standby electronic activity of equipment that is "off ", on standby or sleep mode .
A category of dark energy , where dark energy is not fixed in amount nor in density, and continuously increases over time.
Origin of Phantom Energy
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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 .
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phantom + energy PHANTOM ENERGY . From the mysterious nature of this energy loss.
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