Warp wrote:
> Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
>> I'm told by other physicists that the zero-point energy might actually 
>> be tappable, or at least that there's no entropic reason it couldn't be.
> 
>   Does that mean we might get a real-life gravity gun (aka. zero-point
> energy field manipulator) someday?-)

Well, the "zero-point energy" is (amongst other things) the remaining 
jiggle in atoms even at absolute-zero. It *has* to be there, because 
without it, you'd know both the momentum and position precisely. It's 
the "heat" that keeps liquid helium from freezing. It's the energy that 
comes from spontaneous pair creation and destruction. It's the driver of 
the Casimir effect.

Whether it has anything to do with gravity is unknown yet. We'll know, 
when the ToE is found that actually predicts accurately.

But this was more a discussion of whether essentially could you build a 
battery that never goes flat.

-- 
   Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
     It's not feature creep if you put it
     at the end and adjust the release date.

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