Darren New wrote:
> Orchid XP v8 wrote:
>> Dude, don't forget zero-point energy. One day somebody's going to 
>> figure out how to harness that and we'll all have limitless amounts of 
>> energy for nothing!
> 
> I am told by people with PhDs in theoretical particle physics that this 
> is not theoretically impossible. Zero-point energy is apparently not 
> subject to the same conservation laws, so *if* you could actually get it 
> out, you'd be golden. Way over my head, tho.

Interesting. The definition of "zero-point energy" is the minimum energy 
state of the system, such that it is impossible to reduce it to a lower 
energy state.

Therefore, by definition, if you *can* actually access the energy then 
it isn't actually zero-point energy. :-D

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