Imagine if it were possible to pull energy straight out of empty space. Not from fuel, not from sunlight, but from nothing ...

Zero-point energy sits at a strange crossroads between hard physics and science fiction, promising limitless power from the fabric of space itself. If it could be tapped in any practical way, it would ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Suppose you want to empty a box. Really, truly empty it. You remove all its visible contents, pump out any gases, and—applying some ...

In some aspects zero point fields (zpf) yield very real physical manifestations, e.g. in the Casimir effect and as a source of noise in semi classical laser theory. This supports the notion that zpf ...