In reply to Jones Beene's message of Thu, 26 Jul 2012 08:43:03 -0700: Hi, [snip] >In the numen est nomen department - here is a humorous thought if we want to >get away from ZPE as being too overwrought: not that it is any easier to >accept DCE or polarizable vacuum but if we want to specify something >specific like a dynamical Casimir effect for the road well no not >Fahrvergnügen, but close. Given the lore of zero point: the long history, the >Higgs field, the Einstein-Stern-Planck connection, the Sci-Fi nature of it all > we could always revisit Einsteins original terminology: Nullpunktsenergie.
"Null-punkts-energie" is quite literally "zero-point-energy" or ZPE. Regards, Robin van Spaandonk http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/project.html
