In the movie The Incredibles, antagonist syndrome, points his finger at our heroes and using

a technology he called zero-point energy, ensnared them and lifted them off the ground.

Well it turns out that zero-point energy is an actual term in quantum mechanics.

So is this actually a source of limitless energy that we can tap into?

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Student questions, zero-point energy, and missing time.

From the university files, we have more student questions this week.

Today we have a number of particularly fun ones.

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