phantom energy
nounEtymology Coined by physicist Robert R. Caldwell in 1998, in reference to the Star Wars movie The Phantom Menace, in his paper "A Phantom Menace? Cosmological consequences of a dark energy component with super-negative equation of state" referring to the "phantom energy menace" that would lead to the Big Rip.
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Astronomy, Astrophysics, Cosmology, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Physics A category of dark energy, where dark energy is not fixed in amount nor in density, and continuously increases over time.
- Related terms
- Big Rip, vacuum energy
- Hypernyms
- dark energy, dark sector, energy
- Coordinate terms
- quintessence, cosmological constant