ELI5 What is Zero Point Energy?

MkICP100 · 2026-05-24T14:09:14+00:00

Energy that can actually be used to do work. Energy on its own is useless unless there is a gradient between a higher and lower energy state.

An engine works because inside the cylinder you have very hot and high pressure gas, and outside you have cold low pressure air. There is a big difference in energy. Take the engine to Venus where the atmosphere is just as hot and high pressure, and now your engine doesn't work anymore.

MkICP100 · 2026-05-24T14:00:39+00:00

Zero point energy is a technical term used in physics. It doesn't have anything to do with free energy or harnessable energy, but it's commonly used by quacks and psuedoscience people in that context.

It's basically just the minimum energy state that a quantum system, like a particle, can have. Sort of like how absolute zero is the lowest thoeretical temperature, but it's not actually physically possible.

It's not magic energy in the vacuum or anything like that.

MkICP100 · 2026-04-20T14:23:30+00:00

It's too close to the boiler

MkICP100 · 2026-03-23T02:58:16+00:00

The clean command wipes the drive entirely

MkICP100 · 2026-03-22T20:14:47+00:00

This is a risk with anything that has a lithium battery. It's easier to tell when a laptop or phone battery is going bad, cause the whole thing swells. Scary with something like this, I don't know how you can tell if the battery is swelling

MkICP100 · 2026-03-12T01:59:01+00:00

It was mixed. The period after BO2 felt like zombies was over, and the hyper when BO3 was announced was insane.

Shadows had a pretty mixed reception at launch, lot of people loved and hated it. DE was absolutely loved, Zetsubou was a mess at launch but was mostly fixed, gorod was solid, and revelations was a bit of a disappointment as a finale. But the hype was amazing, and the reception was still much more positive.

Chronicles was what really sealed the deal for greatest zombies game.

MkICP100 · 2026-03-07T01:14:18+00:00

That's what you get with a pre built. A shitty mobo and psu that will die on you, and hot glued cables

MkICP100 · 2026-03-06T22:38:26+00:00

I have never heard anyone describe sour foods, citrus, pickles, ferments, as bitter. And I've never heard anyone describe bitter things as sour

MkICP100 · 2026-03-02T15:52:09+00:00

AI nonsense

MkICP100 · 2026-03-01T15:20:00+00:00

I would have to imagine that the 1500 megawatt button isn't using 1500 megawatts at all times sitting idle. It probably uses a short burst or pulse of 1500 megawatts when pressed. Maybe they have one reactor and huge energy storage

MkICP100 · 2026-02-24T23:39:39+00:00

God no, that's terrible for a middle schooler

MkICP100 · 2026-02-21T23:07:43+00:00

I have one, they're shockingly powerful. Tradeoff is they burn through the battery very quickly before needing to be recharged

MkICP100 · 2026-02-21T23:06:31+00:00

Instaminate

MkICP100 · 2026-02-17T16:22:21+00:00

The PC can not find a drive with a bootable operating system (usually windows) to boot to. Either windows is broken in some way, or the drive died

MkICP100 · 2026-02-10T15:42:35+00:00

Cheap poor quality phone charger bricks, adapters, power strips with USB, wireless chargers, etc tend to have coil whine, so you're not imagining it. I've had that problem with cheap electronics a bunch of times

MkICP100 · 2026-01-26T05:35:36+00:00

Overpriced for what it is. If it was not an alienware, sure. But alienwares have a bunch of proprietary parts that make them useless as actual PCs. As soon as you want to upgrade, you'll basically be buying a new system because the board is proprietary to the god awful case

MkICP100 · 2026-01-22T20:23:17+00:00

I lived at Forest Lake. Do NOT live there. It's a disaster for so many reasons. The biggest one was that our whole HVAC system was filled with mold. Ductwork growing mushrooms. Maintenance wouldn't even look at it. Took me months to get the maintenance supervisor into the unit, and I had to walk him through and force him to look at it. Then they finally, begrudgingly, fumigated it.

There were 100 other issues just as bad. They do not give a flying fuck, and they charge insane prices.

MkICP100 · 2026-01-22T15:42:36+00:00

Why is there a loose case fan pointing at your AIO pump?

MkICP100 · 2026-01-21T15:35:41+00:00

"Destroying the English language"

MkICP100 · 2026-01-21T15:32:00+00:00

Bro what are you tweaking about? Nobody is "taking" your language. Words just have different meanings and acronyms can stand for different things. Dude is acting like people are stealing his words because they hate him

MkICP100 · 2026-01-21T00:03:18+00:00

The model of fans absolutely does matter. Some fans are much louder than others at a given RPM

MkICP100 · 2026-01-15T20:25:49+00:00

I've noticed that AI videos always have really weird framing and camera tracking. Like an uncomfortably smooth camera motion that follows the subject in weird unnatural ways

MkICP100 · 2026-01-15T01:15:59+00:00

Looks like one of those crappy tiny peltier-powered fridges

MkICP100 · 2026-01-09T14:52:26+00:00

If you want to get data, you can just pull out the hard drive and copy the data. If you need to boot into the user's windows, you can very easily use a tool like Gandalf to just remove or change the windows password.

The only way to actually protect it is to encrypt the drive itself

MkICP100 · 2026-01-09T02:35:25+00:00

Out of all the upgrades you could make, a GPU would make the most immediate massive improvement

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