{"id":215726,"date":"2025-06-11T02:08:06","date_gmt":"2025-06-11T07:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/theres-an-infinite-amount-of-energy-locked-in-the-vacuum-time-could-we-ever-use-it"},"modified":"2025-06-11T02:08:06","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T07:08:06","slug":"theres-an-infinite-amount-of-energy-locked-in-the-vacuum-time-could-we-ever-use-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/theres-an-infinite-amount-of-energy-locked-in-the-vacuum-time-could-we-ever-use-it","title":{"rendered":"There\u2019s an infinite amount of energy locked in the vacuum time. Could we ever use it?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/theres-an-infinite-amount-of-energy-locked-in-the-vacuum-time-could-we-ever-use-it.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The bottom line is that no matter what the zero-point energy is, it\u2019s the background of the universe on top of which all of physics takes place. Just as you can\u2019t go lower than the ground floor of a building with no basement, you can\u2019t get lower than the ground state of the universe \u2014 so there\u2019s nothing for you to extract, and there\u2019s no way to leverage that into useful applications of energy.<\/p>\n<p>So, unfortunately, any work you do in the universe will have to be done the old-fashioned way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The bottom line is that no matter what the zero-point energy is, it\u2019s the background of the universe on top of which all of physics takes place. Just as you can\u2019t go lower than the ground floor of a building with no basement, you can\u2019t get lower than the ground state of the universe \u2014 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,219,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215726\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}