vacuum energy

vacuum energy
 n.— «What quantum theory says is that, powered by nothing whatsoever, the universe will still vibrate with what is sometimes called “vacuum energy” or “zero-point energy.”» —“The dark matter is the anti-matter source of zero point energy of the Hyperspace above the chilled universe” India Daily (Whitehouse Station, New Jersey) Jan. 3, 2009. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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