In Popular Culture
In Disney/Pixar's animated film "The Incredibles", the main villain Syndrome powers his weapons with zero-point energy. The fan fiction community devoted to the character is named "Zero Point" because of this.
In the critically acclaimed game series from Valve Corporation, Half-Life, a "zero-point energy field manipulator" (popularly known as 'gravity gun'), meant to handle sensitive, anomalous and hazardous materials, is used as both a weapon to throw objects at enemies in high speeds, as a primary attack, and a tool to solve physics puzzles consisting in moving objects of considerable weight.
In Nintendo's Star Fox series, there are mentions of a 'G-Diffusion' system. The so-called 'G-diffusion' is an experimental power system used in the game's starfighters that reduces gravity forces on the pilot and provides a respectable power source for shields and propulsion, using advanced Zero-point energy technology.
Within the Stargate franchise the race of beings known as The Ancients who created the Stargate devices are also responsible for developing a crystalline energy source that contains a miniature universe from which zero point energy is extracted. Within the canon of both Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis Zero Point Modules, as they're called, are responsible for producing exponentially greater power than any other known form of energy output in the universe. Three of these were capable of powering the defensive shield on Atlantis, which is roughly the size of Manhattan, while it lay on the ocean floor for over 10,000 years.
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