This post is not just about the strict scientific meaning of ZPE (Zero Point Energy), but also what people have started using ZPE to mean. (Something similar to free-energy devices)
ZPE is not needed to disprove the Laws of Thermodynamics, those are self disproving. Every over-unity device found says the laws are bunk. Things like electron cascades disprove the laws. Even boiling water disproves thermodynamics. (If you boil water, then cool it, it takes less energy to boil it again. Further, when you turn water into steam, you create more expansion energy then you used to boil the water.)
However, when we see ZPE devices doing their thing, we will KNOW that the Laws of Thermodynamics are toast.
We will probably see all the ivory tower hierophants go completely into denial. "Energy is not coming out of the boxes!" "It is all a trick!" "Believe us, and not your own lying eyes!"
And it still may take a generation before Science is allowed to change to reflect what is clearly in front of us.
Everything in Modern Materialistic Science rests upon the Laws of Thermodynamics
The big bang (which defies the Laws of Thermodynamics, but only once, in the beginning, when nothing explodes into something) happens and then, since no energy can be added to the "closed system" the universe has been cooling down, running down its clock spring, and "soon" it will just peter out into cold, dead, space.
Entropy and the Laws of Thermodynamics are the same thing. It is a concept, that self explains itself.
It is, in essence, that the Hierophants of Modern Materialistic Science have stated that there is no God, everything is random, and time is just the direction of the universe going towards entropy.
All of that is one concept, which is engraved in the commandments of the Laws of Thermodynamics.
Imagine the horror, to those in their high ivory towers, if even the slightest crack forms in the foundation of their religion?
Along comes a simple perpetual motion machine
I am not speaking of magnet motors, of which there are a few, that continue to spin on the power of magnets for as long as the magnets hold magnetism.
I am speaking of atoms vibrating.
0° Kelvin is defined as the point where all energy is pulled out of a system. The coldest point. Of course, this is all theoretical, because when they actually tried reaching it, certain atoms kept vibrating. There is still energy, at the zero point. And where is this energy coming from?
So, now scientists, freaking out, have come up with theories that we could go colder than 0° K by going warmer. (no, really. Temp goes up, Entropy goes down, continuing in a circle.) The scientists are refusing to believe what is in front of their own eyes. The Laws of Thermodynamics have to be obeyed.
Modern Materialistic Scientists, from the evidence shown, should give up the Laws of Thermodynamics.
And from the experiments of Kozyrev, should give up the notion of Entropy.
However, they will not, they cannot. To do so means they stop existing. The entire Physics book is thrown out.
How to describe that a paradigm is gone
So, in the near future, we have ZPE devices making electricity with no inputs. And, basically, Modern Materialistic Science has to fold. When too many people can see that a perpetual motion machine exists, you cannot keep up the sham that it doesn't.
Then things get worse for these Hierophants, more people start to really believe in God. And things like Intelligent Design. Because it explains things WAY better than the old broken science, and because people start having real connections to God, instead of indirect contact through a hierophant.
Yes, you cannot prove that God exists with pure logic, but everywhere you look, you can see God's fingerprints. And no where is more obvious than the constants of the universe. If the large force was any bigger, the whole universe collapses, if the small force was any smaller, the whole universe would fly apart. So perfectly balanced, the odds of that happening by accident are HUGE. And there are more forces, perfectly balanced.
And then we have things like (I will use Clif's term for this) the Tiny Bloop theory, which defines the universe being created trillions of times a second. There is so much energy being created all the time, that entropy should be forgotten as a concept. (see Kozyrev for better concepts) There is no sign of the universe winding down, in fact, it is getting more complex, making more connections and larger arrays.
(We will see a galaxy being formed here soon. It doesn't happen through a bang, it happens through a great deal of energetic structures making each and every piece important in the galaxy's being.)
So, the introduction of ZPE devices will bring an end to Modern Materialistic Science. It should already be gone, but they have come up with such proofs as a guy in a wheelchair using a box that creates voice sounds, telling us to look for magical unicorn shit like "the God particle" and "dark matter" (The most incredible thing that Hawking did is live decades longer than anyone else with the same disease)
The really amazing thing about the future sciences is that they are quite simple. The laws are extremely simple. Learning the laws could be done in grade school. It doesn't take a brainiac in a wheelchair to work things out. You do not have to be the next Einstein to completely comprehend physics.
And when we go back to studying the Aether, we will see the simplicity was there all along. And the things we will do with our understanding of physics will make all kinds of new technology. (Flying cars are really simple)
I feel the biggest problem will be that people bring up old teachings for decades. "But that doesn't work because entropy" and the young scientists will have to explain that entropy is a wrong concept. It will take so much of our time.