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JakDaSnack said:

If you throw a shotput in the air, at some point in the air it will completely stop and thus is sum total energy will be 0, but guess what, it's not nothing.  And while the Universe has a total sum energy of 0, it still isn't "nothing."

no, only the sum of the _kinetic_ energy is 0 (in this framework - ofcouse if it's on earth it still has various different kinectic energies, like the earth self-rotation, the earth rotating around the sun, the solar system rotating around the inner milky way and the milky way moving into a direction and so on) , it still has latent energy in it's own matter

what dsgrue said is that all forms of energy in the universe together equal to a sum of 0 - something I personally am not sure about, but the possibility is there