164. Neil deGrasse Tyson — Cosmic Queries: StarTalk’s Guide to Who We Are, How We Got Here, and Where We’re Going
The Michael Shermer Show
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The Universe Has Zero Net Total Energy
All evidence points to the fact that the universe has zero total energy associated with it. The best analogy i coul find is, lets let's say you have a field, just say, your back yard. And if you're flat, that tells you you have zero net total energy. It turns out the universe has an interesting way of creating pockets of positive energy and negative energy spontaneously. Quantum physics can do this, and an gravitation can also do that. So when you do that, that's simply a further manifestation of zero total energy. You are making a universe with starting with no energy, because it continues to have no energy.
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