ZERO ENERGY UNIVERSE HYPOTHESIS

Considering the amount of energy packed in the nucleus of a single uranium atom, or the energy that has been continuously radiating from the sun for billions of years, it seems that the total energy in the universe must be an inconceivably vast quantity. But it's not, it's probably zero. Light, matter and antimatter are what physicists call "positive energy". And yes, there's an enormous amount of it. Most physicists think however, that there is an equal amount of "negative energy" stored in the gravitational attraction that exists between all the positive energy particles. The positive exactly balances the negative, so ultimately there is no energy in the universe at all. Their hypothesis is that the extreme positive and negative quantities of energy randomly fluctuated into existence. Quantum theory, and specifically Heisenberg's uncertainty principal, provide a natural explanation for how that energy may have come out of nothing. Throughout the universe, particles and antiparticles sponatenously form and quickly annihilate each other without violating the law of energy conservation. These spontaneous births and deaths of so-called virtual particle pairs are known as "quantum fluctuations". Some physicists call this quantum fluctuation state, a universe from nothingness.