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by kergonath 1933 days ago
Yes it’s true. Kinetic energy is never exactly zero, that’s called zero-point energy. Perfect stillness does not exist at the atomic scale. It would involve knowing perfectly both positions and velocities (in case of atoms, the equivalent is true for spins).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-point_energy