Originally Posted By: Orac
The idea also precludes energy going into the "structure of the curvature"


Originally Posted By: Chris Baird
Curved spacetime can indeed hold energy, in addition to the energy of the mass itself, but this energy is not created by gravity. It is held in the spacetime curvature, but it is not created by the curvature. The energy held in a spacetime curvature is created by the thing that created the curvature: the original mass/energy.”

Just trying to “distil” the essence of these two quotes.

There never was nothing.