So I've seen different reasonings for this; which is correct, or are they both corollaries of each other?
1) For a particle to be at rest, we would know its momentum and therefore by Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, the uncertainty in its position would be infinite. Is this acceptable?
2) λ=h/p=h/0⟹λ→∞ which is not possible.
EDIT:
Another reason:
3) Due to the zero-point energy, even in its ground state there will always be non-zero kinetic energy.
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