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Chapter 5 · Four zeros

0 Hz, silence, 0 K, and philosophical zero look close, but belong to different questions.
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The zero point · Separate to go deeper

Physical, acoustic, and philosophical zero are not one answer. Keeping them distinct lets us ask what begins when a cycle, a sound, or a story stops.

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Event Horizon · Where measurement ends and inquiry begins

0.5 Hz is not the end of brain activity, and 0 Hz is not a ‘frequency of death.’ EEG-band boundaries are useful analytic conventions; from here the descent becomes a metaphorical room that moves from a countable rate into silence, uncertainty, and meaning.

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