Is the end, the heart of the number zero…?

I’m reading a book called Zero (the biography of a dangerous idea) written by Charles Seife. In the book the author describes zero as “the ineffable and the infinite” because it has been feared and hated. Zero has always held a potential threat to physics; it still makes this century’s brightest minds struggle to understand it. Through history, despite the rejection, zero has always defeated those who oppose it. We could never ask zero to fit anything, instead zero has shaped our view of the universe and of life. At the beginning of history, there was a time when there was no zero or seven or even seven hundred. Wolves surprisingly were a key clue to the nature of the Stone Age mathematics; wolves were used as a blackboard. “This is the way the world ends, not with a bang but with a whisper”. The universe begins and ends with zero.