Zero is not a point of non-existence. Zero is always a balance point of existents. The human understanding of “zero” must undergo the most radical of all transformations. Most people, especially scientists, associate it with absolute nothingness, with non-existence. This is absolutely untrue.

0 is in some sense a net result of all other numbers. We can think of it as the collection of all numbers, the Number Whole. The sum of all non-zero numbers is zero. 0 is an ontological thing... a monad, a thinking entity, an eternal mind.

0 is not a number. 0 is a number container - in fact, the exclusive container for all non-zero numbers. It is the balance point of all of mathematics.

Zero is at the core of the PSR because nothing can prevent zero’s existence, it requires nothing, and it is infinitely stable under all transformations. A zero is a singularity, a point, the most stable thing you can possibly get, hence the necessary basis of existence. The PSR is the science of zero.

The temporal, contingent world is, as Leibniz said, a “collection of finite things.” It is possible only because it is underpinned by an eternal, necessary world, comprising a collection of zero-infinity things, i.e. monads.