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Indeed no. It is only by convention and for convenience we use zero as the origin.

But for example -273 C (absolute zero) could be a starting point in low temperature physics.

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The origin always has to be at zero on the number line (or the number grid in more dimensions). However, an object can start of anywhere on the number line (or coordinate space).

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