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Let me ask you instead why you think it should DISAPPEAR at absolute zero, which would actually be a lot harder to explain.

In the real world, nothing is ever at absolute zero, so it's kind of a moot point. Even if we posit that miraculously something was, the mere act of illuminating it would transfer energy to it and raise the temperature some infinitesmal bit above absolute zero.

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