The science has given us a framework.

The framework explains the outcome.

But the specific details of how Jean Hilliard’s body navigated those six hours — the specific margin by which the core held, the specific rhythm of the cardiac function, the specific moments when things might have tipped the other way — are part of the mystery that remains.

She survived.

The mechanism is explicable.

The specific experience of the body that survived it is not accessible.

The gap remains.