Nothingness does not exist. There’s always something. Space prior to the Big Bang is not a great big void. I believe that our conditioned sense of relating everything to cause and effect is fundamentally preventing us from grasping such concept.

Mine is not as old. It is an Early 2011 MacBook Pro 13. Been five years and it is still running strong. Still in mint condition, zero dent or damage of any kind. My only upgrade has been adding 8GB RAM to make it 10GB total, because it was crawlingly slow while upgrading to Lion and Mountain Lion. I’m now on El…