My vote would be for nothingness, except that nothingness probably amounts to nonsense. Like it or not, "existence exists", as the Objectivists like to chant. There is no alternative. Some early pre-Socratic, whose name escapes me (I could look it up) postulated a primal stuff, out of which everything is made, and that primal stuff has no beginning or end. I'd think of that in terms of a generic quantum field. Whether or not there is such a thing is a question that science can probably answer.
Consider an unbounded set of random variables with an unbounded variance. Given infinite time, what might emerge from such a soup? Would you treat something like that as a maximum entropy state or a minimum entropy state? Only THE SHADOW knows! And he ain't tellin'.
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