"philosophers have argued...

...that without a trend toward order, time would lack meaning. The future would be indistinguishable from the past. Sequences of events would be just so many random scenes from a thousand novels. History would be indistinct, like the mist slowly gathered by treetops in evening."

Einstein's Dreams, pp 70-71

by Alan Lightman

absolute nonexistence:

the absence of existence, the absence of nothingness, and the absence of absence. It is what is not being referred-to under any circumstances. Its definition is that which cannot be referred-to, named, or defined. It is the non-state to which everything including nothingness is attracted.

Nothingness Theory: The connection between the evolution of the universe and human thought

Corey D. Kaup