... at some point something must have come from nothing ...
Sophie Amundsen was on her way home from school .
She had walked the first part of the way with Joanna .
They had been discussing robots .
Joanna thought -- the human brain was like an advanced computer .
Sophie was not certain -- she agreed .
Surely a person was more than a piece of hardware ?
When they got to the supermarket -- they went their separate ways .
Sophie lived on the outskirts of a sprawling suburb and had almost twice as far to school as Joanna .
There were no other houses beyond her garden , which -- made it seem as if her house lay at the end of the world .