One of Those WTF Ideas

So I was thinking about the subject of time as I drifted off to sleep last night, probably because of a recent discussion I had with someone concerning the idea of "before" the Big Bang.

If Stephen Hawking is (like others he explained and built on) right, there was no "before" the Big Bang, because the Big Bang created the space-time continuum.

Which got me thinking about the simulation hypothesis. If we live in a simulated reality, it's by no means obvious that our space-time continuum is, or acts like, whatever "higher" reality our simulation is running in. Which raises questions of how time might work in other simulations or "higher" realities, including vis a vis causality and its attendant relationships.

At which point a story element popped into my mind. Since I never get this stuff written in fictional form, I'll just throw it out there (with apologies to anyone who might have come up with it, and maybe even novelized it, outside my attention span).

The protagonist learns that he lives in a simulated reality, presumably through contact with its "higher"
 reality or an adjacent simulation.

But he eventually learns that there isn't, or at least may not be, any "higher" or "previous" involved.

In point of fact, the relationship of Reality A to Reality B might be that someone in Reality A, which was created by someone in reality B, creates Reality B ... not one "before" or "after" the other, but because time and causality and such work completely differently in various realities, up to and including some primordial reality which may or may not exist (and which may have been created by one of its descendant realities).

Maybe I'm just babbling, but it's been ... well, days ... since I've indulged in any particularly psychoactive substances, and much longer than that since I've had any really strong ones.

Also, it does seem like a pretty complicated thing to work into a plot.

Not Really Especially Helpful

Quite often, I get notifications via Amazon's Alexa app -- to my phone and to my household Echo Dot speakers -- that "the National Weather Service has issued a ..."

The most frequent one is a friendly morning "the National Weather Service has issued a dense fog advisory for Archer [the Florida town nearest me], in effect from [time] to [time]." We get lots of fog here of a morning.

I also get such advisories for thunderstorm and tornado watches/warnings, high winds, etc.

This morning, I got one I've not gotten before:

"The National Weather Service has issued a Special Weather Statement for Archer."

That's it. That's all.

Per Wikipedia, "there are no set criteria for special weather statements ... [they] may be issued by the NWS for hazards that have not yet reached warning or advisory status or that do not have a specific code of their own, such as widespread funnel clouds. They are also occasionally used to clear counties from severe weather watches. Occasionally, special weather statements appear as heat advisories. ... Special Weather Statements may also be issued for possible fire weather conditions, such as an enhanced risk."

So "the National Weather Service has issued a Special Weather Statement for Archer" could mean, well, pretty much anything.

I wonder if someone at NWS forgot to input full data into whatever gizmo spreads the word, or if something is amiss in the Alexa system.

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