Fatima a physicist who embraces fringe theories including simulation theory— that the known universe is a colossal video game—finds affirmation and intrigue when she meets Trey in a “chance” coffee shop meeting, a business owner who has a fixation with the “glitches” in our otherwise seamless reality. For him, it is evidence of alternate reality. Meanwhile, Timmy, an auto mechanic, enjoys his pedestrian existence of fixing cars at work and building things at home, but cannot shake the feeling that he is building and repairing more than what lies in front of him. Aaravi is a spiritualist and is Fatima’s friend and confidante who discusses the glitches Fatima raised and finds a correlate with the eastern notion of maya or “illusion.”
Do Sims Grow Like Trees? The seekers learn that the simulation is truly an energy conservation device, “filling in details” for objects and individuals...
A Child Armed With Nuclear Weapons? The Gamekeeper hires an out of town “hitman” to kill a rogue Artificial Intelligence node that is corrupting...
At master control of the sim, the Gamekeeper is agitated: He didn’t program the “superposition”of Timmy’s son—The simulation’s AI has in some way corrupted...