Effective Observation Is Indistinguishable from Absence

There is, in a corner of reality no telescope has ever accidentally offended, a department. Not a grand, shimmering council of omniscience. Not a cathedral of light. A department. Fluorescent-lit. Beige. Infinite. It is called the Continuity Oversight Bureau of Unobserved Behaviors , and it exists because—at some point in the expansion of the cosmos—someone realized that anything unobserved might…