Uhm no, it is not exactly what you said. You exactly wrote: "...but it's an interesting thought experiment". Your story is not a thought experiment of any kin

Uhm no, it is not exactly what you said. You exactly wrote: "...but it's an interesting thought experiment". Your story is not a thought experiment of any kind. It's just an unstructured, unverifiable, lacking in continuity idea. It just a "thought" on its own. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thought_experiment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thought_experiment