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Is This the Real Life?

Tomorrow’s World by BBC

Mar 1, 201846:31Science & Medicine

Look around you. It’s all there, right? It’s real, it’s tangible, it’s the physical world. But, what if it’s not? In the final episode of the series, Britt and Ellie discover the ideas of Simulation Theory – the concept...

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