Is the Universe Real?
Rethinking the idea that makes you rethink reality
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10 min readFeb 27, 2019
Three years ago, the American Museum of Natural History in New York hosted a debate that has since been watched 2.1 million times on YouTube. Four physicists and a philosopher, prodded by moderator Neil deGrasse Tyson, spent two hours discussing whether reality as we know it might be a simulation.