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Episode 5: The Avengers, Time Travel, and The Deutsch Proposition

The Theory of Anything

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How Do I Program a Virtual Reality Simulation of the 1918 Flu? Okay Okay Okay So So You Can't Affect Anything but You Can Watch What Really Happened in the Past

I'd be really curious to go back to during the the flu of of 1918 and see how people were living so that will be my okay. I could program a virtual reality setting for the sake of argument let's say that I come across some way do a complete recreation of some part of the world you know down to whatever level of detail we want  of what it was actually like. You can't actually affect anything but you're like a ghost and you're just watching what the world was like during the the 1918 flu without my ability to actually change anything. It would be awesome if history where you could actually watch what actually happened in the past right and it's like a holode

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