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How to Design a Universe: The Science of Real and Virtual Worlds

Catherine Heymans

Could we be living in a computer simulation? How would we even know? Astrophysicist Heymans – the Astronomer Royal for Scotland – takes us on a “humorous and mind-bending” journey into the science of reality itself.

Bloomsbury Sigma, £20.00, 10 September 2026, 9781399421447

Non-fiction popular science

Caroline Sanderson

Caroline Sanderson worked as a Waterstones bookseller, and as a book publicist before becoming a freelance writer in 1997. The ...

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