What is Reddit's opinion of Permutation City?

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It really was amazing..

If you liked that episode, there's a book along a similar vein, called "Permutation City" (Greg Egan). Definitely check it out if you're into that specific kind of (very hard) sci-fi.

Dr. Max Tegmark, cosmologist and physics professor at MIT

• Permutation City, by Greg Egan (Powells) (Amazon)

Dr. Jane Goodall, Primatologist

• The Story of Doctor Dolittle, by Hugh Lofting (Powells) (Amazon)
• Tarzan of the Apes, by Edgar Rice Burroughs (Powells) (Amazon)
• The Miracle of Life (not listed)

Dr. Sean Carroll, Theoretical physicist at the California Institute of Technology

• Dragon's Egg, by Robert Forward (Powells) (Amazon)

Dr. Temple Grandin, Animal scientist

• "I’m a Star trek fan..."

Dr. Seth Shostak, Senior astronomer and director at the Center for SETI Research

• Golem XIV, by Stanislaw Lem (Powells) (Amazon)

Dr. Chris Stringer, Anthropologist at the Natural History Museum in London

• Brazil, the movie (YouTube)

Dr. Jack Horner, Paleontologist at Montana State University

• Jurassic Park, the movie) (IMDB)

Dr. Adam Riess, astrophysicist at Johns Hopkins University

• Contact, by Carl Sagan (Powells) (Amazon)
• The Fountains of Paradise, by Arthur C. Clarke (Powells) (Amazon)
• Childhood's End, by Arthur C. Clarke (Powells) (Amazon)
• The Songs of Distant Earth by Arthur C. Clarke (Powells) (Amazon)
• The Martian Chronicles, by Ray Bradbury (Powells) (Amazon)
• Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury (Powells) (Amazon)
• Foundation series, by Isaac Asimov (Powells) (Amazon)
• The Silo saga, by Hugh Howey (Powells) (Amazon)
• The Stand, by Stephen King (Powells) (Amazon)
• Watership Down, by Richard Adams (Powells) (Amazon)
• The Day of the Triffids, by John Wyndham (Powells) (Amazon)

Dr. Steven Strogatz, professor of mathematics at Cornell University

• The Andromeda Strain, by Michael Chriton (Powells) (Amazon)
• Colossus: The Forbin Project, the movie (IMDB)
• 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke (Powells) (Amazon)

Dr. Ainissa Ramirez, materials scientist

• Parable of the Sower, by Octavia Butler (Powells) (Amazon)

Dr. Mario Livio, astrophysicist at the Space Telescope Science Institute

• Around the World in Eighty Days, by Jules Verne (Powells) (Amazon)
• Journey to the Center of the Earth, by Jules Verne (Powells) (Amazon)
• Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, by Jules Verne (Powells) (Amazon)
• 2001: A Space Odyssey, the movie (IMDB)
• Dr. Strangelove, the movie (IMDB)
• Close Encounters of the Third Kind, the movie (IMDB)

Olympia LePoint, rocket scientist

• Gravity, 2013 (IMDB)
• Back to The Future, 1985 (IMDB)

Dr. Danielle Lee, biologist

• Dune, 1984 (IMDB)

Dr. Michael Shermer, historian of science

• The Day the Earth Stood Still, 1951 (IMDB)

Neil deGrasse Tyson, astrophysicist

• The Day the Earth Stood Still, 1951 (IMDB)
• 2001: A Space Odyssey, 1968 (IMDB)
• Planet of the Apes, 1968 (IMDB)
• The Terminator, 1984 (IMDB)
• The Quiet Earth, 1985 (IMDB)
• Contact, 1997 (IMDB)
• Deep Impact, 1998 (IMDB)
• The Matrix, 1999 (IMDB)
• The Island, 2005 (IMDB)
• Watchmen, 2009 (IMDB)

Btw, my city name is from an awesome book called "Permutation City" by Greg Egan. If you like hard SCI-FI I highly recommend It https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00FDWCPV2/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_dfJCzb6GT5D20

Obligatory.

If you want to read a sci-fi book with this premise...

And no. This is never going to be possible. Ever. Thanks, but nope. Never. We can't render a realistic scene in real-time when we CHEAT LIKE CRAZY, let alone when everything is made of molecules, etc.