Just how real is reality? Is it possible that the all-too-apparent solidity of reality is but an illusion? Those who believe in the simulation hypothesis are just the latest in a long line of thinkers going back millennia who have challenged the assumption that the life we are apparently living is the only reality. The materialism of the last two centuries is being shown to be just another belief system as quantum physics challenges even our most basic assumptions about the nature of matter and time. This book examines these issues through the eyes and experiences of three protagonists: a quantum physicist, an abiogenesist and a student in comparative religion. Through their adventures they discover that the world they thought they lived in may not be quite what it seems ...