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Floating Plates

The volunteers enter a dining room to see floating plates of food in front of them. The plates are floating above the table with no means of support that can be seen. Can they work out why and how the plates of food are magically floating?

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Three volunteers set out to find an amazing realization about the nature of life itself.
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The volunteers pose an important question about our role in the universe.
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