In 2015, Liu Cixin won the Hugo Award and the Best Feature Award at the 73rd International Science Fiction Convention for his sci-fi "Three-Body Problem", which is not only the first time that Asians have won the Hugo Award, but also marks an important step for China's science fiction to go abroad and go international.
First of all, let's make a clear question, the water droplets came to kill Luo Ji at the beginning. We can find this in conjunction with the original text.
The water droplet crossed the 34,000-kilometer geosynchronous orbit and passed the new Shanghai Space City at close range, and everyone in the city could clearly see the dazzling point of light that was speeding across their sky, and the news announced that the impact would occur in eight minutes.If it weren't for the fact that he had come to kill Luo Ji, there was no need for the water droplets to pretend to hit the northwest of Beijing, which was where Luo Ji was located.News has finally been released to speculate on the latitude and longitude of the point of impact, northwest of the capital of our country.
Luo Ji has known about this for a long time.
But later, the water drops suddenly changed their opinions, and they didn't kill Luo Ji, please see the original text:
Luo Ji tried his best to keep his brain blank, his scalp tightened, and he felt a huge palm covering the entire sky appear above, pressing down on him.The water droplets first flew to only 20,000 kilometers away from Luo Ji, and then reversed to 40,000 kilometers. Are the three-body people idle? Waste the power of the water droplets to scare Luo Ji? It must not be, but at the time of 20,000 kilometers, the three-body man suddenly changed his opinion, stopped killing Luo Ji, and urgently closed the sun.But then, the giant palm slowly withdrew itself.
The droplets turned around at a distance of 20,000 kilometers above the ground, flew straight towards the sun, and slowed down sharply.
The relative velocity of the water droplet with the Earth decreases to zero, and together it adjusts itself to the sun-synchronous orbit, that is, in the coming daysThe water droplets will always be between the Earth and the Sun, at a distance of about 40,000 kilometers.
So why did the Trisolarans suddenly change their opinions? In fact, it is also written in the original text, but not in this chapter, but in the next chapter, and you need to think about the connection between them in the future. Please see the original text of the next chapter:
Hines solemnly said to Luo Ji: Dr. Luo Ji, I have just been appointed as your liaison to the United Nations Wall Facing Programme Committee, and I am now instructed to inform you that the Wall Facing Program has now been reinstated, and you have been designated as the sole wall facer. ......See! In the afternoon of the same day, mankind discovered that the star 187J3X1 was blown up, that is, at the same time, the Trisolarans decided not to kill Luo Ji, but to close the sun instead.Did the spell work? He asked tentatively.
Both Hines and Jonathan nodded, and Hines said: The 187J3X1 star has been blown up. What time is it? Fifty-one years ago, it was observed a year ago, but the observation information was only discovered this afternoon, because no one had paid attention to the star before. There were a few people in the joint fleet who were disappointed with the situation and wanted to find something from prehistory, and they remembered the wall scheme and your spell, so they observed 187j3x1. It was found to be no longer there, and all that remained was a remnant nebula in that direction. They then searched through the observation records of the stellar scanning observation system, all the way back to a year ago, and retrieved all the observations at 187j3x1**.
Now you understand! Just as the Trisolarans were planning to kill Luo Ji, the humans discovered that Luo Ji's spell had worked, and the 187J3X1 star was blown up. The Trisolarans know that humans have now discovered the effect of the "spell", so it is necessary to urgently close the sun!
Note: Humans don't need to understand why spells work, they don't need to understand the dark forest, just like you can use all kinds of software but you don't know anything about **! Human beings only need to know that according to Luo Ji's method, mark the coordinates, and then the planet will "...... boom"That's enough!
Some people may ask, why not kill Luo Ji first and then close the sun? Answer: Maybe killing Luo Ji will only waste a few minutes, but the Three-Body People don't dare to bet on these few minutes. Since the effect of the "spell" has been proven at that time, although the principle is not clear, there is no guarantee that humans will not directly launch the three-body 'spell'. You must know that the human race at that time is now completely disappointed, and in this case, it is very ......easy and very likely to directly follow Luo Ji's method to 'curse' the three-body world
It only takes a few seconds to launch the 'spell', and it takes a few minutes for the drops to kill Luo Ji and come back (maybe longer, the drops don't have much power at the time). If in these few minutes, the human race decides to send another "spell", then the three-body man will really add to the snake, and he will want to cry without tears.
Therefore, the matter is very simple, originally, the water drops were here to kill Luo Ji, and now they are almost flying to the policy (the northwest suburbs of Beijing), only 20,000 kilometers. At this time, suddenly some good people decided to observe the 187j3x1 star and found that the spell worked, and then the three-body man was frightened and urinated, and decided to return to the synchronous orbit of 40,000 kilometers, closing the sun, and not daring to delay for a minute or a second.
Some people questioned that it was a matter of power, thinking that "after hitting the earth, there is no energy to go to the Lagrange point to close the sun", so they abandoned the plan to kill Luo Ji, is this in the accounting ability of the three-body people? I want to say that when the water droplets fly to more than half, the three-body problem realizes that "wow, the energy is not enough......”
With the calculation power of the Trisolarans, if the Trisolarans thought that the water droplets did not have enough power to seal the sun after hitting the earth, then it would not have touched the earth in the first place. After all, the second drop of water will not arrive on the earth until three years, if the sun cannot be closed within these three years, and Luo Ji is killed, doesn't this mean that everyone is told that Luo Ji's spell is right, is the three-body man looking for death?
I thought that the power problem did exist, which is why the water drops did not pursue the Bronze Age, but in the matter of killing Luo Ji, the power problem does not take the decision element, because the power element is a long-term unit element, it can be determined in advance. And what can make a drop of water suddenly turn around at a distance of 20,000 kilometers must be a sudden element.
So when combined, it is very clear, if you want to really understand "The Three-Body Problem", you have to read it more in combination with the physical book.
For readers who haven't read it, "The Three-Body Problem" is not a difficult reference book, but a truly easy-to-understand and fluent read. There are 3 books in total, namely: "Three-Body Problem I" - Once Upon a Time on Earth, "Three-Body Problem II" - Dark Forest, "Three-Body Problem III" - Death Immortality, each of which is extremely exciting.
When I first came into contact with "The Three-Body Problem", I was immediately attracted by the compact plot of the book and the author's imagination beyond ordinary people, and the contents of the "Law of the Dark Forest" and "Dimensionality Reduction Strike" that appeared in the book completely subverted my perception of the universe and the world.
In particular, the third "Three-Body Problem - Death and Eternal" is definitely a big deal, which shows the entire earth and the entire galaxy in the context of the universe, and really triggers the soul's deep thinking about human nature.
It can not only bring you the shock of reading, but also trigger deep thinking about human nature and enlighten your values.
In the book, people are transported by him to a new world, a magnificent and logically self-consistent world that Chinese writing has never created. In this world, the earth is like a leaf in the sea, insignificant and precarious.
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