
The Three-Body Problem

“But she was a woman. A woman should be like water, able to flow over and around anything.”
Liu, Cixin • The Three-Body Problem
pacifism.
Liu, Cixin • The Three-Body Problem
Richard Montgomery of UCSC and Alain Chenciner of Université Paris Diderot discovered another stable, periodic solution to the three-body problem.
Liu, Cixin • The Three-Body Problem
parity.”
Liu, Cixin • The Three-Body Problem
Nicolai Kardashev once proposed that civilizations can be divided into three types based on the power they can command—for communication purposes, let’s say. A
Liu, Cixin • The Three-Body Problem
He believed that technological progress was a disease in human society. The explosive development of technology was analogous to the growth of cancer cells, and the results would be identical: the exhaustion of all sources of nourishment, the destruction of organs, and the final death of the host body.
Liu, Cixin • The Three-Body Problem
valor.
Liu, Cixin • The Three-Body Problem
Does it represent the yearning for order, or the surrender to chaos?