The Three-Body Problem
Everyone likes to reminisce, but no one wants to listen, and everyone feels annoyed when someone else tells a story.
Liu, Cixin • The Three-Body Problem
there are two ways in which the results of fundamental scientific research can be converted into practical applications: gradualistic mode and saltatory mode.
Liu, Cixin • The Three-Body Problem
He felt a strange, perverse, immense presence that could never be understood by human intellect.
Liu, Cixin • The Three-Body Problem
Can the fundamental nature of matter really be lawlessness? Can the stability and order of the world be but a temporary dynamic equilibrium achieved in a corner of the universe, a short-lived eddy in a chaotic current?
Liu, Cixin • The Three-Body Problem
lackadaisical
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
Bolshevik
Liu, Cixin • The Three-Body Problem
In the shooter hypothesis, a good marksman shoots at a target, creating a hole every ten centimeters. Now suppose the surface of the target is inhabited by intelligent, two-dimensional creatures. Their scientists, after observing the universe, discover a great law: “There exists a hole in the universe every ten centimeters.” They have mistaken the
... See more