Three-body prequel: Reflections on "Spherical Lightning" The story of 1 assumes that there is a planet suitable for Sirius to live in outside the Milky Way, named three-body. By chance, the three-body civilization and the earth civilization knew each other's existence, so both sides fell into a kind of thinking. On the earth, few people know each other's existence, but they basically live at the top of society. Due to the difference of knowledge background, their views on three-body civilization are quite different. Some people hope that the three-body man can survive on the earth and make the ugliness on the earth disappear. Others hope that the three-body man will never land on the earth, because what the three-body man can bring to the earth is not necessarily the gospel, and so on.
Although people on earth have different attitudes towards Santi people, Santi people regard people on earth as enemies. Although the three-body civilization is much higher than the earth civilization in science and technology, it will take four or five centuries for the three-body man to successfully land on the earth, from which many scientific and technological revolutions can take place on the earth and greatly improve his scientific research level, which is a great threat to the future three-body man.
This is the general tone of the novel Three-body. At the same time, this tone also made me fall into a kind of thinking, that is, whether the collision of two civilizations without any contact before brought peace or war. Obviously, historically, this conclusion may not be so optimistic. After Columbus discovered the New World, European civilization invaded America, plundered property, burned and looted, which made the primitive civilization of America last forever and was finally ruled and colonized by Europeans. I think this is because every civilization is like an individual. If we let it into a dark place, they will feel insecure, and such insecurity is likely to lead to some cruel consequences. Indians in history may be such victims.
The same is true of the novel Three-body. Although the three-body civilization is much more advanced than the earth civilization, there will be many uncertainties in the future as time goes by. Maybe three or four hundred years later, the earth civilization will catch up with the three-body civilization. At that time, it is also a question whether the three-body civilization can save itself. Therefore, as a person on earth and a threesome, the wisest thing to do may be to try our best to preserve ourselves and destroy each other at the same time. Perhaps this conclusion makes many people feel pessimistic, but it is the most realistic result, especially living in our real society, we may often encounter similar situations or make similar choices.
I found a series of three-body novels and found them quite good. The author Liu is really an imaginative talent, which surprised me at first sight! So I want to write out my thoughts after reading it. I think in the process of reading the novel, the imagination of the scene described in the novel is no less than that of the movie screen. It has its own characteristics, which should be considered unique in science fiction.
I saw it very interesting, because it started with the second dark forest. At first, an ant dared not imagine in a three-dimensional world, which was a fascinating thing. It was a little puzzling at first. Isn't this a portrayal of human beings? People directly feel the four-dimensional space including time. According to today's dimension theory, higher dimensions exist around us, or there are higher dimensions in our environment, but we can't see or touch them by virtue of human structure! Can only rely on imagination, and human imagination is not omnipotent, it is limited by species, just as ants can never imagine the feeling that the ball is round!
Three-body prequel: My feelings after reading the second part of Ball Lightning. In summer, besides the suffocating high temperature, there is also a natural phenomenon that makes people feel palpitation: lightning. Thunderstorm weather, dazzling lightning came from the edge of the curtain, and thunder seemed to rumble in my ears. Even if I stayed indoors, I still couldn't feel at ease. In the face of angry nature, I am so small that I have no courage to look directly at lightning.
What is lightning like? Although I dare not watch it in person, among hundreds of millions of human beings, there are warriors who are not afraid of power, and they have unveiled the mystery of lightning. Thus, in the textbooks of primary school students, lightning appears purple and long, which is a crack in the sky. However, have you ever seen spherical lightning?
Being able to shuttle freely to any object, instantly turning people into fly ash and selectively attacking targets is spherical lightning. Like a mysterious ghost, it lured me to a brand-new world-Liu's Three-body Prequel: Ball Lightning.
"Three-body" has a long history, but it has never had the courage to open it for fear of fame and huge space. Recently, I read too many books about life and chicken soup for the soul, and I urgently need to change my reading style, so I opened this book. Who knows that it will be out of control and will be finished in less than two days. It's great to be so absorbed in a book. Completely immersed in the world of books, nothing else matters. The last time I felt this way was reading White Deer Plain.
After reading the whole book, I looked back at the Overture and found that my father was really a "philosopher". Dad said, "It's not difficult to live a wonderful life. Choose a recognized world problem, devote yourself to research, just ask for cultivation, don't ask for harvest, and unconsciously concentrate, and life will pass. " Lin Yun for her new concept weapon, rockett for great physics, and my life, accompanied by this mysterious ball lightning that took my parents away. A person's life is only for one thing or one object. Such concentration and purity make people admire and feel scared at the same time. China people's idea of the mean since ancient times tells us not to go to extremes in everything. Because extreme is synonymous with paranoia.
Although I am an atheist, there is no denying that there are still many phenomena in this world that cannot be explained by existing science. What is the truth behind these mysterious events? Many things that I have never paid attention to and pondered before suddenly appeared in my mind. At the same time, I also realized that from the perspective of the universe, a person is really small. "Heaven and earth are ruthless, and everything is a grass dog" may only be an objective description, and it does not mean to belittle human beings. Since we are so small, what's the big deal with all the problems that are bothering me now?
We felt the fresh air after the thunderstorm. And he, a teenager of 14 years old, watched his parents turn to ashes, and he also ushered in his own new life. Perhaps because of hatred, perhaps because of the mystery of ball lightning, "as my father said at the last moment of his life, I am fascinated by something, and I want to experience what he said." Wonderful life. "
Three-body prequel: After watching Ball Lightning, I suddenly realized that my understanding of biology and matter is still at the molecular and cellular stage, but now I think it should be composed of protons, neutrons, electron clouds and other basic particles that we haven't found yet.
Open your mind, everything is a certain size space composed of elementary particles. The food people eat is basic particles, the surrounding air is particles, light has wave-particle duality, the surrounding space is full of particles, and the ground, water body and surrounding environment are all composed of particles. Your friends and colleagues are all individuals composed of elementary particles. Cells are composed of molecules, and molecules are composed of atoms. Atoms are composed of elementary particles of physics, and atoms are, to some extent, a space composed of nuclei and electron clouds. Take the human body as an example. There are about 40 trillion to 60 trillion cells in the human body. These cells are alive. In ancient times, a certain life contract was reached, and together * * * constituted an organic life form, so please don't feel lonely. 40 trillion is with you.
Four elements, carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen, basically constitute the human body, and all life reactions in the body are only the transfer of electrons and protons outside the nucleus. Each of us is a proton and an electron cloud, and is a supercomputer composed of electron transmission, which is much more developed than the current computer. At present, the complex functions of the brain are far from being fully developed (I have a little doubt that we are computers that have been forgotten by Gao Ming and evolved here. This kind of biological computer can grow without factory manufacturing, and only needs DNA culture time. Once the time is right, they will harvest and take back these computing powers. Emotion alone is beyond the reach of all theoretical computers, and all emotions, sadness, resentment and grievances are transmitted and transferred from electronics. Humans still can't understand their own brain functions, and technology is really backward. In the future, once human beings can modify DNA, they can make advanced biological computers and real artificial intelligence by biological methods, or rely on the interconnection between human brain and computer to complete the internal development and external extension of human brain through the transmission of electronic information.
Human beings are small electronic clouds living in the world of electronic clouds, carbon-based supercomputers, which can be connected with silicon-based computers and electronic clouds of everything. Gravity is probably because everything in the world is made up of basic particles of physics. Then we can also interact with light to make a transition and interact with electromagnetic waves. We may have the potential to manipulate Jin Mu's fire, water and earth, just like the gods in the eastern world, but we haven't developed this part of our ability to use our own electronic clouds and other basic particles in physics to achieve our own goals. I guess it's the harmony between man and nature in Taoism. We really blend in with everything in the world. Feng shui may have some truth, materialism may be similar to Newtonian mechanics, but it does not reach the level of quantum mechanics, so many things are difficult to explain.
As a small electronic cloud space, people will die with time, people's space will collapse with time, and people will die with aging, so why is life limited? We know that the universe we live in is composed of two elements, space and time. Relativity tells us that space and time also interact. According to my thinking, there should be a universal law, that is, the time of space existence must be limited, and the universe should also have limited life.
So what does the existence time of space have to do with? Does it have anything to do with the size of this space? Is it related to the increase or decrease of entropy? Is it related to the strength of DNA? Is it related to the number of cell divisions? I dare to guess that it should be related to whether the electron cloud is stable, that is, whether your whole body reacts violently. A moderate and stable life and a peaceful mind may help to maintain this stability. Nature tells us that the lower the electron energy, the more stable it is, so we should also ensure that our energy is not too large. If you want to live a long life, you must ensure the low-energy stability of your electronic cloud. It makes sense to be a turtle for 80 thousand years.
I'm thinking about another question. What exactly is time? What is the time? What is the time?
Time itself may not exist, but is artificially divided, and the reference object is the change caused by material movement. It may also be the driving force of all development. Whether it is to explain time or to time, many of us will probably be deeply moved and powerless.
Alas, human beings are so small that when they think, God smiles.
Prequel to Three-body: Reading Chapter 4 of Ball Lightning "The key to a wonderful life is what you can catch"-from Liu's Ball Lightning.
Since someone recommended this book, I have been fascinated by it and can't put it down. I finished it in two weeks-that's the charm of science fiction! Looking back now, it is found that under the complicated hard-core physics knowledge, it is the learning history of different people.
The protagonist is an orphan, and his parents were killed into a pile of ashes by sudden ball lightning on his 12 birthday. However, their chairs were unscathed and cold as death. Since then, the protagonist has embarked on a journey to solve the mystery of spherical lightning and devoted his life to it. On this road, he will meet Professor Zhang Bin, who is also chasing ball lightning, and Major Lin Yun, who has a unique charm in studying new concept weapons. Listening to the vicissitudes of life in the abandoned 3 14 1 base, he will also work in the lightning research base with rockett. These people, without exception, have devoted their lives to a project, but fate has given them different endings.
Just like Zhang Bin, he and his wife, as researchers, happened to see ball lightning and have been pursuing it. Time flies, his wife died in a study because she was too eager to study ball lightning. Zhang Bin struggled alone for more than 30 years, and the mathematical model was calculated again and again. The storage boxes were all over the wall, but there was still no breakthrough. His wife, like a navigator, was buried in the sea and died a fair death. Zhang Bin, on the other hand, got nothing in the pain of repeated failures. Just like a vegetable who survived but was completely disabled, he didn't die, but what's the point of his living? A similar experience happened in Vienna. Therefore, the most painful moment in life is that it takes a lifetime to find that you have taken the wrong road at the beginning, and it is these people who let the latecomers find the right road. It was ball lightning that told me that there must be sacrifices on the way to study.
Compared with what I said earlier, physicist rockett is much more successful. The whole book has been sublimated since his appearance. In the story, the appearance of Ding Yi solved the mystery of the essence of spherical lightning and made the weapon development project of lightning research base go further. On the knowledge level, he brought me into a bigger world, where the electrons are as big as basketball, the nucleus is hundreds of kilometers away from it, and we are just an atom in the macro universe. As the characters in the book say, Ding Yi, a physically straight man, is a superman, detached from the secular world and ignorant of human fireworks. However, at the end of the book, this neurotic person actually has a girlfriend. This is also a breakthrough for him! Ball lightning tells me, how do you know the beauty of the world unless you step forward?
In fact, the spirit of learning is not innate. On the contrary, inertia will accompany us all our lives, starting from our birth. But human beings are lazy and curious. In the process of growing up, we constantly discover the grandeur of the world. When I was a child, I stumbled in the community and felt that the community was so big that people were confused. After that, we will look at the sea and sigh that the sea is boundless. Now, looking at the dark night sky, we know that there are countless stars hidden behind us and infinite space. How small we are! At this time, the seeds of research germinate in the heart, and this is only the first step of the long March. Therefore, learning makes us have a pair of curious eyes and a persistent heart.
Because of ignorance, I ask for knowledge, and the more I seek knowledge, the more I feel ignorant. The world is so big, there are so many unsolved mysteries to be solved. I think this book is a tribute to all researchers. With a pen and a piece of paper, you can start your research journey. No matter how illusory the destination is, we must move forward. A wonderful life requires learning. Let's get started before we get old! No matter where the result leads us, you will always be the most beautiful on the road!
Three-body prequel: Reflections on Reading Ball Lightning 5 This book was recently discovered in the process of moving. All the books I haven't read before have been moved to the new shelves, and I'll wait for a book to be finished.
One day, it happened to be from last night to today, and I read it all at once when I was free.
I have read and written Liu's Three-body, and I think this man is very awesome. He used his imagination to create a magnificent cosmic vision system. There is a sentence in front of this catalogue of spherical lightning, "The description of the characteristics and behavior of spherical lightning in this book is based on historical records". This is the feeling that you are still unfinished after reading it. Although it is fictional, it is so real. I have always said that the coexistence of contradictions is fierce, and the feeling of coexistence of fiction and reality is enough to illustrate the power of this book.
The protagonist of the story is a birthday night of 15, and his parents died unexpectedly due to spherical lightning. Spherical lightning flashed through the bookcase in an instant, and the refrigerator turned parents into ashes. The bookcase, refrigerator and even the stools where parents sat were all intact, while the raw things in the refrigerator were cooked, while the personal clothes of the protagonist Dr. Chen were burned to ashes, but his body was intact. It all started with this unexplained supernatural phenomenon.
From then on, Dr. Chen began to pursue the truth of spherical lightning. If you study meteorology, you should actually study electromagnetism and physics. If you find that you want to build a model, you should study math. A college student, who didn't live at that age, just stayed in the library to learn these difficult and boring science subjects. The description of every character and even every scene in the book is very meaningful and useful, which is the bedding for many follow-ups.
What impressed me deeply was that the girl in the library finally married Dr. Chen. Many years later, when I came home, I found that there was not so much gray at home, and my hair was half black and half white, revealing that people who were struck by ball lightning existed in a macro state and lived in another cloud state invisible to the naked eye. Only any "observer" cloud collapses and people disappear. Including the manuscript written by Dr. Chen's mentor Zhang Bin in the handwriting of his dead wife, and even the key formula for finally capturing the "string" on Dr. Chen's tombstone and producing fusion, are all tips given to the living by people who were struck by ball lightning.
That's not all. Even better, in the end, Jelly Lin stated his crazy psychology about weapons in a fog on Jinghu Lake, as well as the photos of children who were indiscriminately hit by ball lightning weapons in Jelly Lin and the nuclear base seen by Rockett. Finally, the blue roses that occasionally appeared in the vase almost ran through from beginning to end, making you feel that ball lightning exists like a god.
Another point is the progressive presentation process of the book "Ball Lightning", which is getting deeper and deeper, stripping away the truth layer by layer, and it is really old. At first, it was the mystery of Dr. Chen, and then the advice of Zhang Bin's tutor told me that I had no home, and then he got to know Lin Yun, and everything began to be fully studied. Finally, 2000 computers were used to help calculate the formula, and the deadlock was found, which was taken to Siberia by a message for further decryption. It was a huge research for 30 years, and the result was still a failure. Twenty-seven spherical lightning were produced, but none of the parameters were the same or even irregular, and it was impossible to reproduce a little hope of being extinguished by cold water.
Just when he was in despair, it suddenly occurred to Dr. Chen that the light was always there, but there was no electricity, so there was no light. He realized that the actual spherical lightning is an unconventional structure and does not need to be manufactured at all, because it has always existed. The key should be how to find it and how to find it. Then, in order to catch spherical lightning, I met the physics madman rockett. Later, I caught it and saw it, and then I made it into a weapon ... Every step was gradual, and I couldn't stop. This structure is really awesome.
A particularly good book, highly recommended. Good-looking.