The trailer for the drama version of "The Three-Body Problem" was released recently. Classic plots from the book such as Red Bank Base, Ghost Countdown, Cosmic Blink, and the Three-Body Game are also fully interpreted in the trailer.

drama version of " Three Body " has been released recently. Classic plots from the book such as Red Bank Base , Ghost Countdown, Cosmic Blink, and Three-Body Game are also fully interpreted in the trailer. What kind of mysteries of the universe will emerge under the disturbing "Farmer Hypothesis"?

"Fearlessness comes from ignorance, and truth is always stained with dust. We are all bugs in the gutter, and there are always people who look up at the stars." As a technology geek Liu Cixin destroyed the planet he wrote over and over again in the novel, and Reinvented over and over again. Human beings struggled under his gaze, trying to find the last glimmer of hope in his cold, rational thinking.

The three-body series holds too much importance in people's minds, making it difficult to film. In the view of director Yang Lei , science fiction works should have their own unique practical significance and be able to show the audience some possibility of "future reality" . As the original author Liu Cixin wrote in the article: Excellent science fiction works can provide a useful way of thinking, making people aware of the tortuous and unpredictable "shape" of the future, and preparing for major events that may occur in the future. Mental preparation. The production team spent four years polishing the script and shot it for 126 days. The filming areas covered Ningbo, Hengdian, Beijing, and Heihe, with more than 270 locations, in order to better restore the plot of the original work.

Two civilizations are desperate for living space, and the contest between humans and extraterrestrial civilizations is quietly unfolding. Let’s take a look at the story behind “The Three-Body Problem” and its meaningful science fiction settings.

What is Operation Guzheng?

In the previously released concept poster of "Three-Body", the huge parabolic antenna of Hong'an Base stands in the center of the surface. The "three-day volley" in the background foreshadows the fundamental reason for the invasion of the Earth by the Trisolaran civilization. The giant wheel hanging upside down at the top of the screen was cut into pieces by the death strings of "Operation Guzheng".

The concept poster tried its best to restore the most important plot elements in the original work. Through Ye Wenjie, Wang Miao and Shi Qiang and others, we learned that the Trisolaris has developed a close relationship with the Earth Trisolaris organization .

In order to stop the actions of the Earth Trisolaran Organization, the United Nations launched an interception and killing plan against Evans. The protagonist used extremely thin threads such as "Flying Blade" nanomaterials to wait for ETO's "Judgment" to pass by, and neatly trimmed the hull of the ship. of cut into multiple layers.

This combat method not only ensures minimal casualties, but also ensures the integrity of the three-body data transmission.

The Thought Seal of the Brain

The Thought Seal is a conceptual machine that appeared in "Three-Body". In order to fight against the peeping of human beings by the sophons of the Three-Body people, the people on earth decided to select four wall-facers. Each Wallfacer independently thinks and designs a plan to deal with the Trisolarans without any interference. It was discovered by the third wall-facer, British physicist Bill Hines and his wife Yamasugi Keiko, that the thinking and memory activities of the human brain are completed by quantum processes.

Without going into technical details, simply speaking, in the neuron network of the brain, we have discovered the mechanism by which thinking makes judgments, and it can have a decisive impact on it. Compare the process of human thinking to make judgments with computers: input data from the outside world, calculate, and finally give the result. We can omit the calculation process and give the results directly. When a certain piece of information enters the brain, by exerting influence on a certain part of the neuron network, we can make the brain make a judgment without thinking and believe that the information is true.

In other words, from some information heard since childhood, a fixed thought will be formed when you grow up. For example: wearing clothes with horizontal stripes will make you look fatter, and wearing black clothes will make you look slimmer.

Dark Forest Law

In reality, what is related to the Dark Forest Law is Fermi Paradox . The Fermi Paradox is a scientific paradox about aliens and interstellar travel. It describes the contradiction between the overestimation of the existence of extraterrestrial civilization and the lack of relevant evidence.

The Dark Forest Law can be simply understood as once a certain cosmic civilization is discovered, it will inevitably be attacked by other cosmic civilizations. The description of this law in the original book can be summarized as "First, let you know my existence; second, letting you exist is dangerous to me and violates the first axiom."

excludes cosmology , Taking the earth as an example, there have been wars and territorial divisions between races since ancient times. Only by annihilating or completely taming a race and uniting everything can the world be peaceful and complete. The multiverse and multi-races in the Three-Body Problem cannot avoid various wars and plunders due to the shortage of resources.

Metaphor after turkey and farm

There are a lot of shots of turkeys and farms in the trailer, which is a very important plot line. What is the "Farmer Hypothesis"?

There is a group of turkeys on the farm. The farmer comes to feed them at eleven o'clock every day. A scientist in Turkey observed this phenomenon for nearly a year without exception. It felt that it had discovered the great law of the universe: "Every morning at eleven o'clock, food comes." It announced this law to the turkeys on Thanksgiving morning, but the food did not arrive at eleven o'clock that morning. The farmer Come in, catch them all and kill them.

regards this hypothesis as the world we live in - that is, the world of turkeys. In the space in which we live, fixed laws and phenomena will occur at a specific point in time. If everything is in the hands of farmers, the laws of physics that humans adhere to will instantly collapse.

5. Shooter Theory

There is a sharpshooter who punches holes every ten centimeters in a target. Scientists among the two-dimensional intelligent creatures living on the plane of the target discovered a great law after observing their own universe: "Every ten centimeters in the universe, there must be a hole."

This also means that We know that there are certain laws in the universe. If the earth and solar system we live in are regarded as a target, our actions may affect the entire universe.

This theory is also one of the most terrifying theories in the "Three Body" series. Will the beliefs that humans have always adhered to really be eternal in the universe?

suspicion chain what is it?

"Civilization probably sprouted in the universe billions of years ago. Judging from current signs, the universe may have been crowded. No one knows how much empty space there is in the Milky Way and the entire universe. There are also How many unoccupied resources. "

A suspicion chain simply means that two individuals will be suspicious of each other before communicating, thus describing it as a chain.

Suspicion chains do exist in the human world. Since humans have interactive behaviors such as language, they will try to communicate to eliminate suspicion as much as possible until the level of suspicion is reduced to the point where people can finally reach an agreement that is acceptable. Consensus - chain of suspicion will no longer affect interactions.

But if it is extended to different planetary civilizations in the universe where communication is very difficult, the chain of suspicion will be amplified and lengthened. For two civilizations, due to the existence of a "chain of suspicion", they will eventually be unable to form common knowledge and will have serious conflicts, and may even aim to eliminate each other.

Let's "find faults" together

The filming of the "Three-Body" TV series spanned 270 locations including Ningbo, Hengdian, Beijing, and Heihe, and the visual effects were greatly restored. After the trailer was released, many netizens in Zhejiang discovered that there were scenes of Ningbo Museum and old The Bund in the trailer. At 1 minute and 23 seconds is the Ningbo Museum, and at 1 minute and 26 seconds the scene of Laowaitan appears.

The crew of "The Three-Body Problem" filmed in the Ningbo Museum for 2 days, mainly shooting outside the museum, including some public areas inside the museum. The scene of the conversation in the coffee shop in the original work was shot for one day in a teahouse called "Leaves". According to the needs of the plot, it was "transformed" into a cafe that day. On the day of filming, the crew specially brought a hand-brewed coffee machine and made a lot of desserts on site to restore the authenticity of the book.

"The Three-Body Problem" has created a lot of romance about the universe for us. Which plot fragment is your favorite?

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