黑暗森林 - 三体 第二集, 2011

LAPL: Ch L7815 v.2

The Dark Forest--Book II of the Three Body Problem, 2015

LAPL: SF

Author： 劉慈欣 Cixin Liu

• In the primeval time, the only rule was the “law of the jungle”.

• The tens of thousands of years of human civilization on Earth is nothing but a flash in the billions of years of the Universe. Thus in the vast Universe, it is probably still a “jungle” out there. There may be far more advanced civilizations out there which look upon the earthlings just like how earthlings look upon the “civilized” world of ants.

• What would those far more advanced civilizations in the Universe do to us humans on Earth--once we are discovered? It’s hard to say. They may ignore us, or study us, if we are lucky. Or they may choose to trample upon us humans--just like we have trampled on ants without second thought.

• Knowingly or unknowingly, humans have tried to make contact with alien civilizations beyond Earth. In this Book II of the “Three Body Problem”, the author told a horror story of this imminent danger that was to come for sure because we discovered that were discovered. 

• What would human do to counter this danger in order to maintain its civilization and existence?

“三体” （第一集）

刘慈欣 著，2011

The Three-Body Problem (Vol 1), English translation, 2014

By Liu, Cixin

The planet Earth has only one star, the Sun, to revolve around. That is a blessing to mankind and all livings, because there is a simple predictable system involving day, night, and four seasons, which has made survival easy. Don’t take this system for granted. It is not uncommon that in a different part of the universe planets revolve around two stars, or even multiple stars. Click and view the Triple-Star System Animation - YouTube to see how complicated the triple-star motion can be. The motion of a planet in that “three-body” system can be extremely chaotic. If there were intelligence on that kind of planet, can you imagine what their lives are like? This is the basis of the science fiction “三体 Three-Body Problem”.

Humans are a three-dimensional beings. Ants can be visualized as two-dimensional. Humans look down to ants as a lower beings. On a planet in a much sophisticated triple-star system, more sophisticated intelligence may likely exist in a much higher dimension than three, and be more advanced than humans on earth. They may look down on humans just like humans look down on ants.

If those higher dimensional beings were to come down to earth, would they……  (Click here to view the entire review.)