“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.)