An astrophysicist reacts to 3 Body Problem
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- čas přidán 25. 08. 2024
- I got invited to the London premier of Netflix's new sci-fi show 3 Body Problem (created by the team from Game of Thrones and based on the books by Liu Cixin) and you know I can't turn off my astrophysics brain while I watch sci-fi, so as usual I had many thoughts while watching the first episode. So here's my initial reaction, from diffraction spikes on stars when the Universe is winking, to whether physicists would be happy or sad if theory suddenly stopped agreeing with experiments, to passing off the Super Kamiokande experiment in Japan as a particle accelerator in Oxford!
#3bodyproblem #netflix #astrophysicist @Netflix
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👩🏽💻 I'm Dr. Becky Smethurst, an astrophysicist at the University of Oxford (Christ Church). I love making videos about science with an unnatural level of enthusiasm. I like to focus on how we know things, not just what we know. And especially, the things we still don't know. If you've ever wondered about something in space and couldn't find an answer online - you can ask me! My day job is to do research into how supermassive black holes can affect the galaxies that they live in. In particular, I look at whether the energy output from the disk of material orbiting around a growing supermassive black hole can stop a galaxy from forming stars.
drbecky.uk.com
rebeccasmethur...
“You never see that with your eyes”
*stares in astigmatism* 😑😑😑
LOL!!
It is not exactly the same, astigmatism is more diffraction the strikes
Agreed, I absolutely see that with my eye!
@@user-ek1to4gq3h I see spiky lens flares.
Literally came to type almost exactly this as soon as I heard Becky say that 😂
I'm always happy to hear about Superkamiokande because it clearly has the raddest possible name for a giant empty tank of water
Well when you bury this giant tank of water one kilometer underground, you have to name it somewhat cool.
>empty tank
>of water
@@adamcummings20*otherwise empty, as in, it doesn’t contain colossal squids or something else remarkable.
@@emperorbailey yet.
Super-kamiokande in oxford bugged me not only because they moved it, but because it absolutely doesn't make sense to put it right next to the particle accelerator. There is reason why these things are usualy several kilometres under ground, ice or water, and particle acccelerator especialy contradics that reason.
There are much bigger holes in the story, but for my money if not for the character development I wouldn't have liked the show much.
@@michaeldeierhoi4096 Yeah, I finished it last night and sure, there are much bigger púroblems with physics and realism - it is basicaly magic with slightly more sensible technobabble than star trek. But I would'n care that much, I don't hate - science-fantasy, if only I wasn't hyped by many many people for years talking about the books like they are super realistic and very complex regarding physics issues.
@@Darhhaall Like I stated it is the character development that saved it for me otherwise I would have given up on it because the story line has so many gaping holes in it. It visually the program is very attractive, but the impracticalities and unresolved issues were too much for me. There are two more seasons planned so I'm sure Netflix will continue it. One shocking statistic was that this series cost 20 million $$ to make which was more than was spent on Game of Thrones!!
One detail in the movie that demonstrated how silly it is was in the construction and deployment of the 30 nuclear weapons in space to drive the spacecraft forward. That is a mammoth project that would have taken many years a couple decades even to implement and yet the characters didn't seem to age at all!!! That is just stupid in the context with how much was spent on it.
@@michaeldeierhoi4096 she wants 1000 warheads, but they only had 300, not 30 😅. Also with recent findings, those sail can reach faster speed with laser! By combining several high energy laser (shoot from earth), that brain can reach up to whopping 0.2 light speed. Much much much easier and less error prone than sending 300 nuclear warheads to space.
@@michaeldeierhoi4096Actually they didn't spend 20 million for the show.... they spent 20 million PER EPISODE!!! I'm still trying to figure out where and/or how!!!
In the neutrino detector scene i was having a panic that the water is now contaminated so won't give good detections any more
Haha I also had the same thought
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@@DrBeckyHave you ever read 'The Last Question' by Isaac Asimov? I would love to know what your thoughts are on it. ^_^
@@CydoniaPhysGeekGirl But... what if there's insufficient data for her to give you a meaningful answer?
@@Archgeek0 I'll wait and watch the stars go by... ✨
This show really explores game theory well. As a hobbyist of war I was extremely pleased with the portrait and recognition of asymmetrical warfare.
Overpowered doesn't mean overwhelmed.
In defense of the show, how the universe winked is explained in the show and makes sense in the context presented.
She legit said, this is where we get into sci-FICTION
@@Kadasberry11 Nah this show is science fantasy. It wields science like a cudgel and I'm sure the Doc is going to have to suspend a tremendous amount of disbelief to enjoy this show.
@@mateobarrett6829 Something more along the lines of Star Wars then?
@@AySz88 Star Wars doesn't take actual scientific concepts and then totally twists them into an impossibility. There are many readers that are convinced some of the happenings in the book are some sort of sound scientific postulation (Solar Amplification, Life in a 3 Body Chaotic System, Quantum Unfolding of a Proton) but it's pure fantasy. I'd be fine with people calling it Science Fantasy, because it's about as fantastical as Lord of the Rings, but calling it "hard sci-fi" is an insult to the genre
@@mateobarrett6829 Yikes, that's a bit of a rugpull, yeah.
I have artificial multifocal lenses implanted (due to cataracts), which have diffraction rings implement the multifocal aspect, so I DO see diffraction rings, and spikes on stars, car headlights, and other bright lights. Prior to that I had severe astigmatism, whi also caused spikes on bright lights.
OH SHIT, THAT'S WHAT THOSE WERE, I KNEW MY GLASSES WERE MESSING WITH THE LIGHT, BUT I DIDN'T KNOW THEY WERE STRAIGHT UP DEFRACTING IT
You get ur if u have laser eye treatment too.
@@brendanroberts4866Only if they muck it up. I got mine done and I don’t have this issue.
Glad you enjoyed it. I read the series at the suggestion of Quinn Howard (Quinn's Ideas) and agree with him that it's the most horrifying sci-fi series ever written.
For me, it was less scary and more depressing. When in the end of the third book, two single fish are what's left of the universe, it made me feel so lonely.
@@janekalbinsky its ok jane, they make more universes eventually, it does have a happy ending, stick with it
Warhammer 40k managed to generate more existential dread.
👍 I read the series on his suggestion as well. I didn't find it horrifying though. The last half of the third book also sucked.
@@janekalbinsky You just reminded me that I still need to read "The Restaurant at the End of the Universe" and "Thanks for All the Fish", etc.
I love how you basically figured out the presence of the sophons via light diffraction 🤩.
I hope there is a second season, i just binged the entire show yesterday!
"you never see that with your eye"
must be nice not having to wear glasses >_>
Your... glasses really shouldn't do that either. Not a four-pointed spike pattern, anyway. Clean them?
@@Archgeek0 the glasses don't do that. the astigmatism that makes the glasses required does.
@@ryabow AH, got that cylindrical diopter, got it. Mine's massive, but fully spherical. Point sources bloom out something fierce, but no spikes unless there's like a _linear_ smudge on a lens. Call another point for False Consensus that I assumed spherical.
She's right that the perfect cross shape doesn't come from eyes but there is a reason why stars are traditionally shown as having spikes - I think it's because astigmatism is very common.
@@sbrehenythe reason isn't tradition. Viewing faint objects requires either long exposure photography and/or a large aperture to capture lots of light. Large lenses are expensive and difficult to make. Enter the newtonian reflector. Large, precisely-machined mirrors are less expensive and easier to produce than large lenses. Newtonians have two mirrors, primary and secondary. They are generally mounted in a tube. The larger primary is at the base of the tube. It focuses light onto the smaller secondary which is mounted near the top of the tube. The secondary is mounted on a "spider" which has four legs. Those legs cause diffraction of light on its way to the primary. That diffraction causes diffraction spikes.
I own a small 5" Newtonian. When you take an image through my scope, there are diffraction spikes. They aren't "traditional". Their existence is an artefact of the scope's engineering and physics.
No swimming in the neutrino detector!
I built my own in my bath tub. ;-P
Just imagine how annoying the clean up would have been after that...
The scene with the stars flashing was an example of their photon sized A.I. that covered and uncovered the night sky.
See people, she's a astrophysics and enjoyed the show for what it is! Meanwhile the people having tantrums i bet don't even have a GED lmao.
She already pointed out the dubious science, and it only gets worse. This show and the series is pure science fantasy and anyone with a cursory understanding of physics will quickly and repeatedly be forced to suspend their disbelief to continue enjoying it.
I know it's true, but as someone with astigmatism, it always amuses me when I'm reminded that stars don't normally have diffraction spikes. But my vision is otherwise great, so I tend not to bother with glasses unless I'm doing a lot of night driving.
i watched the first 3 Episodes yesterday and I am totally hooked!
In the first episode I burst up and said, “When the F did Oxford get a particle accelerator?!” 🤦♂️
Please continue this till the end .... This is so knowledgable
I’m also a physicist trained among astrophysicists (JILA) and lived 3 Body Problem - both the Netflix version and the books. Very good science in the books. Fantastic story! Highly recommend.
Won't subscribe to Netflix but it was good to see the Doc.
I would really enjoy watching your take on the entire series! It would be fun to hear what you have to say.
looking forward to more of your reactions as you move through the series! :-) It's way cool!
There is a reason the universe blinks that makes perfect sense without completely tossing physics out the window. You won't learn it until towards the end of the first book.
Though they already hint at it - they said the space telescopes didn't see those flickers.
It wasn't turned off. The "2 cell phones" altered human perception. The head sets they use are proof they are capable of manipulating human perception.
@@michaelevans3904 - I was purposefully avoiding spoilers. And I think the wording made that clear. I think this post is extremely obnoxious.
sorry but you're wrong. you could say that for the book were the microwave background flickers.
Like it was in the series it makes zero sense. except you would have billions of sophons. but there are only two.
@@franzfrikadelli6074 Or one fully unfolded sophon.
I’m nervous about this one. The books are so fantastic and I can’t even start conceptualize have something that complex could be made into a TV show.
I watched the series before ever reading the books (I just finished the trilogy), and I think Netflix did a good job. They did make some character changes, and the first season brings in some elements beyond the first book, but none of it struck me as gratuitous. On the contrary, I suspect if they’d gone with an absolutely faithful adaptation I wouldn’t have sought out the books, and I’m pretty sure that’s going to be a common reaction.
@@seraeggobutterworth5247 Wait, you watched the show and read the three books in a week?
Amplifying the signal through the Sun would fail this way ... 1) she sees the Sun where it was ~500s ago, not where it is, and (2) she's gotta point it to where the Sun will be in ~500s, and not where it's now .. those 1000s make over 8 full diameters (4 degrees)
Spoke too soon!
In episode 6 (I think) we find that the evil Sophon spreads itself around the Earth to block the stars ... which also accounts for the diffraction!
Which is also where the show completely falls apart from a scientific perspective. If the San-Ti can cause a PROTON to unfold around an entire planet than they easily have the technology to solve their own 3 Body Problem. This show and book series is nothing but magical science fantasy
@@mateobarrett6829i didn't expect hard sci fi that 100% stands up to intense scrutiny by actual scientists. But even in the logic of the show none of the actions of the aliens or many of the characters makes sense. If the aliens have that level of power on Earth already, all their actions and statements make no sense. They can control every computer on Earth instantly. There is nothing that can stop them. If they were even slightly clever about using just that one power alone, let alone all the other things the sophons can do.
@@mateobarrett6829yea no that’s not how it works 💀
@@eden20111 if the San-Ti can move protons between dimensions to write tiny computers on them they are easily between 2&3 on the Kardishev scale and thus would not even need Earth to survive. They could build world ships or Dyson spheres with ease, among the dozens of scientific plot holes throughout the series
@@mateobarrett6829 yea no, that’s not how it works 💀💀
I hope the Netflix series can compete with the Tencent version. I loved that one, quite true to the books.
I gave up on the TenCent show. After 5/30 shows I got fed up of being hammered over the head by the same point time and again. A faithful adaptation of the book almost word for word doesn't usually work for TV, and certainly not for non-Chinese audience who don't revere the source material like Chinese people do.
An English version of the TenCent show would have flopped hard in the US.
@@EnglishMikeit's cool that it exists, but the book literally takes faster to consume than the tencent show, so at that point why not just read the book? You could read 3 body problem and get almost halfway through dark forest before you finish watching the tencent show lol.
I don't want to see the main character being gaslighted for 5 episodes 😅 but for sure the Netflix's one didn't touch that philosophical theme as hard as the Tencent one
@@user-ly2ll5od1rGood point. It is a bit odd when you put it like that. Perhaps Chinese audiences prefer it that way. I duuno.
@@revolvency Yeah, I can't say the Netflix version of 3 Body is as compelling as shows like Silo and Severance, or even as good as the first season of Game of Thrones, which was fantastic, but at least it was a digestible size!
Please watch episode 3 and tell something about "stacking up gravitation of 3 stars" and people flying around with the effect of these star's gravitation. It was utterly ridiculous.
why
Please explain why ?
@@rootstriker1618 Of course; first gravitation does not "stack up"; to have a higher gravity you need to merge the masses, secondly, if gravitational effect gets higher you don't fly upwards, the planet you were on would change orbits. That effect on the orbit could change the climate and probably would disturb the stability. Think of two magnets and an iron dust on one of them; gravitation acts like a one-poled magnet. But the most disturbing part for me was the portrayal of Newton and Turing.
@@fikretyetthat’s what’s disturbing to you? I do t think you really got what the show was trying to do there
@@goolumf If the show is trying to use physics terms and names related to physics principles but throw in some scenes that are physically impossible and irrational in the most basic physics principles, yeah the show has achieved that delicious purpose.
The Netflix series doesn't follow the book the way that the Chinese series "Three Body" does. The Netflix adaptation is fine by me but some people think they've changed it too much from the book. For example the aliens don't make the universe flicker on and off in the book, they cause a fluctuation in the cosmic microwave background and special glasses are needed to see the fluctuations (well according to the book anyway).
The only difference was changing the wavelength of the light being flickered. There's nothing lost to the story by changing it to visible light, and is much more dramatic for the show.
I watched the Chinese version on YT a few months back and feel it is more detailed than the Netfiix version...It is 30 episodes compared to 8 . I am however enjoying the Netflix version and really hope we get The Dark Forest show after this....Book 2 and then Deaths End which I haven't read yet...Book 3...The Dark Forest book 2 in the series was really good...
@@AlzWorld57why do you use so many dots…
The "three body problem" you refer to regarding the challenge of analytically solving the motions of three gravitationally interacting bodies is indeed a notorious unsolvable conundrum in classical physics and mathematics. However, adopting the non-contradictory infinitesimal and monadological frameworks outlined in the text could provide novel avenues for addressing this issue in a coherent cosmological context. Here are some possibilities:
1. Infinitesimal Monadological Gravity
Instead of treating gravitational sources as ideal point masses, we can model them as pluralistic configurations of infinitesimal monadic elements with extended relational charge distributions:
Gab = Σi,j Γij(ma, mb, rab)
Where Gab is the gravitational interaction between monadic elements a and b, determined by combinatorial charge relation functions Γij over their infinitesimal masses ma, mb and relational separations rab.
Such an infinitesimal relational algebraic treatment could potentially regularize the three-body singularities by avoiding point-idealization paradoxes.
2. Pluriversal Superpositions
We can represent the overall three-body system as a superposition over monadic realizations:
|Ψ3-body> = Σn cn Un(a, b, c)
Where Un(a, b, c) are basis states capturing different monadic perspectives on the three-body configuration, with complex amplitudes cn.
The dynamics would then involve tracking non-commutative flows of these basis states, governed by a generalized gravitational constraint algebra rather than a single deterministic evolution.
3. Higher-Dimensional Hyperpluralities
The obstruction to analytic solvability may be an artifact of truncating to 3+1 dimensions. By embedding in higher dimensional kaleidoscopic geometric algebras, the three-body dynamics could be represented as relational resonances between polytope realizations:
(a, b, c) ←→ Δ3-body ⊂ Pn
Where Δ3-body is a dynamic polytope in the higher n-dimensional representation Pn capturing intersectional gravitational incidences between the three monadic parties a, b, c through infinitesimal homotopic deformations.
4. Coherent Pluriverse Rewriting
The very notion of "three separable bodies" may be an approximation that becomes inconsistent for strongly interdependent systems. The monadological framework allows rewriting as integrally pluralistic structures avoiding Cartesian idealization paradoxes:
Fnm = R[Un(a, b, c), Um(a, b, c)]
Representing the "three-body" dynamics as coherent resonance functors Fnm between relatively realized states Un, Um over the total interdependent probability amplitudes for all monadic perspectives on the interlaced (a, b, c) configuration.
In each of these non-contradictory possibilities, the key is avoiding the classical idealized truncations to finite point masses evolving deterministically in absolute geometric representations. The monadological and infinitesimal frameworks re-ground the "three bodies" in holistic pluralistic models centering:
1) Quantized infinitesimal separations and relational distributions
2) Superposed monadic perspectival realizations
3) Higher-dimensional geometric algebraic embeddings
4) Integral pluriversal resonance structure rewritings
By embracing the metaphysical first-person facts of inherent plurality and subjective experiential inseparability, the new frameworks may finally render such traditionally "insoluble" dynamical conundrums as the three-body problem analytically accessible after all - reframed in transcendently non-contradictory theoretical architectures.
I was in two minds about watching this, but if it’s good enough for Dr Becky, it’s good enough for me 😊😊😊
I'm reminded of a sci-fi story, where there was some kind of energy barrier around the solar system that shut off the stars from humanity. As I remember it the shell was gradually contracting and the world would be destroyed in about 200 years. I'm not 100% sure what it was it could have been Greg Egan's Quarantine but I might be mixing up memories of it with another short story.
Reading the summary of Quarantine there is indeed a bubble, but it's around the solar system and it doesn't seem to shrink.
Maybe "Paradox" from Peterson? i liked the book
Not to far off what happened here
Pandoras star by Peter f hamilton has an energy barrier'd solar system. It doesn't shrink, but it's implied the species inside will go extinct from lack of resources anyways
@@InstanceJeffin the one I remember, there is a worldwide one-child policy to wind things down before the end, but after a few decades decline stops because of the minority who didn't care less having lots of children.
I also noticed the japanese neutrino lab being placed out of nowhere ahhaha
The Super Kamiokande part cracked me up as well. Though if I didn't know, it's a great location for the scene.
No spoilers but the universe flickering as they did will make more sense later, also the book does it differently.
Check out the Chinese produced series it's 30 episodes and is far more faithful to the book.
It's not faithful at all. They cut out the entire cultural revolution part which is what caused this entire story to happen.
@Bitchslapper316, The Tencent version indirectly showed the cultural revolution and what happened, so it is not totally faithful but it still maintains the point. The Tencent version is still way more faithful to the books than this Netflix version which changed the entire 2000s setting and changed the characters so much that it completely removed the Chinese cultural and socio-political themes of the books.
@@Intranetusa I can't comment on the netflix one. I haven't seen the full show yet. I did watch the tencent one and it was not faithful to the book.
The tencent one removed the most important part of the story though. The entire thing kicked off because of what Ye Wenxue seen them do to her father. It made her hate humanity, contact hostile aliens to come take over, she ki**ed her own husband to cover it up, she helped organize a massive anti humanity faction on earth and even sacrificed her own daughter. That was also meant by the author to show the contrast in Chinese society from then to now which is why it time skipped so much. To show what it was like in China to what it evolved into.
@@Intranetusa I wrote a lengthy reply but youtube doesn't allow conversation anymore and deleted it. I'll just say this, I haven't seen the nextflix one so have no comment on it. I don't feel the tencent one was faithful at all and omitted important parts of the story. Good day.
@Bitchslapper316 Yeh, that is true. So we basically have the Tencent version that deleted half the 1970s Chinese setting and now we have the Netflix version that deleted the entire 2000s Chinese setting. So both missed the mark on contrasting the 1970s vs 2000s Chinese settings that were a part of the theme of the books. We have bad and now worse in terms of faithful adaptations.
Oh wow. I would have bet that the scene of the detector interior was CGI...
Well yeah it most likely was, but that’s what they were recreating
It could well have been cheaper to send a small crew on location than pay for the CGI though.
I was more curios as to how she was able to see any stars at all with those digits glowing in front of her eyes...
I think… I don’t know… but the refraction around the stars has been chosen because of the video camera lens, like the video (An Arri Alexa) camera is filming it at the same time as everything else, even though in reality it’s ’done in post’. So it’s there on purpose.
Very good points. Yes Oxford having it's won particle accelerator! Not sure how the stars were supposed to be made to blink. Something to do with that alien particle sized computer impossible thing? Better than the original book and Chinese version.
Normal people are annoying when they talk during movies but smart people like Becky I want to hear from
I'm almost done with season 1. Looking forward to seeing Dr Becky's breakdown of the full season. I'm holding off on watching any other breakdowns.
the flickering stars scene also reminded me of the image that a telescope produces.
Keep 'em honest Dr. Smethurst!
It's good that Netflix invited you to the premiere. Now....if you weren't invited......
I noted that a neutrino detector wouldn’t be under a supercollider. The fellow was at a desk reviewing supercollider data.
I also didn’t like the premise that a scientist operates on a belief system that would be destroyed if they saw something they didn’t understand and then killing themselves somehow made sense to resolve that problem. My reaction might be to investigate more.
Yeah, When I watched I thought "Wow, Oxford physicists would really like it if the University had this
The stars blinking was a mental manipulation as they stated that telescopes just saw unblinking stars
A neutrino collector in Japan! ok, I wondered if it was the one in Sarnia, Canada. So happy DrBecky got the invite! Thx DD!!!
Yeah... it kind of bugged me how they think we would all lose our minds if we didn't understand something... if that were true no one would survive grad school!!!
Except this show is much more entertaining and engaging than grad school.
@@nexuscross3233 the science is quite off. I find it cringy when i watch it.
In the book isn't it stated that it's less about the fact that the results aren't what was expected and more about the fact the results are non repeatable? Meaning that the scientific method is no longer working.
Not sure why one extra line about that wasn't added into the show if that's the case but it's not the biggest problem ever.
ya I agree that was bizarre, and hard to suspended disbelief around
@@elliedavies7138 this is like the whole first episode of the show, they talk about it a lot
Hi Dr Becky, I think I bumped into you at Geneva airport last week as I was heading to the alps. I wanted to say hi but I got all star struck and instead walked away and just told my mates I've just seen one of my favourite CZcamsrs. 😂
Hope you had a great trip!
You did! We just had a week skiing in Morzine and Avoriaz with mates too! Hope you had a good week too 👍
@@DrBecky thanks, we had a fantastic week in Flaine.
I love this show! It’s like all the CZcams short science videos I watch but in a creepy sci fi show xD
No particle accelerator at Oxford? What about Harwell? I was impressed by the Chinese Location, "game" and the other effects being exactly as I visualised them while reading the book. Bit confused by most of the characters being in England though. If you haven't watched it - do so now.
I heard somewhere that the producers were not allowed to base the show in China, for some kind of political reason or another. The most they could really do was the public execution thing at the beginning.
For any book readers, I just want to plug the Chinese TV show of 3 Body Problem that was made last year. Season 1 is 30 epidosodes, so it really delves into the whole book and does such a good job of capturing its spirit! Some of the direction is a bit cheezy, but the acting and casting is phenomenal, and it's made by people who clearly love the books.
They loved the books so much they omitted the most important part of the story.
It's painfully slow, though. It's the only scifi show I've given up on in many years, and I even made it through season one of Apple's Invasion!
The Chinese version is available on PBS if you want give it a try, but I'm done with it.
I liked the books, but that sounds like way too much 3 Body Problem. Netflix version being truncated is perfect.
Netflix show is far superior especially with the budget and writing.
Except the most thematically important portions of the entire first book that are crucial to the most important characters development that drives the entire plot are simply omitted due to CCP censorship
Correction YOU never see refraction spikes with your eye. I popped my eye when I was a kid though and my right eye is essentially a mess of refraction
I watched the first 3 episodes last night. So far, a great sc-fi show. Watching more tonight.
episode 5 is chaotic and mind blowing
Binged the first season and it inspired me to go back and read the trilogy again this week. Really looking forward to the second season.
Despite the oddities of the books, it's still an amazing set of stories.
the first 3 episodes were epic.
If Dr. Becky liked it, I’m there ❤
Thanks!
I'm not a scientist or doing anything related to science but I recognised the neutrino detector because I'd seen an article about it before. Made me feel smart in the moment, haha.
Also, sort of spoiler maybe, but the stars didn't actually turn on and off when they were "winking". It was more like a mass hallucination (still sci fi but yeah).
Finished the show in two sittings with a friend and we enjoyed it a lot. I'd heard about the book series through the channel Quinn's Ideas not long before the show came out, so it was extra exciting.
If I am not mistaken in the book the flicker was seen in the CMBR, isn't it? Which is even more terrifying actually
I binged this one night last week. Pretty decent but only 8 episodes so I am looking forward to next season? I also have a number of thoughts I would be few others are yet considering but in the interest of not spoiling it for others I will keep them to myself (for now)
Jokes on you Becky, I do see stars like that!
You see that 4 point shape when u have an astigmatism.. I see it all the time lol
Did you watch the episode with a VR headset or was that something different?
You had me at “particle accelerator”…
I thought the particle accelerator was the Diamond Light Source building located in Oxford?
The outside seems to be, yeah. I thought it was GCHQ at first.
@@adamcummings20I guess she must have meant the inside then as it's definitely the Light Source building from the outside.
There's one thing I would really like to know, because in this series, the San-Ti cheat the restriction of light speed as the fastest speed possible using quantum entanglement for communication. Could that actually work? I won't pretend to understand quantum physics, but if both electromagnetic waves and gravity waves are restricted to the speed of light, could the effects of quantum entanglement actually be faster than lightspeed?
I think they dimmed the stars through shade, not by switching them on or off
I'm blown away. I understand it😊
Quinn's Ideas should have been invited 😮💨
I'm on episode 7 and in many ways I have liked it, and personally I felt the character development is what saves this program because I felt the story has too many unresolved holes in it to really like it.
I'll keep watching, but in some ways I think the writers could have tightened up the storyline. Cuz it feels more like some kind of an unrealistic thought experiment.
I need more opinions on this pls 😭 but if they should not arrive am grateful for this short too, also do they give you vr headset aaa, I would love to play the game even if just in story mode
What would you do with a particle accellerator?
Yep, I noticed it straight away, that's not the LHC....
Anywhere that has a NEUTRINO detector has a DIRECT ENERGY WEAPON.
Definitely watching this show
I know she's only spoiling episode 1 but they explain how the stars blinked I think in episode 5 or 6. The sophons did it obviously (which isn't really a spoiler because you don't know what rhe sophons are yet)
Oh no you mentioned they are books and now I need to go buy all of them.
I can't wait until Heisenberg deals with a three body problem.
Can you explain why we are going to great lengths to detect Neutrinos? Are they like infinity stones or something?
There is a particle accelerator near Oxford. It's the ISIS Neutron and Muon at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory on the Harwell Campus. It replaced the Nimrod Synchrotron, which I worked with as a Maths undergraduate in the 1960's.
The "Oxford University Particle Accelerator" looks a lot like the diamond light source which is just a train and bus ride away from the University. It looks quite a bit like it but the detector for neutrinos is a bit of a lol
It is something around the entire Earth... but I won't spoil.
I loved the show. I have an astigmatism and see stars and point lights like this all the time. 🤓🐼😅
Heck yea!
I'm pretty sure the stars blinking thing is caused by the sophons themselves interacting with the optic nerve of all people on Earth. That was my take from the book anyway.
Additionally, in the show they note briefly that the telescopes and orbital instruments saw no change. That reinforces the idea that it was a local phenomenon - possibly, even probably, in the people themselves.
In the book it's one sophon that unfolds to surround the entire earth+ satellites. And the satellites do actually see it, because it's not in the visible spectrum in the book so without the satellites no one would have known it was happening.
I saw a neutrino once, when I was night fishing.
Cool show, love me some science but never heard of the 3 body problem before the show. Makes sense, season was good👍🏿
Just a side note۔
Could not see the lunar eclipse tonight due to cloud cover here in the Pacific NorthWest۔ 😔
I downloaded the season yesterday. Gonna attempt to view some tonight.. :-)
Ummmmmm so are you doing the full season 1 @Dr.Becky?
Love it ❤❤❤
I didn't read the books but I'll probably watch the Netflix adaptation, as it's sci-fi. Is it good? And is it dystopian? I've read a few comments saying it's "horrifying".
"you never see that with your eye" unless you have astigmatism, like 1/3 of the global population!!!
😂😂😂😂😂😂 PROJECT BLUE BEAM
You got me interested for sure.
i mean if u can turn off fusion of all visible stars , that would be crazy power. so was it the sophon?
Amazing show!!!!