How did the three-body rockett die?

How to sacrifice three-body rockett is introduced as follows:

"Three-body" Ding Yi died while investigating water droplets. He is regarded as one of the best physicists in the world and tries to reveal the mystery of Naoko. Yi Ding is a theoretical physicist and the first person to contact water droplets. He is very curious about advanced civilization and technology.

Rockett went to investigate near the water drop. In this process, the water droplets began to release a lot of energy, which directly killed Rockett.

Rockett said:

Ding Yi is a character in Liu's science fiction. Famous physicists appear in novels such as Collapse of the Universe, Microscopic End, Wen Chaodao, Three-body, Spherical Lightning, Time Migration, etc., so they are nicknamed "sextant" by netizens. A free and easy, dissolute, talented and intelligent person.

He holds two doctorates in philosophy and quantum physics, and a master's degree in mathematics. He is a first-class professor and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (and the youngest academician). He is the chief scientist of the national neutron decay research project, and was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Physics for his research on the neutron decay project.

Although he is never the protagonist in the novel, he is an indispensable part of the main line of the novel. It can even be said that it is because of his existence that Liu's writing world is vaguely connected.

Reference to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Ding Yi