How to summarize Hugo Award-winning science fiction masterpiece "Three-body"?

"The first priority of civilization is survival"

This is perhaps the best interpretation of the voluminous Three-body. The whole novel revolves around this central idea, and every trilogy revolves around this? Survival? This demand is close at hand, but each department has its own characteristics!

The highlight of "Three-body-The Past of the Earth" is: salvation.

The highlight of Three-body-Dark Forest is: deterrence.

The highlight of "Three-body-Death and Eternal Life" is destruction.

Judging from this basic clue, the emotional color expressed in the background of the whole novel is tragic and depressing. In The Past of the Earth, the shadow of Wen Jie's childhood family persecution and the different treatment after taking part in the search for the radar peak of alien civilization caused great resentment in her heart! And the accumulation of these negative thoughts in the boring work day after day will break out one day!

First, save

Until she discovered the secret of the sun, she discovered the amplification effect of the mirror layer of solar energy on electromagnetic waves by analyzing the signal from Jupiter, and calculated that the mirror layer could suddenly amplify this signal by hundreds of billions of times as long as it exceeded the saturation threshold of the mirror layer, so she had an extremely bold idea to broadcast to the whole universe by using the sudden power of the secondary civilization of the sun, so that the super civilization outside the earth could save the world. Hot water? Earth civilization is here! Because? Red shore? This power just exceeded the threshold, making Ye suddenly stand on the cusp of judging the future life and death of earth civilization!

It is conceivable that Ye Wenjie sent this signal to the position of the sun 8 minutes later in the setting sun, and then destroyed everything without leaving any clues, and then continued until the sun set, as shown in the above picture!

Second, deterrence.

On the C star of Nanmen II Centauri, which is 4.22 light years away from the Earth, there is a planet around the entire triad galaxy. This civilization has never had a stable life for several years, because this ternary star system is in extreme chaos, and the gravity between them is competing for this life planet, such as the purgatory of Venus and the extreme cold of Pluto. The best hope of three-body civilization is to have a stable planet to survive and develop! You guessed right, they intercepted this signal, and all kinds of possibilities, like the development of Hollywood blockbusters, did not stop the transmission of this signal!

Since the discovery of the earth, the three-body civilization has built thousands of spacecraft day and night, and plans to reach the earth in 400 years at the speed of 1%. Of course, this is confirmed by the super space telescope made on earth, because they have set out and passed through the nebula that constitutes a three-body galaxy, leaving a flight path after passing through the dust cloud!

Although the three-person is still far from the earth, but a pioneer? Naoko's arrival on earth blocked the progress of human basic science, and the development of human science and technology has a ceiling since then!

However, Luo Ji, a geoscientist who studies the sociology of the universe, found a The Secret Behind close to a bug and hidden in the universe: the dark forest. In order to survive, civilization will destroy all the moving targets around it. His curse will destroy a star dozens of light years away with light particles, and the three-body civilization has long discovered this secret! So it is conceivable that in Luo Ji? Dark forest? Under the guidance of theory, we have achieved peace under extreme terror without sacrificing the three-body civilization and the solar system! And threatened the three people to help the earth people build an indestructible gravitational wave coordinate broadcasting launch pad and personally serve as it? Sword holder? !

The only basis on which the balance of terror can be established is the basic right of survival of both civilized parties!

Third, destruction

Three-body civilization waited for a long time, and finally waited until Cheng Xin was the sword bearer, because according to the simulation of quantum computer, Cheng Xin would not destroy the solar system and the three-body galaxy at the same time at the expense of destroying civilization, so the water droplets that later arrived in the solar system suddenly attacked, blocked the sun and planned to destroy the gravitational wave launch pad at the same time, and directly crashed through the 30KM crust under the protection of a powerful shell to reach the heavily guarded sword bearer deterrent scene!

As you expected, Cheng Xin didn't press the gravitational wave launch button, so the earth missed. Under the supervision of a weak Japanese woman, Aiko, human beings moved to Australia under extremely bad conditions!

Survival is a kind of luck, which used to be like this on the earth, but now it is everywhere in this cold universe. But I don't know when it started, and human beings have an illusion that survival has become something within reach, which is the root cause of your failure. ?

This is what Naoko said to the human beings who poured into Australia. Of course, it expresses Liu's idea, just like Hawking, before facing the moment of human life and death? Monday morning quarterback? ! Humans who have never seen the three-body planetary environment seem to be insatiable on the earth, greedily demanding the generous gifts from the sun and the earth, but never considering that they will suddenly lose one day, so friends who have seen the three-body planet will never think that Uncle Huo is complaining, but an old man's earnest teachings!

But what about Luo Ji? Snow project? The blasting with the background of ether sunlight forms an oil film shadow, and broadcasts the coordinates of the three-body star to space in clear code! Of course, the solar system can't run, but this is not Luo Ji's consideration! However, this final balance of deterrence did not last long. Three-body civilization was discovered by Singh civilization because of the flight path left by the light-speed spacecraft, which directly destroyed the three-body galaxy, and the solar system fleet also directly turned to Taurus, and the three-body civilization disappeared from now on!

However, enterprising human beings still carried out a bunker plan under the leadership of Cheng Xin, that is, to build a space station at the Lagrange point where Jupiter faces away from the sun, so that human beings can be sheltered by Jupiter when light particles destroy the solar system! And canceled the manufacturing plan of the light speed spacecraft and planned to survive in the solar system!

Unfortunately, Singer civilization found that there was a dead angle in the solar system and gave up the use of light particles to destroy the two-way foil of the solar system indiscriminately! This will cause the infinite three-dimensional space to fall in two dimensions and become a plane without thickness, and the escape speed is the speed of light! As you wish, the culprit Cheng Xin, the only light-speed spacecraft in the solar system, has started the journey of eternal life!

The first priority of civilization is survival? Whether it's a threesome or a human, or a super civilization hiding in the depths of the universe, such as a singer, there is no human rights and no bottom line in the context of survival, only constant plunder, and even those who return to zero are planning to restart the universe! And this is the most basic principle of cosmology!