It has been more than a year since the last three-body article was published. Over the past year, I have read a lot of books about business, literature, and trends, developed the habit of listening to books, and updated My own reading methods, quick book selection, skimming of ordinary books, and books with remarkable accuracy, combined with my experience and experience over the past year, have deepened my understanding of the book Three-Body Problem, and I will share it with you here. Highlights from part two.

When the Three-Body Crisis emerged, escapeism emerged. Its main argument was that it is meaningless to plan for the defense of the earth and the solar system four and a half centuries later under the premise that cutting-edge human science has been destroyed. , considering the height that human technology can reach in the next four centuries or so, a more realistic goal should be to build interstellar spacecraft to enable a small part of mankind to escape into outer space to avoid the complete extinction of human civilization.

There are three choices for the destination of escape:

One: New world choice, which is to find a new world in the interstellar world where humans can survive. This is undoubtedly the most ideal goal, but it requires extremely high sailing speed and a long voyage. Judging from the technical height that humans can achieve during the crisis stage, it is unlikely to be achieved.

Second: Starship civilization choice, that is, the escaped humans use the spacecraft as a permanent residence, so that human civilization can continue in the eternal voyage. This choice faces the same difficulties as the New World choice, but it is more focused on the technology of establishing a small self-circulating ecosystem. This fully closed ecosystem that operates for generations far exceeds the current technological capabilities of mankind. (The biggest obstacle to escape is not a dispute between countries." "It is a dispute between people, that is, the issue of who goes and who stays."

Who goes and who stays involves basic human values , this kind of value has promoted the progress of human society in the past era, but in the face of this ultimate disaster, it is a trap. Until now, even the majority of human beings have not realized how deep this trap is.

Third: Temporary avoidance option. After the Trisolaran civilization has settled in the solar system, humans who have fled to outer space actively communicate with the Trisolaran society, waiting for and promoting the relaxation of its policy towards the remaining humans in outer space. , and finally returned to the solar system to survive with the Trisolaran civilization on a smaller scale. The temporary escape option was considered the most realistic option, but there were too many variables.

Soon after the emergence of escapeism, There are multiple media reports around the world: The United States and Russia, the two major space technology powers, have secretly started their own escape plans into outer space. Although both governments immediately categorically denied the existence of such plans, they still caused an uproar in the international community. This triggered a "technology publicization" movement. At the third special UN General Assembly, many developing countries asked the United States, Russia, Japan, China and the EU to make technology public and make all advanced technologies, including aerospace technology, free of charge. Proponents of the “public ownership of technology” movement also cited a precedent: at the beginning of this century, several major European pharmaceutical companies had provided African countries that produce the most advanced drugs for the treatment of AIDS charge high technology patent fees, which triggers a high-profile lawsuit. Faced with the severe situation of the rapid spread of AIDS in Africa, under the pressure of strong public opinion, several Big pharmaceutical companies announced their renunciation of patent rights before the trial. In the face of the ultimate crisis facing the world, the "technology publicization" movement in advanced countries has received unanimous response from developing countries. It even received support from some EU member states, but the relevant proposals were rejected at the United Nations Planetary Defense Council meeting. After that, China and Russia proposed a "limited technology public ownership" proposal at the fifth special UN General Assembly. The initiative to publicize technology among the permanent members of the Planetary Defense Council was immediately rejected by the United States and Britain. The U.S. government stated that any form of publicized technology is unrealistic and a naive idea, even under the current circumstances. The national security of the United States is still in an important position "second only to the defense of the earth"

The failure of the "limited technology public ownership" proposal has also caused divisions among the technological powers, leading to the establishment of a joint Earth fleet. Bankruptcy.

The impact of the setback of the "technical publicization" movement is far-reaching. It makes people realize that even in the face of the devastating Trisolaris crisis, human unity is still a distant dream. < /p>

The "technological public ownership" movement was triggered by escapism. Only when the international community reaches a complete understanding of escapism can it partially remedy the problems that have been caused between developed countries and developing countries, as well as between developed countries. crack.

“When the Tribody crisis emerged, the former permanent members of the Security Council held emergency consultations and put forward the initial idea of ??the wall-facing plan.

“All countries have noticed the following Fact: After the first two sophons appeared, there is more and more evidence that more sophons are constantly arriving in the solar system and entering the earth. This process is still continuing today. Therefore, to the enemy, the earth is now a completely transparent world. To them, everything in this world is ready to be read like an open book. Human beings have no secrets left.

"At present, the mainstream defense plans that have been launched by the international community, whether it is its overall strategic thinking or the smallest technical and military details, are completely exposed to the enemy's vision, in all conference rooms , in all filing cabinets, in all computer hard drives and memories, Sophon's eyes are everywhere. A plan, a plan, a deployment, no matter how big or small, will appear in the four lights at the same time when they appear on the earth. The enemy headquarters outside the year showed that any form of communication within human beings will lead to leaks

“We should pay attention to the fact that the level of strategic and tactical stratagems is not directly proportional to technological progress. . There is definite intelligence proving that Trisolarans use transparent thinking to communicate directly, which makes them very incompetent in terms of strategy, disguise and deception. This also gives human civilization a huge advantage over its enemies. We must not This advantage cannot be lost. Therefore, the founders of the Wall-Facing Plan believed that in addition to the mainstream defense plan, several other strategic plans should be carried out in parallel. These plans are opaque and secret to the enemy. Several options were initially considered, but in the end it was determined that only the wall-facing plan was feasible.

"I should correct what I said before: So far, humans still have secrets, and our secrets are the inner world of each of us. Sophons can understand human language and can read printed text at super high speeds and information stored in various computer media, but they cannot read people's thoughts, so as long as they do not communicate with the outside world, everyone is an eternal secret to sophons. This is the basis of the Wall-Facing Project

"The core of the Wall-Facing Plan is to select a group of strategic plan makers and leaders. They rely entirely on their own thinking to formulate strategic plans and do not engage in any form of communication with the outside world. The true strategic thoughts of the plan, the steps to be completed, and The final goal is only hidden in their brains. We call them wall-facers. The name of this ancient Eastern meditator well reflects the characteristics of their work. In the process of leading the execution of these strategic plans, the thoughts and behaviors displayed by the Wall Facer to the outside world should be complete illusions, carefully planned disguises, misleads, and deceptions. What the Wall Facers want to mislead and deceive include the enemy. The entire world, including our own, eventually builds up a confusing and huge maze of illusions, causing the enemy to lose correct judgment in this maze and delaying as much as possible the time for him to discern our true strategic intentions.

“The Wallfacers will be granted high powers, enabling them to mobilize and use part of the Earth’s existing war resources. During the execution of the strategic plan, the Wallfacers do not have to be responsible for their own actions and Any explanation given for such behavior, no matter how incomprehensible, will be supervised and controlled by the United Nations Planetary Defense Council, which is the only body with the final authority to veto Wallfacer orders under the UN Wallface Act.

“In order to ensure the continuity of the Wall Face Plan, all Wall Facers will use hibernation technology to transcend time until they reach the era of the final decisive battle. During this period, when and under what circumstances will they wake up, and how long will each awakening period be? The time is determined by the wall-facer. In the next four centuries, the United Nations Wall-Facing Act will exist as an international law with the same status as the United Nations Charter. It will work with the corresponding laws enacted by various countries to ensure the implementation of the Wall-Facing Strategic Plan.

The committee’s possible doubts about the opponents mainly lie in the following two aspects: the amount of resources used exceeds the set range, or it causes harm to human life. Beyond that, any questioning is against the basic spirit of the Wall-Facing Plan.

However, the Wallfacer plan did not go as smoothly as expected. The Trisolarans also formulated a corresponding wall-breaking plan for the Earthlings' Wallfacer plan.

One by one, the three wall-facers have their plans revealed by the three-body wall-breakers. Will the earth really face destruction?

Do the extreme ideas of the three wall-facers also reflect human beings’ fear of the Trisolaran world, as well as their abandonment and doubt of human beings’ own technology and humanity?

“First Wall Plane: Frederick Taylor. "(Destroy Humanity)

You have to destroy the Earth's space force and let their quantum ghosts resist the Trisolaran fleet. You think they are invincible because a fleet that has been destroyed cannot be destroyed again, and those who have died cannot die again. ”

At the cost of his life, he did break out of the wall-facer cycle. However, the international community’s doubts about the wall-facer project also increased, and public opinion demanded further restrictions on the power of the wall-facer. But since then In terms of the essence of the Wall Face Plan, excessive power restrictions will inevitably make it difficult for the Wall Facers to carry out strategic deception, and the entire plan will lose its meaning. The Wall Face Plan is a brand-new leadership system that human society has never experienced, and it can only be carried out gradually. Adjusting and adapting to it, the hibernation of the two Wallfacers undoubtedly provided a buffer period for this adjustment and adaptation.

"The second Wallfacer: Manuel Reydiaz. "(Humanity and the Trisolaran world perished together)

Based on the study of the atmosphere of the Trisolaran star, they speculated that the atmosphere was produced by the fall of previous planets. The falling planet broke the outer shell of the star, causing the inner Star material is ejected into space, forming the surrounding atmosphere.

Since the motion of three-body stars is completely irregular, it is possible for the three stars to cross each other at close range. At this time, the atmosphere of one star will be dispersed by the gravity of the other star, but will then be ejected from the star's surface. It is added that this kind of eruption is not constant. Like a volcano, sudden eruptions sometimes occur. This is why the atmosphere of the Trisolaris star continues to shrink and expand.

By detonating numerous stellar-type hydrogen bombs deployed on Mercury, a chain reaction was triggered, eventually putting the solar system into crisis

"For Trisolaris, after their planet was destroyed by three Before the star is swallowed up, the solar system is the only hope. There will be no other world that can be immigrated in time. In this way, after human beings, the Trisolaran civilization will also be completely destroyed.

"This is your death-to-die strategy. . When everything is ready and all the hydrogen bombs are in place on Mercury, you will use this to threaten Trisolaran and ultimately allow humanity to win.

This is a plan that swallows the elephant. Human beings do not have the ability to produce such a number of stellar hydrogen bombs. Even if all the earth's industrial resources are exhausted, it is still possible that not one tenth can be produced. Even if there were one million stellar hydrogen bombs, it would not be enough to slow down Mercury until it fell into the sun.

"The third wall-facer: Bill Shines." (Control human thoughts)

In the brain neuron network, we discovered the mechanism by which the mind makes judgments. and can have a decisive impact on it. Compare the process of human thinking to make judgments with computers: input data from the outside world, calculate, and finally give the result. We can now omit the calculation process and give the results directly. When a certain piece of information enters the brain, by exerting influence on a certain part of the neuron network, we can make the brain make a judgment without thinking and believe that the information is true. "

Hines' response strategy---Thought Stamping,

Members of the Planetary Defense Council unanimously opposed this method and believed that human thoughts are not controlled, which is inconsistent with this There is no essential difference between the world being destroyed,

But Hines disagreed, he said

"I think everyone has heard this story: a tree fell down in a forest farm. The little boy who held down his leg was the only one at the time. His leg was bleeding and he would bleed to death if this continued. However, he made a decision that would make all the representatives ashamed: he picked up a saw and cut off the held leg. That leg, climbed into the car and found the hospital, saving his life. ”

?“The problem faced by mankind now is survival or death, the survival or death of the entire race and civilization as a whole. In this case, how can it be possible not to give up something? ”

After some weighing, Hines proposed that people should voluntarily accept this thing, and the government should not interfere too much. It can only have one proposition, which is the belief in the victory of the war and the willingness to rely on it. Anyone who has obtained the Thought Seal can use this facility on a completely voluntary basis. Of course, all this should be done under strict supervision."

The specific operation of the Thought Seal is complete. , in order to reflect the principle of voluntariness, the operation is completed by the volunteer himself. He will open the belief book by himself, and then press the start button of the thought stamp. Before the actual operation is carried out, the system will give three confirmation opportunities. Before each operation, the Book of Faith must be verified and confirmed by a ten-person team. This team is composed of commissioners from the permanent members of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights and the Planetary Defense Council. During the entire operation of the ideological stamp, the ten-person team Strict supervision was also carried out on site.

Since the Wall Face plan was exposed one by one, and the first Wall Facer could not bear the pressure of public opinion and committed suicide, this also verified the correctness of the Wall Breaker from the side. Compared with the Wallfacers' "making a difference" and Luo Ji's indifference to the world, the Planetary Defense Council had no choice but to take action. They "kidnapped" Luo Ji's wife Zhuang Yan, hoping that Luo Ji would protect her. My wife’s purpose is to think about solutions and really think about the safety of people on earth.

Luo Ji was told that the Trisolarans were most afraid of themselves. In connection with the previous car accident, Luo Ji gradually remembered that he had met Ye Wenjie 9 years ago. Human sophon technology is not yet developed. We only know that they have met, but the specific content is unknown. The Trisolarans hope that by murdering Luo Ji, they can eliminate the "time bomb" and eliminate the threat to the Trisolaran world.

Recalling Ye Wenjie’s talk,

and two important concepts:

Luo Ji thought over and over again, and suddenly had an idea, whether we can send three The coordinate position of the three-body body is exposed to other planets, so that the three-body world is exposed to the world and attracts the power of other worlds to destroy or occupy the three-body world?

Luo Ji therefore thought that the coordinates of a certain star system were emitted in the universe, and predicted that this star system would change in 100 years.

Luo Ji then entered hibernation.

Because of excessive consumption in the Wall-Facing Project, people's living standards have returned to the state more than a century ago. Faced with the problem of food and clothing, people have no time to think about the destruction of the earth by the Three-Body Problem, but in After solving the problem (rapid advancement of human technology), the world was declared to be in a state of war and the construction of a space fleet began.

But this time is different from before. All countries have made it clear in their constitutions: the resources consumed by space strategic plans should be limited within a certain range and should not have a catastrophic impact on the world economy and social life.

?"Later, some people thought about it, and more and more people thought about it, and they all doubted whether it was worth paying so much for the victory of the Doomsday War. Think about it, Which one is more important, the starving children or the continuation of human civilization? You may say the latter is important now, but you would not think so at that time. No matter what the future holds, the present day is the most important. Of course, at the time, this idea was treasonous and a typical traitor thought, but more and more people thought so, and soon the whole world thought so. A slogan was popular at that time, and later became a famous saying in history... "

"About half a century of peace has passed since the Great Depression. The whole world is thinking about the Trisolaran invasion again, and feels that war should still be considered. Besides, the power of human beings is now different from that of space. It was different before the trough.

So the world was declared to be in a state of war and the construction of space fleets was started. But this time it was different from before. All countries made it clear in their constitutions: the resources consumed by the space strategic plan should be. It should be limited to a certain range and should not have a catastrophic impact on the world's economy and social life. It was during this period that the space fleet became an independent country..."

Trisolaris broadcast to the outside world in Luoji. After finding the position of the star's coordinates, he realized that the earth's broadcasting ability must be blocked, and immediately sent "water droplets" to the earth.

180 years later, a small drop-shaped probe arrived in the solar system. Although there was no progress in basic physics, applied technology developed rapidly.

After the disastrous failure of dispatching all fleets to intercept the "Water Drop", people discovered that the star system Logic launched 180 years ago had been destroyed, and quickly awakened him and named him the savior

What does destroying you have to do with you?

An ordinary detector of the Trisolaran fleet wiped out the entire fleet of the Earth without any effort. There was no room for change. Only then did the people of the Earth realize that they were compared to the Trisolaran world. It is so small. With the infrastructure locked, it is impossible to make breakthrough progress based on the original development. This unspeakable fear shrouded the people of the earth in darkness.

After being completely defeated by the water droplet, the human world is now divided into three worlds: the ancient earth world, the new era fleet world, and the starship world flying into the depths of the universe. The last world only has more than 5,000 people, but it carries all the hope of human civilization.

When everyone was discussing the issues of leadership structures at all levels of Starship Earth, Zhang Beihai resolutely stated that "survival alone cannot guarantee survival. Development is the best guarantee for survival. During the voyage, we To develop its own science and technology, it is also necessary to expand the size of the fleet. The facts of the Middle Ages and the Great Depression have proven that autocracy is the biggest obstacle to human development. Starship Earth needs active new ideas and creativity, which can only be achieved by establishing a sufficient system. This can only be achieved by a society that respects humanity and freedom."

Since Starship International consumes a lot of energy to fly in the galaxy and cannot transport so many passengers, it comes to the question of which personnel should be retained. To continue flying, do you want to use an infrasonic hydrogen bomb-----a space nuclear weapon, used to attack spacecraft targets that are well shielded from conventional radiation. It can continuously produce multiple nuclear explosions at the frequency of infrasonic waves in the air, each time Strong electromagnetic radiation interacts with the metal shell of the target spacecraft, converting electromagnetic energy into sound energy in the air inside the spacecraft, generating super strong infrasound waves, killing all macroscopic life inside the spacecraft, but basically causing no damage to the flying facilities. .

Since infrasonic hydrogen bombs produce damage through electromagnetic pulses, they do not need to hit the target directly. They can kill people inside the target by exploding at a considerable distance from the target. Missiles that are invisible to radar can only be detected by other detection methods including visible light observation when they are close to the target.

Of course the three of us can, but do we have the right to make this choice for the two thousand people on board the "Natural Selection"?

The three people were standing on a sharp blade and were being cut painfully. If they jumped to either side of the blade, they would fall into the bottomless abyss. This was before the birth of new human beings in space. of labor pains.

Two axioms of cosmic civilization:

1. Survival is the first need of civilization.

2. Civilization continues to grow and expand, but the total amount of matter in the universe remains unchanged. "

"There is no need to look at it in the long run. The entire universe is now in a dead end! As Hines said, civilization probably sprouted in the universe billions of years ago. Judging from current signs, the universe may have been crowded. No one knows how much space there is in the Milky Way and the entire universe. space, and how many unoccupied resources there are. ”

“Two concepts need to be defined below: goodwill and bad faith among civilizations. Words like good and evil are not rigorous in science, so their meanings need to be limited: goodwill means not taking the initiative to attack and destroy other civilizations, while bad faith means the opposite.

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"There are various levels of exposure: the strongest exposure is to let me know your precise coordinates in the interstellar world, the second is to let me know your general direction, and the weakest exposure is to just let me know Be aware of your presence in the universe. But even the weakest exposure has the potential to make me search and find you. Since you can detect my existence, it is of course possible for me to find you. From the perspective of technological development, this is only a matter of time. ”

If you think I am well-intentioned, this is not the reason for you to feel safe, because according to the first axiom, a well-intentioned civilization cannot preconceive other civilizations as well-intentioned, so, you You don’t know yet what I think of you, you don’t know whether I think you are kind or malicious; further, even if you know that I imagine you as kind, I also know that you imagine me as kind, but I don’t Knowing what you think about me, what you think about me, it’s quite confusing, isn’t it? This is the third level, and this logic can be extended endlessly.”

?“This. It’s a chain of suspicion. This kind of thing cannot be seen on earth. Human beings are of the same species, have similar cultures, and live in the same interdependent ecosystem. In such an environment, suspicion can arise. The chain can only extend one or two levels before being eliminated by communication. But in space, the chain of suspicion may extend for a long time. Things like the Dark Battle have already happened before being eliminated by communication.”

< p> "This means that whether you or I are a well-intentioned civilization or a malicious civilization, the result will be the same?"

"Yes, this is the most important characteristic of the chain of suspicion: it is related to the social form and morality of the civilization itself. It doesn’t matter what the orientation is. Just think of each civilization as a point at both ends of the chain. No matter whether the civilization is benevolent or malicious within it, it will become the same thing after entering the network formed by the suspicion chain.”

"But what if you are much weaker than me, and you are not a threat to me, so I can always communicate with you, right?"

"No, this will introduce the second important concept: technology Explosion. She didn't have time to explain this concept, but it was much easier to speculate than the chain of suspicion. Human civilization has a history of five thousand years, the history of life on earth lasts billions of years, and modern technology developed in three hundred years. From the perspective of the time scale of the universe, this is not a development at all, but an explosion! The possibility of technological leaps is the explosive buried inside every civilization. If it is ignited by internal or external factors, it will explode with a blast. The earth is three hundred years old, but there is no reason to think that human beings are developing the fastest among civilizations in the universe. Maybe the technological explosion of other civilizations is more rapid. I am weaker than you and learned about yours after receiving your exchange of information. existence, the chain of suspicion between us has been established. During this period, a technological explosion may occur at any time, and I will suddenly be far ahead of you and become more powerful than you.

You must know that in the universe. On a scale, hundreds of years are just a blink of an eye, and my knowledge of your existence and the information I get from communication may be the best fuse for the technological explosion. Therefore, even if I am only an infant civilization or a budding civilization, I am still interested in you. It is also full of danger."

If you are stronger than me, since I can find you, you will be able to search for me one day, and there will be a chain of suspicion between us; if you Weaker than me, but a technological explosion may occur at any time, then it becomes the first situation. To sum up, firstly, letting you know my existence; secondly, letting you continue to exist is dangerous to me and violates the first axiom. ”

The universe is like a dark forest, and every civilization is a hunter with a gun. If life is discovered, it is impossible to judge whether they will pose a threat to us, so we must act first. Destroy them. So in this forest, any civilization that exposes its existence will be quickly wiped out

Luo Ji threatened the Trisolaris with this, and if it did not stop its attack on the earth, he would detonate the human deployment on the earth. A large number of nuclear bombs in the solar system

At that time, both the solar system and the Trisolaran galaxy will be exposed in the dark forest and face the fate of being destroyed."

Unlike the Internet society,. After you have a good idea, you can develop it yourself, start a price war, or acquire it. But in the universe, people cannot quickly get feedback from each other, nor can they communicate with each other (exposing their position). They can only see it vaguely. When you find a target, destroy him to protect yourself.

The chain of suspicion reflects the selfishness and suspicion of human nature. Only believing in oneself reminds me of the sentence, kindness to the enemy is cruelty to oneself

The explosion of technology reflects the The era background and time dimension of the existence of each civilization are inconsistent. Two strangers to humans and civilizations are not sure about each other's technology and civilization development speed, so they are unwilling to reveal their trump cards easily. It is like that everyone often does not want to be involved in negotiations. The one who makes the quotation first hopes that the other party's quotation will be higher than his own low price, but he does not know that the other party's price is often much lower than his original bottom line, creating a passive situation for himself.

The second story has come to an end. This science fiction masterpiece gave me a strong shock through its sophisticated data and writing, and I saw many business methods and game theory from it

To be continued...