Among Liu Cixin’s works, the short story “Time Migration” is his favorite, and the long story is “Ball Lightning”. I recently reread Ball Lightning and took some notes.

The main thread of "Ball Lightning" is clearly stated at the beginning. From the protagonist's father's mouth: "The key to a wonderful life lies in what you can be obsessed with." Perhaps this is also Liu Cixin's way of clarifying his views on science fiction. attitude, become obsessed with science fiction, and shape a wonderful life.

"You choose a recognized world problem, preferably a mathematical problem that only uses a piece of paper and a pencil, such as Goldbach's conjecture or Fermat's last theorem, or even a paper and pencil. There is no need for purely natural philosophical problems, such as the origin of the universe. If you devote all your body and mind to studying, just focus on hard work and not on harvest, your whole life will pass by without knowing it. This is what people often call sustenance. . Or on the contrary, make money as the only goal, think about how to make it all the time, and don’t ask what you will do with it. When you die, you will be like Grandet holding a pile of gold coins and saying: Ah, it’s so warm. Ah..." We can ask ourselves, are we obsessed with something?

His parents were burned to ashes by ball lightning. In the novel, the protagonist’s entire life trajectory was set after “it” appeared. He was persistent and entangled, but without hatred. Not only was he obsessed with ball lightning, Zhang The professor and his lover Zheng Min are the same, and they both think Zheng Min is lucky, even though she was swallowed up. Professor Zhang's last wish is to be cremated with ball lightning after his death. These all mean one word, love.

There are many highlights in the novel, including many reversals, which are very natural and imaginative.

1. Regarding Zhang Bin, my first impression was that he was numb. Later, he turned out to be a crazy fan of ball lightning. He was injured by ball lightning at the Jade Emperor Summit of Mount Tai. After that, he built countless exquisite physical models, but the ending was complete self-denial.

2. Regarding the exploration of ball lightning in the book, the protagonist Dr. Chen starts from a theoretical model, then seeks experiments, until he despairs. But when he reaches a dead end, he breaks out of the shackles of thinking, from generating ball lightning to searching and discovering "cavitation", which is the so-called "cavitation bubble". Macroelectronics, the author's imagination is truly unparalleled.

3. It stands to reason that the special forces equipped with ball lightning should be invincible. Ha, the reversal is here again. This unit is useless. The enemy has been prepared for it, and it is easy to get an effective defense.

4. After ball lightning weapons were reduced to waste, a breakthrough was made in the search for macro-atomic nuclei. The so-called "string". The emergence of strings led to room-temperature macro-nuclear fusion. The nemesis of this chip is enough to bring mankind back to the agricultural era. It is this thing Ended the war.

5． Regarding death and dying from ball lightning, there are many visions in the book, all of which are traces of people and animals that died from ball lightning. Therefore, in the area of ??death, a reversal is set up. There is no real death, but the appearance of death. In a quantum state, collapse occurs in the presence of an observer.

Lin Yun, the heroine, I would like to say that she has been obsessed with weapons research all her life, and what I see in her is more dedication. She has dedicated her life to the army and scientific research. , and finally dedicated his life to weapons. This character has a distinctive personality and is worthy of admiration. Although Liu Cixin is not good at writing about women, there is not much difference between the women and men in his works.

Imaginary. Liu Cixin’s works are basically imaginary. The background is modern China. Most of the elements in the novel are consistent with our daily life, so they are very readable. Although it is science fiction, it is only in real life. With the wings of imagination inserted into it, it is natural and natural.

The book uses a lot of scientific terminology, including meteorology, mathematics, quantum physics, etc. This is a highlight in itself, but these vocabulary and theories are relatively obscure to read, which may make some people confused. Stopping there, it should be said that the author is not very patient when dealing with these issues. This may be a problem with this book.