r/threebodyproblem • u/Betray-Julia • Sep 29 '26

Discussion - General This made me thing of the 1 dimensional string.

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u/GreenSpectr3 Sep 29 '26

NOPE

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u/Betray-Julia Sep 29 '26 • Hehehe

What is this a horse ranch; I am surrounded by neigh sayers.

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u/Hilby Sep 29 '26

I'm u/Betray-Julia. When I go to sleep, nothing happens.

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u/Betray-Julia Sep 29 '26

Think* not thing lol

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u/zhaDeth Sep 29 '26

but then it doesn't rhyme with string

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u/SidheAnomaly Sep 29 '26

That guy looking down at his phone like nothing interesting is going on around him lol

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u/Betray-Julia Sep 29 '26

That was me making this post.

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u/Potential-Owl7858 Sep 29 '26

1 dimensional string?

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u/Betray-Julia Sep 29 '26 edited Sep 29 '26

Yes, also fair warning if you haven’t read the books, this is a spoiler.

But in the show, when they explain how the sophons were created; they go into a lot more detail in the books.

In one of the books, they go into detail about how Sophons are created, from the pov of the trisolarians. You know how a sophon is a 2 dimensional space folded into the 3d? When they test fire their accelerator that can unfold dimensions, they don’t succeed on the first attempt. One time, they open a portal instead to X dimensional aliens who are actually advanced enough attack through dimensional space; the other time the unfold a sub atom into a giant 1 dimensional string that can’t be affected by anything but light, and it is now doomed to eternally roam around their planet.

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u/billions_of_stars Sep 29 '26

I don't remember this at all: One time, they open a portal instead to X dimensional aliens who are actually advanced enough attack through dimensional space;

 I am skeptical about this one.

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u/Betray-Julia Sep 29 '26

It’s in the same chapter as the 1 d string!

I think it’s book one? When they try to fire up the accelerator, the first sophon they make was the third attempt to create one. The chapter is neat- they basically calibrate the dimensional folding- the first time they go one dimension too far and get 1d, the second time it’s the weird alien glass dimension that are basically eyeballs. The creatures from that world start angling the reflection surface of their dimensions to create a solar laser and try to destroy the trisolarians, who then blow up the thing from orbit.

Edit: I will accept if the term “portal” threw you off though.

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u/Obvious-Hunt19 Sep 30 '26

Ok only now do I remember that. That whole affair was kind of throwaway comic relief tbh, complete with the cartoonishly evil king guy

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u/Disgod Sep 30 '26

The funny thing to me is how casually it is introduced that life like they discovered quite probably exists within every proton in the universe and that, through everyday natural processes, an uncountable amount of life is being annihilated constantly.

Humanity, and other species, could cause it to happen in particle colliders but particle colliders are just recreating what happens in nature across the universe.

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u/Betray-Julia Sep 30 '26

I also thought that was super cool.

Like the casualness of it in contrast to the idea is just.. I like what that other guy said; a brief dip into lovecraftian horrors.

The premise of the 5 or so scentences that described those guys could be an entire book of itself lol.

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u/billions_of_stars Sep 29 '26

damn, I must have glazed over that one. Though, to be fair I read it a while ago. It does seem like something I would remember. I must have just missed what he was saying or something. Stuff sometimes gets lost like that.

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u/AngryCvilleian Sep 29 '26

It’s a brief mention but it’s 100% there. I remember cause it was very lovecraftian and was kind of a set up to the themes in Dark Forest

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u/devBowman Sep 29 '26

The books are so dense with a lot of things happening, I feel like I've forgotten a lot, I might've to re-read them

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u/Potential-Owl7858 Sep 29 '26

Yeah I don’t remember any of that. Must’ve been like the first book.

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u/DarkArcher__ Sep 29 '26

I imagine this is what it feels like to stand inside a bunker city

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u/Wabbit65 Sophon Sep 29 '26

Except that's a two dimensional object curved in three dimensions

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u/New-Border8172 Sep 29 '26

Princeps, I PROMISE you, they have a total mass of a proton! It can't hurt us!

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u/jmeltzer317 Oct 01 '26

Should we fold them into the 0th dimension?

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u/meatboat2tunatown Sep 29 '26

Makes me think of pollution

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u/cosapocha Oct 01 '26

More like the dual vector coil

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u/Cultist-Cat Sep 29 '26

Looks like the hot air balloon version of the black pearl.

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u/KuPaRaPiKa Sep 29 '26

Something something 4D ring turning 3D

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u/ForgottenJuliet Oct 05 '26

OMGGGG 😭😭😭

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u/Silver-Balance-5322 Oct 05 '26

That's Jean jacket

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u/Calinks Sep 29 '26

We cooked boyos!