Three-Body Episode 7

Real World vs Three Body Virtual World ... its chaos out there

Well that was fascinating. I liked Wang Miao's come back to Shen Yu Fei about the flickering cosmic background radiation. He response was in contrast to Sha Rui Shan who said, while coming to a similar conclusion, it was impossible even in the sci-fi world ... that not even superman could make a screen that big (😄 I did wonder if the Green Lantern could do it though).

The episode also made me wonder about Arthur Conan Doyle's theory set out in his story "The Sign of Four" . Holmes tells Watson that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. Wang Miao seems to have eliminated the 'impossible' so whatever remained, though improbable was credible. However, the accuracy of this approach presupposes that the person is omniscient ... and that they have taken in account all things ... including the unknown unknowns ... which is impossible ... our life span is too short and our knowledge to 'limited' to this time and space ... (kind of like the three body problem itself ... too many variables, too many unknown variables to make an accurate conclusion). Nevertheless, given the situation I would still go with Wang's conclusion as it 'works' for the moment.

As far as Shen Yu Fei and her "Lord" is concerned, I am holding on to Shi Qiang "this is very fishy" approach. At this point in the series (and I haven't read the books so I could be totally barking up the wrong tree ... buy hey it is fun LOL), I see Shen Yu Fei and her associates as a very sophisticated and high-level magicians (and assistants) ... what they do is seemingly impossible, but is in fact all 'smoke and mirrors', behind which is a very logical explanation ably supported by the clever art of deception to make it look and feel like it is more than / better than / higher than science / logic.

The VR Three Body game - also interesting. Despite all the knowledge of the world ... humans IRL and VR are still metaphorically speaking, 'pushing each other off the cliff', tricking people to 'dehydrate themselves' so they can be 'devoured' or used as 'fuel'. No matter how many iterations humanity goes through, they never change that mind set despite the scientific and technological advances. The relationship between the ability to 'predict events and the capacity for 'survival' is interesting ... despite our 'big' brains, sometimes 'nature' seems to do this much better e.g. birds flocking to a dry inland sea to breed and the rains come allowing them to survive and breed and raise the next generation ... animals deserting a place before a volcanic erruption / earthquake etc ...

Hmmm a very interesting and through provoking episode.

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