The mathematical structure of cosmic sociology is far clearer than that of human sociology.
Over and over again he recalled her words: Suppose a vast number of civilizations are distributed throughout the universe, on the order of the number of detectable stars. What mattered was the instruction that Ye Wenjie had given him, so that’s where Luo Ji’s mind was stuck. “The aborted research project wasn’t important in and of itself. Well, Xiao Luo, I’ve got to go.” “Take care, Professor.” Ye Wenjie went off through the twilight to her final meet-up. I might come to you for guidance, though.” “I’m afraid there won’t be that opportunity.… In that case, you might as well just forget I said anything. But I’ll remember what you said and give it a whirl. Use those two axioms as a starting point for your discipline, and you might end up becoming the Euclid of cosmic sociology.” “I’m no Euclid. But you’re clever enough to figure them out. Can you explain them?” Ye Wenjie glanced at her watch. I don’t know why, really.… One more thing: To derive a basic picture of cosmic sociology from these two axioms, you need two other important concepts: chains of suspicion, and the technological explosion.” “Interesting terms.
“I’ve been thinking about this for most of my life, but I’ve never spoken about it with anyone before.
All he knows is that he's the one Wallfacer that Trisolaris wants dead.“Those two axioms are solid enough from a sociological perspective … but you rattled them off so quickly, like you’d already worked them out,” Luo Ji said, a little surprised. Luo Ji, an unambitious Chinese astronomer, is baffled by his new status. Three of the Wallfacers are influential statesmen and scientists, but the fourth is a total unknown. This is the motivation for the Wallfacer Project, a last-ditch defence that grants four individuals almost absolute power to design secret strategies, hidden through deceit and misdirection from human and alien alike. Only the individual human mind remains immune to their influence. But the sophons, their extra-dimensional agents and saboteurs, are already here. In this forest, stealth is survival – any civilisation that reveals its location is prey.Ĭrossing light years, the Trisolarians will reach Earth in four centuries' time. Imagine the universe as a forest, patrolled by numberless and nameless predators. Read the award-winning, critically acclaimed, multi-million-copy-selling science-fiction phenomenon – soon to be a Netflix Original Series from the creators of Game of Thrones.
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