


Rather than forcing scientists to throw up their hands and give up, this would allow them to analyze the sophons more directly. The problem is that, because particle accelerators operate 24/7 for months or years straight, the sophons would need to generate so much obscurity- the equivalent of white noise- that their presence would be detected sooner or later.

However, Red Coast harbors goals far beyond the scopes of the earth, and Ye's personal struggles will have lasting impacts on the fate of the whole world. Many years into the past, Ye Wenjie is having a problem: though a brilliant physicist, she was branded a political dissident back during the Cultural Revolution, and was exiled to a lonely military station called Red Coast. He's assigned to join a mysterious secret society that may have some answers, but keeps getting distracted by a revolutionary new MMORPG called "Three Body".and also by the mysterious numbers that appear only in his vision, counting down to a date about fifty days away. In modern day China, Wang Miao is facing a problem: all the foremost physicists in his specialty, nanomaterials, are committing suicide, leaving behind extremely cryptic suicide notes.

It was first serialized in 2006, published as a novel in 2008, and translated into English by Ken Liu in 2014. The Three-Body Problem (三体) is a Science Fiction novel and the first installment of the Remembrance of Earth's Past trilogy by Liu Cixin (the trilogy is occasionally also referred to by the title of this book).
