The Deadliest Weapon in The Universe | Three Body Problem Series

Scientists believe that at some point during human history, the population had been reduced to just ̶1̶0̶0̶0̶ 10,000 reproductive adults. In the year 70,000 BC humans almost entirely vanished from the face of the planet itself. According to scientists, near extinction has occurred at least three times over the course of humanity's 100,000 year history. The dilution of mankind to so few humans magnifies the impact of all human actions. In Cixin Liu's Remembrance of Earth’s Past Trilogy humanity is tested many times, but there is no single greater near extinction event than the Singer’s dimension strike.

We’ve discussed the crisis era, the deterrence era, the post deterrence era, In this video will discuss the broadcast era, the era directly following the crew of gravity and blue space’s decision to activate the universal broadcast system, freeing the human race from Trisolaran suppression, while inadvertently revealing the location of the Earth to the inhabitants of the Dark Forest. And The Bunker Era which followed the Return of Tianming, whose brain had been sent off into the vacuum of space centuries earlier.

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[QuinnsIdeas]

Minor correction: Around 70, 000 BC humanity's population dropped between 5, 000 and 10, 000 breeding adults. Scientist do not have evidence that it was ever as low as 1, 000 breeding adults.

NOTE: 10:04: The Singers world was currently engulfed in a war with it's "fringe" World. (𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘍𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘦 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥 𝘩𝘢𝘥 𝘭𝘦𝘧𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘩𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘭𝘪𝘦𝘳.) The Audio clips in this section of the video!

[misterbubbles]

The description from the book of the Solar System collapsing into two-dimensional space is one of the most creative, beautifully detailed and unique doomsday scenarios I've ever seen

[boulderSF]

For me the duel vector foil sequence in Death’s End was when the novel really fell flat. A lot of the characters just didn’t feel very 3-dimensional afterwards.

[hongjian]

You should have mentioned that Singer even asks his supervisor "should we really be using these dimensional weapons so freely?" and the supervisor just said "what's the matter, everybody is using them".

This just shows that Singer's race isnt the only one/evil one for using these dimensional collapse weapons but that they, too, are locked in a universal war between god-like civilizations and that using these monstrous weapons is like us throwing away a cigarette butt - "everybody is doing it".

In fact, the dimensional weapon isnt even that big of a deal for superbeings like them. It is likely in their war against their rival fringeworld, they have long been using these weapons on each other without any effect, and that these dual vector foils are just pest control devices meant to casually nip out would-be-challengers in the bud. This is a pretty nice turnaround of the Trisolaran insult towards humanity that we are "bugs" - to Singer's race, everyone that cant fold dimensions and weaponize math and universal constants is a bug.

[HalcyonDaze]

The chapter from the perspective of Aliens that send the final weapon was a wild part of the story. It’s all done so nonchalantly. And to return to a hopeless human perspective afterwards was devastating.

[genericallyentertaining]

The thing I hate about the Three-Body series is that the more you think about it, the more plausible Liu's depiction of the universe seems. The idea that every civilization in the universe is caught in a multi-polar trap that forces them to make life worse for everyone just to ensure their own survival is just all too plausible given the history of our own species.

[ckromulussand]

this weapon and its description of its effects is truly terrifying, this book series still gives me questions to this day, and i suspect will so until my last days, cixin liu is brilliant

[mfoutz]

The sobering implication discussed in Death's End - We are living in the ruins of a universe-wide warzone collapsed down to 3 dimensions and limited light speed due to the use of weaponized physics

[mrblusky]

I will never get over Three Body Problem uploads. Something about that concept of destroy-or-perish cosmic sociology and the horror in the stars is so. damn. intriguing. yet at the same time, so frightening — I love it

[Lord-ymrq]

I think Singer's chapiter the most interesting, and it do deserves a video just by itself, from who they are, their behavior, the conversation with it's superior, the big eye, how their society works, the hiding gene, so many information in just a single chapter, it deserves some attention

[anduril]

The dimensional strike scenes were terrifying and an incredible read.

[chrisalvino]

I love how the equivalent of a janitor on another world has the ability of a god to us humans, and was in charge of casually destroying countless civilizations. That chapter is what really elevated the entire trilogy to a transcendent level. All of this emotional investment over hours upon hours of reading, and a lowly janitor was like, let's just trash these two warring civilizations, now where's my iTunes!?

And also, it's implied Singer's vector attack wasn't even the one that killed us. The attack happened too soon, implying a different civilization was the one who killed us.

[jthweatt]

What astounds me about the chapter is how small the epic of human survival is to them. Centuries of conflict between two civilizations, done in by a cosmic janitor who's only reaction is "huh, cool" followed by a quick issuance of apocalyptic doom.

[igodreamer]

I like how every alien civilization has them own "final weapon". This series is something else, man!

[whitewolf]

Never stop with these videos, I love the fact that you branched out into all these different stories, it's so interesting, keep up the great work.

[mentalcrash]

There's two moments in Death's End that hit me particularly hard, first is when the button for the transmission is pressed, both Blue Space and Gravity's crew all vote for it, but for the last necessary vote everyone stops and gathers around the final crew member, they know the severity of what they're about to do, and unlike Cheng Xin they understood this was necessary, they wouldn't nurture those who had betrayed them, as sweet as their siren's call would be in the form of art about the beauty of our world. Particularly for the crew of Gravity, their chase mission and expected return to earth as triumphant heroes would now never take place, being forced to join Blue Space into becoming a cosmic species, the chances of humans in the solar system being able to survive the dark forest being too remote to consider returning.

The second moment (SPOILERS NOT MENTIONED IN THIS VIDEO) is when Cheng Xin and Guan Yifan see both human and trisolaran languages were included in the message asking them to disassemble their pocket universe, it made me realise how after everything these two species had done to each other, they had become intrinsically linked, had Ye Wenjie never established contact with trisolaris, humanity would have likely began exploring the universe much later, and would have definitely been wiped out soon after becoming too notorious, Trisolaris instead would have likely looked for a way to expand their civilization away from their hostile solar system and become a cosmic society, which is what both species ended up doing in the end. Seeing how both species had endured enough to be included in the pocket universe message felt like the trisolarans and humans had been in a hurtful relationship that lasted centuries, but in the grand expanse of cosmic time the mutual destruction of our homeworlds felt like quarrel we had so long ago it no longer mattered.

[KarmicBreathing]

I was in shock and awe over the dimensional weapon. I feel like I was finally able to process the scale when Ai AA told Cheng Xin "it's ridiculous to blame yourself for the destruction of the solar system."

I laughed in the worst way. The scale of technology beyond this point in the story was on the level of gods by comparison to today.

[fartissimo]

I finished the trilogy a few days ago and I'm still stunned, mesmerized and meditating on the story and many fascinating concepts. It is one of the most profound experiences I have ever had with a work of literature. I am so perplexed that I found your videos in a hope to learn more and immerse myself deeper into the fascinating worlds created by Cixin Liu. I thank you for the amazing work you have done and the sense of wonder you convey through your excellent videos. Please continue to make more videos on the Three Body Problem series, I cannot get enough.

[duskyjackal]

Hey Quinn, when the world seems be coming undone at the seams, when things seems very bad, i often take a break from reality and escape on a journey with you to another world with your science fiction videos. You always manage to capture my imagination in the retelling of these concepts. I thank you for that.

[mialotusmusic]

I discovered this series because of you! Mind blowing books! My favorite series now! I really loved "ball lightning" too because it's really unique and subbtle in the tone.