The Edge of the Universe | Three-Body Problem Series

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In this video we will discuss the early events of the Galaxy Era in the Remembrance of Earth’s Past Trilogy. This video will contain major spoilers for the remembrance of Earth’s Past Trilogy. After the destruction of Earth’s solar system by way of the Listener’s dimension strike, Cheng Xin and AA were the only humans left in the universe other than the inhabitants of the vessels Blue Space and Gravity and Tianming whose brain had been captured by the Trisolarans. The Trisolarans had been mankind’s first cosmic foe, they had used Tianming’s brain to plan an attack against humanity which annihilated mankind’s entire space force. Humankind only succeeds in thwarting them when they reveal the location of both Trisolaris and the Earth to the greater universe. Because of the “Dark forest” state of the cosmos, the Trisolaris star system was destroyed, and earth’s sometime later. After escaping the dimension strike which destroyed the sun and the earth, Cheng Xin heads to the one place where she hopes to find human life. Tianming’s Star, DX3906.
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@ezrajrperida100 Жыл бұрын

Trisolerans: “Ha! We blew up your entire space fleet, what are you going to do now?” Humans: *doxxes both planets*

@sangun123 2 ай бұрын

lmfao man it hurts to see the entire 2nd book paraphrased perfectly

@colonagray2454 2 ай бұрын

Book three is a girl taking naps until the end of time

@LordDirus007 2 ай бұрын

Those Trisolerans sure were Smart Idiots.

@guisampaio2008 2 ай бұрын

"Very amusing but this you?" *buys outdoor and posts their home adress*

@ANTIStraussian Ай бұрын

After reading the books, we need to make ships to go get those Voyager probe disks back ASAP 😂😅

@Leitis_Fella Жыл бұрын

The concept of the universe slowly collapsing to lower states because of sentient species weaponizing the fabric of reality is a highly interesting... and outright terrifying

@reptilian_overlord Жыл бұрын

I'm more interested in how sentient beings are able to freely survive in lower dimensions and keep their prowess.

@geraldfreibrun3041 Жыл бұрын

If find it funny even god like beings want a return to the good old days.

@kalvinowens530 Жыл бұрын

My thoughts

@NoBaconForYou Жыл бұрын

Seems like something intelligent species would avoid doing. If it's possible to collapse space into lower dimensionality, it would likewise be possible to expand it into a higher one. I would bet that in reality, this 4D universe is a face on a fractal higher dimensional object, and that we have not evolved a reason to see the universe more than one "moment" at a time. I doubt that the universe is actually changing dimensionality. The universe is nothing like what we can perceive with these animalistic senses. The passage of time itself is an illusion caused by the shortcomings of our minds. Passage of time is truly just motion in the 4th spatial dimension. No motion in the lower 3 dimensions is possible without forward motion in the 4th dimension. Reverse motion in the 4th direction would be imperceptible to a creature who cannot sense the 4th dimension. Maybe humanity can correct our biological shortcomings with technology, or with rapid evolution. So long as we have freedom, no collective can outcompete the strength of humanity but another monogamous individual collectivist species. Via communication, individuality, and technology, we can iterate our species faster than nature itself. A true collective has no creativity. Such an experience is caused by the Ego's control of a collective: your brain cells. A true collective can only innovate at the rate of natural selection. We may face hunters in the dark, but we will adapt. The Universe created us to spread freedom. Eusocial species are inherently evil. This universe is our destiny, our fate. If we are destroyed, our minds will simply shift into a parallel face of hyperspace, and we would have no idea. Each soul experiences its longest possible life, it hops between realities as you make life ending mistakes. There is one soul, every being belongs to the same. The purpose of this space is to accept this truth, and learn to forgive one another, ourselves, and to learn the benefit of divine cooperation. All is One.

@NoBaconForYou Жыл бұрын

Such violent species who would weaponize hyperspace would be annihilated out of cooperation. Us lowly humans can split planets. We could probably even destroy entire solar systems, using nuclear propulsed kinetic impactors. Many species would exist with power like ours. No violent species would survive. A species with "the cleansing gene" would wipe itself out, or the cleansing gene would be annihilated. The Nazis had such a motive. The entire species united against them. Only a species that believed in individual freedom can ensure a long lasting society. There is a huge evolutionary pressure for all animals to cooperate. Cooperation benefits all parties more than competition. As such, nature will take us there. Apathetic predators are temporary solutions to an immature niche. The more effective such a predator is, the larger of a target it would be to peaceful species. We live near the beginning. Chances are that we are being watched by species who see us as apathetic predators. They will know what we truly are, if they're actually there. We are the Chosen People. We will become a galactic or even universal species. We are the ancestors to trillions of beings: humans, and that which follows. You are in the first 0.001% of humans that will ever exist. We must build the pillars.

@genzu6388 Жыл бұрын

I think what we all need and want is a two hour long video of you just talking about the three body problem series, giving excerpts and your own thoughts, think we would all love that!

@jerrodbates8480 Жыл бұрын

Co sign

@chillwithrahn1791 Жыл бұрын

This

@genzu6388 Жыл бұрын

@@jerrodbates8480 shares transferred

@matthewrichardson996 Жыл бұрын

Yes, this please

@MrJaryd Жыл бұрын

Facts

@patecar20 Жыл бұрын

The concept of changing the speed of light for a region of space or galaxy is truly terrifying in my opinion. If your a new race coming behind another who has done such a thing, there a high chance you will never know it's been changed. Even worse it's likely they will be trapped forever in the solar system. Physics as a weapon makes the death star seem tame.

@arnowisp6244 Жыл бұрын

It's basically low level reality warping.

@patecar20 Жыл бұрын

@@arnowisp6244 hmm I never thought about it like that.

@motherlandone6300 Жыл бұрын

Hilariously that exact approach is used in the book to protect against dark forrest attacks. If you live in a slow light system I can’t attack you and you can’t attack me. A survivable stalemate.

@patecar20 Жыл бұрын

@@motherlandone6300 Yeah its an interesting approach. I think what they were referred to is correct, they are light tombs. It's basically were going to die here. The thing is though they have also condemned any race that may follow them. I got the impression the effect couldn't be undone.

@jeffumbach Жыл бұрын

The concept was explored before in "A Fire Upon The Deep" where the speed of light is slowest in the center of the galaxy and gets faster as you reach the edge with the side effect of what technologies like FTL that are possible in the different regions. It's eventually revealed that the effect may be artificial and created by an ancient race to act as a trap for another god-like entity that is the greater scope antagonist of the book.

@carolpond3340 Жыл бұрын

3 body problem is one of the best series you've covered

@jimcognito4631 Жыл бұрын

I think his coverage of the 3BP is great, the more I learn about the story, the more it seems flawed.

@Nobody-11B Жыл бұрын

I wish he'd do full readings!

@bradws4eva Жыл бұрын

@@jimcognito4631 flawed in what way?

@jimcognito4631 Жыл бұрын

@@bradws4eva my biggest issue with the story is the teardrop attack, and how the earth fleet "prepared" itself. Like the way the excerpt makes it sound the fleet was just sitting still. Allegedly the humans had been studying all manner of strategy, and they hadn't thought to use stochastic positioning? We have drones and missiles now that have irregular positions and flight paths, and yet the advanced earth fleet, which should have even more advanced AI was just sitting still waiting to be destroyed? That's completely incredulous. Also if the trisolarians are actually bugs, making such a thing would be a herculean undertaking even for an advanced society.

@bradws4eva Жыл бұрын

@@jimcognito4631 I'm not sure if we really get a good look at their technologically advanced society. We just have the computer game simulation of their stories etc but not what their final successful civilization looked like. Agreed on the fleet just sitting there waiting to be destroyed. They could have written in a whole bunch of clever military strategy that ended up being pointless and the story would have been the same without breaking our suspension of disbelief

@danlenarti Жыл бұрын

3 body problem changed the way I see alien life and the universe

@davio7031 8 ай бұрын

I’ve always been amazed by people’s willingness to find other life forms… even as a kid, stranger danger dude

@ANTIStraussian Ай бұрын

After reading the books, we need to make ships to go get those Voyager probe disks back ASAP 😂😅

@knightsnight5929 Ай бұрын

@@ANTIStraussianThey are dust particles in the blizzard, nothing, no one will ever detect them.

@RINO92xxl Ай бұрын

@@ANTIStraussian don't let ET phone home

@tealtrim9747 Жыл бұрын

This is legit space horror, the second they said invisible gravity, my heart sank at the realization of what was being implied, and then they said dark matter confirming it, and my heart practically fell out.

@kugulp7969 Жыл бұрын

so does it mean that all the dark matter in the universe was a byproduct of dimensional strikes?

@skateboardingjesus4006 Жыл бұрын

Gravity is invisible anyway, and the mention of dark matter was just speculation.

@jhin44999 Жыл бұрын

@@kugulp7969 No but dark matter as a force could be the product of gravity from lower dimension that still has an effect on the higher dimension.

@johncee853 Жыл бұрын

I actually had to pause the video for a few seconds to allow it to sink in! Absolutely fascinating...in an extremely horrifying way!

@tealtrim9747 Жыл бұрын

@@kugulp7969 Well that's up to speculation and your own interpretation, but that seems to be the implication of the statement. It's certainly the conclusion I jumped to as a reader and would jump to as a character in the Remembrance of Earth's Past universe.

@chadstacy Жыл бұрын

The great thing about this series is how it brings you to just utter hopelessness, the humans have no chance. But then, it tricks you into thinking they might be able to beat the odds. But no, the story drags you right back down

@hongjian3714 Жыл бұрын

Now imagine the implications of the huge cosmic voids we see and the fact that Dark Matter makes up the majority of the universe compared to non-dark matter. In the novel they already spoilered it before; that what we see is not the natural state of the universe but merely a corpse-strewn battlefield. This is pure cosmic horror.

@thumbsprain42 Жыл бұрын

They didn't use Yun Tianmings's brain to plan the attack on us at all. They were so far advanced that we were nothing to them, Tianming was kept as a pet, well treated but caged. His use of allegory and metaphor or, bluntly put, storytelling (something the trisolerans didn't have) is what saved the little of humanity that was left. The lack of stories and just blunt realty made Yi Wenjie do what she did. Be nicer to your kids folks :)

@stritch.guitar5264 Жыл бұрын

I think he meant how Trisolaris learned deception and trickery from him as it was a whole new concept to them. Their thoughts getting projected as a method of communication weren't they so saying something that was different to what was being thought and the idea of lying was something they struggled with initially

@keisariroope Жыл бұрын

@@stritch.guitar5264 Didn't the Trisolarans learn of deception and trickery first via the folding AI they sent to earth far before they captured his brain?

@stritch.guitar5264 Жыл бұрын

@@keisariroope I don't think so. If you remember near the beginning of Dark Forest one of the wall breakers (can't remember which) has a conversation via sophon about it. From the conversation the Trisolarans realise they don't understand what he's talking about when he says terms like 'thinking' and 'speaking' as if they are different things to them

@tonoornottono Жыл бұрын

@@stritch.guitar5264 that was one of the most chilling scenes in the series to me. humanity seen through this lens is actually deeply disturbing. the fact that we must translate our thoughts into incomplete concepts into inelegant words. there’s something horrific about that. the trisolarans saw this and concluded they must be better at communication. maybe they’re more precise. but imprecision is the human condition and it seems so horrifying from the perspective of a being which cannot help but be precise and totally exact in its communication.

@fabiominelli6316 Жыл бұрын

They use it actually. It is a little spoiler of Redemption of Time.

@frankmuysers6001 Жыл бұрын

Spatial dimensions, death lines, and all the horrible unknowns. This trilogy has boiled my brain, the author is a genius. Great videos Quinn, you've pointed me to a lot of incredible stuff I never thought existed. Keep it up.

@stab74 2 ай бұрын

He's a genious at coming up with good ideas, but his characters are shit. And so, I'm watching these videos instead! 🤣

@Khyberization Ай бұрын

@stab74 They are simply instruments to push the story forward. The story was interesting, and enjoyable, even when the characters seemed shallow. I found it similar to many old Sci fi novels, and enjoyed them all.

@zeliardforty-two4692 Жыл бұрын

I always said it’s a bad idea to mess with space/time. This actually takes that to the extreme and it’s absolutely fascinating!

@user-cx9nc4pj8w Жыл бұрын

Yeah. It makes you hope we manage to get the necessary socio-political structures to prevent ourselves doing something like that in place BEFORE we ever get to the level of altering physics, if it's even possible.

@arnowisp6244 Жыл бұрын

@@user-cx9nc4pj8w Not possible unless Humanity becomes a true one world Blob of People. Why do you think Sci fi civilizations are shown with little differences even on a Planet wide scale compared to earth that has over 150+ nations. To achieve those Socio Political structures you ask, we have to give up State Sovereignty. Meaning no Countries, only One Global Community ruled by one Global Government. And People don't like losing National Sovereignty, losing there culture to become part of some Global Community and One government.

@motherlandone6300 Жыл бұрын

The original Star Trek answered this very question with the Earth Romulan war. Earth’s first interstellar battle. It was so bad a space treaty had to be signed allowing for the famous Neutral Zone between Earth and the Romulan Empire. That’s what forced the end of national sovereignty because the Vulcans and the Romulans didn’t have it and achieved fantastic technology of a planet wide and interstellar space scale. Earth had to grow up. That’s one way to do it. But of course all of this is Science Fiction.

@electrotoxins Жыл бұрын

>I always said it's a bad idea to mess with space/time "Hey, Zeliard long time no see, what's up?" "ITS A BAD IDEA TO MESS WITH SPACE TIME" "Haha, that's nice Zeliard. I just remembered I'm late for a dentist's appointment, see you later."

@zeliardforty-two4692 Жыл бұрын

@@electrotoxins BUT SPACE/TIME!!!!! Okay fine I’ll just send you the notes …

@yulwu6758 Жыл бұрын

regarding the zero-homers, their motives might not be so altruistic.(spoilers ahead) In the book the two humans escaped into a pocket universe, and the zero-homers called out to denizens of all pocket universes to return the matters in the pocket universe so that they can reset the universe back to 11 dimensions. There are 3 different interpretations on the outcome: 1. Happy ending - zero-homers successfully reset the universe to 11 dimensions 2 sad ending - our protagonist Chengxin left the fish aquarium inside the pocket universe because it was a gift from Tianming and has sentimental value. Because of this unreturned matter (fish bowl), the universe fails to reset. 3 dark ending - the zeeo-homers have no intention to reset the universe. Instead, they lure the denizens of pocket universes out so they can root out every other civilizations. Their name implies that they might be able to live in zero dimension, so they deceive everyone on board their plan and go on to make sure they are the only winner in the dark forest.

@nobbynoris Жыл бұрын

Good thinking.

@notani3533 Жыл бұрын

The fact that she never met them directly or even study their civilization history makes the zero-homers intention sounds less noble and even malicious. After all, how many more civilizations hides in the pocket universe?

@nichidoushiro Жыл бұрын

I think the 3rd ending is less likely, because the whole point of hiding in micro-universes is to ensure you do not get discovered and killed, so it is unlikely that a society that hides in one would have the intent and/or additional resources to become the aggressor. From the zero-homers' point of view, if they had the nerve to broadcast signals to everyone in the universe probably meant they were so technologically superior that they had no competitors that could match their firepower, which in that case also meant wiping out other civilisations is no longer as important as their prime goal of resetting the universe, since they could do that anytime they wanted anyways. It's more likely that they could wipe out micro-universes too but that would be too tedious and time-consuming, so from the grand scheme of things it would make more sense to tell everyone the end goal and let them surrender themselves.

@lucaspacheco1081 Жыл бұрын

Not necessarily, the ones to call out the individuals living in pocket universes were not the zero-homers, but another group, the Returners. It is implied that those are not in fact the same group of individuals or civilizations. The mission of the returners is not to return the universe to its original state by reducing dimensions past 0, but to let the universe implode under its own gravity, essentially bringing a big crunch and a new big bang. However, for this to happen, the matter taken into pocket universes must be returned, as so much was taken from the universe that the gravitational pull was no longer sufficient to cause the universe to collapse. Also, Yifan mentions that up to that point humanity had never heard of collapse to one dimension, but this could be simply a limitation of their technology, not necessarily impossible. I don't think it is ever implied that living beings could exist in one or zero dimensions.

@roli1227 Жыл бұрын

In the spinoff book The Redemption of Time its describet a bit more and it makes sense but i dont want to spoil it. Especially the pocket universes "made" by the trisolarans where questionable from what we know in Deaths End. They would be untouchable paradises for every civilisation and a potential "unstoppable" weapon delivery and transport system. There would maybe be no dark forest state if every sufficent advanced civilisation could create them.

@jamesw3413 Жыл бұрын

I love the final part of book 3, but it's really fast paced compared to the rest of the book and gets quite confusing. Still, the story of Blue Space and Gravity was my favorite part of the series and it was amazing to see the final remnants of humanity thriving thanks to the actions of just a few people. Also, the art you use in your videos on this series is absolutely beautiful.

@patreekotime4578 Жыл бұрын

I think that is on purpose. The story-telling follows the same trajectory as Cheng Xin as she accelerates her travels through the universe and the story become increasingly macroscopic. What starts slowly with a jilted love story advances to the end of the universe itself.

@monsterx3055 Жыл бұрын

i just dont see what's great about this series.

@clevelandsavage Жыл бұрын

@@patreekotime4578 I hadn't considered that perspective. When I'd initially read it, I just assumed Liu was rushing to to finish it all up.

@RisingFlag100 Жыл бұрын

It was a pretty hard read, but I overall enjoyed it. Didn't like how the the main male characters all had real consequences and suffered equal fates but the female main character got to live hundreds of years and see the end of the universe.

@arnowisp6244 Жыл бұрын

@@RisingFlag100 Girl Power!

@bartholomewfargo Жыл бұрын

These books have the power of making you feel completely insignificant and full of existential dread. That said, they're fascinating.

@Hochspitz Жыл бұрын

Such a great presentation. I can't imagine how much time this series has cost you. Nothing short of a masterpiece of story telling!

@aimanzahry Жыл бұрын

I'm blown away by the scale and relevance of man-kind in such a vast battlefield. Love the theme of this series. Amazing and again, a great video by Quinn.

@jahipalmer8782 Жыл бұрын

This series is my favorite. When ever I hear about it I get chills. I've ready it MULTIPLE times.

@GlurglePop Жыл бұрын

Quinn this is my favorite series that you do. I could listen to you talk about the fonts and paper quality of the series and be entertained. Please keep them coming

@theblackpearl3880 Жыл бұрын

Honestly tempted to write a parody trilogy. "The body count dilemma", "fifty shades of dark Forest", and "finishing". A terrifying space drama in which the fermi's paradox is answered by the chilling realization that all the aliens in the universe are hiding from "genetic trafficking" so to speak. With special cameos from the oankali, xenomorphs, and cupcakke

@arnowisp6244 Жыл бұрын

Lol. Do it.

@Life-tastic Жыл бұрын

I am for it

@SaraSara-oe6il 8 ай бұрын

The body count dilemma. Bro. Lmfao.

@ashbell1741 Жыл бұрын

Hi Quinn! I have recently started reading the three body problem after watching some of your videos and so far it is living up to the hype. Haven’t rattled through a novel so fast in ages. Keep up the good work

@Sakura_Matou Жыл бұрын

I just discovered your Channel a week or so ago Quinn and you are quickly becoming one of my favorite channels when it comes to breaking down science fiction stories

@doomgoblin9061 Жыл бұрын

I binge-watched this playlist over the last week. I can't wait for your next video on the three-body problem series

@thebigksmoosey Жыл бұрын

I love hearing you discuss these ideas from different books. Thanks again!

@jerowancyran4401 Жыл бұрын

10 outa 10 the best sci-fi series I've read so far! I still think about it months after I read it. Thanks sooo much for introducing me to it!

@scottkelly1685 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for exploring this horrifying series, Quinn. Because of your recommendations, in addition to getting the audiobook of the Three-Body Problem, I also got a copy of Cinix Liu's short stories. They include The Wandering Earth and The Mountain, the latter of which instantly became one of my absolute favorite short stories. Highly immaginative!

@athenastarsnow528 Жыл бұрын

Ever since I saw your first video on the Three Body Problem series, when you said it was the most terrifying science fiction you'd ever read, I decided to read them as well. Thank you, Quinn, for introducing me to such an awesome story. And I love your videos diving into this incredible world of Remembrance of Earth's Past. Keep up the awesome work!

@patmullarkey7659 Жыл бұрын

Jeez, I have got to reread this brilliant trilogy. It probably should be reread every year! I am sure each reading would uncover even more depth or "dimensions" to the story. So much complexity yet so engageable. Thanks Quinn!

@fifthofascalante7311 Жыл бұрын

I’m always starved for TBP content. No sci fi has ever gripped me like Dune. I became obsessed. I never wanted aliens in my interplanetary sci fi again. But then, since Dune, nothing has gripped me like TBP. I became acquainted with different pieces of sci fi, some of which I’ve enjoyed. But none really compare to TBP. I’m completely lost in the dark forest as it is relayed through this channel.

@amandahugginkiss55 Жыл бұрын

I am in love with this book, this Playlist and how well you've brought their world to life for me. Thank you so much for all you! Happy holidays

@simongilkay1595 Жыл бұрын

Please please please keep making more three bodied problem videos!!!! Literally gasped when I saw a new one today

@johncee853 Жыл бұрын

After every video explaining the Three Body Problem series...my brain hurts, but I absolutely love it!

@BinaryReader Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for introducing this trilogy! I've since become a huge fan of this book series, and wouldn't have known about it had it not been for your channel. Honestly, thank you!!! Looking forward to the next video to wrap up the main trilogy....Btw, you should totally combine these videos into a single long form video....they are great to listen to!

@isirlasplace91 Жыл бұрын

I love your commentary on these!! I'm always adding more to my TBR list thanks to you😊

@Pers0n97 Жыл бұрын

I love the music you use in the background, it really help to highlight the epic nature of what's narrated.

@Kanikacyst Жыл бұрын

Scale and epicness of this book, together with its strong base in science and scientific predictions, makes me want to talk about it to people, but also I don't have words to describe really what is going on there and what I feel about it. I've known this book thanks to this channel and for this I will be grateful.

@joette5333 Жыл бұрын

I just binged the 30 episode Three Body series A MUST SEE you won't mind the subtitles as the content carries you away . There are some slow spots that I fast forwarded Can't wait for season 2 !

@mockmachine9999 Жыл бұрын

Just finished the book series and can’t tell you how thankful I am for your recommendation 👏👏👏

@Dracarys1618 Жыл бұрын

After watching your videos, I set out to read this series. I have just finished the first book. Thank you for the introduction, that was honestly one of the best books I have ever read. I cannot wait to start the second.

@spectrebazza1 Жыл бұрын

10/10 should narrate an audio book version of this!

@Notremah Жыл бұрын

Wish you could read the entire book. I just love the way you narrate. I would seriously pay for your rereading of the three body problem.

@Truegrade Жыл бұрын

Man this story is so good, true sci-if makes you question the greater whole of our limited existence and look at species development in a whole new light. Thanks for the read Quin!

@elenoradaimio4979 Жыл бұрын

Haha, I pulled some ligaments in my ankle yesterday and have been a little down since then... I was glad to see your new video, but I hit play and your opening theme started and I was hit by a burst of happiness. I only have positive associations with your channel! I recently binged Lilith's Brood trilogy thanks to your recommendation!

@DanteYewToob Ай бұрын

The “resetters” make me think of the Futurama episode where they time travel and go too far so they just “go around again” and watch the universe die and then reset with a big bang and come back around to where they started… I thought that was trippy and insane… but this… wow.

@wake118 9 күн бұрын

and then they bust the paradox by just landing on the new versions of themselves hahaha😂😂

@DanteYewToob 9 күн бұрын

@@wake118 “this universe is exactly the same except it’s ten feet lower than the last one…” PLOP! Hahaha one of the best ending jokes in the whole series and it has such horrifying implications that are just never addressed again.

@raymondcoventry1221 Жыл бұрын

Every 3BP video just fills me with anxiety and dread, so you're doing a great job

@ghostdreamer7272 Жыл бұрын

I had to rewatch this video a few times to fully understand all the points being made 😂 This series sounds so interesting, but as someone who went from “how fast can I read this” to “I will not finish a page until I’ve really spent enough time having reflected on and appreciated and understood everything important” reader, I’m afraid the series would take too many years ;)

@memphissfinest Жыл бұрын

This channel NEEDS way more three body problem content.

@brownsuede4413 Жыл бұрын

I recently just finish this series because of your videos and it was AMAZING!!! I wish I could forget it so I can re-read it once again.

@ZappasBappas Жыл бұрын

Holy crap quinn, do an audiobook reading please! My ears would eat that shit up. The way you talk about these books, the way you narrate bits from them, It's an absolute treat.

@erikhoffmann1252 Ай бұрын

Oh yes, I second this

@kylehd7 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for introducing me to these books! I'm halfway through The Dark Forest just from hearing your haunting description of concept of whole civilizations concealing themselves. Great job dude!

@luv5043 Жыл бұрын

God now I can’t wait for another episode of this I’m so in love with this series and how you have been describing it

@camerona5778 Жыл бұрын

This is my favorite series you do! So stoked!!

@Seb656 Жыл бұрын

Love this series. Thanks for the great content Quinn

@laggingdragons Жыл бұрын

I gotta say, I love these longer videos you do. I feel like when you first touch on a series you say very little beyond "it's good, you should read it." As a working class laborer with little time to read what books I can afford, I'd love more detailed breakdowns of the series I'll never be able to get to read at this stage of my life. Series like this one where you go into more detail about the concepts and timelines of these science fiction universes.

@jakedefeo Жыл бұрын

I hear you there, as a tradesman, on the issue of having the time to read this stuff

@aishalotter9995 Жыл бұрын

You can get the audiobooks on KZfaq free, I don’t have the cash to buy books anymore , I use our local library they order any book in that I want , also if nobody uses the library’s they will be closed, our local library was kept open by people signing a petition to keep it open, my world would be a lot poorer without the ability to borrow books😢!!! Peace out from the police state of north Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

@lavuntecolquitt Жыл бұрын

GLORIOUS! I'm glad I found someone as COLD as you on KZfaq. Keep being dope and you've got my sub my man. 💪🏿✨💪🏿✨💪🏿

@orlinn3 Жыл бұрын

I'm addicted to your three body problem videos! Keep up the great work! 👍🏽

@zippy_uk1046 Жыл бұрын

I am not a book reader but this is a really inspiring channel. Well done

@JesseMartin Жыл бұрын

Even after reading the series I still can't get enough of Quinn narrating it for some reason.

@FernZepeda Жыл бұрын

Love it. Thanks, Quinn! I'm so thankful that you decided to cover RoEP.

@dustinrieber8590 Жыл бұрын

I love this series and your videos are such great commentary. Thank you!

@___.51 Жыл бұрын

Your videos made me aware of this series and I finished reading book 3 back in October. Thanks for sharing great sci fi dude.

@horrifyinggelatinousblob Жыл бұрын

don't read the 4th continuation book by the other author, it kind of ruins the whole series.

@Mahim--tp8xr Жыл бұрын

Dear Quinn, you've inspired me to read The Three Body Problem series and now I'm almost at the end. It's an amazing yet utterly terrifying novel and it changed my perspective on the universe hugely. As a student of mathematics, I've always practised rational and scientific thinking and everything about this novel seems plausible in the real universe. I now realize that there is a good possibility of our universe to be a dark forest as well as it not being in it's original state. The Three Body Problem series is truly the most terrifying sci-fi novel ever. Thank you for introducing it to me.

@reidsimonson Жыл бұрын

This is science fiction man. So take it just as that, science fiction.

@Mahim--tp8xr Жыл бұрын

Just because something is science fiction does not mean it can't hint at something real and possible. For example, the earlier Star Trek series portrayed a number of technologies that were pure science fiction at that time, but are abundantly being used today. Like wireless earphones and touch sensitive screens. Even space flight was once science fiction. Einstein never saw a black hole. But his assumptions about a black hole is being proved almost seventy years after his death. Human mind is capable of prediction, of educated guesses and imagination that converges with a reality yet to be confirmed. Dismissing science fiction as 'just science fiction' would be an insult to the human mind.

@skehleben7699 Жыл бұрын

I was given the Three Body Problem trilogy several years ago as a gift and enjoyed it mightily, I'm due to read them again.

@mr.joshua6818 Жыл бұрын

Another great video. Glad you've been covering this series.

@brotski100 Жыл бұрын

i Watched all of these multiple times (so i got everything spoiled) still ordered the books, i'm almost done with the third book what an amazing story i was just obsessed with this story since seeing your first video on the three body problem.

@kimjongwin Жыл бұрын

The second triosolarian fleet battle is terrifying

@marcosgarcia8018 Жыл бұрын

I stumbled across this channel by complete accident and i love every minute of it

@MrRickstopher Жыл бұрын

I want more commentary on Three Body and Blindsight from you than anything from any other KZfaq channel. I’m not exaggerating, this is 100% true.

@rsparks1104 Жыл бұрын

Hey Quinn, this isn't the first time I've commented about this, but since this is an actually recent video, you might see it- every time I watch a Three Body Problem video of yours, I wonder if you've ever read Three Worlds Collide? It's a markedly shorter but thoroughly compelling examination of alien-human social dynamics from the opposite angle that this series takes. Instead of cold war and threats of annihilation, the conflict of Three Worlds Collide is built around altruism, and how its definitions differ from species to species. Despite that, it's still just as dark, gripping, and well thought-out as this series is. I think you'd really like it!

@IsaacKuo Жыл бұрын

Tau Zero, in 1970, popularized the idea of a starship accelerating closer and closer to the speed of light, reaching the end of the universe. In that case it was using hard science fiction physics, rather than fantastical physics. It used physics and cosmology as theorized at the time, with the noteworthy exception of being able to somehow witness the big crunch from outside of it. Seeing the big crunch/big bang from outside is something that Futurama replicated in the 2010 episode "The Late Phillip J. Fry" (which itself was a JoJo reference to the end of Stone Ocean, using accelerated time rather than relativistic time dilation effects).

@jeffumbach Жыл бұрын

Yeah "Tau Zero" where the ship is a bussard ramscoop that for some reason loses the ability to turn off the engine so they just keep accelerating closer and closer to lightspeed.

@antonironstag5085 Жыл бұрын

Love your videos on three body problem, you have a great way of making me think deeper about the lore

@crashlegacy4768 Жыл бұрын

This is a crazy coincidence i just watched all the videos in the series again last night.. thank you quinnn

@Scudboy17 Жыл бұрын

The Three Body Problem is a great series. It's science fiction in the purest sense. The writer sets up a premise that seams futuristic or speculative, then extrapolates the repercussions of that premise. I really enjoyed the series even if I didn't completely connect with the characters. I think some of that was a linguistic and cultural barrier, and some was a his style of writing. I did enjoy the way he worked politics and sociology into his stories. It did challenge me to look at situations from a different perspective, one that I wouldn't normally have thought of before. Unlike some people, I really enjoy perspectives that I do t normally agree with. I think that we need to be challenged to fully understand our own positions and ideals, so when I don't fully understand the motives of some of the characters in the series, they still make sense when you look at it from the perspective of someone from an Asian and specifically a Chinese cultural perspective. The Chinese have a viewpoint on matters like the military, nationalism, self sacrifice, loyalty, and personal freedom and it's limits that you don't encounter in most Western fiction.

@robertgreen7593 Жыл бұрын

Excellent, it never occurred to me that Dark Matter could be 2D Matter. I've always wondered if the Universe started as 1D and "evolved" into higher dimensions as it expanded. Dark Matter could be leftover 2D matter from the early universe (by leftover I mean the majority of it)

@patreekotime4578 Жыл бұрын

The moment before the big bang is essentially a one-dimensional universe. Or perhaps an infinite dimensional universe .. from our perspective it is the same.

@nagillim7915 Жыл бұрын

Quinn, your voice is so soothing you could read the telephone book and i'd listen to it before bed. Love you and your work, man.

@rossigrace5031 4 ай бұрын

I have been listening to these videos all day...

@leac0071 Жыл бұрын

The 3rd book was the best. Reread it shortly after finishing. Just finished Blindsight; loved the Oh Shit moments. Your channel is great bro.

@ace_the_race9340 7 ай бұрын

The concept of the government just not deleting all records of her stars ownership and taking over it themselves, instead waking her and asking her is alien to me.

@catherokelly6136 Жыл бұрын

Always excited when a new three body problem video comes out

@isiahfriedlander5559 Жыл бұрын

Da Shi ♡ Luo Ji ♱ Cheng xi ༎ຶ‿༎ຶ

@charliecrome207 Жыл бұрын

Great book series, though I wasn't a fan of the whole pocket universe millions of years time skip at the end of the book. I think it would have been more interesting to explore galaxy era humanity and the wars in the dark forest.

@nobbynoris Жыл бұрын

Totally agree. I felt the whole 17 million year time-jump was utterly superfluous to the story as a whole. it was one plot-twist too much.

@jmarshal Жыл бұрын

This series sounds so interesting but I am way too stupid to understand it properly so I’m glad I get to watch these videos because it makes it much easier to understand and appreciate.

@diguification Жыл бұрын

Man can't wait for the next one in this series! Quinn, dude, do please upload it ASAP!

@AdmiralKaguya Ай бұрын

Who arrived here after netflix series?

@sean-ve6do Ай бұрын

I'd never heard of this until the series, but now I've ordered the books

@CooperDianeBob Жыл бұрын

Now How the fuck are we supposed to believe D&D would be able to adapt this ?

@Kosstheraidboss Жыл бұрын

At least there is already an ending, so there is nothing hanging on their creative ability. All they have to do is adapt. That's the tank of hopium I'm surviving on.

@AricTWS Жыл бұрын

I just want to say your intro music is dope. Also I agree you need a long form video on these books.

@matthewwalker5504 11 ай бұрын

You've been great and inspiring content sir. Some people have a want to be hardcore sci-fi fishinado inside of their soul but they don't live that life but you tap into that stuff man.

@Person_Not_Known Жыл бұрын

I've finished this series a bit ago...all I can remember is that the second sword holder made a lot of bad choices....she basically voted against lightspeed development and doomed most of mankind...

@TheTrueMalice Жыл бұрын

She was by far an awful character. I think that was on purpose... she becomes more and more unlikable from our perspective is because we the reader are omniscient. We see all events and can use these to see the character of universe the story takes place in. When the trisolarans began drawing we knew... they had learned from us which means they had learned to lie. I hated her choices as well because I saw it from a cold distant perspective.

@TrickyTidy Жыл бұрын

it's been awhile since i read it, but was it her specifically? i remember she was the one that had to relay the stories the captured human was using to share information, but it was their team of specialists analyzing the short stories that interpreted it incorrectly

@jamesw3413 Жыл бұрын

@@TheTrueMalice Idk man I've seen many people saying she's the best of humanity or a hero. I think she's completely reprehensible, and even though she's not a villain she represents the complete incompetence of people as a whole. By stopping Thomas Wade's takeover of the habitat and everything else she did she killed billions of people and almost ended humanity, which no matter your opinion of her is not very good :/

@nobbynoris Жыл бұрын

Cheng Xin was spineless. She couldn't summon the resolve to pull the trigger even when the fate of every single human being depended on it. It amazed me how leniently people seemed to view her, in contrast to Luo Ji, who saved humanity and people responded by turning on him and persecuting him for 'mundicide'. That scene in Death's End where she is in Australia, where everybody has been condemned by the trisolarans to starve or resort to cannibalism - I was appalled and offended that the people who recognised her did not rush her and tear her to pieces while she was still alive, it was just what she deserved.

@kapp651 Жыл бұрын

@@jamesw3413 I dont see anyone saying that

@wephilips6651 Жыл бұрын

I’m 2/3 into first book and absolutely hating it…I’ll persevere but the lack of characters and the constant exposition is jarring AF

@Esteban-qp2cf Ай бұрын

Cool concept, book probably doesn't translate well. That and the fact that the ending makes no sense. In this setting, it shouldn't matter whether microuniverses are preventing the universe from resetting if the universe will always kill you.

@Uniqueusername2 23 күн бұрын

Tbh the concepts in the books are way more fascinating than about 90% of the characters and their relationships. That said, book one is a far cry from 2 and 3. In the next two books there are major jumps into the future and the world building is phenomenal.

@brandonschaut4022 Жыл бұрын

This is my favorite of all time, I wish he would tell the whole story in more depth too. I've listened over and over already😂

@yodasmomisondrugs7959 Жыл бұрын

Dang dude I've been watching you for a few years now It's cool to see your channel over 500K Subscribers now.

@dudewatches6125 Жыл бұрын

The books are very well written, and there is a lot that I do like about them...BUT, ultimately, I can barely recommend this, and even then, only the first book is good enough to pass for a light recommendation. The whole series is plagued with the idiocy trope, and it wears thin really rapidly. For example, I would hope that Godlike races of this nature would utilize one of the potentially endless OTHER ways to destroy a thing, before resorting to a dimensional strike. Even if they survive, they know that they will only survive as refuges in a new, cruder, simpler, and more limited dimension. I can understand that happening once, maybe twice, but over and over again? Into worse and worse Dimensional states? A moron like me can tell you how stupidly unsustainable that is, and how it results in a pyric victory at best. After all, if these God like Civilizations are this powerful, then they are likely extremely wide spread. Unless you hit ALL of their worlds and installations unerringly and in rapid succession, then they will have the opportunity through their own god like technology, to change themselves and survive to fight into a new conflict. Factor in the Dark Forest, where we are just shooting because we notice something is there, and Dimensional strike just come off as a completely absurd way to respond to a first contact. A million ways to destroy a POTENTIALLY dangerous solar system, that may or may not be part of a larger empire, that may or may not be more or less advanced than you. Yeah, lets not only shoot first and potentially reveal ourselves to others in the process, but lets also fuck up all reality and even ourselves in the process, just to be sure. Pardon my 90's French, but that is retarded, and not the kind of behavior beings with that technology should be exhibiting, even in the dark forest. Its self injury at best (and in the worst way), and abject existential suicide at worst. This is the stuff that really breaks me out of the book over and over again. The rampant absurdity of all Sentient beings in this books. The Trisolarans have the knowledge and power to create Dyson swarms around other stars, gathering raw materials from surrounding bodies, and creating perfect fabricated habitats for themselves. Instead, they risk their entire species in an inter-Solar War against an enemy that can, frankly, mutually destroy them, and in a fairly simple way. The Second Sword Bearer fucks mankind so many times its hard to pick one example. The Listeners literally, casually, launch dimension strikes as a first response to detected sentience. And the Zero-Homers are fucking up everything in the hopes that fucking it up completely will somehow unfuck everything, which is presented to us as a guess, not a surety. How about...literally doing anything else that makes more sense? Why is every creature in this universe so deadbent on anhilating their own reality or species? If mankind had Dimension strike powers, we would treat it like the nuclear option or worse, there would almost certainly not be a listening post with the self endowed authority to not only genocide entire races of aliens, just for the crime of existing, but to also destroy and unravel existence itself. I mean, fucking hell, maybe that was more common at 10 Dimensions, because we had Dimensions to spare, but we are LITERALLY down to just 3 Dimensions. All while the ability to just blast the target in various, absolutely lethal ways still exist, and at no harm or cost to the attacker, especially if the attacking installation is far from the actual civilization. I like Grimdark stuff, but I really expect more...what? Tact? Logic? Self preservation? That and more? Either way, I expect better from an Apex Civilization. Even the Trisolarans pressing through with their attack after the second sword bearer is proven ineffective and worthless is a total stupid lapse in judgement. Here you are, already halfway to being accepted by humanity enough to almost be worshipped by them, but you are going to dare an attack, with a gun pressed to your head, while their finger is on the trigger, and while you know there could be other guns out there, human guns, held by human fingers you just do not know about or cannot anticipate? The utter, unnecessary and totally risky nature of it all is just soooooo baffling! Did literally not a single Trisolaran in their entire hive mind ask, "Hey, is it at all possible that someone other than the sword bearer could trigger these wave emitters?" Apparently not. What a total unremitting shame. You want tragedy? You want existential horror? Dumbing everything and everyone down to the point of absurdity is not the way to do it.

@arnowisp6244 Жыл бұрын

The Dark Forest is basically the Xenophobe response to the Fermi Paradox.

@dudewatches6125 Жыл бұрын

@@arnowisp6244 I'm not even going that far. Fine, have the darkforest scenario, it might be real. This Dimensional Strike Bullshit is so absurd. Maybe you use that against confirmed threats or in open war. But for fucks sake, as a first response to possible alien contact? Its so mind numbingly stupid, why would he write it in like that? Why would he make it out and portray it as a casual use of force? Any fucking monster with that power can kill you in a million different ways without also fucking themselves at the same time. It is just...soooo pointlessly stupid and self destructive. I honestly cannot stand the concept of using that kind of weapon against a maybe there civilization, knowing all that entails. Why would you even go THAT far? What the fuck is so powerful it needs to be attacked in that way to be destroyed? I mean, do you know why we ape brained humans haven't been nuking each other left and right? Because its a mentally retarded thing to do, especially when we have other weapons that can get the job done without irradiating our planet. This like a nuke that goes off...and never stops going off. Even if its explosive expansion rate was only two centimeters per fifty years, adding that effect would make the fucking things almost unusable. What kind of logical intelligence enables you to control time space to that degree, AND be literally, objectively, intentionally suicidal at an existential level? I mean, why not just throw three of those nova bombs at the systems? Why anything that Extreme? It makes literally no sense. I mean fuck, if the dimensional collapses cannot even be prevented or stopped, then wouldn't just creating and testing that technology more likely than not destroy the civilization that employed it? Dumbest thing by far that this series plays with or asserts, right behind the Second Sword bearer.