As #Netflix prepares for a new season of #ThreeBodyProblem, time to dig up Damo’s old podcast about it.

I didn’t like Three Body Problem. For the same reason that Damien Walter didn’t. It is #authoritarian #propaganda.

In Cixin Liu’s world liberty is the problem and totalitarianism is the solution, and Dark Forest theory is the bait that makes it inevitable.

The intro that criticises Mao’s Cultural Revolution is also bait. Xi Jinping approves of it.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=uGZW1xnkzkI

#bookstodon

Ein poetischer Blick auf Heimat, Chaos und kosmische Orientierung durch ein Dreieckslicht
👉 https://whisper7.substack.com/p/wenn-ich-meine-heimat-sonnensysteme

#Heimat #Triangulation #DreiKörperProblem #Kosmos #Philosophie

[EN] A poetic exploration of home, chaos and cosmic orientation through a triangle of suns
👉 https://whisper7.substack.com/p/when-i-see-my-home-suns-i-know-where

#Home #Triangulation #ThreeBodyProblem #Cosmos #Philosophy #Whisper7

‘Rational optimist’: sci-fi writer Liu Cixin on why he’ll be happy if #AI surpasses humans

#ThreeBodyProblem #scifi

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3336312/rational-optimist-sci-fi-writer-liu-cixin-why-hell-be-happy-if-ai-surpasses-humans

Interactive Three-Body Simulator Featuring 2D and 3D Periodic Orbits

Exactly! Trisolar Chaos brilliantly transforms the abstract chaos of three-body interactions into something almost poetic. Seeing these complex orbits unfold in real time makes the unpredictability tangible, and the interactive simulator really brings the beauty and intricacy of celestial mechanics ...

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#ThreeBodyProblem

Cool visualization of the 3 Body Problem, that is central to the books.

https://trisolarchaos.com/?pr=lagrange&n=3&s=5.0&so=0.01&im=verlet&dt=5.00e-4&rt=1.0e-6&at=1.0e-8&bs=0.50&sf=0&sv=0&cm=free&kt=1&st=1&ag=0&tl=1500&cp=0.0000,0.0000,10.0000&ct=0.0000,0.0000,0.0000

N-Body Simulator – Interactive 3 Body Problem and Gravitational Physics

https://trisolarchaos.com/?pr=lagrange&n=3&s=5.0&so=0.01&im=verlet&dt=5.00e-4&rt=1.0e-6&at=1.0e-8&bs=0.50&sf=0&sv=0&cm=free&kt=1&st=1&ag=0&tl=1500&cp=0.0000,0.0000,10.0000&ct=0.0000,0.0000,0.0000

#HackerNews #NBodySimulator #InteractivePhysics #ThreeBodyProblem #GravitationalPhysics #SimulationTools