On February 14, the TV series "Three-Body Problem" ended at a climax, scoring 8.4 on Douban.

When scientists read "The Three-Body Problem", what kind of eyes will they look at?

What questions will you think about?

　　When this TV series started, the knowledge interpretation program "Decoding the Three-Body Problem" was launched simultaneously.

This knowledge interpretation program with Liu Cixin as a consultant invites more than 20 well-known domestic science fiction writers, science fiction researchers, scientists, humanities scholars, etc. to jointly interpret the pinnacle of Chinese science fiction.

Each episode of "Decoding the Three-Body Problem" is like a podcast with easy "dry goods", adding the thinking and deciphering of knowledge and science to the appreciation of science fiction, so that the audience who follow the drama every day, with confusion and desire to communicate, "catch up" knowledge points .

　　As one of the interpretation experts of "Decoding the Three-Body Problem", Wang Yuanzhuo, a researcher at the Institute of Computing Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and a popular science writer, recently accepted an exclusive interview with reporters from China Youth Daily and China Youth Daily.

In the program, from the perspective of a scientific researcher, he accompanies the audience in the "movement-knowledge linkage" and analyzes detailed settings in popular science novels such as "dehydration", "human computer", "physics 'locked'".

While talking about the three-body people's thinking about life, he analyzed the possibility and impossibility of the connection between the three-body world and our real life from a realistic perspective.

　　When scientists watch "Three-Body" for the first time, what "brain holes" will Liu Cixin poke?

　　Wang Yuanzhuo told reporters that his initial impression of "Three-Body Problem" has two aspects.

On the one hand, from the perspective of a sci-fi fan, he has seen works such as "Earth Cannon" and "Ball Lightning" before.

"The whole story of "The Three-Body Problem" continues the big brain hole of Mr. Liu (the nickname given to Liu Cixin by fans of the Three-Body Problem), and the trilogy presents a very grand worldview, many of which are very ingenious. As the following plots gradually extend to the universe, it is no longer timed by ten or hundreds of years, it may even be tens of millions of years, and the brain hole is infinite."

　　On the other hand, Wang Yuanzhuo saw that one of the characteristics of the creation of "Three-Body Problem" is "rooted in our real life".

　　"You will feel that it seems to be moving from the past to the future. When it passes by you, it looks at you for a while. If you look back, you may also have a moment of brushing shoulders with our elders. This makes me feel The whole story is both sci-fi and close to life, very resonant."

　　Many mind-opening settings in "The Three-Body Problem" have fascinated countless readers.

In Wang Yuanzhuo's view, many of Liu Cixin's settings when he wrote "The Three-Body Problem" in 2006 seemed to be a harbinger of the development of science and technology, and they all took a step forward later.

　　"Take the three-body game in the information field as an example. In the game space, people can do many things. This is like the Metaverse in the past two years. In the virtual space, we can do many things, experience it personally, and communicate with other people. comminicate."

　　Another example is the "neuron computer" in the book.

Wang Yuanzhuo said that at this stage, it is more called a brain-like computer. It is a computing system made by bionics the neuron model of the human brain. "This is only in the field of information, and there are knowledge such as high-energy physics. I didn’t know much about it at the time, but later I made up a lot of knowledge.”

　　He pointed out that many story settings in the book "Three-Body Problem" are based on science and technology, which are consistent with scientific laws and natural phenomena.

I admire Liu Cixin's erudition and ability to integrate multiple disciplines.

　　Scientific and technological imagination can be instructive to reality, which is obviously the greatest charm of a science fiction work.

　　Not only "The Three-Body Problem", Wang Yuanzhuo has a respectful attitude towards hardcore science fiction works, because these works not only have a deep understanding and mastery of knowledge, but also have rich imagination.

To some extent, good science fiction works can help scientists open their minds and let you see the future.

　　The creation of science fiction film and television works has recently attracted more and more attention from the public.

This Spring Festival, "The Wandering Earth 2", which returned after 4 years, once again ignited the audience's confidence in domestic science fiction films.

　　Previously, Wang Yuanzhuo once made popular science hand-drawings of "The Wandering Earth" for his daughter, which became popular on Weibo, and was called "hard-core scientist dad" by netizens. He accidentally unlocked another identity as a writer of hand-painted popular science books.

　　Wang Yuanzhuo said that if you want to spread a piece of scientific knowledge, it is very convenient to use sci-fi movies and TV dramas, and it will also have an amplification effect to attract more people to pay attention to scientific knowledge.

In 2019, he hand-painted the scientific knowledge points of "The Wandering Earth" for his daughter. After being noticed by many people, he has been doing things to explain knowledge through science fiction movies.

　　Recently, Wang Yuanzhuo has just completed the hand-painting of science fiction knowledge in "The Three-Body Problem".

He was deeply touched, "Because it is very difficult to explain a lot of scientific knowledge to young people clearly. Therefore, it can also be seen that Mr. Liu can easily put the knowledge of so many fields and subjects into his works. It's pretty amazing."

　　Usually, as a moviegoer, Wang Yuanzhuo’s mentality is that he does not require science fiction movies to have hard-core scientific knowledge, but he “hopes to see that there are no wrong settings in science fiction movies, and that they should be as accurate as possible when possible.” A few. This is why many scientific researchers now serve as scientific consultants for dramas like "The Three-Body Problem". We hope that what you see is not only beautiful pictures and shocking plots, but also that it is spreading correctly. scientific knowledge.” Wang Yuanzhuo said.

　　China Youth Daily·China Youth Daily reporter Shen Jiequn Source: China Youth Daily