Why Everyone LOVES Three-Body Problem (Spoiler-Free & Spoiler Book Review)

[@brocolicosmique]

This book has been on my to-read list for a while, so I will skip the video for now and come back to have your take on it later. I stopped right when Marty said "this is not technically a spoiler but..." :D

[@NextChapterYT]

You’ll love it!! Come back when you finish it and let us know your thoughts!!

[@JaneHasGame]

I just finished the Netflix adaptation and now starting the Chinese version on Viki Rakuten. So good! Different from the books but both hold up well. Hoping for season 2 on Netflix

[@NextChapterYT]

So good to hear! So excited to watch it!

[@eclipseforme]

you guys need to start on the next one asap and ill watch the in depth review on that next. also now that the show is out so review on that or ep by ep reaction. would def watch all of those content :) the show make me super curious about the books and I just finished the dark forest and loved it lol

[@NextChapterYT]

Solid plan! I know I'm personally super excited to dive into Dark Forest with all the stuff I feel like I missed in the series! It's very high on our list :)

[@dhruv9744]

Honestly after reading The Dark Forest and Death's End, the first book The Three Body Problem feels quaint and forgettable.

[@NextChapterYT]

That’s awesome!! Excited to continue the series!!

[@GangstarComputerGod]

The Dark Forest is amazing. Three Body is so much setup and the show did alright with it but Dark Forest is bonkers in the best way.

[@user-ly2ll5od1r]

yeah 3 body is basically just a very superfluous (albeit kinda cool anyway) prologue for the real story of Remembrance of Earth's past series, the sequels are not only longer, but also much, much denser.

[@MartinLewisEsq]

They are all awful books on so many levels, the first negates the premise of the second, and the third is even more deeply misogynistic than the previous two, which is an 'achievement'.

[@nemderogatorius]

Nice review of one of my favorite books from recent years! You got the main idea right, that it's about society and moral ambiguity. I'd just like to point out that the 3 body problem only applies to systems where the most massive bodies have comparable masses. In our solar system this is not true: the sun is by far the most massive object and everything else is just like a fly in comparison, so scientists talk about perturbations instead. It is pretty stable on short time scales. Small perturbations happen all the time, so it would've fallen apart long ago if a few centimeters in orbital radius would matter.

[@NextChapterYT]

That’s a great point. If one of the three bodies was super-massive relative to the other two, they’d fall in line pretty smoothly and the math would make more sense… thanks for explaining it!!

[@NextChapterYT]

很棒的书

[@nyu3492]

The boat-cutting scene was pretty fantastic. They made it easy for hard drive to be found. You should watch the show :)

[@NextChapterYT]

We definitely will!! That reaction to the show coming next week, so don’t forget to subscribe if you aren’t already!

[@Lou_Mansfield]

(spoiler warning) I like that the book includes physics, computing, animal habitat and extinction, along with societal and historical issues. My biggest gripe is that the aliens with their scientific prowess could have tried colonizing their nearby planets/moons first, terraforming their planet, live underground, use nuclear plants, build strong home/capsules, or anything else to make life more stable instead of succumbing to their suns' whims.

[@Ms.Pronounced_Name]

Matt Parker of Standup Maths made a tic-tac-toe computer out of matchboxes, a calculator out of dominoes, and a few other crazy things I can't remember right now. I think maybe he also made one with water? Not positive. Edit: Cogs, not water. I was thinking of a recent Steve Mould experiment regarding water.

[@NextChapterYT]

It’s SO cool! Computers are awesome

[@liu3gz]

About the human computer, I’d like to add one aspect , Transolarians communicate with thoughts, in real life they don’t need flags, they send electronic signals from their “brain” to other “bits”, the description of using flags is just in favor of us, such that we can illustrate the scene.

[@NextChapterYT]

Great point! That would make things a ton easier to communicate information in that way

[@GangstarComputerGod]

In the books they do use flags because it’s in “the game” which is entirely constructed for humans. So the scene is completely accurate and well done imo.

[@migdvv]

After cut, the boat wandered to the shore intact and when it hit the shore bank it started splitting because of the impact.

[@NextChapterYT]

This makes the most sense to me for sure. The friction of the pieces of ‘boat’ have to stay aligned right?

[@migdvv]

IIRC in the tencent series it splitted also after the impact with the shore not after the cut from the nanofibers. In the netflix series when they are showcasing the nanofibers in a lab experiment they have to manually hit the subject so the pieces split apart because of the precision of the cuts.@@NextChapterYT

[@chad872]

Do we?

[@NextChapterYT]

🤔

[@Wordhopper1990]

Haha your intonation on míngzì threw me off a bit, but I could understand you! (Not a native speaker either, I’m Dutch.) This is such an interesting book! I loved how true it stayed to science, also throughout the entire series. Really fascinating concepts.

[@NextChapterYT]

That’s awesome!! And agreed we loved it. Excited to continue the series and see the Netflix version… review of that incoming!

[@rufangzhao555]

They picked a place that the top pieces will land on the beach of a narrow part of the Panama canal. Just watch the show

[@NextChapterYT]

We will definitely watch it! We wanted to get this video out before seeing the show, but that's next on the list... probably next week so don't forget to subscribe before that! ;)

[@syscotron]

The 2 factions you described at the beginning sound like what would make sense from humanity. But you are forgetting 2 more factions that based on what's happening now are unfortunately more likely. 1 is: they just don't care. they hear that aliens are real and they keep on watching cat videos. 2 is: they think its all a lie no matter how much evidence is placed before them. These 2 categories are based on the majority of people's total disregard of the recent congressional hearing of highly reputable high-level intelligence officer whistle-blowers and govt officials telling us we are reverse engineering alien craft. People just don't care.

[@NextChapterYT]

Ha! You’re totally right. A wild society these days ;P

[@Lou_Mansfield]

I would believe in aliens if evidence was clearly laid out. Unfortunately it is classified, purposely destroyed. For now, I can only go to a science center and learn all about past space missions, fun optical illusions, and nuclear physics

[@Wordhopper1990]

Oh boy, don’t rely on the show for the boat discussion. I don’t think they portrayed that accurately, it was more sensationalized than I think they should have. If I recall correctly, the boat starts falling apart only when it half-crashes into something, then the top parts start sliding off.

[@NextChapterYT]

Well that’s a bit disappointing… I guess our question may never be answered! I think the minor crash / fall apart makes the most sense, since it slices through the engine the rotating parts would definitely have been thrown out of whack and the engine probably locked up, which would’ve affected the steering / momentum

[@terrenmooney65]

OMG. You said spoiler free. Wouldn’t there be a great deal of suspense building up to this perceived threat of alien invasion and then you state that there isn’t one?! I literally stopped watching this when you said that. That’s really terrible to ruin the whole book for people. Please remove spoiler free from your title on this video. I hope some epic books get ruined for you buddy! I really do!

[@NextChapterYT]

Sorry!! We had a spoiler and non-spoiler section in the video. We did our best to label those in the video, but must have missed something. I wouldn’t consider that much of a spoiler, but you’d have to read the book (and series) to understand what I mean by that!

[@zzzzzzllllllll]

it fell apart

[@NextChapterYT]

Thanks! We’re excited to get into the Netflix series to see it happen!

[@rufangzhao555]

Mordern day digitalized 1984

[@NextChapterYT]

That's what we were thinking too!

[@mr-yeah]

capitalism = "freedom of thought" BWAHAHAH

[@NextChapterYT]

Thanks for the thought 👍🏼

[@pumpuppthevolume]

it's not centimeter sloser ...face palm

[@NextChapterYT]

No idea what this means, but thank for the feedback!

[@pumpuppthevolume]

@NextChapterYT Mercury being centimeter closer doesn't do anything ...I watched the same video also Mercury's orbit is very eccentric (non-circular). A circle has an eccentricity of 0 and a parabola 1. Mercury's eccentricity is 0.2, the highest of all the planets. The orbital distance between the closets point to the Sun (perihelion) and the farthest point to the Sun (aphelion) varies by 23 million km (14.3 million miles of 0.1592 AU), a variation in solar distance of ~41%. ....not to mention orbits change over time like how the moon is moving away from us

[@Ms.Pronounced_Name]

My favorite part of the Netflix series so far is when they give a guy a full-body bulletproof suit, but don't give him a bulletproof hood or even a hat to protect his tasty brains

[@NextChapterYT]

😅 That's movie magic for ya!

[@D_PIETZ]

Two guys discussing a book the obviously did not actually read.... sad

[@NextChapterYT]

Definitely did read it, and loved it! We will have to get better at our reviews I guess lol

[@ivanyang2022]

@@NextChapterYT you did great! thanks for the work!

[@alexandretorres5087]

I hate 3 body problem, it is dull and the science makes no sense

[@NextChapterYT]

Well thanks for sharing your opinion!! Any other sci-fi books we should take a look at instead?

[@herzji]

Lol its literally based on real science. Educate urself

[@bztube888]

When someone imagines science so far ahead, the science will not make sense. Even our textbooks make no sense sometimes, like quantum physics (not the equation but the why), the singularity of black holes, dark matter etc. But it does not contradict what we know, and we know so little that maybe everything in the book is possible regardless of how crazy it sounds.

[@samsulh314]

The science actually makes a ton of sense. The 3 body problem is an actual unsolvable physics problem. Most of the fiction in this science fiction was well thought out. Not just vaguely sounding sciency mumbo jumbo.