What's your favorite reviews of "Three body problem"? Especially ones that focus on discussing the physics - both in terms of depiction of physics and physicists and in terms of how correct the books are?
Preferably of the Netflix series, but I'll also accept those for the books if especially good on discussing the physics.
Wie viel Wissenschaft steckt in der Netflix-SciFi-Serie "3 Body Problem"? Darüber habe ich gestern Abend drei Stunden lange mit Dr. Lisa Ringena von IsoQuant Heidelberg & @nawik und Cedric Engels aka Doktor Whatson bei ARTE #Couchwissen gesprochen.
"We're talking about something super close to us," Franck Marchis, a senior planetary astronomer with the SETI Institute, said. "It's like looking at the backyard of neighbors, basically."
Just watched the Netflix adaptation of 3 Body Problem. Decent attempt, although it felt like they went through the game and revealed the “three-body” mystery a little fast (or did I just binge too fast? 🤔).
I really wish SF shows would get the incredibly easy basics right, though.
In the first episode, two people are looking at the stars from a location somewhere in England (University of Oxford campus?). Something very strange happens with the stars, but before that happens, something even stranger is going on. The stars in the sky depicted show the entire constellation of Scorpius, which is not possible in the British Isles. If you were at the southernmost tip of England, the circled star would just peek above the southern horizon. To see the stars as depicted, you would have to be much farther south (say, at the latitude of a CGI firm in Los Angeles? 😉).
I imagine most people wouldn't notice, but if you are at all familiar with the sky, these things jump out at you. It would be like the prop people not knowing who to put on the dollar bill and just going with Mr. Bean.
I’m watching #3bodyproblem and reading EE Doc Smith’s Skylark at the same time. And the similarities are striking, even if the timescales are a less realistic in the century old books. #scifi#bookstodon@bookstodon
「 Chaos, in the mathematical sense, does not refer to its common usage of "disarray and disorganisation". Instead, it is often characterised by what mathematicians refer to as sensitive dependence on initial conditions. This means that the behaviour of two otherwise identical chaotic systems, initiated with extremely similar (but not exactly identical) initial conditions, will eventually become vastly different from each other 」
Trisolar Music: Each Star gets a 3-note tune (major, minor and diminished chord I think)
The planet playes the closest star, pitchproximity, pacespeed.
I haven't been sucessfull in integrating JMusic into my Project so far (never used external libraries before)
Meanwhile @kandid brought my attention to soundification and I did succeed at multithreading! One thread does the gravity sim while the other soundifies it: Pitch increases the closer the planet gets to the star. The pace changes with the planets speed
I finished #3BodyProblem last night. It's dogshit. 0/10 I hate it. If you're a fan of the books watch #ThreeBody on Prime instead. It's a very good representation of the books. If you just like random Game of Thrones actors doing their best with a god awful script that is tangentially related to the books, I guess sure check out 3BP, I'm not your dad.
Chinese science fiction history shapes Netflix's '3 Body Problem' influence - FRIDAY ANALYSIS
I don’t often get to indulge my appreciation of Sinology, i.e., the study of Chinese history and culture, but Netflix’s new science fiction series “3 Body Problem” has piqued the curiosity of many people unaware of the country’s expansive Sci-Fi connections.
“Was that E.T. or was it not E.T.? Nobody knows,” Seth Shostak, senior astronomer at the SETI Institute, tells Astronomy. “Nobody has ever found another explanation for what that might have been. It’s like you hear chains rattling in your attic and you think ‘My god, ghosts are real.’ But then you never hear them again, so what do you think?”