Last time we talked about why the TV series version of "The Three-Body Problem" starring Zhang Luyi, Yu Hewei and others received a lot of praise, this time let's talk about a very controversial plot in this drama, that is, in the first episode, why several scientists committed suicide.
Perhaps some viewers who have read the original book will also ask this question when reading the book: Why did these scientists choose suicide? Was it simply because Tomoko locked the foundation of physics and made it difficult for physics to develop and committed suicide in despair? If that's the case, aren't these scientists a little too vulnerable?
In our previous understanding, shouldn't scientists encounter problems that stimulate the spirit of exploration in their hearts? Does the fact that the previous physics does not exist mean that he can explore a new "physics"? Shouldn't those scientists be as new and excited as the discovery of a new continent? How could you give up so thoroughly?
After all, most of us ordinary people have never been in contact with the world's top physicists, so we can't know how these physicists will deal with such a problem. However, many netizens have expressed their opinions on this issue, which are mainly divided into the following three types.
The first possibility is that in addition to feeling that "physics" is gone, scientists are troubled by other problems
If in the novel, the story before the suicide of each scientist is told more completely, perhaps this problem will be easier to understand, such as Yang Dong.
In the novel, Yang Dong's final choice to commit suicide is a decision made after experiencing several things, and after the failure of the experiment, she feels that the physics of human beings before does not exist, and this non-existent physics has always been her lifelong pursuit.
Then when she checked her mother's computer, she found that her mother was behind the plot of the three-body civilization to invade the earth civilization, and her mother, who had been dependent on her since childhood, turned out to be "the kind of person she didn't even dare to believe that there might be in this world before", and she didn't dare to ask her mother for verification, she was afraid that as soon as she spoke, her mother would become a completely different person, so she could only pretend that she didn't know what to do.
Together, Yang Dong fully believes that she is the turkey scientist on the farm, and she feels that she and the entire human race have been being played by higher life, so in the end she collapses.
In addition, "The Three-Body Problem" also describes Wang Miao's experience very specifically, and the things he experienced are enough to make people feel desperate.
If nothing else, it's just the fact that there is a countdown in front of you, but you don't know what will happen at the end of the countdown, which is already unacceptable, and this kind of thing really affects Wang Miao's life every moment.
Therefore, through the experience of Yang Dong and Wang Miao, it can be inferred that before committing suicide, those other scientists should not only have discovered that physics does not exist, but also other things that caused major mental torture, but these have nothing to do with the main line of the book, and the author chose to pass it over.
Second possibility: scientists are not willing to become "farmers' turkeys"
Of course, scientists may think differently than ordinary people in this kind of thing, and they may think more, such as Yang Dong's question in the last moments of his life is "Is nature really natural?" ”
In Yang Dong's previous cognition, laws must occur naturally, be objective, and be materialistic. However, due to Zhizi's interference with the experimental results, Yang Dong found that the world he knew before could be designed and modified at will.
So do human beings live in a subjective world, where everyone's growth trajectory is designed, and in such a world, is it necessary to live? So some scientists chose to end this life of being manipulated by "higher creatures".
The third possibility: The author pays tribute to some scientists who have ended their lives by suicide
In fact, in real life, there are indeed some physicists who choose to end their lives by suicide in the final stage of their lives for various reasons.
The famous Austrian physicist Paul Ehrenfest has made outstanding contributions in the fields of adiabatic invariants, atomic mechanics, and quantum physics, but on September 25, 1933, after arranging several of his children, he shot his young son with Down syndrome and then committed suicide.
The same Austrian physicist, Ludwig Eduard Boltzmann, who made seminal contributions to both statistical mechanics and statistical thermodynamics, committed suicide while vacationing with his family.
Feng Xiqiao, once recognized as the most potential young physicist in China, committed suicide by jumping off a building in France in 1995, when everyone in the physics community was saddened by the departure of this genius, and in order to remember Feng Xiqiao, the University of California took the initiative to lower the flag to half-mast to mourn.
Similar to the suicide of scientists, not only in the field of physics, but also in other scientific fields, as for the reasons for their suicide, many are attributed to depression, bipolar disorder, but what causes depression, bipolar disorder, in fact, the average person does not know. Therefore, this story in "The Three-Body Problem" cannot be said to be completely imagined by the author.
If you are also chasing the drama "The Three-Body Problem", or have read the "Three-Body Problem" novel before, and don't know what you think about this issue, if you are interested, you may wish to write it in the comment area and chat together for entertainment.