Ding Yi was dead, and in that distant outer space, the water droplets had not yet begun to attack, but only slightly activated, and the earth messengers on the "Mantis" were all vaporized. Before dying, Ding Yi was already keenly aware that for a weak civilization, there were no conditions for reciprocal negotiations in the face of a strong civilization. As a scientist with a reputation on Earth, he should have died in the first encounter of extraterrestrial civilizations in outer space. The phrase "Destroy you, what does it have to do with you" sounds so chilling in the back. The droplets of water rushing toward the sun looked so harmless that everyone except Ding Yi did not realize the danger, and actually described the droplets as "tears of the Virgin".
Ding Yi is a forgotten person in "The Three-Body Problem", as a physicist, after geophysics was locked by the Three-Body Civilization Zhizi, he could still stay firmly at Peking University to teach physics. Whenever I saw his statement before death, there was an inexplicable sadness.
"Children, do you know what I've been doing all these years? He teaches physics at the university and also takes doctoral students. Children, I was two centuries ago and can still teach physics in college. ”
Let a scientist do the same thing all the time, do the theoretical research with students who stay at the basic level, and the scientist himself knows that what he does does does has no meaning. Such a thing may seem a little sad to read in the novel, but looking at reality, we are indeed experiencing such sadness. For nearly 100 years in human science, fundamental physics has been stuck in the 1950s. Relativity, quantum mechanics, are all theories invented a century ago, guiding the progress of human scientific and technological civilization in this hundred years, this point science students may feel a little deeper, liberal arts students do not understand can think of the Qing Dynasty in Chinese history, when the literati buried their heads in the paper pile, blindly considering ancient texts, the academic level of the literary world is seriously lagging behind.
Before Ding Yi went to space, she was vaguely worried about this trip. After seeing the appearance of the water droplets, he bluntly said that he did not feel good, and then he was ready to die generously, not willing to let others accompany him to space. Under his reminder, the "Quantum" and "Bronze Age" entered the deep sea state, which led to the lucky escape of the two warships of mankind in the dark war of extraterrestrial civilizations behind, preserving the civilization fire for mankind. In the story that follows, the Earth civilization established a dark forest deterrent against the Trisolaran civilization, and the Bronze Age chose to believe and return to the earth home, but when he returned, he waited for a judgment. And in the other direction of the blue space is also fleeing the earth, if there is no Bronze Age crew Snyder, the earth civilization is likely to use various scams, trick the blue space also returned, this crew named Snyder broke through the earth gendarmerie detention, before dying tragically called the blue space: do not return, this is not home. When the Blue Space heard this reminder, it immediately sped away and avoided destruction.
In a sense, Ding Yi represents The despair of Da Liu for human science in reality, in a civilized society that cannot obtain the rapid development of science and technology, the spirit of scientific exploration will be despised, and human beings will increasingly move towards the road of drunken dreams and death, entertainment first. Does anyone else pay attention to the sea of stars? Will anyone else be like Vader who always shouts in his heart, "Forward, forward without folding means"? When the entire human race collectively chooses silence, human civilization is no different from the ant civilization on earth!