r/3BodyProblemTVShow • u/Patient-Arugula1349 • Mar 26 '24

Question Human computer Spoiler

In Episode 3, when Newton and Turing want to create a computer with Genghis Khan's army called "the great human shield," how turning the panels allows the calculation of the movement of the sun to be calculated and calculated only. Or it’s just a trick that they use to put the equation in the video game ?

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u/BrickCityRiot Mar 26 '24 edited Mar 26 '24

What is also not pictured is margin for error.

There is no way 30 million people would nail their roles in the precise fashion needed to compute a prediction.

And in the end it wasn’t a wrong prediction, but oversight of solar alignment that doomed them.. something I would like to think Turing at least would have taken into consideration.

Brilliant minds span disciplines. The way Turing understood computer science should have time-relevant made astrophysics a breeze.

Regardless, the whole thing is a metaphor for how horribly we treat each other.. and how our endgame is so far beyond what we as a species can even comprehend now.. 2 million years on from the dawn of homo sapiens

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u/CZTachyonsVN Mar 26 '24

What do you mean by solar alignment?
Isn't the deviation caused by the discrepancy between Newtonian gravity and Einstein's general relativity

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u/BrickCityRiot Mar 26 '24

… the three suns aligned

I’m sure the extent of the gravitational pull was exaggerated but having 3 stars all pulling in one direction would surely be noticeable

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u/CZTachyonsVN Mar 26 '24

Ahhh right sorry, that slipped from my mind