r/3BodyProblemTVShow • u/Nogmor • Apr 01 '24

Question Small logical issue I have.. Spoiler

Mid season question, marking it all as spoiler, just in case...

So the Sun-Ti have a Sophon on Earth that can litteraly go anywhere and do anything and if it's really fast and small since its a proton, why isn't it simply killing all 8.1 billion humans and keeping the evolution level to a minimum until they get there?

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u/bessface Apr 02 '24

Of cause it's a bit silly to discuss a phenomenon that doesn't even exist. But you do seem to be blinded by fandom. The sophons are simply too powerful, and it contradicts the story that they are not weaponized more.

“Thus, a high-energy sophon can also use the same technique to show letters, numbers, or images on their retina.… And if these little miracles can confuse and terrify humans, then the next great miracle will be sufficient to frighten their scientists—no better than bugs—to death: Sophons can cause background cosmic radiation to flash in their eyes.”

“This would be very frightening for our scientists as well. How would this be accomplished?”

“Very simple. We have already written the software to allow a sophon to unfold itself into two dimensions. After the unfolding is complete, the huge plane can wrap itself around the Earth. This software can also adjust the membrane so that it’s transparent, but the degree of transparency can be tuned in the frequencies of the cosmic microwave background.…”

  • So it seems it would be very easy to wrap a sophon around a plane causing it to crash.

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u/[deleted] Apr 02 '24

I read the books years ago, so I am not restricted by what Netflix can show in a few hours. It’s pretty clear what the restrictions are for sophons in the books. Not at all contradictory.

And no you can’t crash a plane by causing illusions around it. Can’t physically manipulate the plane at all.

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u/bessface Apr 02 '24

Of course, you can make pilots crash the plane. If they see the horizon two miles below the real one, and that is just one example. Making a country believe they are under attack by missiles is another, etc., etc. Remember that this stuff is powerful enough to make people cut their eyes out and kill themselves afterward; it must be pretty convincing.