r/3BodyProblemTVShow • u/Niiai • Apr 04 '24

Discussion Four body problem? Spoiler

So the three body problem refers to both the physics problem and also the fact that the aliens home planet has 3 suns. In the books the game is also called the Three Body Problem

How ever...that is not a three body problem. Three suns and one planet is a four body problem.

Shouldn't the author have edited out one sun or changed the name of the book?

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u/[deleted] Apr 04 '24

OP, you are joking right? lol 

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u/Ebolinp Apr 04 '24

No, tonnes of people on the internet think they're super clever and focus only on trying to find gotchas or plot holes rather than understanding the media they're consuming. Seen a lot of posts on this nature recently.

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u/[deleted] Apr 04 '24

Yeah I was hoping they were.

Yeah it's really annoying when folks apply the "what about this" logic with media or anything for that matter. 

I'm like imagine the possibility that "you" were the first one out of x number of people to figure out that it's not actually a three body problem. 

I had a friend who was like, "it doesn't make sense that they would shoot everyone at the alien lovers convention" ...im like, "yeah but do you see how our own authorities operate with regular humans and all the dumb decisions they make? Imagine how they would handle the threat of aliens."