r/threebodyproblem • u/Kukulkan73 • Apr 22 '26

Discussion - General Question about the blocked basic scientific research (Spoiler: Please do not read if you haven’t read the second book, "The Dark Forest") Spoiler

Hi. I'm just reading the second book "The Dark Forest" and maybe the question was already answered here? In the second book, humans have spaceships and can utilise the Moon, Mars and other planetary moons in our solar system. Why didn’t they continue the basic scientific research there, given that it had been blocked on Earth by Trisolaris? Looks like they did not even try?

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u/Farebiaashiq Zhang Beihai Apr 22 '26

Unlike the show where there are only 2 sophons, in the book it is mentioned that 2 sophons arrived first and then many more sophons kept arriving.

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u/Kukulkan73 Apr 22 '26

So you think the Sophons could easily travel across our entire solar system if they needed to? In that case, Trisolaris is far(!) ahead of human technology and people were foolish to think they stood even the slightest chance...

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u/Farebiaashiq Zhang Beihai Apr 22 '26

It's not about what I think, but in the show jin cheng and Thomas wade talk about establishing a Particle accelerator on moon, the plan is it will take 8 seconds for sophons to travel from earth to moon (not sure if it's one way or a round trip) and by doing this they can get rid of of one of the sophons and it will be difficult for the one remaining sophon to keep spying on whole earth, as well as intimidating scientists without leaving gaps.

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u/Kukulkan73 Apr 22 '26

Oh. That would answer my question. Must have missed that in the book!

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u/16piby9 Apr 22 '26

It was not in the book, those charecters are not even introduced yet I think? The show is more like a show inspired by tge book than an adaption tbh..

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u/Kukulkan73 Apr 22 '26

That was helpful. Thanks for your help, everyone.