TERRORS OF SCIENCE... || PHYSICIST watches 3 BODY PROBLEM 1x01 - BLIND REACT-ANALYSIS
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I don't like the first episode. Mainly just because of but getting scene It sacrifices clear historical truth in order to uphold the scientism narrative. The Communist were marxist, There's no reason for them to be shocked or horrified to hear someone deny the existence of God They were themselves atheist for goodness sake They were themselves atheist.
You should do the whole series. Perhaps find an audio book, listen to the whole series and react to it because the show will take much longer to emerge and this is a sci fi series that you want to be apart of
I would love for you to continue watching this series . Your outlook & wealth of knowledge in science & politics make watching this series so much more enjoyable!
Trueee. I always love when reactors have general or even specific knowledge of what is going on in the show/film.
You are the perfect audience for this show. Please keep posting your reactions to it.
I haven't gone through all the comments so I don't know if someone else has said it, but in the book they made it clear that it wasn't just completely new and unexplained results but also that no experiments were repeatable. And if nothing is repeatable it is essentially impossible to construct new theories/hypotheses. So in essence it was the scientific method in physics that was broken.
That gives a bit more insight into why a lot of physicists were depressed and some chose to unalive themselves.
The message, "I still see it" was written after he gouged his eyes out. That is why it was bad that he could "still see it." Whatever he was seeing, it drove him to madness and suicide.
having not read the books or seen the show past season 1 I have a theory that it's a form of telepathy that induces targeted and mass hallucinations. they're seeing it or not seeing it in their heads. so it gives me a heavy matrix like vibe. physics isn't actually broken. they just perceive it to be because they're being affected by this illusion.
Am I horrible for thinking he did an amazing job writing on the wall with no eyes?
In the original book the thing that "winked" is cosmic microwave background radiation and that's so much more interesting and horrifying, the show did simplify a lot of things about science. The books would be perfect for you to read
Anyone would be better off reading summaries of the books and their ideas. Because the writing in the book is atrocious. The characters in the show might be overdramatic at times, but they are a million times better than the characterization and pace of the book. It only gets worse in the second book onward.
@@roseCatcher_the writing’s fine lol
@@roseCatcher_ the book is about humanity and trisolarians not Anna and Mario's wedding lmao
SPOILER ALERT!!
Doesn't matter either way. It's still the sophon's doing the work of misleading the character. Ultimately the end result is the same.
@@roseCatcher_ nah, there is really not that much a Mary Sue or a Gary Stu can do in the clash between civilizations in the frame of this universe, the books are not about individuals.
I don't know why the show doesn't explain this, but in the books the results of the experiments in the particle accelerators was completely random, which made performing the experiments a waste of time.
as an electrical engineer please do not shatter my belief in ohms law it is everything to me.
The author who wrote this is not only living in China, he is also a big supporter of the current regime. As far as I know he is not in trouble whatsoever because of his chapters on the cultural revolution. Although in the Chinese original print those events are burried in the middle of the book to lessen their impact, while in international editions the story opens pretty much like what you saw in the series.
Also Mao is dead and Winnie the Pooh now runs the county.
There are tons of literature works about the culture revolution in China, they even have a term "伤痕文学”, “Scar Literature“.
The Chinese communist party has been critical of the Cultural Revolution since Hu Jintao at least, if not far earlier. Xi Jinping’s own father was killed during the Cultural Revolution.
People think there are only two kinds of Chinese people, dissidents or boot lickers. People can't wrap their heads around the idea that there are just regular people.
@@sirkeg1 I was not trying to suggest he was a bootlicker. Just pointing out that you can critize the cultural revolution in China and also support the current regime. As for my thoughts on current politics of China I don't have any strong opinions and neither is it my place without knowing all the details. It's easy to critize, blame, condem or praise, laud, approve regimes from far away. Only people living in that country know the real situation.
Anyways cheers👍👍
So, the reason why the results defy all known laws of physics is more properly explained in the books. (Minor spoilers) But essentially, the issue was that they ran the experiment multiple times under the exact same conditions every time. And each time, they got widely different results.
What they did in the books to describe what happened was with a pool table. They placed a ball on the table and they hit the ball into a hole. They repeated it multiple times and of course, the ball always went in the hole.
However, what happened in the accelerators was that imagine the first time it went in the hole, and then the second time the ball suddenly flew all around the room, the third time, the ball went backwards, the fourth time, it went close to the speed of light and into the solar system. All without having changed the force and direction of when you hit the ball.
That's what was happening for the accelerators, the results were so incomprehensible and different from one another that it didn't make any sense.
Now, I don't know if that actually means physics does not exist anymore. But what do you think? If that actually happened in real life, what would you believe?
So, that means Space and Time Translational Symmetry no longer applies to the laws of quantum physics. Every experiment yields different results, making it impossible to discern a pattern, thus ‘physics is broken.’ However, I don’t believe this justifies suicide. At most, I’d consider leaving my job to focus on the larger, macro world. Maybe start a business, and spend more time with family and the like.
I think the book’s author might have had a unique perception of scientists, viewing them as ‘pilgrims’ who worship ‘truth’.
@@nartay1577 spoilers for episode 4+.
Other than Vera, all the other scientists had the countdown. And if they didn't commit suicide willingly, they were made to
physics isn't actually broken. they only perceive it to be because these telepathic beings and their sophrons are creating illusions in people's heads.
The book he gave her is a real book. It was one of the books that basically created the environmental movement in America.
Rachel Carson. About the effects on forests of spraying DDT to kill mosquitoes.
Destroying bugs is a theme of 3bp.
"Has the universe ever winked at you?" That line is wild.
The crowd went silent because he wasn't supposed to be killed. At least not on the stage. So, it shocked everyone when it went too far.
Public executions are not that strange nor old. And crowds would've cheered, especially if they were ideologically brainwashed to think that they are executing the enemies of the people/revolution/state/God. It's not realistic that the crowds would be shocked or even care.
Please don't apologize for giving your commentary. I love how engaged you are in your reactions because you give great insights.
Oh man this might be one if the best reactions to this, great insight
You thought China was a police state at the time, but it was the opposite, they were anarchists. Mao supported the people's purge of the government. Please note that at the beginning of the show,the hosts were a group of young people and no police ,because the police were also beaten
and the author is not in trouble, because the people who are now in power in China are the same people who were beaten on the ground. They need people to criticize the Cultural Revolution to confirm their legitimacy.
Yes, and if I remember correctly, in the book the girls who beat Ye’s father to death were only 14 or maybe 15 years old.
"Communism was peaceful huh, yeah that's some communist stuffs"
I was going to reply this man that what he thought was awful of communism/socialism, turns out nowadays we've seen the so called free-West is becoming more like this dystopia, instigate wars and making the society so divided people fighting over each ideology, Liberals vs Conservatives, Muslim vs Jews, you'll be bullied and boycotted just because you have independent thoughts and doesn't agree with the mainstream media's propaganda.
People getting humiliated or beaten up just because their don't like white or speak a different language.
Students are scary.
Yeah that's not an example of authoritarianism, it's an example of radical anti-authority.
I hope you'll react to the whole season, I really enjoyed this and I was hoping I would find a physicist to react to this because it is a very physics heavy show.
The one depicted at the start of the series was the period of Cultural Revolution in China. In that period Science (or Imperialist Science, as they dubbed it) was banned because they claimed it was was against the dialectical materialism ideology. For about 10-15 years, teachers and professors were forced to repudiate Imperialist Science and then teach a new, twisted version of it. This was particularly awful in biology, as they forbade teaching even basic concepts. For example, they forbade teaching about mitosis, the process of cell division in eukaryotic cells (like our own cells), substituting it with a poorly-specified "revolutionary" event. Moreover, they substituted the Mendelian theory of genetics with the hoax theory by the infamous Soviet "scientist" Trofim Lisenko, which was abandoned by the Soviet Union since the fifties.
Any teacher or scientist who tried to oppose such a madness was sent to the reconditioning camps in the best cases, or given to the angry mobs made by young communist fanatics. Their fate was not so different from what depicted at the start of the series.
EDIT:
Cuxin Luo, the author of the books is a Chinese living in China. He published his book in China first, with no problems from the authorities. In fact, today's China, although still formally a Communist country, has a deep contempt for the period of the Cultural Revolution. Thus, authors are relatively free to depict the cruelty of that period, but not to write anything against the current communist regime.
I believe that's because over the years there have been internal power struggles within the party, so every time there is a new Chairman, it's viewed as a new chapter, with the current one acting as though it is better than the last, regardless of whether they're better or worse.
Great to have an actual scientist react. It really complements the show. One gets the sense that the writer actually has scientific knowledge or spoke to scientists.
I would suggest maybe gather more data (i.e. watch a bit more) in-between pauses. You're coming into the situation these characters are in without their context and you're jumping to conclusions based on false assumptions. For example, when Saul says "science is broken" or when she asks him about God, there are very good reasons why they're saying that (unlike the people who in real life, like to combine god and physics)
@36:20 That scene exists to do exposition without the audience knowing that they are doing exposition. We learned who these 2 characters are, what they do. It was an information dump, but done in a natural way so we are not, "oh boy, another exposition, how boring."
Oxford doesn't have a particle accelerator in real life. But we have to give license for a story.
It's all Science Fiction. Make believe. Not real.
Oh hell yeah, after you watch the show you should give the books a chance too
15:50 the show doesn't show it clearly but she was a high school student, so no, she hadn't killed anyone before. I don't think they were meant to kill them at all. Just humiliate them.
I love how agitated he is when hearing that they are just going to stop working and assume science is broken because of some data doesn’t fit the current theories😂 on the flip side it’s showing you how world shattering those data are and why it would drive scientists crazy
I'm under the impression that the results essentially muddled all utility of particle accelerators all over the world for a while. How long can you bang your head against a wall worth billions of dollars with no repeatable results before people stop funding you?
The particular accelerator in the intro is specifically being shut down because of lack of funding, nit because the scientists gave up too easily.
Exactly! Cixin Liu was right!
You can absolutely bet on Nobel prize winners. You can bet on presidential election winners, Hugo book winners, literally anything.
I found this show to be wildly uneven, but it's concepts were still interesting. Interested to hear your thoughts. My mom actually had to stop watching this 5 mins in because it was giving her flashbacks of the purges and beatings in Cuba during the revolution, hard stuff for sure.
The opening scene is from the Cultural Revolution. Even though heaps of people died during this time, a direct killing at a struggle session would be very uncommon, which is why the crowd is in shock. Usually the person being persecuted would just admit to their "crimes" in order to live. If not, they usually rot in jail or might be beaten to death there. The girl who killed Ye Wenjie's father isn't in the military, but a Red Guard, young people recruited to carry on the revolution. This was started by Mao after his failed policies during the Great Leap Forward caused millions of deaths and this was a way to get rid of his enemies in the party and maintain power.
1:13:19, the writer does live in China and is actually quite renowned, ironically, among the most nationalist groups. Sometimes I do feel people tend to confuse China with other authoritarian governments like the Soviet or North Korea. China's political landscape always changes rapidly. Mao's China, Deng's China and Xi's China are drastically different. For example, the Cultural Revolution was seen as a catastrophe under Deng's China and was constantly criticised as an example of the unconstrained power of the leader to justify the distribution of political power among a group of top-leaders.
For someone who wrote about authoritian regimes, this guy seems to know nothing about modern China, which is sad, knowing it's these types of people with deep-rooted prejudice that views people based on what they historically did (and seems to ignore the history of his own people) that largely self-validates their prejudice by using research as a facade.
The show is awesome, but you have to read the books. its the best, mind bending, thought provoking, surprising, original Hard Sifi story, i have ever read. nothing compares.
The science and philosophy is just so good. You are the perfect reader for this.
In the novel, the stars did not blink. What happened was that the cosmic microwave radiation from the big bang could be observed behaving in an unnatural way, by people who had the equipment required for these observations. It wasn't something that was noticed by everyone.
Also, the VR game in the novel is - just a vr game and it is never described as being super advanced.
Perfect that you like Lovecraft. 3BP is cosmic horror for the 21st century.
The investigator (Clerance Shi) getting fired, but still moving up, I believe was because he was too good at his work, not because he was bad but corrupt; that his investigations took him to places that were political and he didn't stop his investigations, so his firings were all political, not his getting rehired. But he keeps getting hired because he is too good at what he does to be allowed not to work.
Thank you! I wondered to myself "how does someone fail upwards that often, and in such highly designated positions?" That's not a common losing - winning? - streak that gains someone such success. Now, I still don't get how his last job got him to this one. He told Auggie about the Mexican man that killed his wife or girlfriend - there was the not-so obvious (not to many anyway, at least not until someone explained it) joke about why he pushed her over a cliff- "Tequila" 😂😂 now it's freaking hilarious! But I still don't see how that got him fired from his last job, and got him hired at the Black Palace.
@FLQueerLiberal1982 the joke was a joke, not a real case. We don't know why he got fired. Maybe they go into it in the books, but my supposition is that he got into cases that were political, and he refused to back off.
the crowds reaction was perfect. they wanted to punish someone for their fears and losses but didn't realise the repercussions for giving in to hate and anger. its an event that changed EVERYONE that day.
remember a mob acts inhuman but they are still human, each one of them now carries guilt whether theyre in denial or not it will push them further into hate or into ruin
"Detonate" is "explode", "terminate" is "end".
(I study Explosive Ordnance Disposal.)
Just realized while watching this reaction that the first thing said in this show is the chanting of "root out the bugs."
The aerial view they show of the accelerator near Oxford is the Diamond Light Source a Synchrotron, it is used for a bunch of stuff notably X-ray crystallography for determining protein structures. I think it is not used for much particle physics but more as an instrument.
Yeah, if it is a synchrotoron it is definitely not measuring the particle collision trails it showed, i think :D
There is a show called DEVS on the BBC it explores the idea of Determinism... but they try to explore it using physics... they try to make a machine... it's brilliant ... I would love you to watch it after you watch 3 Body Problem 😌 just found your channel, love it 👍
@@ravissary79 would've been nice if you didn't spoil it and just let him watch it... cheers 👍 👍
@@LowGrav1ty I put a spoiler warning and a huge gap so no one can read it by accident.
@@LowGrav1ty I'll delete it if you thonk the entire topic is too much.
Is this the American version, or is it a British remake?
the "army" during the cultural revolution mainly consist of young teenagers and college student people from the age of 16-24 was 90 percent of the red gurad( the miliatry with red scarf wraped around there arm)
I actually think those are the scariest types of "armies". :( A beautifully horrific scene.
I would love this style of commentary for the whole series! Your perspective makes it interesting. Pause as much as you want lol
Please continue with the rest of the season. You'll find out why they react the way they did in this episode. And I need you to explain a joke to me later. 😅
Do you mean the joke in episode 7 lol
That joke is intentionally unfunny because what's being conveyed is a theory, not whimsy.
When Saul figures it out in season 2... it'll make sense.
Hint: what books did she dig out right before seeing him?
The novel "Three Body Problem" has a better portrayal of the Cultural Revolution scene, you should check it out! When it comes to Chinese Cultural Revolution, most Chinese people, including the government itself (yes, even Xi Jinping himself, his father was purged), will admit that it was basically mob "justice" driven by resentment. And a lot of people in academia back then were people of upper middle class and beyond, who can afford to not work hard labor as peasants, miners or factory workers.
As a fellow scientist, I know it is bad when the masses support the execution of scientists. But in order to reduce the likelihood of that happening again, it is better to support things that PREVENT the conditions that cause the masses to be resentful.
Please continue with this! Best reaction so far hands down!
Science has taken humans so long to discover. Its the most precious body of knowledge we have.
Its worth defending. Its even worth dying for.
Defending, yes, dying not for everyone, I guess. But I would say it is the most important "discovery" we had. =)
This is gonna be an awesome reaction! I'm here for all of it, hope u keep posting
So glad to see you checking this out!
The book explained why the physicist where depressed: because they lost the reproducibility of experiments and they can't even extact a meaningful "noise" out of the data, it doesn't even fit to a meaningful distribution. I guess the show runners think that's too minute a detail for the general audiance and didn't have it in the script.
they state it pretty clearly in the show. 'science is broken', they literally say that all experiments fail
KEEP GOING! it gets SO MUCH better
Please keep watching, this was wonderful!
Best reaction and commentary on this show so far, will keep watching if you do the rest of the episodes.
"Has the universe ever winked at you professor!?" 😂😅
The bald soldiers is a rumor, not something that actually happened at the radio dish. He admitted to not being allowed up there, so he was just speculating randomly.
I like your brain, and I really enjoy this reaction analysis. I hope you continue reacting to the whole series. I watch out for them.
Wow, I feel like I'm finally watching this show along with someone intelligent. You MUST do the rest of the episodes.
Regarding people saying the books are more detailed, of course they are, but they did a good job in simplifying and still including all the major concepts and ideas from the book. I would not call the show dumbed down at all.
Loved the show. Think people that haven’t read the books miss some of the crucial points, they’re all there in the show but sometimes so brief they just miss key info or make errant assumptions.
Really looking forward to this one and your takes on it. When I read the books a few years ago, I was sometimes almost overwhelmed by the extensive expositions on physics/cosmology stuff. But together with "the expanse" books and series this has sparked immense interest in these topics within me :D.
Best reaction I’ve seen, so cool to get ur insights
This was so entertaining 😂, I hope you keep doing more videos
Entropy "Everything will get as mixed as possible" I read it as "Everything will get boring" =D
Yeah, that is also a fun way of looking at it :D
Please continue this series. it fun watching along with someone else familiar with physics
Native English clarification:
Around 45 minutes:
"Train will terminate in" Doesn't mean explode. It could mean 'train will be killed', though. Using terminate instead of end is a fairly unusual choice.
"I'm not a medicine man". In English, a medicine man would be someone who practices ancient or traditional medicine, especially in the context of American and African tribes.
Continue the series! I enjoy your insight.
You have me subbed for a reaction that is over an hour, lol!
Appreciate your comments and interpretations of whats going on as the episode goes on. Very informative and gives context to what's happening in the show.
If you like themes revolving around knowing too much and encountering the Divine, you might enjoy the short stories of Ted Chiang, probably most famous for his piece “The Story of your Life” that became Denis Villeneuve’s “Arrival.” Chiang’s best story on the topic imo is “Hell is the Absence of God,” about a world where encounters with the holy are frequent, but impossible to predict or to understand. Another story of his on the topic is the Tower of Babylon, inspired by the biblical tales of Babel and Babylon.
the reason they say science is dead because all experiment result comes out without any pattern，like hitting the ball with same force， same angle， same place，same weather，but the ball sometime move an inch，sometime hit through the wall，spin，or even fly to the moon，but never the same，sad that it dint explore more in the show
Loved the video
I hope you keep watching it 🙏
I can’t wait for you to watch this series. ❤❤❤
I look so forward to you reacting and breaking down this show. I stumbled across this account because of the Warhammer 40k content / reactions and became an instant subscriber
I thought I was watching a show reaction, didn't realize I attended the full lecture. Nice.
Hope you liked the lecture! =D
@@storieswithstyle I feel we had a lot to talk about :D Waiting for lecture #4.
@@LucyWattson Friday! =)
I love Solzhynitsyn. I think it's worth pointing out that he wrote another book after Gulag Archipelago which is heavily censored and hidden; it says WHO was responsible for the atrocities he wrote about in the Gulag Archipelago - it's called "200 Years Together: Russio-Judeo History"
my new fave reactor.. very educational
In books the actual line was 'Physics does not exist...' In the show they use the line, 'Science is broken.' They do not elaborate on the show. But all the physics experiments they were doing seemed to point that way...
Enjoy it a lot please react the full season!
38:30 -Awesome you bring this up. Weren't the laws of physics literally different in the beginning of the universe where the 4 funtamental forces were unified before they became their own things? I think it would be weird to NOT expect physics to change.. especially over much larger scales, why would we assume its static?
I loved this series and I already loved the "rumbling" in the beggining. You got the whole point of the series without even knowing it! this will be fun to watch
7 minutes in- absolutely subscribed, your knowledge is amazing! I'm having a blast\
23:00 - im so ready to be here for 3 hours please keep going
Idk whats more important, but i do like cosmology a lot more
Please do more! love to see how you react to certain things!
I need to see more of your reactions with this series!
I love all the pauses and commentary! keep reacting!
I'm curious about your thoughts on how you could prove science if your results are being sabotaged.
1:13:10 this is not exactly true, just goggle " scar literature china"
Also there was already a chinese version of the adaptation show, and many of the books' fans say that it's kinda better than this version because it's deeper (scientifically and philosophically.
China is obviously not as open and democratic as western countries, but i think there are many otheres who have the same assumptions as you, and it is because in western countries, there are also propaganda in the media, but you just don't realise it ;)
fantastic reaction
54:08 The thing that got me into physics was mechanics.
Our teacher explained how we could use that for a lot of real life problems, what no other teacher ever did.
Astronomy is the most coolest part tho I think
Morticians have ways of making even the most mangled bodies look presentable for a funeral. Yes, she was likely very bloated when she arrived at the morgue. They would something to extract the moisture from her tissue and then after the formaldehyde is added they can add plumping agents to make the skin look normal again. There was a very interesting VICE episode about a lab in Mexico (I believe it was Mexico, I could be wrong) that has developed a process of rehydrating severely decomposed bodies to help identify them. Bodies that are completely unrecognizable and dumped in unmarked graves, they can dig up years later, rehydrate them, and get full finger prints and see tattoos and scars and birth marks, etc...
It's pretty gross, definitely brace yourself if you watch the video, but it's remarkable the way they are able to restore these bodies. And the fact that families are finally being able to find out what happened to their loved ones and know where they are buried...wow, science is really wonderful that way.
As for the conversation about what physics students do after graduating, my professors always said that if we didn't do our PhDs we'd become programmers. 15 years later, well, I moved more towards data science. But mostly, I'm coding.
Ooh, this is a really interesting series for you to pick up. I came over here from the AoT, Frieren, etc. reactions, but I read the book series this was based on a few years ago. I'll definitely enjoy your physical and narrative analysis here.
Like you may have guessed given the author was Chinese, the whole setting in London and non-Chinese case for the most part is an original to the show. It looks like the protagonist of the books isn't even in this series - Auggie isn't in the book triology, the protagonist of the first book is a professor-level physicist named Wang Miao. Not sure if he'll get a name drop later in the series or not, but kinda hard to predict how closely this series will honor the source material. I understand the bind Netflix is that necessitates them internationalizing the cast a bit, but it would have been interesting to see a proper Chinese adaptation. I think there is a separate televised version being produced in China, distinct from Netflix's version, if I recall correctly.
One last thing for this episode - the opening scene of the book, from the Chinese Cultural Revolution, is one of the most violent chapters in a book I've ever read. The beginning of this episode is part of it, but no where near as horrific as what Cixin Liu wrote in the original. The Netflix series may follow a different path, but from my recollection, the book basically opens with Ye Wenjie's younger sister's death. I suspect the young female revolutionary student we see at the beginning is meant to be her, even though they don't say her name.
0:44 Physics,Quantum Physics, Astrophysics, and Physiology. Check, Check and check you sir are more than qualified to give expert opinion on this show.
question: isn't it technically a 4-body problem given it's a trinary star system with 1 planet (as far as we know)?
Thanks for your video, i have always want to know the reactions from a physicist that yet know the plots of this story. Your raw reaction with professional knowledge helps me understand how physicists approach mysterious incidents in this show.
The writer of this novel is alive and live well in China. I hope you can open you mind and don't draw your hypothesis of the present China with the lens from Hitler's, Mao's era and without the evidence of real data from present China. People and society changes with time.
Comparing Mao and Hitler is basically Holocaust denial, Mao made is fair share of mistakes, especially near the end of his life, but him and more importantly the peasant struggle brought China out of feudalism and brought food security education and housing to millions of people
"If you get hit on, you wouldn't be this awkward" - you really missed the point of the scene. This random guy is coming up, interrupting their conversation, both of them are very clearly not interested in being hit on, he is very clearly about to make some sort of sexist assumption about what they do for work, and so they shut him down immediately by coldly describing their jobs so they can get back to talking about actually important news. Note how the guy's interruption also interrupts the exposition to the audience: they're both about to tell us how and why science is broken, which as the audience we're desperately trying to understand more about, and instead we're delayed because they have to fend off this asshole, which makes us as the audience equally as frustrated by him.
To tell you why you are wrong would be spoiler.
The level of "wrong science" they talked about is like this:
Imagine if every calculator in the world gives 1+1=3.
Even worse, sometimes calculators gives 1+1 =4, sometimes it's 1+1=1, but never 1+1=2. How could you start your research if results are never consistent?
I love your perspective on the story and also dive into the scientific stuff in this show. But I do want to inform you that the author of the book does live in china, alive and well😂
It is amazing that it is so beloved there, as it does seem to contain anti-authoritarian ideas in small parts. But then again, I do not know a lot about current China. =)
I understand lol. I wouldn't give you a lecture about current China. Still, I want you to know that current China is similar to the rest of the world regarding how society works and how people live their lives, except for its government's 'ideology,' which you can learn more about on Google. In short, the China you see in the show has gone for good. It is a history that every Chinese person knows and admits to its cruelty, but things have changed a lot since then. @@storieswithstyle
@@hellonrld2508 Yeah, China is definitely hard to read for me as a person only getting to know it "passing by" in really biased news (either pro or con). But I have to admit it is the same for almost every other political topic currently, so whelp :D I really want to know more especially about the older Chinese culture, as I really like the Eastern philosophies, though have admittedly not heard a lot of them. =9
@@storieswithstyle this is the most glaring problem when trying to educate yourself on a politically charged subject.
there is pro china propaganda and anti china propaganda.
and it is hard to distinguish the truth.
One thing you should keep in mind is that the repression of scientists because of political ideologies is in no way unique to communism.
A very recent example is in the movie Oppenheimer, the government itself is harassing him because they think he may be a communist sympathizer, remember that this example is not as extreme as it could get, scientists and political leaders DID get assassinated by the US government for ideological reasons, these are some examples of it:
(black panthers, 1985 MOVE bombing, the Homestead Strike, the Pullman Strike of 1894, the Colorado Labor Wars, etc..)
All countries angage in political repression, often times murder; my country murdered an entire political party (Patriotic Union of Colombia), for example.
all news are biased, so please understand that what you think about your country's enemies is most likely exaggerated or fabricated.
love your insights！
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The algorithm dodging is really becoming quite creative.
omg your reaction is so amazing, this show is a little dumded down compared to the original novel, but I still think it's very good! hope you'll enjoy the rest of the series as well!
Enjoy the series, but I warn you that for finding much more real or faithful science to analyze... there are the Three Body Problem books.
Oh. I like that idea of drugs (like alcohol) being an emotional stimulant. Taking whatever emotion, you are currently feeling and increasing its intensity.
I really love your input! If you continue watching, there will be lots of interesting physics related content ahead :D Just finished the first season and I would love to hear from you what they got right and where they were incorrect. Even the little things you disagreed with get new context the further along you move in the story. So I'd look forward to more of your input for future episodes, great reaction!
there is a theory that says that if god existed, in order for him to communicate with humans of any era, place or cultural background he would have to use a universal language. and so the thought pops up, that science (especially physics or mathematics) is this universal language. so this means that the way we learn about our planet and our universe is god communicating with us, because for example mathematic formulas is something that everyone will understand at any time or place.
would like to know your thoughts on that.
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I just found your channel. Grüße aus Hamburg! I love shows that try to make it so the pseudo-science checks out and makes sense. Yes, the scientists in this show do sometimes behave rather un-scientist-like but in the grand scheme of this this show has more pros than cons.
Grüsse zurück! :) yeah, it is still Hollywood, but at least they definitely try :)
Your opinion of Ye Wenjie is quite interesting. I'd very much like to see how that opinion evolved. Please, continue.