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Three-Body

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Episode 24

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Both Yang Weining and Lei Zhicheng

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supported me to continue my research,

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but I knew for a fact
that it had hit a dead end.

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Report of Conclusion
In my final report,

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I conceded that I failed
and couldn't solve the problem.

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It's been so long,

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yet Ye Wenjie still hasn't made
much of a breakthrough.

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It's a brand-new topic.

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The fact that she's taking on it
counts for something.

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I can't agree more.

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It's highly theoretical
and proves the researcher's expertise,

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or should we say...

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proficiency.

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I'll give her everything she needs
to carry on with her work

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so that we won't
let our superiors down.

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This research means a lot to us, too.

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Us?

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It's you who want her to continue.

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Weining, I hate to say this,
but you're less insightful.

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Now that the chaos in society
is finally subsiding,

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new requirements are set
for cadres like us.

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We need to be mature politically
and accomplished academically.

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You don't want to
be stuck here forever, do you?

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Think about your future.

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We've been helping Ye Wenjie
with her research.

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If she makes a breakthrough,
the credit will go to us, too.

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I didn't think of that as long as
she can carry on her research.

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Sure. Of course.

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That makes the two of us.

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Without this research project,

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she wouldn't have indulged
in the latest academic resources.

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I'm envious.

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In the end,
I didn't hand in that report.

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If my research was terminated,

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the base library would stop gathering
research materials

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or ordering
foreign language journals.

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I'd no longer gain access

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to such a trove
of astrophysics references.

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But I never expected
that this decision

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would lead to a surprising discovery.

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I continued my research as normal
on solar interference,

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but actually, I was refining
my mathematical model of the sun.

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After completing a set of
cumbersome matrix calculations,

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a paper in a journal
about Jupiter

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caught my attention.

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Dr. Harry Peterson
published a set of data

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accidentally obtained on June 12th
and July 2nd

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while observing Jupiter's precession,

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during which strong electromagnetic
radiation was detected,

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lasting 81 seconds

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and 76 seconds, respectively.

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Monitoring Main Control Room

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June 12th.

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July 2nd.

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I remember those two dates vividly.

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During those days,

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Red Coast's Monitoring System
also received strong sun outages.

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The two sun outages
occurred 16 minutes and 42 seconds

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after the arrival

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of the Jovian radio outbursts
on Earth.

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That 16 minutes and 42 seconds
were critical.

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Hello. It's Ye Wenjie of Monitoring.

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Contact the National
Astronomical Observatories

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for Earth's and Jupiter's positions
on June 12th and July 2nd.

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Sun

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Jupiter

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778.33 Million KM

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152.7 Million KM

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100 Million KM

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From the distance
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it's easy to figure out
the time it took

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for the radio outbursts
to travel between the two.

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Then calculate the time

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it'd take the radio outbursts
to go from Jupiter to the sun,

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and from the sun to Earth.

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The difference between the two
was exactly 16 minutes and 42 seconds.

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I know I might've bored you,

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but I feel necessary
to tell you every word of it.

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Is such a gap related to the
sudden fluctuation of solar radiation?

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I had my guess back in the day.

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As you all know,

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energy produced by reaction
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is initially in the form
of high-energy gamma rays.

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The radiation zone
absorbs these high-energy photons

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and re-emits them.

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Such successive absorption
and re-emission go quite a long way

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as a photon might take 1,000 years
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That's true.

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After this lengthy process,
gamma rays become X-rays,

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extreme ultraviolet, ultraviolet,

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then eventually turn into visible light
and other forms of radiation.

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The frequencies drop gradually.

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You can think of it as a slow slope.

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However,

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my model of the sun
led to a new result.

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As radiation dropped through
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there were boundaries
between the subzones.

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It's like going down the stairs.

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As energy crossed each boundary,
from inside out,

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the radiation frequency
stepped down a grade sharply.

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So the change in frequencies
isn't gradual?

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That differs from the traditional view.

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Indeed.

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I also found
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would reflect radiation
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and I called them "energy mirrors".

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How accurate and fascinating!

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One of the most incredible features
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is what I call "gain reflectivity".

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My theory is
the energy mirrors not only

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reflect radiation
from the lower-frequency side

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but also amplify it.

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All the mysterious sudden fluctuations

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we observed in narrow frequency bands

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were the result of other radiation
from space being amplified.

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That was why we couldn't see any
disturbances on the surface of the sun.

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But that characteristic was bizarre

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and hard to prove

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until I discovered
that critical time-frame:

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16 minutes and 42 seconds.

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You skipped meals again?

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Here's Jupiter's precession
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and solar interference
on Earth on those days

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from the National
Astronomical Observatories.

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Jupiter is here, and Earth and the sun.

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Based on
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I calculated the distances
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The time for electromagnetic radiation
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is approximately 2,099 seconds.

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From Jupiter to the sun
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that's about 3,101 seconds.

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The difference is 1,002 seconds
or 16 minutes and 42 seconds.

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So?

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My guess is after the Jovian
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they were re-emitted after being amplified
about 100 million times.

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Earth received both sets of emissions
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separated by 16 minutes and 42 seconds.

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The sun is an amplifier for radio waves!

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But it's receiving electromagnetic
radiation from space all the time,

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including that from the Earth.

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Why were only some
of the waves amplified?

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Because of the shielding effect
of the solar convection zone.

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Situated outside the radiation zone,

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it's the outermost
liquid layer of the sun.

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Solar Convection Zone

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Space The radio waves from space

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penetrate the convection zone first
to reach the radiation zone,

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where they'll be amplified

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before being reflected back out.

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So the waves have to be more powerful
than a threshold value.

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The vast majority
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Earth

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can't cross this threshold,

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but the Jovian radio outburst
crossed it.

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Red Coast's maximum transmission power

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exceeds it, too.

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Space, Radiation Zone, Sun

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Will this solve solar interference?

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Not really,

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but an exciting possibility ensues.

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That humans can use the sun
as a super-antenna,

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and through it,
broadcast radio waves to the universe.

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The waves will be sent
with the power of the sun,

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hundreds of millions of times greater
than the total usable transmission power

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on Earth.

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Are you saying

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Earth can transmit

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at the level of
a Kardashev Type II civilization?

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Correct.

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Once we compare the waveforms
of the two Jovian radio outbursts

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with the waveforms of the sun outages

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received by Red Coast
and they're a match,

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that'll be
further confirmation of my theory.

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What do you need?

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Contact Dr. Harry Peterson
to obtain the waveform records

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of the two Jovian radio outbursts.

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That won't be easy.

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For one, we lack a proper channel,
and two,

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we need approval at all levels.

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Any lapse

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could lead to treason.

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I'll see what I can do.

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There's a...

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There's a shortcut.

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I'm listening.

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Red Coast can transmit radio waves
directly at the sun

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at a power level
above the threshold value.

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No way.

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That's never been done in our country.

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I doubt Political Commissar Lei
would agree to it.

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I'll tell him
it's for my solar research.

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Use our transmission system
as a solar exploration radar

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whose echoes can be analyzed
to obtain

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some information about solar radiation.

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There are such precedents in the West.

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In fact, it's technically easier

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than the radar exploration
of terrestrial planets

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already being conducted.

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Given Lei's technical background,
he won't be fooled.

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It's worth a try.

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Solar Electromagnetic Radiation
Monitored by Red Coast

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Ye Wenjie,
you're getting out of line!

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Theoretical research is enough.

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Why go to such great lengths?

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Lei, as you know,

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all major discoveries
must be confirmed by experiments.

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If her theory is proven right,

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that'll be unprecedented!

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Just this once,

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please.

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Yes.

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Try it once.

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It's not too difficult.

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Receiving the echoes after transmission

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will only take...

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A little over ten minutes.

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That's right!

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Enough for Red Coast to switch from
transmission to monitoring mode.

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I know it's feasible
technically and operationally.

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You just don't get it, do you?

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Aiming a super-powerful
radio beam at the sun?

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Have you thought about
the potential danger and risk?

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I have to review every report
before handing it in.

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Everything related to the sun
must be double-checked!

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There's uncertainty
about this experiment.

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Great uncertainty, you know?

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Research Report

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Keep working on solar interference.

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Forget about this experiment.

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Political Commissar Lei's refusal

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is beyond reasonable.

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I'm sorry.

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I wish I could help.

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It's for your sake.

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Let it go.

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But I didn't listen to him.

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Finally, sparks of hope
were rekindled after so long.

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I couldn't see them go out like this.

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I kept looking for a chance
to pull off the experiment.

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Actually,

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the risk wasn't too high
to get it done.

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Red Coast's transmitter
was ultra-high-powered.

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The fault rate was high.

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00:20:22,440 --> 00:20:28,880
After each overhaul,
there'd be a test transmission.

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00:20:32,200 --> 00:20:35,639
Engineer Zhang,
something is wrong again.

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It keeps happening.

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I just finished the overhaul yesterday.

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00:20:43,550 --> 00:20:48,240
Not again!

270
00:20:49,270 --> 00:20:51,269
I'll do it.

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Thank you,

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Wenjie.

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I adjusted the test transmission power
to exceed the threshold value

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for my gain-reflective theory

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and then set the frequency

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to the value most likely
to be amplified by the energy mirror.

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00:24:08,350 --> 00:24:12,879
Finally,
under the guise of testing the antenna,

278
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I aimed it at the setting sun

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00:24:16,480 --> 00:24:22,160
and transmitted the same content
as usual.

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00:27:06,200 --> 00:27:08,920
Hey...

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00:27:37,960 --> 00:27:39,269
Tell...

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Tell the base station
to monitor the 12,000 MHz channel.

283
00:27:44,000 --> 00:27:45,269
What are we receiving?

284
00:27:45,270 --> 00:27:47,879
Maybe we'll get something.

285
00:27:47,880 --> 00:27:51,370
There's no time to change the system
to monitoring mode.

286
00:28:08,310 --> 00:28:09,749
This is Yang Weining.

287
00:28:09,750 --> 00:28:12,679
Monitor the 12,000 MHz channel.

288
00:28:12,680 --> 00:28:15,440
Keep me updated.

289
00:28:17,550 --> 00:28:20,240
Wait!

290
00:28:20,440 --> 00:28:22,549
Given the low sensitivity of that radio,

291
00:28:22,550 --> 00:28:26,720
we can only receive signals
from extraterrestrials on the moon.

292
00:28:30,400 --> 00:28:33,680
The signal comes from...

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the sun.

294
00:28:52,480 --> 00:28:57,880
You used Red Coast
to send a signal to the sun?

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00:29:08,000 --> 00:29:11,239
Do not tell anyone else about it.
It can't happen again.

296
00:29:11,240 --> 00:29:14,400
Never!

297
00:29:18,350 --> 00:29:20,349
What's the point anyway?

298
00:29:20,350 --> 00:29:21,749
Even if there's an echo wave,

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it'll be too weak
to be picked up by our radio.

300
00:29:28,550 --> 00:29:30,999
No.

301
00:29:31,000 --> 00:29:34,269
If my guess is right,

302
00:29:34,270 --> 00:29:38,829
it'll receive an extremely strong echo,

303
00:29:38,830 --> 00:29:42,480
more powerful than we can imagine.

304
00:29:43,240 --> 00:29:47,309
As long as the transmission power
exceeds a certain threshold,

305
00:29:47,310 --> 00:29:53,480
the sun can amplify
the signal 100 million-fold.

306
00:31:02,070 --> 00:31:04,790
I see.

307
00:31:09,270 --> 00:31:12,440
They got nothing.

308
00:31:38,480 --> 00:31:39,999
Don't be too upset.

309
00:31:40,000 --> 00:31:41,829
Check this out.

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00:31:41,830 --> 00:31:44,029
That astronomer

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00:31:44,030 --> 00:31:47,110
wrote back.

312
00:32:02,960 --> 00:32:05,239
What did he say?

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00:32:05,240 --> 00:32:06,919
He said he hadn't imagined

314
00:32:06,920 --> 00:32:11,109
that there'd be fellows in China
studying planetary electromagnetism

315
00:32:11,110 --> 00:32:14,830
and expected more collaboration
and communication.

316
00:32:27,880 --> 00:32:31,679
The two stacks of paper he sent
included a complete record

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00:32:31,680 --> 00:32:35,879
of the waveforms
of the two Jovian radio outbursts.

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I lined them up on the floor.

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00:32:39,720 --> 00:32:43,439
If they match
that of the two sun outages,

320
00:32:43,440 --> 00:32:48,440
that means my theory is right.

321
00:32:57,070 --> 00:33:02,719
Halfway through the effort,
I gave up any hope.

322
00:33:02,720 --> 00:33:07,399
I knew those two waveforms by heart.

323
00:33:07,400 --> 00:33:12,830
They didn't match these two.

324
00:33:16,160 --> 00:33:18,750
What's wrong?

325
00:33:24,550 --> 00:33:26,589
Nothing.

326
00:33:26,590 --> 00:33:31,590
It's time to
wake up from my dream.

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00:33:55,400 --> 00:34:00,309
Little did I know that at that moment,

328
00:34:00,310 --> 00:34:02,789
the first cry that could be heard

329
00:34:02,790 --> 00:34:07,479
in space from Earth civilization

330
00:34:07,480 --> 00:34:10,319
had been spreading out from the sun

331
00:34:10,320 --> 00:34:17,030
to the universe at the speed of light.

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00:34:37,630 --> 00:34:43,479
A star-powered radio wave,
like a majestic tide,

333
00:34:43,480 --> 00:34:47,759
had crossed the orbit of Jupiter.

334
00:34:47,760 --> 00:34:50,549
At the frequency of 12,000 MHz,

335
00:34:50,550 --> 00:34:55,890
the sun was the brightest star
in the entire Milky Way.

336
00:34:58,880 --> 00:35:00,999
Your call to the universe

337
00:35:01,000 --> 00:35:04,799
let Lord finally hear us!

338
00:35:04,800 --> 00:35:07,279
Eliminate human tyranny!

339
00:35:07,280 --> 00:35:10,149
The world belongs to Trisolaris!

340
00:35:10,150 --> 00:35:12,229
Eliminate human tyranny!

341
00:35:12,230 --> 00:35:14,959
The world belongs to Trisolaris!

342
00:35:14,960 --> 00:35:17,229
Eliminate human tyranny!

343
00:35:17,230 --> 00:35:22,190
The world belongs to Trisolaris!

344
00:35:28,480 --> 00:35:33,509
At the time,
I couldn't have imagined that.

345
00:35:33,510 --> 00:35:39,839
That transmission
was more of a gorgeous bubble.

346
00:35:39,840 --> 00:35:42,029
It quickly broke

347
00:35:42,030 --> 00:35:46,190
and my life returned to peace.

348
00:35:47,710 --> 00:35:53,109
The Red Coast Project completed its testing
and breaking-in phases.

349
00:35:53,110 --> 00:35:58,279
Technical problems became
fewer and fewer.

350
00:35:58,280 --> 00:36:01,439
Four years after I came to the base,

351
00:36:01,440 --> 00:36:07,840
Yang Weining married me
at the cost of his future career.

352
00:36:09,280 --> 00:36:15,320
We stayed on the base
as ordinary technicians.

353
00:36:47,400 --> 00:36:55,080
My life and work became regular
and I gained inner peace.

354
00:36:59,480 --> 00:37:05,789
That said, what had been suppressed
by anxiety and fear

355
00:37:05,790 --> 00:37:10,039
began to awaken.

356
00:37:10,040 --> 00:37:12,599
I started to look with a rational gaze

357
00:37:12,600 --> 00:37:16,919
at the madness and hatred
that had harmed me

358
00:37:16,920 --> 00:37:19,959
and straight at humanity's evil side.

359
00:37:19,960 --> 00:37:25,599
I read classics of
foreign-language philosophy and history.

360
00:37:25,600 --> 00:37:28,829
Philosophers' extraordinary insights

361
00:37:28,830 --> 00:37:32,669
led me to the most fundamental

362
00:37:32,670 --> 00:37:36,960
and secret aspects of human nature.

363
00:37:44,880 --> 00:37:47,959
In reality,
the irrationality of the human race

364
00:37:47,960 --> 00:37:51,670
was constantly on display.

365
00:38:11,310 --> 00:38:17,750
Deranged logging
was found every day everywhere.

366
00:38:20,230 --> 00:38:22,999
Wasteland kept growing day by day.

367
00:38:23,000 --> 00:38:24,749
The insanity of the human race

368
00:38:24,750 --> 00:38:29,190
had reached its historical zenith.

369
00:38:32,920 --> 00:38:34,599
Back then,

370
00:38:34,600 --> 00:38:39,079
the Cold War was at its height.

371
00:38:39,080 --> 00:38:43,119
Under the ground
were countless missile silos.

372
00:38:43,120 --> 00:38:44,749
Under the sea,

373
00:38:44,750 --> 00:38:49,079
nuclear submarines
were patrolling like ghosts.

374
00:38:49,080 --> 00:38:52,189
Nuclear warfare
able to destroy Earth dozens of times

375
00:38:52,190 --> 00:38:55,189
might break out at any moment.

376
00:38:55,190 --> 00:38:57,039
A single Lafayette

377
00:38:57,040 --> 00:39:00,399
or Yankee-class submarine
held enough warheads

378
00:39:00,400 --> 00:39:02,959
to destroy hundreds of cities

379
00:39:02,960 --> 00:39:06,630
and kill hundreds of millions
of people.

380
00:39:07,830 --> 00:39:14,039
Nuclear Weapons
are as powerful as stars.

381
00:39:14,040 --> 00:39:18,479
But the universe
has even more terrible forces

382
00:39:18,480 --> 00:39:25,439
such as black holes, anti-matter,
dark matter, and more.

383
00:39:25,440 --> 00:39:27,789
Compared with them,

384
00:39:27,790 --> 00:39:33,189
a thermonuclear bomb is nothing
but a tiny candle.

385
00:39:33,190 --> 00:39:37,269
If humans obtained
one of those other forces,

386
00:39:37,270 --> 00:39:43,189
the world
might be vaporized instantly.

387
00:39:43,190 --> 00:39:48,870
In the presence of madness,
rationality is powerless.

388
00:39:50,230 --> 00:39:55,709
I remember
I was battling the loss of purpose.

389
00:39:55,710 --> 00:39:58,269
I had been an idealist

390
00:39:58,270 --> 00:40:03,959
who'd give it her all for a great cause.

391
00:40:03,960 --> 00:40:09,600
But then, I found all that I had done
was meaningless,

392
00:40:11,350 --> 00:40:17,710
as would any future endeavor be.

393
00:40:19,150 --> 00:40:26,790
Until 1979, on October 21st,

394
00:40:27,750 --> 00:40:32,340
everything was changed.

395
00:40:35,600 --> 00:40:41,149
Actually, the night shift was easy.

396
00:40:41,150 --> 00:40:44,189
I just needed to check
the waves of radio signals from space

397
00:40:44,190 --> 00:40:49,190
and listen to the meaningless noise.

398
00:40:59,710 --> 00:41:05,230
It was hard to tell with the naked eye
if a waveform carried information.

399
00:41:06,520 --> 00:41:11,309
But I was so familiar with the waveform
of the noise of the universe.

400
00:41:11,310 --> 00:41:14,959
I realized
the wave moving in front of me

401
00:41:14,960 --> 00:41:18,829
had been modulated by intelligence.

402
00:41:18,830 --> 00:41:23,829
No radio signals we had received
exceeded C-level recognizability.

403
00:41:23,830 --> 00:41:28,789
Were it an A, the likelihood that the
transmission contained intelligent information

404
00:41:28,790 --> 00:41:33,589
would be above 90 percent.

405
00:41:33,590 --> 00:41:39,119
The rating of that one was AAAAA.

406
00:41:39,120 --> 00:41:42,439
That was extremely unusual,

407
00:41:42,440 --> 00:41:45,349
which meant
that the received transmission

408
00:41:45,350 --> 00:41:50,960
used the same coding language
as Red Coast's outbound transmission.

409
00:43:10,460 --> 00:43:13,100
Do not answer

410
00:43:15,710 --> 00:43:18,439
"Do not

411
00:43:18,440 --> 00:43:22,150
answer".

412
00:43:24,300 --> 00:43:25,300
"Do not answer"!

413
00:43:27,960 --> 00:43:31,630
"Do not answer"!

414
00:44:54,260 --> 00:44:58,900
Do not answer

415
00:44:59,980 --> 00:45:06,740
♪ I've seen things
you people won't believe ♪

416
00:45:07,460 --> 00:45:13,580
♪ Soon our planet will vanish ♪

417
00:45:14,940 --> 00:45:21,300
♪ I've known the future
you people won't think of ♪

418
00:45:22,220 --> 00:45:28,460
♪ Soon your planet will be punished ♪

419
00:45:29,540 --> 00:45:36,260
♪ I've seen things
you people won't believe ♪

420
00:45:36,980 --> 00:45:42,900
♪ Soon our planet will vanish ♪

421
00:45:44,340 --> 00:45:50,460
♪ I've known the future
you people won't think of ♪

422
00:45:51,740 --> 00:45:57,780
♪ Soon your planet will be punished ♪

423
00:45:59,100 --> 00:46:05,780
♪ I've seen things
you people won't believe ♪

424
00:46:06,500 --> 00:46:12,780
♪ Soon our planet will vanish ♪

425
00:46:13,940 --> 00:46:20,500
♪ I've known the future
you people won't think of ♪

426
00:46:21,220 --> 00:46:27,620
♪ Soon your planet will be punished ♪

427
00:46:28,580 --> 00:46:35,500
♪ I've seen things
you people won't believe ♪

428
00:46:36,020 --> 00:46:41,860
♪ Soon our planet will vanish ♪

429
00:46:43,340 --> 00:46:49,940
♪ I've known the future
you people won't think of ♪

430
00:46:50,860 --> 00:46:56,700
♪ Soon your planet will be punished ♪

431
00:46:58,180 --> 00:47:04,860
♪ I've seen things
you people won't believe ♪

432
00:47:05,580 --> 00:47:11,780
♪ Soon our planet will vanish ♪

433
00:47:12,940 --> 00:47:19,980
♪ I've known the future
you people won't think of ♪

434
00:47:20,320 --> 00:47:23,539
♪ Soon your planet will be punished ♪

435
00:47:23,540 --> 00:47:29,740
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