All language subtitles for EP-30

=Three-Body=

=Episode 30=

There are thousands of

listening posts like this
in Trisolarans' world.

Are there thousands of scientists
like Ye Wenjie here?

We are not scientists.

This world has received your message.

I am a pacifist in this world.

(It is the luck of your civilization)

(that I am the first
to receive your message.)

(I'm warning you: Do not answer.)

(Do not answer!)

(Do not answer!)

As long as there is no answer,
the position of Earth

cannot be locked by the Trisolaran.

He betrayed Trisolaran.

Why?

The policy we have established is that

after the Trisolaran Interstellar Fleet
occupies the solar system and the Earth,

the earthmen can completely
live as before.

Only one thing is forbidden forever,

procreation.

I want you to know that

(you will not be able to)

(save the Earth
that holds all your hopes.)

(I will let you live
until the day it loses all hope.)

Set sail immediately
after the Fleet is built,

and head in that direction.

We can tell from this gaming session
that Three-Body has indeed never

imparted any technologies
more advanced than ours to Earth.

Just as Ye Wenjie conjectured.

But their technologies
are very advanced.

There are over 1,000 listening posts
like Post No. 1379.

Compared with them, we're virtually…

It's indeed like the farmer
and the turkeys.

Chang,

they're trying as hard as they can
to search for alien civilizations.

They're desperate to move home.

Yeah.

But there's one thing I find confusing.

Like us, they send signals
by means of electromagnetic waves.

Judging from the level
of their science and technology,

they should've long since discovered

that fixed stars are amplifiers
for electromagnetic waves,

but why have we still not
received any messages from Trisolaris?

Think about the information we have.

The three suns of Centaurus
are actually shrouded in a gigantic

plasmatic atmosphere.

The atmosphere will turn their three suns
into flying stars without warning

or display flying stars.

Are you saying the atmosphere
blocks radio waves?

Yeah.

This meant that in order
to reach the energy mirrors,

the waves would have to be more powerful
than a threshold value,

so you can no longer use the sun
as an antenna to broadcast radio waves.

You can only use an antenna
on the ground to do that.

Even if the environmental conditions
are too poor,

with their science and technology,
they can totally find a way

to transmit signals
without using a fixed star.

That's indeed possible. Maybe they have
more advanced technologies,

but it's also possible they've never
transmitted anything.

But there's no way
we can find the answer in this game.

Guys, so far,
the world that this game shows us

is total imagination of ETO members
based on the information they have.

We need to differentiate and analyze

all the realistic details with care.

Just like the princeps's residence.

It might be a pyramid.

Or it might be something else.

It can be on the ground, or underground.

All these are our speculations
and imagination.

But only one thing is certain.

There's a thick wall separating it
from the outside world

so as to protect him
against the extreme weather.

The princeps strikes me
as pretty badass.

The knowledge that he might get a new home
didn't exhilarate him.

And the knowledge that the monitor

replied to Ye Wenjie's message
didn't anger him much.

I don't know much about his personality.

But I definitely
wouldn't be able to do that.

When faced with such serious matters,
he could still retain his composure.

- He's definitely no milksop.
- I noticed that as well.

I think it's unlikely
that this is a setting of the game.

I speculate that the Trisolarans
are actually emotionless.

Your speculation is very likely
to be true.

Think about it. In this game,
emotions such as fear,

sorrow, happiness,

and appreciation of beauty,
are all non-existent.

Because these emotions
will cause them to be spiritually weak.

The kind of civilization you yearn for
once existed in Trisolaran world.

But in the reincarnation
of all Trisolaran Civilizations,

this kind of civilization
is the most fragile and short-lived.

Judging from the history
of Trisolaran Civilization,

there are two mental states
that Trisolarans need.

One of them is calmness.

The other one is numbness.

Civilizations that relied on these
two states as their spiritual core

were the most capable of survival.

In other words, our enemies
are as cold and emotionless as steel.

- Yeah.
- No wonder they could think of

the despicable plan of forbidding humans
to reproduce.

But what's more despicable
is that they've locked down our science.

Locked down our science?

How did they do that?

(The emergency meeting of consuls
is about to start.)

(All consuls should assemble
at the Pendulum Monument.)

Earth civilization has made a reply.

They're 40,000 light-hours from us.

(They've only just
received Ye Wenjie's message.)

(Then right now it should be
1983 on Earth.)

(If that's true,)

(a Trisolaran hour
is equivalent to 0.876 earth hour.)

How… How do I convert that?

52 minutes.

20,000 Trisolaran hours ago,
the Trisolaran Fleet has launched.

But the fact is that
4.5 million hours from now,

(that civilization's technology
might be developing increasingly fast,)

(and far more advanced than ours.)

By then,
the Trisolaran Fleet won't even survive

a single blow from Earth's civilization.

This is not an expedition,
but a funeral procession!

(What's more frightening)

(is that the location of Trisolaris
has been exposed.)

(It's very possible that long before
an expanded sun swallows this planet,)

(Trisolaran Civilization will have
already been extinguished by earthmen.)

Given a time gap of 40,000 hours,

to effectively contain a civilization's development
and disarm it,

there is only one way:
kill its science.

To lock down humans' science,
they made three plans.

The first step.

You tell them.

The first plan

is code-named Coloring.

(They'll use the negative effects
of science and technology)

(to cause the public to hate
and fear science.)

- On the earth, dozens of species go extinct every day.
- Yeah.

That's what Pan Han has been doing.

(The harm of Science to the Environment)
Are you not worried that

the public would resist technology
after seeing the report?

What people resist is the harm
that comes with technology

instead of technology itself.

Second.

Come on. Keep going.

The second plan is code-named Miracle.

(It's about showing signs
of supernatural power to humans,)

(so that unscientific ways of thinking
will dominate scientific thinking)

(and lead to the collapse of the entire
scientific system of thought.)

These two plans can only cause some
interference to our scientific development.

Yeah.

That's why they'll also
make a decisive move.

It'll completely suffocate science
on Earth

and freeze our science
at its current level.

They'll stop our exploration
of the deep structure of matter

and curb our basic science,
making it impossible for us

to make major breakthroughs
in science and technology as a whole.

Chang, Earth is not their only target.

I mean, before
receiving Ye Wenjie's message,

they had been preparing
for this all along.

Well, how did they do that?

Judging from the progress in the game,

they are building
a large particle accelerator.

Yeah.

They have scrapped all the plans
for building a second space fleet.

All resources are now devoted
to this thing.

It's called Project Sophon.

Although the Trisolaran scientists

can already manipulate nine
of the eleven dimensions

of the micro-scale world…

Nine?
The difference is insane, isn't it?

But their etching
of micro integrated circuits

can only be conducted
at the macro scale.

Your explanation is too complicated.

Even I cannot understand it.

Professor Ye once said
Trisolaris sent two protons to Earth,

that they'd lock down our science.

But she's confused as to
how they're going to do that, and so are we.

Maybe there will be
some kind of demonstration of it

at a later stage of the game.

It seems you guys are faced
with a long-term, arduous task.

Yeah, a long-term, arduous task.

The tricky part is
we're still unfamiliar with this task.

Log into the game right now.

General Chang,

when I was in the game,
I think I saw someone.

Yeah.

That was her.

She wanted to see

what the Trisolaran Civilization
was like exactly.

As things stand,

the proton they sent to Earth
is not the kind of proton we know of.

It's a modified proton,
a superintelligent computer.

They call it Sophon.

It's superintelligent.

(Something invisible to the naked eye
can actually turn into a computer?)

(The Trisolarans' tones of voice just now)

(suggested even they themselves
couldn't imagine that.)

What's more unbelievable

is that this whole thing
has to start with unfolding a proton.

Two-dimensional unfolding of proton
starts.

Unfolding failed.

The target proton
has become one-dimensional.

This is what a proton looks like
after being unfolded into 3 dimensions.

This is a reflector.

Run!

Run!

Where…

Where to?

They launched nuclear missiles.

(Unfolding failed.)

I really can't imagine

how complicated the internal structure
of a subatomic particle can be.

It depends on the number of dimensions
of your observation perspective.

(From a 4-dimensional perspective,)

(a fundamental particle
is an immense world.)

(When the perspective
has been raised to 9 dimensions,)

(a fundamental particle's internal structures
and complexity)

(are equal to the whole universe.)

(As for even higher dimensions,)

our physicists haven't been able
to explore them,

so I cannot yet imagine
the degree of complexity.

Was there intelligent life
in the micro-universe

within the unfolded proton?

Did we just destroy
a civilization in the microcosmos?

It was at least an intelligent body.

Also, Princeps,
we destroyed the entire microcosmos.

But this is not the first time
such a thing has happened.

In the long history
of scientific progress,

(every time the physicists
had protons collide in an accelerator,)

(every time a proton or a neutron decays,)

(and every time a high-energy cosmic ray
enters the atmosphere,)

(thousands of miniature universes
may be destroyed.)

You're not feeling sentimental
because of this, are you?

I just want the people of Trisolaris
to understand

that the destruction of civilizations
is a common occurrence

(that happens every second
of every hour in the universe,)

because lately we've discovered
that in the world of Three-Body,

there are actually many
like the monitor of Post No. 1379.

We must control and eliminate
these weak sentiments.

There are Redemptionists among them too?

Princeps, this is mainly the result
of recent messages received from Earth.

Earth civilization has great appeal
on Trisolaris.

Their humanism will lead many Trisolarans
onto the wrong path.

(Just as Trisolaran Civilization
has already become a religion on Earth,)

(Earth Civilization has this potential
on Trisolaris.)

You've pointed out a great danger.

We should strictly control
the flow of information from the Earth

to the populace,
especially cultural information.

They're as scared of us
as we're scared of them.

Princeps, the unfolding is a success.

Look carefully.

(There are two starry skies up there.)

(I see it.)

The other starry sky is circular.

That constellation in there
belongs to the southern hemisphere.

(That's our planet.)

(It's another Trisolaris.)

That's a mirror.

Yes.

(That mirror
is the proton being unfolded.)

(It's a geometric plane
without any meaningful depth.)

(Princeps, the proton plane
is being bent by our planet's gravity.)

(Those spots of light)

(are electromagnetic beams
being sent up from the ground)

(to adjust the curvature
of the plane under gravity.)

(The goal is to eventually)

wrap the unfolded proton completely
around Trisolaris.

(Afterwards, the electromagnetic beams
will continue)

(to hold up and stabilize this enormous sphere,
like so many spokes.)

(Thus, Trisolaris will be the workbench
to secure the two-dimensional proton,)

(and the work to etch electronic circuits
on the surface)

(of the proton plane can begin.)

Will we still get sunlight?

That's what I'm about to say.

Trisolaris will enter
the darkest night in history.

(All sunlight will be reflected
back into space.)

(The temperature will drop precipitously.)

(It might reach levels comparable
to the appearance of three flying stars.)

(Please give the order)

(for our people to dehydrate
and be stored.)

(Etching the proton circuits
is a huge project.)

(According to initial estimates,
it'll take 15,000 Trisolaran hours.)

(After its completion, we'll also
need time for software debugging.)

Here's my command.

Everybody dehydrates and gets restored.

(If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes,
I would never have believed)

(a proton invisible to the naked eye,)

(after being unfolded into 2 dimensions,
can actually enfold a planet.)

(Those lights are spaceships)

(etching the integrated circuits
on the gargantuan membrane.)

(They're transforming the proton)

(into Sophon,
a superintelligent computer.)

(Converted to Earth time,
it's about two years.)

(Micro-Intelligence 2.10 loaded.)

(Sophon One ready to accept commands.)

A Sophon has been born.

We have endowed a proton with wisdom.

This is the smallest
artificial intelligence we can make.

But right now, it appears
as the largest artificial intelligence.

(Princeps,)

(we'll increase the dimensionality
of this proton.)

(It will soon become small.)

Adjust dimensionality to six.

Sophon One, enter the control center.

Our control center is deep underground.

Can it go through the ground?

Princeps, it's not exactly
going "through".

Rather, it's entering
from a higher dimension.

It can enter any enclosed space
within our world.

Princeps.

This is just the 6-dimensional body of the proton
projected into three-space.

Can you increase its dimensionality
to eleven,

and make it as small
as a regular proton?

Attention! This is not a command!

(Sophon One understands.)

Princeps, if we increase
the dimensionality to eleven,

we will lose it forever.

When the Sophon shrinks to the size
of a regular subatomic particle,

the internal sensors

(and I/O ports)

(will be smaller than the wavelength
of any electromagnetic radiation.)

(That means it would not be able
to sense the macro world,)

(or receive our commands.)

But we must eventually make it shrink
back to a subatomic particle.

Yes, but that must await the completion

of Sophon Two, Sophon Three,
and Sophon Four.

They've built four things of this kind?

(Princeps,)

(the construction of Sophon Two,
Sophon Three,)

(and Sophon Four have been finished.)

(The continuous dimensionality
has been adjusted to 11.)

Princeps, Sophon One and Sophon Two
will be launched toward the Earth

(and become high-energy particles
in a moment,)

(and navigate through space
at nearly the speed of light.)

What can Sophons do for us
after they reach Earth?

After the two Sophons arrive on Earth,

their first mission is to locate
the high-energy particle accelerators

used by humans for physics research

(and hide within them.)

(They'll take the place
of target particles, accept the collision,)

(and deliberately give out
wrong and chaotic results.)

No wonder these years

we haven't made any breakthrough
in fundamental physics.

(Yang Dong's experiments
didn't generate any reasonable results.)

(It's all because the Trisolarans)

(used Sophon to tamper
with our high-energy accelerator.)

They will remain forever
in the primitive stage.

The science of Earth
has been completely locked down.

(Sophon can also
use high-energy particles to expose film,)

(traveling at light speed
to project contents onto films)

(even retinas.)

(Sophons can cause
background cosmic radiation)

(to flicker in their eyes.)

(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.)

Of course, as Sophons fold and unfold
into different dimensions,

they can display
even more amazing ‘miracles'.

The software for accomplishing these
is still being developed.

(More than one Sophon,
by means of some quantum entanglement,)

(can form a system
to sense the macro world,)

(a formation in which
they can sense each other.)

(More Sophons can then form)
a mutual-sensing formation)

(which can sense the macro world.)

(Keeping Sophon Three
and Sophon Four here)

(will enable them
to receive the information sent back)

(by Sophon One and Sophon Two from Earth.)

(This gives us a way
to monitor Earth in real time.)

(The sun that had just risen
disappeared below the horizon.)

(It seems another Chaotic Era has begun.)

But

we're full of hope.

(Chang Weisi)

Comrades, please be aware

that our meeting is probably already

being monitored by Sophons.

From here on out,

there shall be no secrets.

(You)

(are)

(are)

(You are bugs)

Professor Ye,

the 28 GB of information

we got from Judgment Day is all here.

Is there anything else you need?

I want

to revisit the Red Coast Base.

These words in front of my eyes

are really annoying.

You'll get used to it.

It doesn't matter.

The Trisolaran science and technology…

Though having seen it with my own eyes,

I still find it incredible.

You mean Sophon's folding and unfolding
into different dimensions, right?

(With our technologies,)

(the unfolding of an atom)

(into lower dimensions
is irreversible,)

(but Trisolaran scientists)

(can unfold it into lower dimensions)

(without losing its advanced
structural information,)

(making the process reversible.)

But if we want to do an experiment
like that, we can only start

from the 11 dimensions
of the micro-scale world, but now…

But now our accelerators
are useless.

Her name's Lin Yun.

She made great contributions
to the research on ball lightning

and the macroatom theory.

At that time we thought

we'd be able to make some breakthroughs
in physics.

Now as I think about it,

it was a joke.

Why have I never heard of her before?

For some reasons, I think.

There are many things you've probably
never heard of.

Where is she?

She's in a place.

Or maybe she's in

some places.

The city's so busy.

These people…

What will they do?

It doesn't matter anymore.

It doesn't matter anymore.

What dishes did you get?

You drank so much.

You even bit through the beer bottles.

Do you wanna smoke?

I quit it.

I've converted to this.

Hey, how did you come up
with that shitty idea?

Those messages…

What difference does it make
if we look at them or not?

The result 400 years from now
will be the same.

Is it really like you say?

Everything's over?

It's over!

It's all over!

You can't use the accelerators

and can't study the structure of matter.

That means it's all over?

What do you think?

Technology is still
making progress, isn't it?

Maybe the ball lightning thing
you've been researching is over,

but hasn't Professor Wang
created the Flying Knife?

It's nanomaterial, right?

Imagine an ancient kingdom,
if you will.

Their technology is advancing as well.

They might invent better knives,
spears, swords,

and auto-repeating crossbows

that can shoot many arrows
like our machine guns.

But…

But if they don't know that matter is made
from molecules and atoms,

they will never create missiles
and satellites.

Right?

They're limited
by their level of science.

I always knew you were smart.

You just look a bit silly.

The study of the deep structure
of matter

is the foundation of the foundations
of all other sciences.

If there's no progress here,
everything else...

I'll put it your way, is bullshit.

You…

You… You're not bullshit.

You can still research knives,
shields, and swords.

What am I going to research?

I'm bullshit. I'm bullshit.

This is a good thing.

We will be able to live out
the rest of our lives

in this way.

All our despair

and all our decadence
can be justified now!

Because we're bugs!

Bugs that are about to go extinct!

Well said!

Long live bugs!

Long live Sophons!

Long live the end of the world!

Good!

Come on!

Come on!

Bunch of cowards.

Nano Coward.

I'm talking about you!

Come on!

Get up!

Come!

Come with me.

And you.

Uh…

Ball-lightning Coward!

Come on!

Let's go!

Where to?

Just come with me.

I'm taking you somewhere.

Where?

Don't you want to drink?

Drinking here is so boring.

Let's go somewhere lively.

Somewhere with all kinds of people.

Are you coming? Bring the liquor.

Good.

Let's go.

(Pursuant to the laws,)

(Ye Wenjie committed crimes
against humanity)

(and has now been sentenced
to life imprisonment.)

Would you like to take a break here?

No need.

Professor Ye,

you should have some rest.

If you lapse into critical condition,

we won't be able to
get you an ambulance.

It's okay.

I used to
be ready to stay here forever.

Now I care even less.

Let's go over there.

Professor Ye,

step back a little from the cliff.

Being here for the first time

is always a bit scary.

This was the base for the antenna.

(Red Coast Base)

This

is sunset for humanity.

♪Just a matter of time♪

♪Should we say goodbye♪

♪Or should we keep it all♪

Where are we going?

My hometown. Not too far.

♪With a cost of all♪

♪Fireworks♪

♪You wasted it all just
to watch me burn♪

♪And on and on and on♪

What did you bring us here for?

To look at bugs.

There's locust infestation here as well?

Every year.

Like the dust storms.

It started ten years ago.
But this year is the worst.

What's this about?

I just want the two of you
to think about one thing.

Is the technological gap
between humans and Trisolarans

greater than the one
between locusts and humans,

or the other way around?

Look at them.

These bugs.

The gap between them and us
is far greater than the one

between us and the Trisolarans.

Humans have used everything
in their power to extinguish them:

every kind of poison,
aerial sprays, and…

And introducing and cultivating
their natural predators,

searching for and destroying their eggs,

using genetic modification
to sterilize them.

Just like what the Trisolarans
did to us humans.

That's right!

We tried to burn them with fire,

drown them with water,
bury them with earth.

Every family has bug spray.

Every desk has under it
something lethal to them

like a flyswatter.

To them, all those things
are nuclear missiles.

This long war has been going on

for the entire history
of human civilization.

But the outcome is still in doubt.

The bugs have not been eliminated.

There are scientists
among these locusts too.

They're researching how to deal with us.

They're researching
how we produce pesticide.

Of course, some of them don't care.

They're unaware of humans' existence.

They live in their own imagination.

There are soldiers
among these locusts too, and policemen.

Maybe they even have
Battle Command Centers,

which is why even to this day,

they still proudly live
between the heavens and the earth,

and their numbers have not diminished
from the time before human appeared!

The Trisolarans
who deemed the humans bugs

seemed to have forgotten one fact:

the bugs have never been truly defeated.

Come on, sweetie.

Put your book away.

Dig in.

Thanks, Mom.

(...and held her hands to her mouth
to warm them with her breath.)

(Tsinghua University)

(The End)

=Three-Body=