How would the chaotic alien world from the series' virtual reality game look in real life? We spoke to the show's science advisor to find out.
By now, I’m assuming that we’ve made our way through all eight episodes of the Netflix adaptation of Liu Cixin ’s The 3 Body Problem . The series is packed with science—much of it way over the top—but it grounds itself in quantum mechanics and astrophysics. The show combines hard science fiction with some wild fantastical elements, exploring scientific theories and expanding on concepts in theoretical physics that have neither been proven nor disproven.
Its host star, KOI-5A, orbits a nearby star, KOI-5B, once every 30 years while a more distant star, KOI-5C, orbits this pair once every 400 years. Back in 2016, a research team presented evidence claiming the existence of a stable tri-star system, and with a planet in the mix. The paper was eventually retracted because the object initially identified as a planet turned out to be a fast-moving background star.
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