Three-body Gallery

yorwba 8 years ago |

There's also http://numericaltank.sjtu.edu.cn/three-body/three-body.htm with many more orbits. (Although they mostly look the same to me.)

noajshu 8 years ago |

My favorite: "yarn" http://three-body.ipb.ac.rs/sol.php?id=12

Scaevolus 8 years ago |

http://gminton.org/choreo.html lets you doodle an orbital path and finds a stable configuration close to it!

gregorymichael 8 years ago |

Tangentially - no scifi books have worked on my mind in the same way that the Three Body Problem trilogy.

https://www.amazon.com/Three-Body-Problem-Remembrance-Earths...

dimator 8 years ago | |

I'll be that guy. The writing was completely off for me, I don't know if it was the Chinese sensibilities that I was lacking, or something lost in translation, or what, but I couldn't understand the main characters at all. The multipage scientific exposition sections do not make this "hard scifi" (and they're whacky anyway). I never got the hype, and I never wanted to follow through with the other 2 books.

zanmat0 8 years ago | |

Agreed, by far the best books I've ever read. And second that for the mild existential crisis.

ConfusedDog 8 years ago | |

Second that. It's probably the best hard science fiction out there.

perfmode 8 years ago | | |

better than Weir’s martian?

lsadam0 8 years ago | | |

I don't think The Martian and Three-Body should be compared. I think it's fair to say that The Martian is more 'hard sci-fi' in that the story is more grounded in what we know to be true. Three-Body has to invent some ideas in order to finish it's story.

That said, I overall enjoyed Three Body more. Even if it did push me into an existential crisis of some sort.

donquichotte 8 years ago | | |

Third that. The author's upbringing in rural communist China gives these books an amazing depth.

midrus 8 years ago | | |

Fourth that. Such a great book.

lsadam0 8 years ago | | |

It caught my eye that you said 'book' rather than 'books'. You might not be aware Three Body is part of a trilogy? If you've not read The Dark Forest and Death's End, you are in for a real treat.

Analemma_ 8 years ago |

Where did this headline come from? The page itself doesn't say that these orbits are stable. Are they actually stable?

dang 8 years ago | |

We changed the title back from 'Stable Orbits of the Three Body Problem'.

twtw 8 years ago | |

The info page states that they are all periodic solutions.