All 50 Uses of
proton
in
The Three-Body Problem
- Two Protons†
p. 323.0protons = stable particles that are a component of all atomic nuclei and have positive charge equal to the negative charge of an electron
- These two hydrogen nuclei, or protons, arrived at the solar system two years ago, then reached the Earth.†
p. 326.9
- INTERROGATOR: Two protons?†
p. 326.9
- They only sent two protons?†
p. 326.9
- They can only accelerate something as small as a proton to near the speed of light.†
p. 326.9proton = a stable particle that is a component of all atomic nuclei and has positive charge equal to the negative charge of an electron
- So over a distance of four light-years, they can only send two protons.†
p. 327.0protons = stable particles that are a component of all atomic nuclei and have positive charge equal to the negative charge of an electron
- INTERROGATOR: At the macroscopic level, two protons are nothing.†
p. 327.1
- Even a single cilium on a bacterium would include several billion protons.†
p. 327.1
- Because of the existence of these two protons, humanity will not be able to make any important scientific developments during the four and a half centuries until the arrival of the Trisolaran Fleet.†
p. 327.2
- Evans once said that the day of arrival of the two protons was also the day that human science died.†
p. 327.4 *
- But for two protons to block all progress of human science?†
p. 327.7
- The Trisolarans were able to shoot two protons at the Earth from four light-years away and they both reached the target!†
p. 327.8
- In your impression, what do subatomic particles such as neutrons and protons look like?†
p. 328.1
- What does all this have to do with those two protons?†
p. 329.7
- Ultimately, what can the two protons that have reached the Earth do?†
p. 329.7
- Like the interrogator said, a single cilium on a bacterium can contain several billion protons.†
p. 329.8
- Even if these two protons turned entirely into energy on the tip of my finger, at most it would feel like a pinprick.†
p. 329.8
- At least you aren't completely at a loss when faced with the knowledge of these protons.†
p. 330.0
- The science consul said, "Project Sophon, to put it simply, aims to transform a proton into a superintelligent computer."†
p. 361.9proton = a stable particle that is a component of all atomic nuclei and has positive charge equal to the negative charge of an electron
- Translator's Note: There is a pun in Chinese between the word for a proton, zhizi (Chinese symbol), and the word for a sophon, zhizi (Chinese symbol).†
p. 361.9
- I know that physicists can already manipulate nine of the eleven dimensions of the micro-scale world, but we still can't imagine how they could stick a pair of tiny tweezers into a proton to build large-scale integrated circuits.†
p. 362.1
- Thus, we must unfold a proton into two dimensions.†
p. 362.2
- Twenty thousand Trisolaran hours after the completion of the huge particle accelerator in space, the unfolding of the proton into two dimensions was about to begin in a synchronous orbit around Trisolaris.†
p. 362.4
- We reduced the dimensions by one too many, and the proton became one-dimensional.†
p. 362.9
- Originally, it was thought that the one-dimensional proton would stay in synchronous orbit around Trisolaris forever, but due to friction from solar winds, pieces of the string fell back into the atmosphere.†
p. 363.2
- They soon learned from the news that this was the one-dimensional proton drifting to the ground under the influence of gravity.†
p. 363.4
- It was the first time people had ever seen matter not made out of atoms—the silky strands were merely small portions of a proton.†
p. 363.5
- All the strings added together have the mass of a single proton, so it's impossible for them to have any effect on the macroscopic world.†
p. 363.7
- After being unfolded into one dimension, the strong nuclear force within the proton became far more attenuated, weakening the string.†
p. 364.3
- Fifty Trisolaran hours later, the second attempt to unfold a proton into two dimensions began.†
p. 364.5
- Is that the proton unfolded into two dimensions?†
p. 364.8
- The unfolding left one too many dimensions in, and the proton was unfolded into three dimensions.†
p. 364.9
- The princeps said, "To use a word like 'immense' to describe a subatomic particle such as a proton seems incredible to me."†
p. 365.9
- Do these show that the microcosmos contained within the unfolded proton harbors intelligent life?†
p. 366.4
- Even if they were to fall, the mass of all these huge structures added together is only that of a proton.†
p. 366.8
- Will you unfold a proton into four dimensions?†
p. 368.6
- A proton unfolded into four dimensions will be much smaller.†
p. 368.6
- What if the proton is unfolded into zero dimensions?†
p. 368.8
- Even a proton would be infinitely big compared to it.†
p. 368.9
- The entire mass of the proton will be contained in this singularity, and its density will be infinite.†
p. 368.9
- The reason we picked a proton instead of a neutron to unfold into two dimensions is precisely to avoid this kind of risk.†
p. 369.0
- If we really were to unfold into zero dimensions, the charge of a proton would also be carried over into the unfolded black hole.†
p. 369.1
- It was much easier to clean up the three-dimensional remnants of the unfolded proton in synchronous orbit than it was to clean up the one-dimensional string.†
p. 369.7
- Small spaceships were able to drag the pieces of proton matter away from Trisolaris and prevent them from entering the atmosphere.†
p. 369.8
- In the long history of scientific progress, how many protons have been smashed apart in accelerators by physicists?†
p. 370.3protons = stable particles that are a component of all atomic nuclei and have positive charge equal to the negative charge of an electron
- The third attempt to unfold a proton into two dimensions began thirty Trisolaran hours later.†
p. 371.3proton = a stable particle that is a component of all atomic nuclei and has positive charge equal to the negative charge of an electron
- The immense mirror that appeared over Trisolaris was the proton being unfolded, a geometric plane without any meaningful depth.†
p. 372.5
- "Princeps, the proton plane is being bent by our planet's gravity," the science consul said.†
p. 372.7
- The goal is to eventually wrap the unfolded proton completely around Trisolaris.†
p. 372.9
- 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.†
p. 372.9