All 11 Uses of
solar system
in
The Three-Body Problem
- The fifth time, the black ball flew away at nearly the speed of light, breaking the edge of the pool table, shooting through the wall, and leaving the Earth and the Solar System, just like Asimov once described.†
p. 70.4
- Last issue, in "A New, Powerful Radiation Source Within the Solar System," Dr. Harry Peterson of Mount Wilson Observatory published a set of data accidentally obtained while observing Jupiter's precession on June 12 and July 2, during which strong electromagnetic radiation was detected, lasting 81 seconds and 76 seconds, respectively.†
p. 260.4
- Their target is this solar system, and they will arrive in four hundred and fifty years.†
p. 314.6
- If the Trisolaran Fleet that had been launched is capable of flight at one-tenth the speed of light, it should take only forty years to reach the solar system.†
p. 325.9
- This is why the time it takes the Trisolaran Fleet to reach the solar system is ten times longer than the flight time of a small probe.†
p. 326.4
- Six years ago, in the distant Trisolaran stellar system, Trisolaris accelerated two hydrogen nuclei to near the speed of light and shot them toward the solar system.†
p. 326.8
- These two hydrogen nuclei, or protons, arrived at the solar system two years ago, then reached the Earth.†
p. 326.9 *
- And both the solar system and the Earth are moving.†
p. 327.9
- The transmission from the solar system ended.†
p. 349.4
- We could only destroy Earth civilization and completely take over that solar system....Am I right?†
p. 353.3
- It's very likely that only half of the ships will reach the Earth's solar system, while the rest perish along the way.†
p. 359.4
Definition:
the area that includes the sun (or any star) and everything that revolves around it