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The fibers cut is so clean that even if it’s cut, they can recover the data. That was the logic in the book that wasn’t covered too much in the show

Reaction when nanofibers slicing people up: that's interesting Reaction when broken ankle: oh God no!

I don’t think this is a spoiler, but everything you mentioned about the sophon is explored in the book. The Sant-ti (trisolarans) didn’t just immediately create the correct /perfectly functioning sophons on first try. It took many many many trials & errors. Including the repeating two dimensional line stretched across the horizon.

I don't think Clarence necessary had a hunch about the countdown not coming. Mainly he was working under the assumption that the countdown reaching 0 doesn't kill you by itself. So far all the victims either ended things by themselves (like Vera) or were killed by someone whose presence was erased (like with Jack). Clarence probably assumed that he could try to prevent Auggie's death even after the countdown ended.

I have read the book, at it leans into the String Theory and extra dimensions heavily. Also this earlier subplot “science is wrong, no experiments on colliders show proper results” also stems from the crisis in string theory and high energy physics at the time. The book was written in the early 2000s. SPOILERS FOR THE BOOK BELOW In the book they tried to unfold a proton and there happened to be a civilization inside, because inner complexity and size of a 10-dimensional proton are immense. They inadvertently destroyed this civilization. That civilization, in the process of dying, tried to burn Trisolaris using unfolded proton as a lens. Also they put a large eye on display in their atmosphere, scaring the San TI (Trisolaris). In the TV series the eye in the sky appeared on Earth instead. As they unfold the proton’s dimensions, it keeps growing in size with every new dimension unfolded. It’s like when we’re talking about that our DNA in every cell is 6 feet in length, or how other things inside our body can be wrapped around the Earths, but they’re folded and quire compact. I would love to see you reacting to the book, reading in chapters. Description from the book of how sophon circuitry worked: “The principles governing micro-scale integrated circuits were completely different from those of conventional circuits, as the base material wasn’t made of atoms, but matter from a single proton. The “p-n junctions” of the circuits were formed by twisting the strong nuclear forces locally on the surface of the proton plane, and the conducting lines were made of mesons that could transmit the nuclear force. Because the surface area for the circuit was extremely large, the circuits were also very large. The circuit lines were as thick as hairs, and an observer close enough could see them with the naked eye.” I commented one of the science misses in the book: Not realistic at all. Even if we forget about dubious dimension unfolding thing. There are fundamental laws that imply lower energy limit of every computation, of every bit stored. A supercomputer would have to weigh more than a proton and radiate a lot of heat, requiring external energy. It’s called Landauer principle. You cannot put a supercomputer inside a proton and expect it to have a mass of a proton, radiate like a proton, interact like a proton Also nothing allows faster than light communication, even quantum entanglement. You cannot send messages with it. It was introduced for convenience of the plot. In real life, every communication would be limited by the same delay Ye Wenje dealt with. I’d probably created a Black Hole lmao In the book Sophons cannot hack every computer or cause complex hallucinations. They can only mess with the colliding particles and create the countdown on retinas, by creating flashes similar to how radiation can expose film. AI inside of Sophons was to mess with the colliders. Entanglement for spying. They’re dual-purpose. Evans talked to the San-Ti through microphone.

The "tequila" story is a joke because tequila sounds like "to kill her" in that accent

I feel a little obligated do ask for an apology on behalf of Saul for the ridicule he got when he said the universe winking was a deep fake lol.

"Lord" is not an AI. All the communication humanity had wasn't with the fleet but with San-Ti who stayed on a planet. Space fleet is just a tiny part of their civilization. Remember, there was a San-Ti pacifist who answered first to Ye's message. It's cool that they're very different and has their own characters (actually it's well shown in a book, there're a lot of scenes from San-Ti planet, where they have talks and discussions and different opinions and in later books even different factions). So Liu Cixin needed some plot armour to enable San-Ti to communicate with Earth instantly thus the entanglement concept. P.S. Sophon woman explained that Sophops arrived to Earth only a few years ago, before that, they've had an old-school communication with humanity. Also, there's a good reason not to communicate old-school way (not to broadcast so much, so to speak), which is described in second book and I hope we'll see that in Season 2.

This makes me want you to tackle The Expanse next. It's often said that the show's "science" is the best depiction in scifi.

I think the writers may have confused ‘quantum decryption’ with ‘quantum-resistant encryption’. My headcanon is that the characters weren’t actually trying to break the encryption using quantum computers. They were just using the word ‘quantum’ as shorthand for qualifying how quantum-resistant the algorithm was which was used to encode the data.

I do respect the fact that you're completely unable to accept there is a live alien who's using the sophons to communicate with them due to the fact you absolutely do not accept quantum entanglement as a form of data transfer. But the thing is, for the setting of this story, this is indeed what's been going on, there is no AI.

So the idea is that even if the drive got sliced, most if not all of the data would be retrievable since the cut would be very thin. They do acknowledge the gamble nature of it in the book, but it was the best way to retrieve the data and not give them time to destroy it.

The entanglement is so that they can monitor despite being far away

Lol when you mentioned Ghost Ship I was like, "He's figured it out!"

Sophons were already messing with science long before "we are afraid of you, what is lies?"

"Can't you shoot at it? It's unfolded now." Yes, they can. That's a plot hole in the show. In the books it was specifically mentioned that they cannot unfold near the Earth after people know what they are because you can very easily shoot it down. This scene does not happen in the books.

The fibers were so thin that they could slice the hard drive without destroying data

can´t wait for this one^^ this story is like a never ending barrage of awesome ideas

Auggie did not sign up for that, she created the nanofibers because Clarence asked her to trust him. So her reaction to learning what they intend to use it for makes complete sense.

Raj's comment about spending the money on drones rather than a billion-dollar destroyer, was all written and filmed before Yemon proved him correct.

"You wouldn't like what we look like." It's *not* about them looking scary, or afraid. Not sure why you thought that. It's just that they're supposed to be alien and disgusting. Think of a spider or a cockroach or a centipede lecturing you about how you're inferior to them. They're not "scary" but they don't look like you and thus you'd be hard pressed to level with them on a personal level than if they looked like you.

I know this is a react video, but the constant pausing after 0.0001 second play really drives me crazy.

I'm pretty sure in the book the Santi that warned Ye Wenjie not to answer its message gets arrested by the Santi officials because of their thought-broadcasting ability, if I remember correctly. As in it's innate they can't control the thought broadcast. Someone can correct me if I'm wrong.

Just some friendly feedback. It would be great if you set a minimum play time of at least 10 secs before pausing to comment. I find pausing after 1 sec of play a bit... frustrating? I feel bad for pointing it out because I do enjoy your reaction/analysis put I think 1 sec play, 30 second pause, 1 sec play, 40 sec pause, kinda hurts the flow.

Many of the best parts of the novels wouldn't be possible without faster than light communication. The quantum entanglement thing is very much a necessary plot device for the author to tell the story he wants to tell. Just give it time.

“He’s going to get filtered. Oh god” a sentence I never imagined I’d hear only amplified in horrific certainty horrifically from a scientific professional.

That was a really great way to explain quantum entanglement with two pieces of paper, makes perfect sense, wonderful explanation :)

It's not a copout when she said "You wouldn't like it", she doesn't say you will be scared or horrified... The avatar has a purpose, and certainly not to be feared.

Raj is the Netflix version of Zhang Beihai who is maybe one of the most consequential and most awesome characters in the book series, I will say no more but if you read the books or wait for the next couple of seasons, you will understand how significant his first conversation with Wade is as well as how much the suspicions other people have of him foreshadows

They used quantum entanglement to explain real-time communication. They could leave it as only AI, which would be really cool.

There are a multitude of examples in the sordid history of colonialism where the technological advantage is the only explanation for the absurd disparity in power. Remember technology is not only the gadgets like guns, armour and steel swords, it also includes training, tactics, strategy, administrative systems, logistics etc. Good examples include how the Portuguese dominated in the East based entirely on the mastery of their little ships with cannons. The most stark example I know of almost defies belief, the battle of Cajamarca, where Pizarro's ambush by 168 men utterley defeated Atuahalpa's 7000 strong retinue (armed only with ceremonial axes), and chased away an even larger army camped outside, due to the shock. The Spaniards lost one slave and one other injury. Crucially they only had a handful of cannon and arquebuses, but the ambush, cavalry charge, guns, armour, toledo steel swords and shields, pikes etc all were totally foreign to the Incans. The Spaniards were literally pissing themselves in fear due to how outnumbered they were before the battle, but they were also veterans of pike and shot warfare in Europe which is incredibly brutal and requires extensive drilling, so in the end it was one of the most one sided battles in history. Edit: Regarding the San-Ti "starting over" unfortunately this is a major area where the rushed series falls down compared to the books. They should have spent at least one more episode expanding on the game and using it to show the audience just how bad it is on their world, and just how far they have to start over sometimes, and a bit of how advanced they get. They could have spent a few minutes more on the syzergy scene to depict that better. They kind of wasted the game and made it almost pointless to the plot. Do you feel convinced to betray your race and join a terrorist cult to help aliens conquer your world, on the basis of what you see in the game in this show? No. The only clue we get is the huge numbers on "civilisation number XXXX".

The entanglement is intended as a mechanism for real-time monitoring and communication. Mike Evans in the previous episode was indeed speaking to the real San-ti in real time via the sophons. It was explained this way in the books too. I do think the idea of everything being an AI instead is very interesting! Extremely mild spoiler below The San-ti being able to monitor everything in real-time is a key motivator for one of, if not the most interesting plot points in the books. You’ll see it later this season!

I guess this is the fiction part of sci-fi but the book explains the Sophons in more detail. In case you missed or forgot, they unfolded the protons into 2 dimensions to have a large surface on which to inscribe circuitry. They turned them into sentient AI's with the ability to fold and unfold into lower and higher dimensions at will. The countdown was made by flying back and forth into the retina at high speed to excite the electrons/nerves (I forget the exact explanation) to cause flashes of light. This is similar or perhaps inspired by what astronauts experience on the ISS. The flickering stars were made by unfolding into 2-D to enclose part of the night sky and the stars were made to flicker by adjusting the opacity of the "sheet". The entanglement is simply for real-time communication back to the fleet (even though that's pure fiction). Another thing to mention. In the book Evans is communicating with the San-ti by receiving messages on his retina, similar to the countdown. There's no voice from a speaker. I think it's meant to be taken as he is talking to one of the San-ti, the Sophon is just relaying the message. The "You are bugs" message is also one that appears in the main casts field of vision, not on screens. That was a bit of a misstep in the adaption in my opinion. Hope that adds something for you. I've been enjoying your analytical approach to the show :)

The reason the ship didn't immediately fall apart is because of friction. as long as all the layers are moving in the same direction at the same velocity, friction will hold the layers together. But once the boat ran ashore, the top layers were moving at a faster velocity than the bottom layers, and so they kept moving while the bottom layers stopped. Like when a car crashes into a wall, the passengers inside the car keep moving forward until they hit the wall too.

My guess as to how the Sophon is 'supposed' to work is that, because they are essentially 11 Dimensional particles with full supercomputer circuitry imprinted deeper into the dimensional strata, whenever the San-Ti's version is "observed," it mimics the particle sent to Earth, thus relaying all the different circuitry which equates to data transfer. The only way it works is assuming that the sub-atomic circuitry acts like spin-up/spin-down and can be altered with every observation. What the show doesn't include but the books do go into is the idea of micro-universes. By unfolding a single proton and expanding it up the dimensions, the Trisolarans discover that there are higher-dimensions species capable of existing within such a small space, effectively making a proton equivalent to a solar system or galaxy (or potentially a full observable universe for them), implying that perhaps our observable universe is the higher dimension of some much grander megaverse. Obviously full on sci-fi, but still enjoyable to think about!

Ye Wenjie views the world through the lens of her trauma during the Cultural Revolution. Her father was murdered during a struggle session, her mother went mad, her friend and mentor committed suicide, she was consigned to a labor/reeducation camp, etc. Why does she believe what she believes? Because of her experience on one hand and possibly a little madness on the other.

This is very cool episode. It has one of my all time favourite scenes from TV shows and movies. Just amazing scene. So scary and so awesome. Enjoy the episode.👍

46:44 even with wire EDM the pieces just stick together and you have to use quite a lot of force perpendicular to the cut, and relative little in parallel to separate the parts, so it makes a lot of sense the ship totally fell apart only when it hit the shore, the vibration would just move the parts slowly horizontally considering this is a lot thinner than a regular wire

The Sophon unfolding over Earth gave such an Independence Day city destroyer vibe when I watched for the first time

It’s not a spoiler but I think in the first book (which this based on), the sophon is vulnerable when unfolded and can’t stay unfolded for very long. As you say it’s all psychological warfare, the santi powers with the sophons are limited.

Nothing better than an academic saying alcohol isn't to get drunk, it's for the taste. Absolutely perfect.

If they are completely identical and entangled, what if the circuits in the higher dimensional folds "light up" in both of them when the one's on Earth detect information? Since they are essentially the same object. And the Sophons on the fleet are able to relay that information without having to be measured? I feel like it hinges on the computer inside the proton, not actually measuring the proton itself. But you're right, it's just a fun concept.

Its worth noting that the Sophons aren't really "pairs" per se. They're the same photon split into two identical parts. They basically found a way to have one photon exist in two places at once, hence the ability for instant communication. In the book it explains that the laws of physics don't apply in higher dimensions, and because the Sophons peer into those dimensions, those laws can SEEM broken in our world, but are in fact not broken at all because they don't exist in the dimension the photon exists in. Its also why the photons appear nonsensical in form, because the way they truly look cannot exist in only 3 dimensions.

I love the idea of aliens whose bodies exist in other dimensions, and that to look at them as a 3rd dimensional being our brains would either go crazy or completely camouflage our perception to protect us.

Thank you for absolutely crushing my fantasies about quantum entanglement

I also just assume it's just the AI inside the Sophon doing things on its own, I mean, it's not like there would be any benefit to the Trisolarians back at Alpha Centauri knowing what the Sophons are doing, and the Sophons are fine by themselves.

First book spoilers follow. . . . Dubious scientific assumptions aside, the idea of a computer working in 10 dimensions (ignoring time) is fascinating to me. Our current electron-based computers are reaching their limits. There is a floor to the size we can make P/N transistors without quantum effects rendering computation non-deterministic. I've always struggled to imagine how computing can overcome this limitation, and the way it's described in the book is fascinating in concept. [Begin spoilers] The leveraging of the strong interaction to create circuits with mesons replacing electrons would exponentially increase the potential computing power. I'm not a physicist (I'm a software engineer), but assuming Liu using mesons suggests they could carry information faster than electrons based on mass (not sure now decay fits in), would exponentially increase computing power to the level of exaflops. Clock speed could also effectively be in the exahertz range. Something in the way that massless particles were not used as the information carriers suggests that doing so breaks determinism, but I'm not qualified to guess why.

Hmm, I don't quite understand the quantum entanglement explanation. Are you saying once one of the entangled particles is observed that the entanglement is severed? What if it's never observed? That is, since the sophons are self aware aren't they self reporting their information to the San-ti? So, the information is acquired (or exchanged) passively rather than actively through observation, thus preserving the entanglement (maybe?) I have no idea if that makes any sense.

The ships weight was holding it together. Once the fibers were all the way through and it started to hit ground is started to slide apart.

Wills story about his cancer, he was not referring to Raj. Wills conversation with his cancer was an allegory. The cancer represented the San-Ti and Will's body represents the Earth. In Will's story, Will (the humans) negotiate a deal with his cancer (the San-Ti) where the cancer (the San-Ti) gets to live in his pancreas (a part of the earth) while Will gets to keep the rest (humans get to keep the rest of the Earth). This conversation immediately followed Raj's fathers war story for a reason. Raj's fathers' story was also an allegory. In that story, Raj's father represents the San-Ti, and the Pakistani soldiers represent humans. In Raj's fathers' story, the only way for Raj's father and his men (the San-Ti) to survive was for him to kill the Pakistani's (the humans) and to steal their supplies (the Earth). These 2 stories where juxtaposed to show the 2 possibilities. Either the San-Ti kill the humans and take the earth for themselves (Raj's fathers' story) or we negotiate a peace with them where they get to live on a portion of the Earth, while humans get to live on the rest (Will's story). I have not read the books, so none of this is spoiler.

I'm not so sure about this bcs I haven't read the book in a long time but I remember that the Trisolarians themselves cannot lie, it's not just the sophon. They don't have the concept of thinking bcs they communicate exactly what they have. Like for example for humans we can "think before/while we speak" but for them they just "speak". Also, in the last episode you talked a lot about the human brain and the psychology. I know you would love Hines when he gets introduced hahaha.

Thanks for your entanglement explanation. One thing that has bothered me with this adaptation is that they left out The Shooter and The Farmer hypothesis from the first book. I’d highly recommend googling both those passages, as they give an unsettling perspective on our understanding of the universe and the laws that govern them. It also helps suspend some hard science disbelief. The other thing that bothered me is the show’s take on the function of the Sophons which has created unnecessary plots. In the books they were pretty much limited to minor data manipulation and surveillance.

There is nothing wrong about having sponsors as long as you believe they are actually useful

As someone who knows what happens in book I have an explanation on why they dont just make 2 suns go off course allowing them to stick with 1 sun but spoiler

Hmm, maybe the idea is that "unfolding" the extra dimensions of the proton causes it to widen to the point the entangled protons will still overlap (remaining entangled) while covering the distance to earth. Because it's not actually traversing it in a traditional sense. Or maybe unfolding higher dimensions is what allows the protons to exist on either side while remaining entangled

In the book, they unfold the proton into lower dimensions including a straight line. They also end up destroying a micro universe. It’s very terrifying.

In the entanglement part, I can suspend my disbelief. First, because it's only sci-fi. Second, San-ti's technology and understanding of physics is obviously superior than us. I get that based on our understanding of quantum entanglement right now, the details is not sound but maybe San-ti have a better understanding of physics than us. Maybe we overlooked something in our current understanding because we are not yet on the level of the San-ti. Lastly because sci-fi doesn't necessarily have to be accurate to us all the time, as long as the established rules are consistent, I am fine with.

I have been desperately looking all over the internet for a quantum physicist’s take on the Sophons!! THANK YOU! This reaction/analysis series has been an incredible listen, it feels like your areas of expertise and personal interests aligns perfectly with the themes! Please do react/analyze more sci-fi content in the future! I would love to listen to you analyze Devs! There’s quantum computing in it, although based on what you’ve said in this series… you might not love the writer’s interpretation of certain aspects, lol.

You mentioned that you hope to see the future in this show. Good news: books 2 and 3 happens in quite distant future. And not in one period but several. 100-ish years from now, 200-ish and so on. I keep my fingers crossed as in the books those scenes are awesome (for instance futuristic computer virus in the world of Internet of Things) and I hope they won't mess it up.

You should really read the first book. The explanation of the sophons is much more fleshed out. He explains how they borrow energy from the future. They cut a lot for the lay viewers and to make it more visually entertaining.

Don't apologise for being sidetracked by the science. It's what makes your reactions special.

"Whatever... whatever" after rambling about whisky made my day 🤣

He likes to pause every 10 seconds, talk like he knows everything for 15 mins, only to get corrected a few seconds later

1:18:31 - energies we cannot imagine could refer to amount of energy, or the refinement of energy. What sort of precision would be needed to emit that energy so it all arrives at the same time to a single proton? So it might not be enough energy to control the suns, but the timing and aim of the emitters would be very difficult to achieve. 1:20:24 - the other fun with folding a computer down back from the planet-wrapper size to proton size is signal time. It takes a long longer for a message to go from one side to the other of a 2D computer than it does for a 10-D computer. The Sophon was probably struggling from lag while it was unfolded. 1:38:25 - not all of the San-Ti are on the ships. The nice part is that thanks to dehydration & rehydration, the San-Ti can store a LOT more people on board their ships than humans can store.

I understand everyone’s enthusiasm to explain things. But dropping massive spoilers for the books or the show in order to do so is just kinda stupid. You aren’t that special that you read the book, stop spoiling everything cause you wanted to explain something. You give book readers a bad name.

I didnt read the book, but I try to explain to myself that "communication" between entangled protons happens in those other folded dimensions, and that somehow makes it scientifically possible (we will know how in 400years probly :D )

FYI, the visuals for unfolded sophon is based on Calabi-Yau manifold to show the "unseen" spacial dimensions.

In the book it's explained that the San-Ti communicate with each other using light. And that "thinking" is the same as "communicating" to them. So when a San-Ti can see another San-Ti and they think they can see each other's thoughts.

The Three Body Problem was written in 2006. Generative AI was not so conceptualised. It relied on the science back then!

Recently I saw Neil Degrasse Tyson do a Science fiction movie tier list. This could maybe be interesting for your to do as well. I've recently also watched the movie you recommend in one of the previous reactions called Aniara. Thanks for the tip! Very disturbing and intriguing movie. And no, they didn't do the chain in game of thrones. I'm currently reading the books and I'm so happy I first saw the show because I'm getting so much extra details and extra storylines. Now fingers crossed that at least the winds of winter wil get finished and who knows maybe even a dream of spring.

I'd like to point out that there is information pertaining to the entanglement. Consider that even if it's a single object, the fact that the same information exist in two different spatial point in synchronicity is data in itself, being spin vector or otherwise. We don't know how to structure an information system around the destruction, but who knows ? I think there's a lot of : It's impossible in the current science discourse. How many scientific proved something new when everyone else thought it was impossible in the history of science ? It's good scifi and it helps to have a bit of a dreamer attitude to explore new frontiers.

It's implied and not quite confirmed that the San-Ti are actually about the size of bugs. If that's true that makes certain things more interesting, like the fact that they can re-hydrate themselves like Tardigrades, or the message they sent: "You are Bugs!" That would also be a kind've horrifying visualization that you spoke of, that wouldn't make them cheaply disgusting, but horrifying on just how fundamentally different something is to you.

why is bro confused about a high sci fi movie having quantum encryption? like his mindset is so set and closed that he even forgot he was watching sci fi lmao, they are not saying this tech exists or is necessarily true, its just sci fi that is a little bit more grounded in reality while having more creative ideas about tech we cannot access at this time

I'm a game developer and we use Quaternions for measuring the rotation in game objects, which sounds similar to the experiment you spoke of. This is to prevent something called 'Gimbal lock' which occurs with euler or 360 numbers. I've often heard a Quaternion referred to as 3.5D, as they say its not truly 4D, but uses similar calculations. As you said, It is a very difficult thing to get your head around when the mind works in 3D

Rooney is killed in a sudden murder so why he knows in advance to make the will. It must be after he learned will's cancer and before the murder the windows is really small.

I know this is video is a month old, so visibility on this comment is unlikely, but when you were discussing quantum entanglement you mentioned that when one part of the entangle system is measured, that entanglement ends. The question I have then is if these two sophons are highly advanced supercomputers that are entangled (and presumably share processing power due to this arrangement), could the act of measurement be avoided by the entity itself providing information? I suspect that this goes into the territory of intention manipulating physics which is ultimately a pop-culture misinterpretation but this could be subtly different. If, for example, processing functions of the sophon exist on both sides of the entangled state, could this active connection maintain itself or would it destroy itself?

The pacifist was alone on a small space station during a chaotic era. So he developed his own singular thoughts and didn't have to share them, until he was discovered to have sent this message. Then he was brought back into the group. Then he couldn't keep his thoughts to himself anymore.

I like the hunch you have that maybe The Lord would save some people in the boat. Look forward in a few minutes to see how you'll react when that happens.

I drank every time he said awesome and I passed out

Ich freue mich jedes Mal wieder Peter Heppner bei dir im Intro zu hören 🙂

Doesn't make sense according to YOUR understanding of quantum mechanics. They're millions of years more advanced, their entire concept of how reality works could be entirely different than ours. Maybe they know something we don't, something that our understanding of physics can't comprehend?

The santi explaining how the sophon work, despite it being their weapon against humans, might be an extension of how lying or withholding information is not a form of communication to them. If that is the case i might have miss a scene in the series explaining why they need to invade earth specifically despite the universe having more habitable planet than sentient life according to the Fermi's paradox. Also with that statement of you wouldn't like how we really look might mean co existence might be impossible, like perceiving then by light, sound or even smell might overload a human senses that it could even lead to death, hp Lovecraft style.😢

The quantum entanglement I think is just language designed to convey the concept the santi used. There is more fundamental physics in the book series which explains a little bit some of the ways the sophons communicate real time. (all science nonsense of course, but consistent with the universes physics).

"What price are you willing to pay for survival?" Excellent question. I think you will love book 3/season 3.

The sophons are something I just couldn’t make myself suspend disbelief about when I read the books. Their mere existence and the ability of the Trisolarans to create something like that just leads to so many plot holes when you think critically about it.

Omg, how did you come up with the idea that the main story in the next season/book happens in 200 years later? Did you read a spoiler somewhere or just had a hunch? You're amazing😱

1:11:00 when asked what the san-ti look like, they say "you wouldn't like it" doesn't specifically mean that they look scary. The could look totally insignificant which may cause depression instead of fear. Like "wow this thing that looks so weak and puny can be so much more powerful than us?"

I agree that Augie is a strange character. She's the closest thing the show has to the main character of the book, who isn't much of a character. As for Will and Saul, don't worry. Their relationship to the larger plot will be made clear. Loved your explanation of the entanglement issue.

I don't understand everyone's problem with auggie. She seems to represent the moral dilemma that humanity is facing. I mean people are getting upset about how she reacts to things, but can you imagine being in her shoes?

It does make me wonder that, if the Sophons work through entanglement, would it technically be possible for humanity to observe one of them from OUR side of the universe and effectively break the communication briefly? This idea only works if they are the only ones observing the particle(s). If we could measure/observe the other paired protons, it would briefly put us on the other side of the lens. While we wouldn't have the instrumentation to actually make sense of anything, it will cause a blip in their relayed knowledge lol.

Another perspective on the Panama canal. The fossil fuel pollution saved from shortening the trip for tens of thousands of ships would have killed tens of thousands more by now had the canal never been built so even the cost of lives is not solely a profit loss calculation imho.

I guess the quantum entanglement just serves the goal to give the AI an update all ~10 years

Im assuming its conservation of energy that split the boat apart when it hit the shore and why it held together. And gravity could assist in why the boat itself held together as the upper would rest on the lower material after being cut and made a strong enough seal to stop water

Auggie's invention is a massive advancement in material sciences. those nanofibers would put her name on lists that include Tesla, Edison, and Jobs. Also, if humans defeat the San-Ti, Auggies invention will play a critical role in that. I won't say how though as I assume it will be in the books later. But if you have watched Isaac Arthur's channel, then you know.

I feel like the ship split apart in the end because it ran into the ground, wasn't being steered anymore. So the bottom stops and the upper slices don't get the memo

How come nobody understood the Tequila/To kill her joke? You were saying the pillars across the channel were too obvious, but you missed that they added layers of rust to make it appear they had been there for ages, so nobody would question it, and it would probably work - think about yourself on the boat, even if you saw the pillars would you instantly think "these old rusty pillars are a threat to my ship" - they are just i-beams, nothing could be hidden in them, you wouldn't assume they have invisible super future tech hooked up to slice your ship apart. It would absolutely work, I used to work in a... similar? ... field, and you'd be surprised what people don't notice if everyone is acting natural, it's only when people act "off" that something in us flags something is wrong - people in this situation would probably be fairly relaxed and not actively looking for crazy edge cases.

thx! i really needed an explanation for this episode, i understood nothing the first time i saw it xD

PS: I highly recommend the books, they are quick reads and VERY hard sci fi.

Regarding the entanglement idea, I think it is possible that when the novels were written, the new hot idea in popular culture was quantum entanglement, and AI was not a huge thing yet. So the idea was probably that the San-ti still needs to receive information and make decisions themselves, not leaving everything to an AI. But I get that quantum entanglement cannot be used to transmit information in the way described here. The other thing that was a bit under-explained was how the sophons can keep moving at near light speed once they started interacting with things (this is supposedly how they are able to monitor all of humanity at once), I would assume they will just steadily lose speed and have no way to gain any back.