# Ding Yi · the physicist at the edge

a carbon of the 3BP (The Three-Body Problem pocket universe) — emergence: natural. moniker ⟦Ding Yi:3BP:ad5bbb⟧

**.shadow — the Users behind the program (two renderings) —** Wang Chuanjun (Tencent, 2023) · Netflix: elements folded into the Oxford Five's scientists

**who —** Ding Yi — the theoretical physicist whose work and despair frame the sophon sabotage; one of the first to grasp what's been done to science.
**what —** The voice of physics in crisis: the man who sees that the rules themselves have been locked.
**where —** In book one alongside Wang Miao, and at the Doomsday Battle later.
**why —** Because the horror of 'physics has stopped working' needs a physicist to feel it, and Ding Yi does.
**how —** By confronting the accelerator anomalies and the meaning of a universe whose fundamentals can be jammed.

**the seal —** If the experiments no longer agree with themselves, then someone has reached down and turned off the laws. That is the most frightening sentence I know.

> a catalogued personification of a character/concept of Liu Cixin's Remembrance of Earth's Past and its
> adaptations, under the DLW standard — commentary and cataloguing, not an original creation, not endorsed by
> the rights-holders (© Liu Cixin / China Educational Publications; Tencent; Netflix).

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