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Nobel Prize winning physicist Peter Higgs pictured in front of a photograph of the Large Hadron ColliderThe full darkening spread across Mexico and the US, with a tiny late-evening bite visible in Scotland.
In 1200 BC, scribes in Anyang, China, used oxen shoulder blades and tortoise shells to record eclipses. “The Sun has been eaten”, the scribes wrote. A delight to see the same semi-ecstatic, semi-terrified wonder in the faces of spectators this week. It’s conducted by a desperate alien species who crave Earth’s stable planetary conditions, and are coming to evict us.
Instead, 3 Body Problem assumes the worst. Not only are the aliens invited to come by a woman who has suffered the worst persecutions of Maoist China – on the grounds that the tentacular ones could only improve matters. What the five Oxford scientists in 3 Body Problem perform as a pantomime of scientific genius, Professor Higgs incarnated. His dogged probing at a core question in physics – what gives subatomic particles their mass? – drove the building of the world’s biggest machine, the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland.
Is that cosmically ambitious enough for you? But here’s another angle. Could the story of Peter Higgs, and his legendary modesty, be any more different from grandstanding employers bemoaning their sun-worshipping employees, or science-fictional schlock-meisters? I was involved in a campaign arguing for the obsolescence of the Trident nuclear missile system, titled Trident: Time To Move On, around its moment of recommissioning in 2015.
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