류츠신(劉慈欣)의 ≪삼체(三體)≫ 읽기 －‘과학’과 ‘문학’의 상호관계－

Abstract

≪The three body problem(三體)≫ is a world of science fiction where numerous reasoning and imagination unfold. The appearance of mysterious scientific ideas and numerous episodes of human history intertwining and bumping into each other can seem distracting, disorderly, and meaningless. However, the numerous anecdotes are clues, duplexes, and evidence of the interaction between humanity and the universe that create eternal cosmic epic. In the end, ≪The three body problem≫ is a story about the nature of mankind from a cosmic point of view, and vice versa, through a perspective on the nature of mankind, imagining the civilization of the universe and imagining its effect on the universe. The universe of ≪The three body problem≫ is a wonderful world of fear. Of course, much of the fear can be seen as derived from the “sense of guilt” of humanity's “wrong” history, as Carl Sagan pointed out. In China's history and human history, Liu cixin saw the weaknesses of mankind and imagined a universal evolutionary style of space civilization called “dark forest”. Nevertheless, ≪The three body problem≫ says that without any guarantee, Exploration to Cosmos to pioneer our destiny, itself, is the original way the universe works.