The three body problema scientific primer

9 min read

T HIS MONTH, A NEW TV ADAPTATION OF ONE OF THE BIGGE

This article is from...

BBC Science Focus Magazine

19 March, 2024

Read this article and 8000+ more magazines and newspapers on Readly

SFX

Slow gods

Lives and how to live them

How It Works

Is our universe the only one?

Might our universe – as vast as it is – be simply one of many? We look at the growing evidence that there’s more than one cosmos out there

The TLS

The kraken wakes

Tennyson’s embrace of science and catastrophe theory

BBC Sky at Night Magazine

The hunt for alien tech

When comet 3I/ATLAS was discovered in July, on a one-way interstellar journey through our Solar System, Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb suggested it might be an alien spacecraft paying us a visit. Back in

Prospect

The great tragedy

Writing about nuclear war is difficult because it is easy. J Robert Oppenheimer himself, the so-called father of the atomic bomb, set the tone with his paraphrasing of the Bhagavad Gita after the Trin