The Three-Body Problem: The Most Competent Wallfacer of All Time

Chapter 9 Information that can be announced: About Sophon’s vacant period
The author saw a question about the setting of the "sophisticated window period" in the comment area, so I opened a single chapter to explain it.

Although sophons exist in high dimensions, they can theoretically receive all information about the earth from high dimensions.

However, as a smart computer, the amount of information it can receive and process is limited, and it is impossible to include people all over the world into monitoring.

This is mentioned in Chapter 5.

First of all, everyone should know that the trisolaran civilization is not a "god-level civilization". Sophon's technology must have limitations and flaws, and it has not reached the point of "god-level".

As I mentioned in the comment section, on page 260 of "Dark Forest", Mozi said the following when he broke the wall of Rey Diaz:
"You know, the number of sophons arriving on Earth during that period was limited. As the head of a small Latin American country, you didn't attract their attention."

This is the "Three-Body Problem II". Chongqing Publishing House, 2008.5 edition. Other editions may not include this number of pages, but there must be such words.

I believe that in Liu's design, Sophon will also have flaws, which is in line with the power setting for the three-body star and the earth.

If the trisolarans had mastered the "god-level" sophons, they would have colonized the Milky Way long ago, and they would not just focus on the solar system.

Taking a step back, even if sophons are omnipotent, the trisolarans who use sophons to observe the earth are also three-dimensional creatures.

Then the sophons in the high dimension need to eliminate the huge amount of high-dimensional information for the trisolarans, so that the trisolarans will not waste time on some side details.

This concept can be seen in the description of the four-dimensional fragments on the edge of the solar system in "Death and Immortality".

So even if sophons can be "omniscient", Trisolarans, as observers and decision makers, cannot deal with massive amounts of high-dimensional information.

The trisolarans use sophons to monitor the earth, they must be able to monitor only some people and things.

Otherwise, even if Sophon eliminated some unnecessary information, the Trisolarans would have to spend a lot of manpower to observe the situation on Earth, which is obviously unreasonable.

This is the origin of the "Sophon Monitoring Empty Window Period". Every setting added by the author is determined on the premise of familiarity with the original work. Something easy to say.

Everyone is welcome to actively raise questions that are not explained clearly in the book. If you still encounter such typical problems, the author will open another chapter to explain.

Finally, thank you for your collection and recommendation tickets. I hope you will like this novel and have a pleasant reading experience. By the way, I would like to ask for a collection and recommendation ticket.

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