Ding Yi

Character from remembrance-of-earths-past by Cixin Liu

Theoretical physicist, Yang Dong's lover, the man who plays pool with Wang Miao while explaining the death of physics, and who later climbs aboard a fragile bubble of plasma to make first contact with a Droplet — moments before the Droplet kills him and a thousand warships.

Also known as: Dr. Ding, 丁仪

What They Know

• The full conversation he had with Wang Miao at the pool table — including which laws of physics still hold and which the sophons have broken
• The agreed-upon first contact protocol with the Droplet at the Doomsday Battle, including the sequence of light flashes meant as greeting
• Yang Dong's last research notes, including the sentence about physics never having existed
• How to operate the experimental plasma observation pod assigned to him in the first wave of contact

Connections

• loves — yang_dong
• ally_of — wang_miao
• member_of — solar_fleet
• located_in — solar_system

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