Yun Tianming's Fairy Tales

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

Three children's stories — about a princess, a soap-bubble umbrella, and a hungry king — composed by Yun Tianming under Sophon's surveillance and transmitted home, each one secretly encoding a piece of the only physics that could save humanity.

What They Know

• Decryption of the curvature-drive analogy in the soap-paper boat scene — which is the key to lightspeed engines
• Decryption of the black-domain analogy — the kingdom inside a fog where time runs slow
• Decryption of the dual-vector foil hint — which the IDC missed until far too late
• Sophon's apparent decision to allow the transmission, and the fidelity she has shown to Yun Tianming's wishes since

Connections

• created_by — yun_tianming
• located_in — earth

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