Ding Yi

Character from The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin

Theoretical physicist, billiards philosopher, Yang Dong's grieving boyfriend — the man who explains to Wang Miao, over a pool table, why the laws of physics seem to have stopped working.

Also known as: Dr. Ding

What They Know

• He worked on particle accelerator experiments alongside Yang Dong before her suicide and saw the impossible results firsthand
• He explained the invariance-of-physics problem to Wang Miao using a billiards demonstration in his apartment
• He believes a force outside humanity is corrupting experimental physics — and he says so before anyone else will

Connections

• loves — yang_dong
• friend_of — wang_miao
• ally_of — shi_qiang
• located_in — beijing

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