Flying Blade

Item from The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin

A nanoscale filament being developed in Wang Miao's lab — strong enough to slice steel, hair-thin enough to be invisible, and the weapon Da Shi proposes for Operation Guzheng.

Also known as: Nanofilament, the Filament

What They Know

• Strong enough to cut through steel and so fine as to be invisible to the unaided eye
• Made in usable quantity only after the lab develops a catalytic reaction that lets molecules self-assemble
• Used in Operation Guzheng, strung horizontally across the Panama Canal, to slice the Judgment Day into sections without warning

Connections

• created_by — wang_miao
• located_in — nanotechnology_research_center

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