Harry Peterson
Names: Harry PetersonPeterson
First appears in Book 1: The Three-Body Problem, chapter 22 (22)
Appearances
B1
B2
B3
What you know
Book 1: The Three-Body Problem
- Ch 22Peterson, an American astronomer, replied to Ye with a letter and photocopied waveform records of the Jupiter radio outbursts.
Connections
- member ofMount Wilson Observatory
Key moments
- Book 1 · Ch 22Ye discovers the sun amplifies radio waves
Reading about Jupiter's radio outbursts, Ye matches the 16m42s delay to the sun-Earth-Jupiter geometry and concludes the sun's energy mirrors amplify radio waves.
- Book 1 · Ch 22Apparent failure and the signal's departure
No echo is received and Peterson's waveforms don't match, so Ye despairs; unknown to her, the amplified signal is already spreading into the universe.