hibernation
Names: hibernationArtificial hibernation
First appears in Book 3: Death's End, chapter 7 (Crisis Era, Years 1–4 Cheng Xin)
Appearances
B1
B2
B3
What you know
Book 3: Death's End
- Ch 7Hibernation is a relatively mature technology; a 70 kg person would leave about 110 kg for the coffin-like hull and equipment.
- Ch 8Hibernation was suppressed by governments before the Crisis, more zealously than cloning, because the wealthy could skip ahead to a better future while others stayed behind to build it.
- Ch 8After the Trisolar Crisis, hibernation was allowed to develop without constraints and soon became commercially viable, giving humanity its first tool for traversing large spans of time.
- Ch 8Hibernation offered a path toward the end of death, since people expected biology to achieve it in one or two centuries, making death no longer fair.
- Ch 67Hibernators subjectively feel only about two hours of sleep regardless of elapsed time, plus an hour each entering and emerging.
Key moments
- Book 3 · Ch 8Hibernation freed from restraint
The Trisolar Crisis made the future seem dangerous, so governments stopped suppressing hibernation. It developed freely and became commercially viable, letting humans travel through time.