Isaac Newton
Names: Isaac NewtonNewtonSir Isaac
First appears in Book 1: The Three-Body Problem, chapter 17 (17)
Appearances
What you know
Book 1: The Three-Body Problem
- Ch 17Newton duels Leibniz over the claim to have invented calculus, wounds him, and boasts that his three laws of mechanics make him the greatest after God.
- Ch 17Newton predicted a long Stable Era and, when a tri-solar syzygy appeared, claimed it proved the empire was the center of the universe, then fled on a stolen horse.
Book 2: The Dark Forest
- Ch 2Newton is an Adventist who barely survived the global strike and also received a sophon message from the Lord.
- Ch 5He says the Lord does not want interference with triumphalists like Zhang Beihai, and considers defeatism more dangerous than triumphalism.
Connections
- createdQin Ico-developed the software
- enemy ofLeibnizduel over calculus
- member ofQin Shi Huangserves as advisor at his court
- member ofAdventists
Key moments
- Book 1 · Ch 17Newton duels Leibniz
Newton defeats Leibniz in a swordfight over who invented calculus, then introduces himself to Wang while Von Neumann tries to stop the fight.
- Book 1 · Ch 17Von Neumann demonstrates logic gates
Before the First Emperor, Von Neumann uses three soldiers with flags to demonstrate logic gates, persuading him to commit thirty million soldiers to a human computer.
- Book 1 · Ch 17Qin I is activated
The Computer Formation boots, locks up due to a faulty CPU gate, is repaired by beheading that gate's soldiers, then runs the Three Body 1.0 orbit software and completes its first computation.
- Book 1 · Ch 17Tri-solar syzygy destroys the Three Body world
As the first sun rises, the astronomy minister reveals three aligned suns. Their combined gravity lifts everything, including the pyramid, the computer's men and the oceans, into space. Atmosphere is lost and the emperor dies. Civilization 184 ends.
- Book 2 · Ch 2ETO meeting in Three Body world
King Wen and Newton meet in the game and confirm both received sophon messages; King Wen assures him of the org's safety.
- Book 2 · Ch 5Three Body figures debate response
Virtual Three Body figures discuss Zhang Beihai's act, agree not to intervene, judge him dangerous but unprovable, and are relieved he will go to the future.