paper slip
Names: paper slipslipprojectileslip of paper
First appears in Book 3: Death's End, chapter 68 (Bunker Era, Year 66 Outside the Solar System)
Appearances
B1
B2
B3
What you know
Book 3: Death's End
- Ch 68It is a transparent, glowing rectangle 8.5 cm by 5.2 cm with no measurable thickness, resembling a slip of paper.
- Ch 68It decelerated from lightspeed to one-thousandth of lightspeed near 150 AU and travels toward the Solar System at 200 km/s.
- Ch 68It does not interact with matter: probes, hands and ships pass through it, and its position cannot be shifted.
- Ch 68Its emitted light and gravitational waves are weakening, which the team takes as a form of evaporation.
- Ch 68Its trajectory missed the Sun, passing outside Mars's orbit, unlike precisely aimed photoids.
- Ch 68Its protective force field evaporated, exposing a slice of two-dimensional space with no thickness, which began expanding.
Key moments
- Book 3 · Ch 68Examination of the paper slip
Drones, then Vasilenko and 白 Ice, found the slip intangible and unmovable; Revelation took it into its lab, but analysis revealed almost nothing.
- Book 3 · Ch 68The slip collapses space
After the slip vanishes, the pinnace melts into a two-dimensional plane. Bai Ice explains that space is collapsing toward two dimensions and escape needs lightspeed.