pyramid
Names: pyramidGreat HallKing Zhou's pyramid
First appears in Book 1: The Three-Body Problem, chapter 7 (7)
Appearances
Key moments
- Book 1 · Ch 7Rehydration of the world
After King Wen's predicted Stable Era begins, King Zhou orders rehydration and the people revive in lakes, celebrating for eight days.
- Book 1 · Ch 7The sun fails to rise
After eight days the sun does not rise and three flying stars appear. King Zhou orders dehydration and King Wen leaps into the cauldron.
- Book 1 · Ch 7Destruction of Civilization 137
Snow of dry ice and then frozen air buries the pyramid during a 48-year night, and the game ends the civilization and Wang exits.
- Book 1 · Ch 11Wang meets Mozi in Three Body
Wang finds the pyramid an observatory; Mozi explains his double-sphere universe model and his machine, and tells of Confucius's failed prediction.
- Book 1 · Ch 11Civilization 141 burns
After a Stable Era of seventeen days, an immense sun rises and incinerates the world, destroying Civilization Number 141 and Mozi's predictions.
- Book 1 · Ch 15Copernicus presents the three-sun model
Wang, as Copernicus, tells the medieval council that three suns cause the chaotic and stable eras. They reject it and sentence him to burning.
- 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.