Sha Ruishan
Names: Sha RuishanShaRuishan
First appears in Book 1: The Three-Body Problem, chapter 8 (8)
Appearances
B1
B2
B3
What you know
Book 1: The Three-Body Problem
- Ch 8Sha is Ye's former student who works at a radio astronomy observatory near Beijing and will be on night shift the next day.
- Ch 9Sha is Ye Wenjie's student and runs a lab at Miyun that processes cosmic microwave background data from COBE, WMAP and Planck.
- Ch 9Sha is bitter that the observatory's telescopes are crippled by interference from paging and mobile communications networks, which regulators ignore.
- Ch 9Sha witnesses the flickering but asks no more; Wang advises him not to pursue it, and Sha understands strange things are happening to scientists.
Connections
- related toYe Wenjieformer student of
- member ofMiyun Radio Astronomy Observatory
Key moments
- Book 1 · Ch 8Ye arranges observatory visit
Ye phones her former student Sha Ruishan so Wang can observe the cosmic microwave background, and gives Wang ginseng as he leaves.
- Book 1 · Ch 9The universe flickers
At Sha's lab, Wang watches COBE, WMAP, Planck and the Ürümqi observatory show synchronized CMB fluctuations. He decodes the Morse code into a countdown with about 1,108 hours remaining.