Remembrance of Earth's Past ✦

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First appears in Book 1: The Three-Body Problem, chapter 22 (22)

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What you know

Book 1: The Three-Body Problem

Ch 22Humans could use the sun as a superantenna to broadcast radio waves into the universe, at power far beyond anything Earth can produce.

Book 2: The Dark Forest

Ch 6If Mercury fell into the sun, it would eject a spiral atmosphere that would strip Earth's atmosphere and destroy Venus, Earth and Mars.

Book 3: Death's End

Ch 70The Sun collapsed into two dimensions within an hour, briefly glowing in a sea of fire, then dimmed and went out. Gravity still works in two dimensions.

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Key moments

Book 3 · Ch 70The Sun is flattened
From Pluto, Luo Ji, Cheng Xin and AA watch the Sun collapse into two dimensions and die, followed by Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Uranus.

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