白 Ice
Names: 白 IceBai AisiDr. Bai
First appears in Book 3: Death's End, chapter 68 (Bunker Era, Year 66 Outside the Solar System)
Appearances
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What you know
Book 3: Death's End
- Ch 68Former doctoral student of Ding Yi, awakened 22 years ago; his theoretical models survived accelerator tests and he leads the expedition's technical side.
- Ch 68He angrily rebuked crew who treated the slip as a joke, such as passing it through their heads.
- Ch 68Haunted by a nightmare memory of Ding Yi, he urges Vasilenko to move Revelation far from the paper slip.
- Ch 68He calculates that escape velocity from the collapsing space is lightspeed, so no one can escape the Solar System.
- Ch 68He warns that weakness and ignorance are not barriers to survival, but arrogance is.
- Ch 68He was Ding Yi's student; Ding Yi left him belongings and money to pay for hibernation, to witness physics' endgame.
Connections
- related toDing Yidoctoral student of
- member ofRevelation
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 68Bai Aisi's memory of Ding Yi
In a nightmare, Bai Aisi relives Ding Yi's last talk in the desert, where Ding Yi gave him his belongings and money for hibernation, then the desert collapsed into a pit.
- 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.
- Book 3 · Ch 68Revelation is flattened
Resigned, Revelation's crew shuts off the engine and falls into the plane, where they are flattened into two dimensions, seen by Alaska.