The Dark Forest (The Three-Body Problem Series Book 2)

seem to remember a line Yang Wen-li said in Legend of the Galactic Heroes:*11 ‘In

“There are several things we’re looking for.” He was quiet for a moment. “The aspect of our work that relates to the anomaly,” he said, “is a continuing investigation into whether we’re living in a simulation.” “Do you think we are?” “There’s a faction,” he said carefully, “myself among them, that believes time travel works better than it should.”

It will be the end of pressure, the end of motive power, the end of thought. The universe will have reached perfect equilibrium.

Right now, humanity has to keep accelerating simply to support itself. But from left and right, massive hulks threaten to knock into you. Pandemics, climate change, bigotry, inequality, wars, water scarcity, sea level rise, and some that you do not even know enough to see yet. You have to dodge them, but you cannot stop, and you cannot slow down.”