![]() ![]() ![]() Though at the onset his research focuses largely on nature and takes him to stormy mountaintops, it eventually devolves into something more sinister as he finds himself investigating an experimental weapons laboratory as well as an old Soviet science station. We are presented with Chen, a man who has devoted his life to explaining the mysterious titular phenomenon, ball lightning, after it vaporized his parents right before his eyes. ![]() The premise for the story is rather simple to begin with, and eventually expands into something much more complex and far-reaching. In other words, we’ve recently begun to push the frontiers of discovery further and further, to the point where some have begun to wonder whether or not our technological reach will exceed our grasp.Īfter all, we’ve already ventured into atomic territory and as a result have created weapons capable of annihilating the entire planet… are we really to be trusted? It’s a question bothering many people, and Cixin Liu (author of the Remembrance of Earth’s Past trilogy) has decided to write a story centred on it, titled Ball Lightning. In only a hundred years we went from carriages and the steam engine to aeroplanes, fission energy, nuclear bombs, computers, the internet, and everything you could possibly imagine in-between. ![]() There is no question scientific discovery has driven humanity forward, and in the past century it could be said its effects have amplified immensely. Cixin Liu Pushes the Boundaries of Discovery ![]()
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