Life Under Three Suns: The Real Physics Behind Netflix’s 3 Body Problem

By now, I’m assuming that we’ve made our way through all eight episodes of the Netflix adaptation of Liu Cixin’s The 3 Body Problem (and by we, I mean sci-fi nerds). The series is packed with science—much of it way over the top—but it grounds itself in quantum mechanics and astrophysics. The show combines hard science fiction with some wild fantastical elements, exploring scientific theories and expanding on concepts in theoretical physics that have neither been proven nor disproven. Matt Kenzie, an associate professor of physics at the University of...