Santai (The Three-Body Problem) 0 (Zero): Ball Lightning

[Machine Translation] It was a violent thunderstorm on my 14th birthday. That night, I was reborn as a different person - Chen was sitting at the dinner table with his parents when it suddenly appeared. A ball of lightning came through the wall and turned Chen's mother and father into ashes in an instant. Fascinated by this strange natural phenomenon that changed his life forever, Chen became obsessed and began researching ball lightning. In the process, he met his destiny in Lin Yun ( Lin Yun ), whose father is a high-ranking military official. Her father, a high-ranking military officer, is a young major and engineer who is working hard to develop a lightning weapon at the New Concept Weapons Development Center. When they reach an impasse in their research, they seek the help of Ding Yi, a world-renowned theoretical physicist, to unravel the truth about spherical lightning.... This is a prequel to the international bestseller "Three Bodies," which was published the year before the first installment of the trilogy. Ding Yi, the genius physicist familiar to readers of the trilogy, makes a dashing appearance and takes up the challenge of solving the mystery of "spherical spark electricity. What is the great discovery that shakes the very foundations of modern physics that Ding Yi has arrived at? Episode 0" of the "Three Bodies" series is finally published.

激しい雷が鳴り響く、14歳の誕生日。その夜、ぼくは別人に生まれ変わった―両親と食卓を囲んでいた少年・陳(チェン)の前に、それは突然現れた。壁を通り抜けてきた球状の雷(ボール・ライトニング)が、陳の父と母を一瞬で灰に変えてしまったのだ。自分の人生を一変させたこの奇怪な自然現象に魅せられた陳は、憑かれたように球電の研究を始める。その過程で知り合った運命の人が林雲(リン・ユン)。軍高官を父に持つ彼女は、新概念兵器開発センターで雷兵器の開発に邁進する技術者にして若き少佐だった。やがて研究に行き詰まった二人は、世界的に有名な理論物理学者・丁儀(ディン・イー)に助力を求め、球電の真実を解き明かす...。世界的ベストセラー『三体』連載開始の前年に出た前日譚。三部作でお馴染みの天才物理学者・丁儀が颯爽と登場し、“球状閃電”の謎に挑む。丁儀がたどりついた、現代物理学を根底から揺るがす大発見とは?“三体”シリーズ幻の“エピソード0”、ついに刊行。