Three

Editor: This is a hard science fiction piece. Hope you like it. I would rather the book be called "3". Mathematics professor Shan Ruoshui received a mysterious email late at night. The sender asked him to use geometric axioms to test the Tai Chi diagram - the yin and yang symbol that has been passed down for thousands of years. The results of the deduction point to an astonishing conclusion: Tai Chi Diagram is not the abstract imagination of the ancients, but the precise projection of a solid hypersphere of five dimensions and above on a two-dimensional plane. With the conjecture of this "high-dimensional Taoist body", Shan Ruoshui teamed up with the talented programmer Su Jianwei and the superconducting physicist He Xi to build a physical prototype machine based on three-state logic. They discovered that when a system has a true "third state"—not 0 or 1, but the possibility of connection and transformation—it begins to breathe. A contemporary fable about Tao, geometry, consciousness and boundaries. When a C-state appears in the world ruled by binary logic that refuses to take sides, and when the ancient word "three" beats again in the superconducting ring array, we may finally have the opportunity to ask the question that has been shelved for thousands of years: If the Tao can be projected, does it count as being heard? "Three is not a number, it is a connection."