A tri-solar syzygy is an extremely rare event in which all three of Trisolaris’s suns line up with the planet itself. Because of the extreme heat emanating from the three suns, Trisolaris is immediately scorched, so no Trisolaran has ever lived to record the history of such an event. When Wang Miao plays the Three-Body game, he witnesses Civilization Number 183 get destroyed by a tri-solar syzygy—and Wang reflects that such days are “the most terrifying catastrophes of all.”
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Tri-solar Syzygy Term Timeline in The Three-Body Problem
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Chapter 17. Three Body: Newton, Von Neumann, the First Emperor, and Tri-Solar Syzygy
...Qin’s joy does not last long. His astronomy minister informs him that an extremely rare tri-solar syzygy is approaching, in which all three of the suns are in a straight line. The...
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