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3 Body Problem stars on the show’s big question: would you push the button?

Well... would you?

One thing that confounds me after reading Cixin Liu’s The Three-Body Problem and watching its Netflix adaptation is a simple button. She watched as her father, a prominent physicist and college professor, was beaten to death in one of the infamous struggle sessions of Mao’s Cultural Revolution. That same revolution left Ye, herself a physicist, without a future as China transforms into a country where her experience in the sciences is seen as subversive — a threat to Mao’s repressive, anti-intellectual regime.

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