Auggie's countdown jeopardizes her nanotech work. Jin becomes engrossed in an otherworldly VR game. Ye Wenjie follows through on a radical idea.
3 Body Problem Season 1 Episodes...
Ye Wenjie, a Chinese astrophysicist, runs into trouble with the authorities after witnessing her father's passing during a struggle session in the Cultural Revolution. Due to her scientific background, she is sent to a secret military base racing against other countries to make first contact with aliens during the Cold War. While there, she makes a choice that impacts humanity's future.
In present day UK, Oxford physicist Vera Ye - the daughter of Ye Wenjie - dies as part of a series of mysterious sleepings. A group of Vera's former physics students - Auggie Salazar, Jack Rooney, Jin Cheng, Saul Durand, and Will Downing - note a plethora of science-averse phenomena, and how recent science experiments no longer follow known laws of physics. This leads a government investigator and the "Oxford Five" into a mystery of extra-terrestrial origin, forcing them to face humanity's greatest threat.