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Ball Lightning (novel), the Glossary

Ball Lightning is a hard science fiction novel by Chinese author Liu Cixin, also considered a prequel to ''The Three-Body Problem''.^[1]

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Novels by Liu Cixin

Applied science

Applied science is the application of the scientific method and scientific knowledge to attain practical goals.

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Ball lightning

Ball lightning is a rare and unexplained phenomenon described as luminescent, spherical objects that vary from pea-sized to several meters in diameter.

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Ball Lightning is a hard science fiction novel by Chinese author Liu Cixin, also considered a prequel to ''The Three-Body Problem''. Ball Lightning (novel) and Ball Lightning (novel) are 2004 novels, 2004 science fiction novels, hard science fiction and novels by Liu Cixin.

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Basic research

Basic research, also called pure research, fundamental research, basic science, or pure science, is a type of scientific research with the aim of improving scientific theories for better understanding and prediction of natural or other phenomena.

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Chinese language

Chinese is a group of languages spoken natively by the ethnic Han Chinese majority and many minority ethnic groups in China.

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Copenhagen interpretation

The Copenhagen interpretation is a collection of views about the meaning of quantum mechanics, stemming from the work of Niels Bohr, Werner Heisenberg, Max Born, and others.

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Eco-terrorism

Eco-terrorism is an act of violence which is committed in support of environmental causes, against people or property.

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Electron

The electron (or in nuclear reactions) is a subatomic particle with a negative one elementary electric charge.

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English language

English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England on the island of Great Britain.

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First-person narrative

A first-person narrative (also known as a first-person perspective, voice, point of view, etc.) is a mode of storytelling in which a storyteller recounts events from that storyteller's own personal point of view, using first-person grammar such as "I", "me", "my", and "myself" (also, in plural form, "we", "us", etc.).

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Handan

Handan is a prefecture-level city located in the southwest of Hebei province, China. The southernmost prefecture-level city of the province, it borders Xingtai on the north, and the provinces of Shanxi on the west, Henan on the south and Shandong on the east. At the 2010 census, its population was 9,174,683 inhabitants whom 2,845,790 lived in the built-up (or metro) area made of 5 urban districts.

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Hard science fiction

Hard science fiction is a category of science fiction characterized by concern for scientific accuracy and logic.

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IQIYI

iQIYI (pronounced in English as), formerly Qiyi, is a Chinese subscription video on-demand over-the-top streaming service owned by Baidu.

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Liu Cixin

Liu Cixin (pronounced; born 23 June 1963) is a Chinese computer engineer and science fiction writer.

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Liver cancer

Liver cancer, also known as hepatic cancer, primary hepatic cancer, or primary hepatic malignancy, is cancer that starts in the liver.

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Midwestern United States

The Midwestern United States, also referred to as the Midwest or the American Midwest, is one of four census regions of the United States Census Bureau.

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Military technology

Military technology is the application of technology for use in warfare.

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National University of Defense Technology

The National University of Defense Technology (NUDT) is a national public research university headquartered in Kaifu, Changsha, Hunan, China.

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Nuclear fusion

Nuclear fusion is a reaction in which two or more atomic nuclei, usually deuterium and tritium (hydrogen isotopes), combine to form one or more different atomic nuclei and subatomic particles (neutrons or protons).

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Nuclear weapon

A nuclear weapon is an explosive device that derives its destructive force from nuclear reactions, either fission (fission bomb) or a combination of fission and fusion reactions (thermonuclear bomb), producing a nuclear explosion.

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Quantum decoherence

Quantum decoherence is the loss of quantum coherence.

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Remembrance of Earth's Past

Remembrance of Earth's Past is a science fiction novel series by Chinese writer Liu Cixin. The series is also popularly referred to as Three-Body from part of the title of its first novel, The Three-Body Problem. The series details humanity's discovery of and preparation for an alien invasion force from the planet Trisolaris. Ball Lightning (novel) and Remembrance of Earth's Past are novels by Liu Cixin.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ball_Lightning_(novel)

Ball Lightning (novel), the Glossary

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