The real-life version of “The Three-Body Problem”: Is the “Two-Dimensional Foil Cloud” really a “bug” in the world?

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In the sky of Zibo, Shandong

A "two-dimensional foil cloud" appeared

It has attracted widespread attention and heated discussions

Image source: Screenshot of Douyin Hot List

The cloud has a regular shape and clear boundaries.

There are no other clouds around

It's like someone put it there specifically

Image source: Internet

Some netizens joked that

This is very similar to the two-dimensional foil in "The Three-Body Problem"

Some people think this is a "world bug"

Some netizens even jokingly called this the "Earth Online Restart"

What is going on?

What is a biaxial foil?

In simple terms, the two-dimensional foil is a destructive attack weapon that currently only exists in Liu Cixin's novel "The Three-Body Problem". According to the entry in Baidu Encyclopedia, it is a "small piece of paper" wrapped in a force field. At the moment of contact with three-dimensional space, it can shrink one dimension of three-dimensional space to a microscopic level, so that the three-dimensional space and all the matter in it fall into two-dimensional space, thereby achieving the purpose of destroying the enemy.

Image source: bilibili Ele Lab

How is the “two-dimensional foil cloud” formed?

Hu Xiao, a meteorological analyst at the China Meteorological Administration, denied the online rumor of "two-dimensional foil clouds". He said, "It should be a contrail cloud produced by an aircraft."

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Staff from the Zibo Meteorological Bureau said that after the aircraft's fuel burns, some water vapor may be generated. Because the temperature is relatively low at high altitudes, it may condense. After condensation, water droplets may appear, and the clouds we see with our naked eyes may appear, and sometimes they may be in this shape.

As for why this cloud did not dissipate quickly, the staff member said that there was a local discontinuous weather condition in the atmosphere, which caused this small cloud to not dissipate quickly. The specific mechanism needs further follow-up research.

To understand why this phenomenon occurs

Further research is needed

But you can rest assured

Such clouds

It will not have a direct impact on everyone's life.