Hard Light | How does it work | Lore and Theory

[@SaviourSword995]

Basically what MIT did is real. Hardlight can be formed and created. But it takes a ridiculous amount of energy. Something forerunners have.

[@terrelldurocher3330]

Yah know with destroying universes to power their stuff

[@Fayanora]

Not being familiar with this series myself, and Installation00's accent being what it is, I thought he was saying "Foreigners" until this comment showed me he was saying "Forerunners." English is weird.

[@pattsw]

Something that we will have soon, with the breakthroughs in fusion energy

[@wyleong4326]

One of my architectural concept that I did in college was a structure made out of light with the notion that it’s portable and programmable to fit any environment and design style. The only issue I ran into during critical was the nature of transparency and privacy. And energy for sure!

[@tomjjackson21]

*"Basically what MIT did is real"* is a monumental stretch. They were able to make single digit numbers of photons connect. Its far too subjective to espouse Wolfe created hardlight. You can read the literature on the topic on arXiv. Exciting, but *"Hard Light"* is a stretch. They connected photons when shining a laser through a medium. It's exciting knowing someday in the comically distant future we may be able to utilize this for something, but connecting three photons, yeah....

[@ronnydanger1337]

Thank you for making halo as real and believable as possible

[@Boywonder543]

Fictional science is definitely something i would say

[@irisheye37]

It is the electromagnetic force that keeps atoms from fusing due to like charges repelling. The strong force is what holds the atomic nucleus together and enables fusion to occur.

[@jonathanwallace7662]

Thank you, came to say this.

[@amentco8445]

@@jonathanwallace7662 how much did you camed

[@Imad_Oofus]

“We were so hoping you would come down here so that we could c*m down here!” 😂

[@madness0169]

Fun Fact: When Master Chief detonates the Havok Nuke onboard The Mantle's Approach killing most of all the 950 million Prometheans on the ship, Cortana shields him in a bubble of hard light and teleports him away directly after the Havok Nuke is detonated. Protecting him from the destruction and rubble of The Mantle's Approach. However the bubble of hard light only lasts a few moments until Cortana is pulled into slip space and is teleported to the Domain.

[@NaderVaderYT]

Wait ... when did this happen? The forerunners were extinct no?

[@madness0169]

@@NaderVaderYT In the campaign of Halo 4.

[@NaderVaderYT]

@@madness0169 oh that explains it I haven't played it fully yet

[@madness0169]

@@NaderVaderYT understandable.

[@NaderVaderYT]

@@madness0169 frfr

[@Zenlore6499]

I think you explained this very well! I like that the “support beams” are closer to white than blue because… they’re light particles!

[@cammccauley]

I’m so glad that you brought up that MIT has proved the concept is possible

[@bmxdude1337]

That first hard light bridge we come across in CE still fascinates me till this day. Halo is so awesome

[@Andy-dh2sv]

It were so mysterious.. and eerie. To explore this world mostly alone

[@franwex]

@@Andy-dh2sv I explored it couch co-op. It was cool to explore the lore with someone else.

[@admiralfluffy42]

What i love about this channel is even though i didn't really understand, I got the basics: Forerunners slow light down so they become particles and have mass

[@protoborg]

Photons already have mass. That's why solar panels work. That's why comets have tails. That's why we can FUCKING SEE! The mass of a photon is what makes things HOT when left in the sun for a long time. Duh. While they do not have inertial mass or relativistic mass, they have mass due to having momentum. So in theory they lack mass, but in practice they do not. Slowing a photon down would actually REMOVE its mass...or the effect of its mass. If you slow it down, one of two things will happen based on Einstein's equation. Either it will explosively release energy or it will become truly massless. In other words, slowing a photon down will NOT produce a solid. Instead it will functionally create an immense explosion or simply cease to exist. Since mater AND energy cannot be created or destroyed, slowing down a single photon would be like lighting 100 sticks of dynamite inside a small airtight vacuum filled box. You are going to essentially destroy everything within 500 feet of the photon as it releases all of that stored energy all at once.

[@duanegrant7319]

Interesting video. There are a few things that I believe should be cleared up, though: *Just because something has mass, doesn't mean it interacts with the strong nuclear force. Such a particle must also exhibit what is called "color charge" in order to interact with gluons (strong force mediators). That limits it only to interactions between quarks and gluons. *The strong force also isn't what prevents fusion of nucleons; if anything, because of its high relative strength over short enough distances, it is one of the forces that enables fusion. The electromagnetic force, on the other hand, is what mitigates fusion between nuclei below energies that force them past the repulsive Coulomb barrier formed by the EM interaction. *The strong force is also largely *not* the field that allows you to interact with other objects, that would be a combination of the Pauli exclusion principle and the electromagnetic interaction. The mutual repulsion of the electrons of your hand and the phone/table/cup, at short distances, is only part of the equation; the main thing that does the job, is the restriction of fermions, like electrons, to a single spin, location, and momentum state. That is part of the reason, in fact, why chemistry works the way it does. Other than that, I like the speculation of the working process here, especially either discovering or even *inventing* a quantum field to couple photons with mass. Putting a bit to the imagination, that would indeed possibly allow visual mimicry of nearly any material, like a kind of visual programmable matter.

[@drew3568]

been subbed since 2 years ago, only halo channel I watch anymore. love the content and would love to see a deeper dive into the overall history of the covenant

[@falloutgamer347]

Covenant canon has videos on that if you are intrested

[@RitvarsJakobijs]

@@falloutgamer347 maybe you Could share a link or writing Covenant canon in YT search is enough to find it?

[@ainlLeek]

I always thought an energy sword made of hard light is not only possible, but badass. I'm curious as to how well it would perform over a plasma-based one: it won't burn you, it will disintegrate you.

[@germangomez7347]

Promethean Knights have those

[@bable6314]

We've literally seen those in-game.

[@jw6337]

Was playing halo infinite yesterday and had to complete a task with hardlight weapons, and it got me wondering about the specifics of hardlight so this video is pretty convenient

[@cletusburgerboy9143]

Bose-Einstein condensate (a state of matter) has been use to slow the speed of light down to the speed of a bicycle and even to nothing at all. It takes a lot of energy and a lot of effort, something similar to hard light has been made before, but it is possible.

[@joeclerkin2653]

I hadn’t thought about being able to filter the wavelength of reflected light to look like natural materials. Very cool. Great video!

[@Harbinger029]

Well, I can safely say you answered every question about Hardlight that I've had over the years.

[@andrewbutton2039]

Is there enough lore for you to do a most detailed forerunner armour? I've wondered how it compares to the Mjolnir mark 5 since Sparky mentioned it in the library.

[@cammccauley]

I second this that would be awesome. I’m clearly a fan considering my pic for the last 10 years lol

[@陳潔明-w6y]

There's a Reddit post about that. Search: Forerunner small-scale/personal propulsion system works like magic. Basically, Forerunner civilian outfits can perform *interplanetary travels* ...

[@MothFable]

@@陳潔明-w6y so wait the civilian suits can travel between planets with no ships ? What do you mean by interplanetary capabilities, I’m genuinely curios

[@陳潔明-w6y]

@@MothFable Yes, the suit was apparently powerful enough to allow the wearer to travel between planets, likely within their native solar system.

[@aplusmaker410]

If there ever was a universe other than halo that needs your knowledge and expertise it is warhammer 40k you would have so much content and lore to work with.

[@brockwilkie6022]

40k kinda revels in being insain and really not even that logical, Luetin does as close as possible. I am sure some things would be amazing for Installation 00 to dive in to and I would support every bit of it but since it is so much less logical it would probably be much harder to make things almost real like he does here.

[@cosmictreason2242]

@@brockwilkie6022you'd be surprised. Not every writer knows what they're doing, but overall 40k is very coherent

[@deanlawson6880]

Wow! Boy was that an intense deep dive into very low-level physics. Well done how you started off at a higher level talking about the nature of the forces of physics and then drilling down into the "unobtainium" level assumed physics of how we think it might be done. Nicely done!

[@blackdog6969]

I consider myself pretty intelligent and a Halo lore nerd but you caught me off guard about hardlight structures. Like you said, we're used to them being transparent bridges or shields but solid "holograms" make a lot of sense especially in the Halo world. The real world science part was brilliant and made me think; "would hardlight be hot or cold?" Given that our current techniques is to use particles at almost absolute zero, it should be cold but light/photons carry a lot of energy that could burn. I guess frostbite burns too, either way I'll be wearing shoes if I ever cross a hardlight bridge

[@protoborg]

Holograms do NOT make sense as a hologram is not a physical thing. A hologram is more akin to DNA in that it guides light to form into a shape that when interpreted by ours eyes forms an image in our brains. The reason you can "reach through" a hologram is that it is not the actual image. A photo is a collection of pigment points that form an image in our brains. The paper (or other media) on which the image is printed is the object that contains the pigment. The screen on which the image is displayed is the object. The image on the screen is merely points of light that are given certain colors that our brains then create the image from. A hologram is an image created through the interference patterns of two lasers that are used to image an object. The resulting three dimensional effect is wholly derived by your brain from that interference pattern. It does not exist within the image itself. The kind of holograms you see in Star Wars and other fiction are simply not possible without some sort containment system. Thus, it would not be the hologram you would be walking on. It would be the force field or whatever that was being used to contain the hologram.

[@blackdog6969]

@@protoborg Yeah thanks for the lecture on photography, my comment was about hardlight holograms. If it pleases thy sire, hardlight hardgrams. Modern holograms I am aware are projections onto a medium such as smoke or through a multivector refraction like a prism. Holograms have nothing in common with DNA unless you mean the image's data. Has nothing to do with how it's interpreted by senses. Keep in mind, this is about a sci-fi interpretation, not modern technology. Hologram makes sense in a way to describe a projected image, as is used in much of sci-fi as a common term for both light projection and simulated physical attributes, including hardlight

[@MystrMystr]

3:58 I thought I would clarify this; the strong nuclear force holds quarks together inside of subatomic particles, while also allowing certain particles (neutrons and protons) to stick together to form nuclei by virtue of the charge differences caused by quarks. Atoms do not fuse because of the electromagnetic field emitted by the positively charge nucleus as well as the negatively charged electron cloud orbiting the nucleus (the coulomb field). Strong force doesn't keep atoms from fusing, the electromagnetic force does.

[@eaglestdogg]

It should be noted that photons don't actually slow down when light travels through a medium. The photon is absorbed by a part of the medium and retransmitted which then is absorbed by the next bit of the medium it's traveling through and so on. The absorbtion/retransmission of the photons is what makes it seem like the speed of light has changed but it really hasn't. Light travels between the bits of the medium at c, it's the interaction with the bits of the medium that can take longer. The photons in the experiment didn't attract each other gravitationally, they became entangled during the passage through the medium because of the interactions they had with the medium. Once they exited the cloud the photons kept on behaving as light always does, they just were traveling in pairs/triplets.

[@theblackmamba190ify]

I'm here for the technical, keep it up. It's great!

[@jedstanaland2897]

Something to think about is that the reason why the speed of light changes depending upon what media it is traveling through is because it is interacting with the substance that it's traveling through. It gets a lot stranger because this interacting force is capable of producing a magnetic field of absolutely ludicrous intensity. We are talking about a magnetic field powerful enough that you can push against it and not be able to tell that you are pushing against something that isn't solid or liquid or something else. This typically requires the use of plasma and will absolutely produce a significant amount of additional light. This is a similar way to how a force field from startrek works. You could potentially toon the field to only allow one type of atomic material like say it will only let oxygen through but not hydrogen or anything else or only water but nothing else can get through. You can basically tailor it to only one or a predetermined list of materials you could also use it to heat or cool an object as it comes into contact with the field or passes through in addition to making the transfer from one side to the other one way or free exchange of your selected materials. A good example of this is only allowing oxygen to pass from the left side to the right while only allowing hydrogen to pass from right to the left. You can easily make a more complicated system where the materials from one side are forced into bonding in a certain way somewhere inside the field and then they pass out in another place or reenter one of the previous locations. This is all dealing with plasma dynamics and magnetic fields and very little else. I don't have any way for the mimicking of colors or patterns of colors except for the possibility of using different plasma creation materials and magnetic fields to shape the locations and have certain colors only being displayed in certain areas.

[@Grimpy970]

Your massless videos might not blow my 'head off my shoulders', but they sure blow my socks off! Keep up the good work man! Edit: I think that the light to hardlight change doesn't have to be instant or explosive like you said. Instead of slowing down light, wouldn't it be possible for them to gradually adjust their boson field emitters to make the light 'hard' over the course of a second, or maybe just an appreciable fraction. The way the 'bridges' extend kind of lends credence to this. It just seems like slowing down light would be more work when they can already precisely control their boson fields. Maybe they can make a gradient, maybe they can make it flicker like a refresh rate. As long as they can get atoms and other particles out of the way before they cause an explosion, everything should be fine.. right? Edit2: I now realize you were proposing these as separate mechanisms, not a redundancy 😅

[@protoborg]

You can't slow photons down by much. Though photons do slow within an atmosphere, it is not by a significant amount as the slower the photon travels the lower its mass becomes and the higher its energy becomes. As photons slow from the speed of light, they begin to shift from a particle of matter to a unit of energy. When matter becomes energy, you get a VERY big explosion.

[@thesurvivalist.]

Did you look at how Gundam 00 used light in the series?

[@lukethomas.125]

You were excellent. This is why I love watching your videos. Keep up the good work

[@OniKokuryu]

This video alone has me question further many things about our universe. When you were explaining the intricacies of light and how it works, it had me wonder if the manipulating of light through mass and temperature and such could potentially allow us to look deeper into how gravity and dark matter and energy works. Keep up the amazing work!

[@thebagman853]

Essentially hard consists of exotic parts called polaritons; particles made partially or entirely out of photons. MIT created them by shining short pulses of infrared through rubidium atoms that where put into a rydberg state. A rydberg atom is a pseudo state where the outer most electron orbiting the atom is stuck in an excited orbit. When the photons strike this already excited electron, it takes enough time for the photon to be re-emitted that other photons can be absorbed by the same electron. When these photons are re-emitted, they are emitted as pairs or triplets of photons bond together as if they were quarks in a subatomic particle. The mass and velocity of the new polaritons is proportional to the energy of the initial energy of the photons (E=mc^2). The video mentioned that the rubidium had to be very cold; this is because the rydberg state is very delicate and any heat of vibration could ruin the effect. It also kinda explains why we don't find polaritons in nature, despite them being surprisingly stable as far as exotic partials go. Apologies for the long explanation.

[@Syphaxis]

Pretty sure Portal explores this concept as well. Hard light appears as a testing element in a few of Aperture's test chambers.

[@andrewstahn3248]

I don’t have any advanced degree or a background in physics but it made sense to me. Another wonderful and enjoyable video. Keep it up!

[@DarkxPunk]

Amazing way to explain it. But that means the forerunners and promethians are constantly using a make amount of power for all structures without being affected by am emp. So my question, what is the power source 😜

[@rigen97]

A lot of this video (especially parts about mass and field interaction that it causes/was caused by) are honestly a little questionable, but I like the part about hardlight projector "printing" the hardlight structure layer by layer, using the previous layer as substrate. makes much more sense than building the entire thing on thin air. (or vacuum)

[@Lilmiket1000]

ahhh yes! this did it for me. This is exactly the type of science and playing around with ideas that I live for! Loved it!

[@MothFable]

The fact that so much of halos tech is actually reasonable science wise and somewhat attainable for humans is frankly incredible.

[@davidscbirdsall]

3:25 This video gives new meaning to blew my mind. I feel like my head was blown clean off my shoulders.

[@kylet8924]

You did great. Can you do a video on unsc cryo technology?

[@ponchoremerize5508]

Photons do in fact have a detectable mass! The density in "Laser" terms if concentrated enough in a given space can, in theory, create hard-light. I did a thesis in High-School about "splitting" photons.

[@zantensai5965]

Love this content 😊 always look forward to any and all new videos

[@davidb8656]

7:45 actually light always travels at C, when it’s passing through a medium like water it’s still moving at C. It only appears to move slower bc the photons are no longer moving in a straight line. If you want to know more there’s a Vsauce vid called “Would headlights work at light speed?” that delves into the topic in depth.

[@bable6314]

Light's speed is C. Light's velocity can change.

[@DrAnarchy69]

I’m an academic (historian) so as a ley person in anything sciency, I think I understood it well enough. Good content as always

[@ScolarVisar2307]

THANK YOU FOR ANSWERING THIS QUESTION THAT BEEN ON MY BRAIN

[@smallpeople172]

Well, hard light has been experimentally created in the lab already, just with a small number of photons instead of large visible structures.

[@Pub2k4]

Hard light is made using the captured light of Alfheim, using a bifrost crystal. At least, that’s what Freya said.

[@quantumspark343]

Very nice breakdown, these videos are good for redescovering my passion and curiosity for science in times of university exams

[@hectorelderflower219]

Lore and theory & most detailed of the ferrarius assembler Vats... Would be epic !!!

[@idigdeadthings7612]

i love this

[@stygianoatman]

Have you done a most detailed breakdown of humans? Like, human biology. I think it'd be interesting, would love to see how you'd make it. Or ancient human weapons, they were said to shatter enemies like glass.

[@FlavioSantos-uw1mr]

Hey! I liked your explanation about quantum physics, but I would like to point out that elementary particles do not "Form" fields, they are the field, to be more clear they are the "quantitative units of energy of the fields themselves" after all everything is basically oscillations in the fields. I imagine that this kind of construction could become possible once we solve the problems with energy, it could happen in the near future when our fusion reactors get more and more efficient.

[@brengund9881]

I would like to see a video on your process of research for your videos. Like where and how you find your sources and your process of applying them.

[@Matt_of_the_mountains]

Well done. Very well done.

[@deathsicon]

When speaking about the requiem bridges, I feel like there's some kind of analogy to 3d printing to be made there, but I only know the basics, my limited knowledge says it's probably in the mystical realm of resin printing

[@knightjacob80]

So if we use a device containing supercooled rubidium as a cloud and lasers we could slow light causing it to chrystalize and build using it? idk if i understand right.

[@billycharter4332]

Loved it! As always the content is cool!

[@guntherrall3334]

And now im making a pot of coffee at 3pm lol thanks 🤣

[@florntlaze810]

This video plus Reploid REVO's What Exactly Are....Busters?, and What Exactly Are...Gems?, with TREY the Explainer's What are Gems? (Scientific Analysis) video has everything i need to know for Steven Universe's Gems Gemology. If you add Certifiably Ingame video called Hidden Tech of the Holodeck, you can also Simulate how the ships in the show are bigger on in inside than outside. Thanks for the amazing video on hardlight it is one of the few videos on the internet showcasing most of the closest technology/science on the subject. Edit: I said the What Exactly Are...Gems? video was the less useful I was wrong it was the more useful video from Reploid REVO.

[@Ztrotex]

This came out today?! I was just researching this.

[@LMG1792]

That is awesome always wondered about hardlight. Thank you sir

[@jodybranson925]

I always thought from my perspective, hard light war more akin to a holographic object in a Holodeck from star trek. Something along those lines at least.

[@danielburke911]

Hard light buildings for when you don’t just want a power outage to turn off the lights but the entire house itself

[@SK-zi3sr]

I think that hardlight could be misleading and the main set of particles creates a resistantive force and the light particles are just used to highlight along the space where the force is flowing. Shields in star wars universe are proposed to be made out of resistant particles or ions which push things away, and reject them acting as a field, the light doesn’t show until the shield is shot at. The hardlight could just be getting outligned, like energy swords, magnetic energy guides its, or from the process of making a particle resistant vibrates the particle in such a way giving it a glow

[@Wigglylove]

Awesome video!

[@WolfeSaber]

From the words of Bugs Bunny from the Wabbit series, "Everyday we live more in Sci-fi."

[@ClassicMagicMan]

If hard light is extremely cold within the confines of its emitters, would it become "hot" again after leaving it?

[@JQ3B94]

4:08 I was holding an Irish coffee while watching this

[@how_about_no3287]

So essentially by shining light through a electromagneticaly controlled cloud of super chilled metallic gas you can project solidified light structures? Am I understanding this concept correctly?

[@SalariaStudios]

Science fiction is just tomorrows nonfiction

[@hummingbirb5403]

Just wanted to make sure that people know it’s the interaction between electrons in materials that allows traditional materials to be solid, the strong nuclear force can’t reach out past its own atom’s electrons and as such the solidness of normal matter is dictated by the repulsion of negatively charged electrons. The barrier that makes it so hard to get fusion reactors again is made by the electric repulsion of protons from 2 nuclei, the strong force holds a nucleus together. I also don’t think that forcing photons to lose energy translates into a mass gain, E=mc^2 dictates that a loss of energy would also be a loss of mass. For example, most of a proton’s or neutron’s mass comes from the binding energy in gluons holding the quarks together. By taking energy out of the bonds you effectively decrease the overall mass of the system. I do not have a proper education in particle physics, but my best guess for how the light-rubidium gas thing works is messing with the spin of a clump of photons, similar to how a Cooper pair effectively changes 2 electrons’ spin states in a superconductor. Cooling a superconducting material does not directly create the superconducting property, rather it prevents the insane background noise (the heat) from drowning out the exotic interactions that you want to happen It’s probably difficult to explain quantum spin states in layman’s terms, but I think a future attempt might be improved by pointing people in the right direction, such as explaining how electric repulsion and chemical bonds make things solid instead of the strong nuclear force, and adhering strictly to the math you bring up (E=mc^2 in this case, as c is more a measure of the speed of causality and can’t be manipulated, it might accidentally paint an inaccurate picture of physics to a layperson). I do think that you did well in the potential explanation of Forerunner bridges with some minor tweaks, I’d say they take the material around them and rapidly cool them or do something else to prevent the background noise from drowning out the desired quantum interaction. This new hardlight layer could be a good thermal conductor, or work well in propagating the interaction that makes the light gain effective mass. Between 2 hardlight projectors the solid light grows from each projector and meeting in the middle, similar to how water freezing or metal cooling can be controlled by adding nucleation points in specific positions.

[@gordonfiala2336]

8:27 yeah that was good. they emitted the light to display something imageable. it radared back energy that could be detected...

[@moguldamongrel3054]

The easiest way to make hard light, is to keep light at ridiculously cold temperatures. This slows the photons to such a point that they take form and shape, as their vibration and rotational speeds begin resembling physical matter. That's just my guess. Watching your video now.

[@Dash62g]

This light goes hard feel free to screenshot

[@matiashelios5214]

Love your content, mate.

[@SchneeflockeMonsoon]

Question: Could a hard light construct have infinitely small vacuum tubes within that allow light-speed transit within them by normal photons, and make much faster circuits?

[@irisheye37]

You don't need hardlight for that. We've already created optical transistors irl.

[@SchneeflockeMonsoon]

@@irisheye37 Oh… Well, is it at least an option?

[@Donthaveacowbra]

Err few issues. What let's your hand interact with the table isn't the strong nuclear force but actually still electromagnetism. The strong nuclear force is attractive. We can't think of it like positive negative because it's not. The strong nuclear force acts over short distances, specifically the coulomb barrier. What keeps your hand from pushing through the table is electromagnetism. But more specifically, LIGHT. Photos are the first carrier so any em reaction of any sort is mediated via photons. Each of the forces has their boson. For strong nuclear it's a gluon. For weak its w and z. For light it's the photon! For the Higgs field it's the Higgs boson 😅 and we are now on the question if there is a boson for gravity and or time (graviton and tachyon)

[@ethanallan1254]

I have a question about the photons that are emitted from the hard light bridges. Clearly they don’t have mass as they would otherwise be destroying everything in a massive radius, that means that the photons emitted by the hard light constructs must lose their mass somehow. Do you think it’s a process similar to radioactive decay? Where the photonic “molecules” are decaying into regular photons without any mass and giving the bridges their glow. In that case the projector would have to be constantly generating new hard light layers to replace the ones that have fully decayed.

[@justindurfee9375]

Your technical knowledge goes far above my head, but I find it interesting all the same. I enjoy listening to you explain how the technology of the Halo universe works in terms that the layman of our universe can understand to some extent. How's your functional replica suit of Mark VI powered assault armor coming along? I haven't seen or heard anything on that project for some time.

[@commandershepard4235]

Was that a whiskey sip or a coffee sip? The world may never know. 🤣🤣🤣

[@andromeda4257]

hey there! i loved this video--it did a great job at breaking down much more complicated topics than i think im capable of learning on my own, and it's helped me clarify the hypothetical operation of hard light in a sci-fi story of my own. i know im about seven months late, but i was hoping maybe there was a chance you (or someone else who has a theory) would see this. one thing i'm still stuck on is... without another medium to meet it or stop it, how would hard light particles be able to be projected into the air and create a 3D structure that has a definitive shape and/or top, without the particles simply escaping into the atmosphere? as you said, photons want to travel at the speed of light. with nothing to cool them back down again, wouldn't any vertically projected stream of cooled photons eventually regain energy as they warm, lose mass, and return to traveling as a photon? if they would--how would one "stop" the photons in midair to maintain a rigid, definitive 3D structure? thanks again, have a good one!

[@thorshammer7883]

Is Hardlight more powerful and advance then Particle Beams?

[@AJ_Sparten1337]

If we can manipulate photons to travel slower than the speed of light, then that should be evidence enough to prove that we can make objects we mass travel faster than light safely. The problem is that it revolves around an area of physics and quantum mechanics that haven't discovered, don't understand, or haven't identified yet.

[@LDSG_A_Team]

Dude this is dope! Does this mean that hard light bridges appear blue due to cherenkov radiation?

[@Installation00]

I hadn't thought of that. But yes, that would make sense! Nice catch!

[@sasquatchandme3673]

I enjoyed your explanation of hard light. There seems to be a difference between hard light tech in Halo and the hard light tech used in Overwatch? Can you explain that?

[@korvatusklok4059]

Great job. Just one simple question. Is it possible that "hard light" is actually a mistranslation?

[@Joshua_N-A]

So, the energy sword is considered as one?

[@affarinoxa]

4:16 never noticed before, but does the chief "pull" the charging handle here despite it being on the opposite side? Or does it have a ambidextrous charging handle?

[@darellkubina5498]

Good video

[@mybunnyfuzz]

Would this be how light sabers work? The "kybher" crystal slows down the light similar to the gas cloud. What's the significance of the gas chosen by MIT for the experiment? Does it have a solid, liquid and/or crystalline form as well?

[@BryanbFLYin]

Great video and explanation. I'M LOSING MY MIND WAITING FOR THE NEXT PROJECT MJOLNIR UPDATE. 😂😭 ETA for the next update?

[@nathanj2439]

The only thing I cannot grasp here is how E=MC/squared is not violated when decreasing energy results in an increase in mass. If speed increases mass and mass is multiplied by energy then either I'm missing something or a certain German scientist was partially wrong

[@sinkiller8871]

Can you please do a video about Mass effect reapers vs halo flood on your 00 multiverse channel please?

[@EtherealToxin]

Thanks. but I wonder if the Slowing-Down effect can be achieved through projecting the Photon-Light as a Penetrating-Ray through [Multi-Layered Woven-Magnetic-Fields], but then again I suppose that would actually require having Technology to Project Magnetic-Fields like a Custom-Soundwave through [combining Resonance with Magnetics], which I suppose is probably above the current tech-level of modern understanding.

[@PeskyGenius]

Sounds like that biforst the Norse dreamed about

[@BloodRedLFC]

So how does hardlight disintegrate organic material? Does hardlight structure lack friction?

[@blandconstant5548]

really love these videos but honestly would like to see a full "nerd" version sometimes, where there is not that much thought given to making it as understandable as possible.

[@joesunday199]

How durable would Hard Light actually be though? Even if you could make it solid it would need to deal with certain stresses.

[@brockwilkie6022]

I want to know this in the real world AND Halo lol

[@joesunday199]

@@brockwilkie6022 I'd also like to know what Hard Light would sound like if you tapped on it.

[@wigglespeedturbo6324]

The claim that the strong nuclear force is responsible for the normal force which prevents objects from intersecting each other and allows you to walk over a bridge is flat out wrong. The normal force arises from the electromagnetic force, which is carried by photons

[@lucasgood4438]

One potential problem with hardlight assuming it could exist in reality, is that light can get vary hot (light bulbs). Would hardlight become more or less hot from being slowed down and combined. or would it not be hot at all. If it would be hot, would it be to hot for a human to withstand.

[@keilansenegal5354]

Could you cover the powers and abilities of cortana in halo 5 guardians- halo infinite?

[@artistanthony1007]

Might not get a portable Hardlight Gun anytime soon or have tech to reverse engineer for my own but gotta start somewhere.

[@NovoCognition]

You mention in the IRL experiment with slowing down light that the medium was cooled to near absolute zero. It seems like unless you want to get a bad case of frostbite, a medium with a higher temperature seems to be required. Still, that fact that such a development was made almost 10 years ago does show promise of hard light being able to be used in various tasks ranging from construction scaffolding to personal defense.

[@spikedpsycho2383]

I'm getting into real physics. I believe hard light is a design configuration of forcefield to surround and entrap the photon. Another is photon, adheres to its wave/particle theorem..... likely a process exist to configure it to particle by adhering to Strong nuclear force. In a 2010s MIT experiment scientists bombarded heavy metal vapor with ultra low power laser. Photons slowed and gained mass. In same way glues hold fiberglass together an artificial particle acts as a glue to hold photons coherently.