The Science of Half-Life's Resonance Cascade

The heavily requested science video of The Science of Half-Life!
But all my ideas came from Half-Life 2... and with no Half-Life 3, what could I do?
The Resonance Cascade has a lot of interesting science going on with it that makes for some cool topics to talk about with my experience as a physicist, nuclear engineer, and engineer in the research and development field.
You can check out the original video here:
• The Science of the Por...
Also check out Austin's channel. He's a really cool guy ‪@ShoddyCast‬
In tribulatione sua mane consurgent ad me: Venite, et revertamur ad Dominum.
Have a blessed Good Friday.
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Music in order of appearance:
Halls of Science - Portal 2
Drums and Riffs - Half-Life
Turret Wife Serenade - Portal 2
Party escort - Portal
Credits and Closing Theme - Half-Life
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[@WestOfLee100]

TL:DR “GREEN AND YELLOW SHIT COMBINED IS NOT GOOD”

[@cherrusmh]

LOL

[@BaalFridge]

Oh hey the science works ou- *dimensonial skidoosh*

[@SteveNeubauer]

I'm so glad you did a followup to the algorithm's blessing! It's like a special gift sequel

[@TheShuckmeister]

Happy to provide!

[@Patrees.]

I'm happy that I understood at least half of this

[@brightax7502]

*half* life

[@Random_Idiot69420]

I see what you did there

[@jesterismmannerism939]

im surprised you didn't bring up gordon's thesis he wrote for MIT! which, as we all know, is the Observation of Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Entanglement on Supraquantum Structures by Induction Through Nonlinear Transuranic Crystal of Extremely Long Wavelength (ELW) Pulse from Mode-Locked Source Array. of course.

[@mineland8220]

my man went from Jojo to science and im all for it. These are really intresting for learning something new. Good job sir

[@AdminHouse]

The entire Resonance Cascade itself was all orchestrated by the G-Man. He was the one who sent in the "purest sample" and the most unstable. Sample GG-3883. Combined with the sample's instability and the increased threshold of the AMS, upon contact sent the crystal's energy across the room. This opened a dimensional rift from Earth to Xen, and the Nihilanth was a major part in holding the rift open. The rift was eventually closed, but the Portal Storms following were much more devestating, combined with the invasion of the Universal Union, and, the fall of humanity.

[@cluster-raid]

you should cover the zero point energy manipulator from half-life the 2nd

[@Isaiah-jm5fn]

I mean i guess you can call it that if you really want to

[@mercce6750]

Maybe the Nihilant siphoned this energy to literally work its magic and open those portals? It has been implied and stated that it was the one who opened and maintained the connection between Xen and Earth so maybe due to the G-Man creating an opening that the desperate Nihilant needed to rip holes into the walls between dimensions, maybe?

[@jaysonata3211]

Half Life spotted, big excited to see this

[@lexicon1742]

Cool video, I like how you applied what you knew to the game elements for inference! Your explanations for resonance and antimatter left me confused until you made clear their link to the Xen crystal at the end of the video. Would it make things clearer if the link to the scientific concept introduced and the game aspect represented was made more explicit?

[@TheShuckmeister]

It probably would make things a little clearer. Thanks for pointing that out

[@user-nd3do6en9f]

The prune juice sound from 4:07 is very similar to the sound playing when the anti mass spectrometer is breaking down in the Black Mesa Remake. The crowbar collective may have thought of this sound for the resonance cascade starting.

[@juimymary9951]

Hmmm I don't think that they were talking about antimatter, but about matter with negative gravitational mass...

[@TheShuckmeister]

Negative mass is something I don’t subscribe to. I’ve had professors rip into the idea before

[@Ag_33]

⁠​⁠​⁠@@TheShuckmeistera fair viewpoint, though many long time fans will find exotic matter to be the more likely definition, not just because of the ‘anti-mass’ name, but also probably due in part to the fact that the portals look and behave differently from Aperture portals-being actually spherical holes.

[@Tatefootball83]

@@TheShuckmeister what about negative gravitational mass but positive inertial mass? This is what dark matter could potentially be. It PUSHES rather than pulls, and it's why we don't see any in our galaxy... cause it's OUTSIDE the galaxy. That said, there are plenty of holes in this theory of mine, but it is still more plausible to me than some mysterious particle that should be all around us but is nowhere to be found.

[@lukapetrovic412]

Man I sure do love the science

[@fungi5591]

shuck discovers that twitter users have infinite free time, chaos ensues

[@RiverJensen]

Fuck the algorithm, the Portal Video and now this are so fucking cool

[@TheShuckmeister]

Algorithm may hate my channel, but I love making these videos!

[@elco-coisoriginal]

one of my fave youtubers talking about one of my fave games? YES PLEASE!

[@SQUID_KID102]

im glad you ditched that weird portal girl from the portal gun vid

[@Tatefootball83]

Why??? I liked her. 😇

[@enderking1525]

There is a SINGLE issue I have with this analysis, and that's that I don't think the "anti-mass" in "anti-mass spectrometer" means anti-matter, but instead means "negative mass". Now, unless I completely misunderstood relativity (which I very well might have, calculus was never something I was good at) if it did indeed involve negative mass, perhaps it wasn't the crystal itself that was resonating and cascaded, but spacetime, resulting in a wormhole (again, this is just with a cursory understanding of relativity, I could be completely wrong here)

[@TheShuckmeister]

I try to avoid negative mass at all costs. I really don't believe in it

[@enderking1525]

@TheShuckmeister that's fair, though half-life is a sci-fi universe and the math for negative mass theoretically checks out (I think. Again, not good at calculus) so I think it's a valid possibility.

[@nathanielwells7100]

Man, I'm hoping to be an engineer or physicist that gets to tackle these kinds of things. I am in the physics sphere but I barely hear about some of the stuff discussed in the video. I love your channel though!

[@jbpiano5313]

I didnt understand anything but i just like to listen to Shuck talk about physics

[@Isaiah-jm5fn]

Discovered this channel from the portal video today. I love this video too. Would love a video on half life 2. Gravity gun is good choice. Or the science behind alyxs dog, or the hev suit, or the citadel,

[@ChaseHukill]

Okay this was super cool Hope you enjoyed Half-Life Except for the Ladder

[@TheShuckmeister]

Ladders we're like the worst part of the game next to autosaving

[@TauGeneration]

@@TheShuckmeister yeah...that's a pretty common thing. if you hate the ladders in HL1, you will *loath* the HL2 ones

[@DerpyTC]

If you press e on the ladders you lock on them

[@QuintinCooper]

"Oh wait, scratch that last one" *yet*

[@tincan357]

good vid, could please make a vid on the half-life gluon gun? or maybe the tau cannon

[@TheShuckmeister]

Good ideas! Thanks!

[@alonectorch7877]

something that might help to explain the way valve thinks about teleportation in the half-life series is that THE innsbruck teleportation experiments from 1997 are referenced multiple times in half-life 2

[@synthomite405]

I always thought of it like the beam going into the crystal created too much resonance in that intangible barrier between the realms and ultimately shattering it. Since the crystal is from xen and xen is the border between dimensions, it shattered that barrier, creating a cascade effect where it opened thousands of little openings to go from xen into our universe. The scientists at black mesa did this all the time in a much more controlled environment, opening little holes to slip through before they disappear. A resonance cascade, in my theory anyway, would be like shooting that barrier with a shotgun, and with a lot more power than what you'd use to slip into xen, causing the gaps to stay open. In the game, when you launch that rocket you're completing a satellite chain that can be used to close all these little holes, which is exactly what happens in the expansion pack Decay. Of course, the Nihilanth keeps a hole open with its psychic power, allowing its forces to still come through, and you see this in the gameplay if you really pay attention. However, all of this weakened the barrier, allowing new gaps to randomly open up and cause havoc, seen in the form of the portal storms mentioned as having happened in the direct aftermath of the incident. I'm just a writer, no scientist by any means, but half life, especially half life 2 reference spiritual and psychic elements to the world as much as it does scientific, so I think the real answer is much more esoteric. Of course, the true answer is that we've both put way more thought into it than Valve ever did haha

[@Flynnisthename]

Yay excited to hear this one

[@georgipavlov6881]

A physics PhD saying "The amplitude of the waves is essentially their energy" is highly concerning.

[@TheShuckmeister]

Firstly, not a Physics PhD. To make the point clearer, I should have said is "directly proportional to the energy" in retrospect but I don't think it's too concerning when trying to distill these concepts down. On the Portal Gun video, many people were saying I was talking in too high terms. If it went too far the other way, I will adjust for future videos

[@dreadmanjacktv877]

Love this dudes videos

[@jellyface401]

the pit will be opened and is not going to be as nice as this one.

[@topcat59]

Cool vid bro.😺

[@bilalwx8711]

Good video

[@Dino-dp4gj]

goated video

[@user-ee5st4hh8t]

It would have been nice if you could make the music quiter when doing the wineglass thing.

[@Lunarcreeper]

i would like to see a video on if it's possible to make light bridges. i talked to chatgpt, and all i could find is something called pair production?

[@DevDoge_]

I miss the png girl from the portal video :(

[@link_team3855]

3:32 this sounds EXACTLY like the warp portals from LoZ... not sure if i remember which one. I think OoT?

[@QuantumPickleJar]

Hadn't even thought to ask for this after watching the Portal science video! Particle physics will forever be an interest of mine thanks to Half Life, long live science!

[@asbjrnschultz1919]

11:14 why wouldnt aliens exist? theres planets similar to earth in the universe!

[@CtrlOptDel]

“Drink prune juice every day.” Ok, Worf…

[@mrchannel3760]

Great video! And if ya liked half life i highly playing the remake/remaster called "black mesa" Truly one of my favorite games ever! :)

[@lapis8339]

Neat

[@purpleboye_]

Dude the algorithm MURDERED you

[@AdminHouse]

I also suggest you play Black Mesa, the remake of Half-Life

[@JW-gw1ed]

any chance you could make a video about the Engineer's teleporter from tf2? Or to change things up, the Medigun?

[@Conceptual69a]

do tau cannon and gluon gun, as well as the one big laser in questionable ethics (black mesa's version of it)

[@coreydorce8246]

Gordon doesn’t need to here all of this he’s a highly trained professional

[@doctormaverick8024]

Im lost. What did he say and why are people unsubscribing?

[@vasart7974]

The general consensus is that he had overreacted to an uncomfortable scene in the latest chapter of Jojolands, implying that he is done with jojo whatsoever.

[@Jacy-dx6dx]

He didn't overreact. Go check the tweet out yourself.

[@vasart7974]

@@Jacy-dx6dx I have indeed seen his Twitter. "Yeah, I think I'm done with Jojolands. This ain't it chief" And then preceeded to post a lot Christian stuff and respond to every comment that disagreed with him. Way too much energy spent on proving he doesn't care what others think. Although, I don't really get hating him for that, but I do understand why people are clowning on him. He claims jojo never had anything like that scene in Jojonads when it clearly did. He is entitled to him own opinion, but his point can't be that this is something new, which is where the jokes are coming from. Jojo was brutal from part 1 and it's a fact. If his views changed he should have said so instrad of wearing some mask.

[@Jacy-dx6dx]

@@vasart7974 Catholic. He's Catholic. You've made up your mind and I suppose I can't change that. It's your job to do that not mine. Sorry.

[@vasart7974]

@@Jacy-dx6dx, catholicism is a branch of chistianism. So yeah, Christian. Which doesn't have anything to do with my point BTW. You are diverting attention. Plus, I didn't say I make fun of him, I don't. There is very clear difference between knowing why someone does what they do and agreeing with them. I don't agree with that we should hate shuck all of a sudden.

[@krispyking2450]

maybe cover the zero point energy field manipulator in layman’s terms the gravity gun

[@yournuggetssmell2313]

Why are so many hating what happend

[@anonymousthekiller5199]

Twitter happened

[@yournuggetssmell2313]

@@anonymousthekiller5199 bruh what did He says to piss so many from the cancel culture off

[@anonymousthekiller5199]

@@yournuggetssmell2313 That Araki went woke

[@BRUH-ne2zf]

Cool Video Shuck 😊

[@TheShuckmeister]

Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it

[@Jacy-dx6dx]

​@@TheShuckmeister is good video.

[@wondermenel2811]

How about the Lambda Teleporter?

[@jamesgames653]

Bro what is that video on the side in the beginning.

[@ComaToastOfficial]

overqualified for the job gg

[@SupplySupplier]

I could not understand 70% of what this video is explaining and i feel dumb lol, awesome video tho

[@Alexifeu]

Lol I just watched the Portal Video and now this :D

[@TheShuckmeister]

Glad you came this way

[@amirdashti5761]

I like your videos

[@Hazzyhues]

Why do you own the mrmeatman server on discord?

[@sharpsrain8302]

Ik this is stupid to ask but given all the various theories and non real science on the Internet what's the best way to go about learning actual science -(if u don't have access to a college,ppl

[@mr.x4129]

0:52 bro made covid

[@Shuck34]

I’m sorry what, who are you imposter

[@TauGeneration]

if you want any info about the half life series, Im your man B)

[@UnidentifiedFlyingSquirrel]

I’ve been seeing that people have issues with this guy, what happened?

[@bulbasaurkindahawtngl2345]

Shuck is a youtuber that gained popularity for his content on the manga and anime series JoJos Bizarre Adventure. The 13th chapter of the newest 9th part features one of the Main characters, a trans person, getting SA by a villainous bully character. This is used as justification for the child protagonist to defend his sibling by burning the school bus with the bullies. After the chapter was released, Shuck tweeted that he was done with JoJos. Now obviously you are free to drop a series whenever you want but of course the fans of his JoJos content would start blindnessly hating him. However the situation wouldve been rectified if he said he just felt uncomfortable with SA of lgbtq characters or that it's more of a personal reason which is absolutely fine. However instead he defended himself by saying that JoJos has never depicted SA before which is completely false with the worst offender coming from his personal favourite part. This lead to people wondering why he chose this part to drop. Afterwards he starts tweeting a bunch of Christian stuff and replying to almost all the tweets that attack him and now some label him as a bigot or smth. So that's basically it. He thought the chapter was in poor taste. I dont agree with him at all but I'm not really a big viewer of him and people seemed to be monumentally pissy over his original tweet though I can understand what people mean by him overreacting

[@brandonkite4414]

@@bulbasaurkindahawtngl2345 you forgot to mention the part where he said it was "Araki chose to write this SA scene differently" because the chapter was released "in the wake of stuff like the Nex Benedict situation". He essentially said Araki was woke for writing that scene. Add the fact that his most popular video is "Araki Forgot Moments" that spread so much misinformation across the JoJo fanbase, everyone called him out on it as a result.

[@Turret-zm8xl]

woah

[@user-iu4jl6cg4n]

wdym it kinda works woah woah woah ey ey ey EY EY

[@andrewrosene6511]

According to Dr. Judith Mossman in Half-Life 2, Black Mesa's short-range teleport and Xen portal are both based on a Calabi Yau model, so it's basically string theory BS. Since Half-Life already forces us to accept an awful model of physics which is handwavy nonsense, can we not just for a moment also look at negative mass for two seconds?

[@concept5631]

2:14

[@akakagamingshowcases5964]

what do you think about ai?

[@TheShuckmeister]

My next video is about AI. You should get ready for it!

[@akakagamingshowcases5964]

@@TheShuckmeister i will watch it for sure

[@guanglaikangyi6054]

For those wondering why people are yapping, Shuck said he is done with JoJoLands because he felt the Dragona SA chapter was in poor taste. That's it. I don't really agree with him, but getting bent out of shape because of this is Twitter brainrot.

[@brandonkite4414]

Why did he say it was in poor taste when there are 10+ other SA scenes in Jojo? What made this one different

[@guanglaikangyi6054]

​@@brandonkite4414 Because this one was used as justification by the protagonist to hurt a bunch of children, most of whom were innocent.

[@brandonkite4414]

@@guanglaikangyi6054 Shuck said that as the reason it was in poor taste?

[@Jacy-dx6dx]

@@brandonkite4414 children are the most important part of society. Wouldn't. You. Agree.

[@brandonkite4414]

@@Jacy-dx6dx Yeah man. Innocent victims of bullying like Dragona especially.

[@avibaka123]

202

[@thesmilyguyguy9799]

:>ID

[@richardwalker2881]

Man feel off JoJo after that bus scene from the latest chapter, where a bro defended his older bro from being s.aed

[@guanglaikangyi6054]

And injured like 18 innocent people and got his dad to lose his job. Even Dragona said what he did was wrong, wtf man?

[@thatrandomdude9108]

19'th

[@wyattbooth6372]

Ok how the heck are you a professional physicist. Antimass doesn't mean Antimatter, it means negative mass. It's right there in the name, ANTI Mass, as in something that is opposite to mass. It's pretty obvious that that's what the game is talking about, considering that antimatter doesn't have any abnormal effect on space time and negative mass does. You should already know this.

[@Jacy-dx6dx]

These unsubscribers are just salty because someone doesn't agree with them.

[@brandonkite4414]

....yeah? They don't agree with the guy, so they unsubscribe. What did you expect? That we have to like him?

[@Jacy-dx6dx]

@@brandonkite4414 there's a difference of unsubscribing and complaining. You don't need to yell about how you won't be watching his videos anymore, just leave.

[@brandonkite4414]

​@@Jacy-dx6dxthat's what the comment sections are for bub: feedback. Comment sections aren't echo chambers. People don't like what he did, and this is how they express their dislike. That's like saying youtube should remove the thumbs down button altogether.

[@Jacy-dx6dx]

@@brandonkite4414 but this video is about half life and not JoJo.

[@brandonkite4414]

@@Jacy-dx6dx This is Shuck's channel, and his latest video. I know riding Shuck must feel so good for your ass but please don't forget to think and use common sense.

[@armoredman6941]

Oops forgot to unsubscribe

[@MarcelxDD]

Bruh same

[@GattCoulomb]

fr

[@huh325]

What?

[@Ieonleon]

same lol

[@rolledoats9427]

​@@IeonleonWhat happened? Why do so many comments say this

[@krabsolfurretisme]

nah chief, this aint it.

[@felixnordberg8939]

thx for the reminder to unsub!!!

[@themannofsex5558]

why the fuck is everyone unsubscribing, what is wrong with people

[@ChaseHukill]

Literally people being mad because Shuck is Catholic

[@Jacy-dx6dx]

​@@ChaseHukill that's sad. All the more reason to stand with shuck.

[@Jacy-dx6dx]

@@cyphercringe1417 they don't need to announce it like some sort of grand achievement.

[@Jacy-dx6dx]

@@cyphercringe1417 I could say the same to you.

[@Jacy-dx6dx]

@@cyphercringe1417 those who announce it.