How Gordon and Alyx survive the "Big Bang"

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Here's my theory on how Gordon (and Alyx) survived the major explosion atop the Citadel. The super grav gun can suck up energy, right?. What if it condensed the explosion and sent it further down in the Citadel?. It still has its effects on the Citadel, but Gordon and Alyx now have the time to escape. Maybe too far-fetched?, I dunno.
 
I doubt it. I think the explosion will send Alyx flying and the explosion will just suck back inward. Then you'll regroup with Alyx.
 
Max35 said:
Here's my theory on how Gordon (and Alyx) survived the major explosion atop the Citadel. The super grav gun can suck up energy, right?. What if it condensed the explosion and sent it further down in the Citadel?. It still has its effects on the Citadel, but Gordon and Alyx now have the time to escape. Maybe too far-fetched?, I dunno.
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Your theory is screwed, firstly the super grav gun cannot suck up energy, it can only attract physical objects. Secondly, explosions can't be condensed.

Edit:
Oh and btw Samon you might want this thread for the july edition of STOTM
http://halflife2.net/forums/showthread.php?t=85422
 
What about the pillars of energy, that the grav gun draws from at the end of the game. If it can draw from the energy spheres at the endgame, why not an explosion (maybe the condensing part was a bit much), atleast maybe it REPELS it. I agree its far-fetched. Maybe I communicated the theory a little wrong at first.
 
Max35 said:
What about the pillars of energy, that the grav gun draws from at the end of the game. If it can draw from the energy spheres at the endgame, why not an explosion (maybe the condensing part was a bit much), atleast maybe it REPELS it. I agree its far-fetched. Maybe I communicated the theory a little wrong at first.
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Nah I honestly doubt the grav gun would affect such a massive explosion.
 
Samon said:
I doubt it. I think the explosion will send Alyx flying and the explosion will just suck back inward. Then you'll regroup with Alyx.
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I thought that too. The explosion gets teleported away :D
 
I think the exploding teleporter causes a mini resonance cascade that teleports Gordon, Alyx and Breen all over the place and they each settle in three different places in and around City 17.
 
The G-man teleports both of you away... it's as simple as that
 
PickledGecko said:
I think the exploding teleporter causes a mini resonance cascade that teleports Gordon, Alyx and Breen all over the place and they each settle in three different places in and around City 17.
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You start in the citadel and you have to make your way out, so you can't go in and around city 17.
 
Samon said:
You start in the citadel and you have to make your way out, so you can't go in and around city 17.
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That’s been confirmed?

Well in that case, it’s more like the teleporter accident at Kleiner’s. You get teleported around the city then back to the citadel after the explosion takes a big chunk out of the tower.
 
PickledGecko said:
That’s been confirmed?

Well in that case, it’s more like the teleporter accident at Kleiner’s. You get teleported around the city then back to the citadel after the explosion takes a big chunk out of the tower.
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Where would the teleporter be to transport them place to place?

In Kleiner's lab you were in the teleport, and Llamar screwed the sequence up..Whats the change that there will be a teleporter & retarded headcrab less than half a second away from you & the explosion?
 
As mentioned before, I'm wagering that the explosion will collapse on itself. You and Alyx just survive because of dumb luck, after being thrown a few hundred feet back. Then, you start running.

-Angry Lawyer
 
I wonder if you'll start off with maybe 75 health after being thrown backwards and making a harsh landing...

I still want to know about the .. HEV:
Will the suit still hold 200 AP?
 
I doubt it. It'd unbalance the game, as would be keeping the grav gun in its current state.

-Angry Lawyer
 
TST_Devgru Seal said:
Where would the teleporter be to transport them place to place?
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What was that big bubble that Breen was in? A tanning bed? A home cinema? Oh no, it was a teleporter.

TST_Devgru Seal said:
In Kleiner's lab you were in the teleport, and Llamar screwed the sequence up..Whats the change that there will be a teleporter & retarded headcrab less than half a second away from you & the explosion?
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And in Black Mesa there was no teleporter and no retarded headcrab, so is it not conceivable that there is more than one way that teleporter technology can screw up and cause the effect I mentioned?
 
That's true..I forgot about the Black Mesa teleportation...

But what are you talking about "Bubble that Breen was in"? Refresh my mind...
 
PickledGecko said:
What was that big bubble that Breen was in? A tanning bed? A home cinema? Oh no, it was a teleporter.
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No, it wasn't.
 
Breen's bubble wasn't a teleporter, it was a shield. The teleporter was the big hole that appeared through spacetime above the citadel.

-Angry Lawyer
 
Yarr, t'was just a rather silly-looking elevator.
 
I was talking about the whole thing, the bubble bit was the only feature that stood out, my point was, that there was a teleporter near by.
 
Sulkdodds said:
Yeah, but when was the last time that you saw an elevator that looked like that? :p
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In my mansion where else!?! :p

But seriously, it is alien technology and i think it must have something to do with surviving in the combine universe, not too mention it has a control pad in it.
 
Iam not fussed on what had happend, its all going to be explained in Aftermath.
 
I can hardly believe with a title involving Gordon and Alyx and bang this thread hasn't been taken over by "We want teh Alyx nakeddedededssss" fanboys. I guess the serious people are all that's left (except for a few exceptions).
I think that we'll see how they survived in a few months.
 
A True Canadian said:
Perhaps that's not a fireball coming out of the explosion but something else entirely.
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Care to elaborate...? Melted cheese? Orange juice?
 
The whole concept of a gravity gun is illogical anyway, I'm not going to try and figure out Valve's logic behind Alyx surviving the blast. And Gordon lives, well, because G-Man rescues him. Duh.
 
Breen: "I wish you would have used your boundless energy (grav gun) for a useful purpose." So, being boundless, it *could* repel the explosion, but I guess the theory is a bit too out there to be taken into consideration. Ah, maybe the "boudless energy" Breen was talking about was Gordon Freeman's ability to not give up?.
 
Max35 said:
Breen: "I wish you would have used your boundless energy (grav gun) for a useful purpose." So, being boundless, it *could* repel the explosion, but I guess the theory is a bit too out there to be taken into consideration. Ah, maybe the "boudless energy" Breen was talking about was Gordon Freeman's ability to not give up?.
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He isn't talking about the grav gun, actually. I'm almost certain he was talking about Gordon, because Gordon just doesn't stop.
 
Pesmerga said:
The whole concept of a gravity gun is illogical anyway, I'm not going to try and figure out Valve's logic behind Alyx surviving the blast. And Gordon lives, well, because G-Man rescues him. Duh.
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Explain to me in full physics details why you cannot use zero-point energy to do those things.
 
ríomhaire said:
Explain to me in full physics details why you cannot use zero-point energy to do those things.
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It's not the logic behind the technology, it's the logic behind the implementation that makes me itch my head. I don't see how you could actually direct energy from a particular object. And repelling a blast sounds weird too, because again, it's really not a solid object, the most you could hope to do with it would be to repel some flame bursts, but the chain reaction of imbalanced atoms can't simply be pointed at and "repelled"
 
Laivasse said:
Care to elaborate...? Melted cheese? Orange juice?
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The last level was called Dark Energy. That explosion could be just about anything.

BREEN: "Dr. Freeman. You really shouldn't be out there. At the moment of synapse, as I teleport, this chamber will be bathed in deadly particles that have yet to be named by human science. When the singularity collapses, I will be far away from here. In another universe, as a matter of fact. You, on the other hand, will be destroyed in every way it is possible to be destroyed-and even in some which are essentially impossible."

Since the full teleportation cycle never officially took place, the "explosion" at the end of the game could just be a small burst of energy. Not entirely as harmful as what Breen described, but merely a small sample of what's to come. It might be no more harmful than a big gush of wind. :E

Since these particles are virtually unknown, this might be why the G-Man teleported us away at the end of the game. He probably doesn't even know what's happening with the teleporter. But after a couple of seconds of short bursts, he comes to the conclusion that there is no harm (yet), and drops us back to continue where we left off.

One thing's for sure, the final explosion will be magnificent. :D
 
Someone said before - who knows his physics - that the explosion turned red so quickly that it won't do that much damage (except that tower that is falling in Alyx's direction)
 
I had a horrible dream last night that the final explosion of the Citadel was a horrible Final Fantasy style FMV. Blech. :x

Anyway, who's to say Breen wasn't exaggerating when he talked about the explosion? I'm pretty sure he knew very little about the teleporter/glorified lift/bubble itself. I'm sure he didn't want to be vapourised, so why not make up some white lies about explosions and the like?

I don't know in all honesty. There is an explanation, otherwise Valve's whole series will go down the drain.
 
Reginald said:
I don't know in all honesty. There is an explanation, otherwise Valve's whole series will go down the drain.
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Of course there is, Valve isn't going to pull a bungie and chop up a perfectly good game to make more money. Marc Laidlaw is not an asshat.
 
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