Does the Combine hold the technology to..

[Escaep]

I've been wondering, do the Combine hold the power to time travel back in Earth's past to change the history of the human timeline in their own benefit? If they have holstered the ability to form teleportation devices, then they might be able to fold space upon itself to allow for time travel.

 

[Polaris]

No​

 

[Dr_Crowbar]

They are not Borg.

 

[Asknoone]

No, they don't. No time travel...and I don't think we'll see time travel in Half-life at all. Least, I hope not.
Besides, they aren't very good at teleportation. The human resistance is leaps and bounds ahead of the Combine.

 

[Selkcip]

Well, there is the Gman. He sure seems to have the ability to travel forward and backward in time.

 

[Asknoone]

He has not, at any point, gone back in time. And he certainly doesn't have the ability to do so. Or to go forward. He merely has access to a location outside normal time and space - that does not mean he can go backwards.

 

[AJ Rimmer]

I wonder how the power to teleport might also mean they have time machines? One is perfectly plausible (it's actually been done, just in a seriously mini-format) whereas the other one is more physically impossible than faster than light speed.

 

[function9]

Well, there is the Gman. He sure seems to have the ability to travel forward and backward in time.

We haven't seen evidence that he is able to travel back and forth through time. While he does seem to have the ability to manipulate it, or rather the preception of it to some extent, I would say there is not anything we have seen that would qualify Gman as a time traveler. I do not believe teleportation and traveling to different dimensions is the same as traveling through time.

 

[el Chi]

He has not, at any point, gone back in time. And he certainly doesn't have the ability to do so. Or to go forward. He merely has access to a location outside normal time and space - that does not mean he can go backwards.

no he duz bcoz he is gordan in the futur but bak in time to help gordan in the now time

 

[Acepilotf14]

no he duz bcoz he is gordan in the futur but bak in time to help gordan in the now time

how duz 'e no suh a ting? MEH HEROP!!!

 

[Acepilotf14]

I've been wondering, do the Combine hold the power to time travel back in Earth's past to change the history of the human timeline in their own benefit? If they have holstered the ability to form teleportation devices, then they might be able to fold space upon itself to allow for time travel.

If they did, We would all be dead right now.

 

[Escaep]

Maybe they are developing it..

 

[Darkside55]

Where do you people get these crazy ideas?

No​

 

[function9]

Where do you people get these crazy ideas?

It's that damn rock-n-roll music and video games kids listen to and play these days.

 

[Tagaziel]

Where do you get your crazy ideas that headcrabs have mating rituals or that Barney must die (won't be a big surprise to me if he does, though, as it's been done to death)? Really, you are getting a bit over the top with your "my opinion = law"

However, Time travel -> ~G-Man exists

 

[Absinthe]

The Combine does not have this ability.

I do believe, however, that the "slow teleport" from HL2 can introduce new possibilities. At the very least, it can explain the G-Man's stasis capabilities.

I'd like to think that such technology could be used to explore rifts such as the Black Mesa incident, or others. Not necessarily time travel per se, but... Oh hell, I'm drunk. Never mind.

 

[Jintor]

Someone post that big explanation of how resistance teleporters work vs. combine teleporters. I need to get the physics.

 

[586FAC75]

Oh hell, I'm drunk. Never mind.

That's my excuse.

 

[99.vikram]

I figured the Combine teleporters pump energy into a region of space to tunnel through to other dimensions. If you are really interested in this, look up "Calabi-Yau" theory. It is mentioned ingame.

The resistance teleporters first hook up to Xen and "bounce" the teleportee back to earth. In Hl2, they use the dark energy field of the citadel to power their teleporters. In Hl1 they used a nuclear reactor.

 

[Darkside55]

Where do you get your crazy ideas that headcrabs have mating rituals or that Barney must die (won't be a big surprise to me if he does, though, as it's been done to death)? Really, you are getting a bit over the top with your "my opinion = law"

However, Time travel -> ~G-Man exists

My opinion IS the law!

No, seriously, this is just a crazy idea. If the Combine had the power to travel through time, why wouldn't they have made use of it? There's a hundred places the Combine could've just stepped in and put an end to key events in the resistance. They could've stopped Gordon Freeman by having a Combine soldier walk up and shoot him in the head as he was exiting the train. Whole problem solved.

I wasn't saying to be a jerk or anything. It's just a crazy idea.

Also the headcrab stuff is research backed by data. The Barney thing is just an opinion. The fact that I'm "calling" that it will happen is a friendly wager on my guessing of the Half-Life story. I've already enumerated on the reasons why it should happen, doesn't mean it will.

 

[Tagaziel]

Just nitpicking, dude, I don't nitpick when I don't care.

The reason I want to see Barney alive, is because, well, I'm attached to him as a friend. And because he's my old PC, not to mention the general of sorts for the resistance.

I'm against his death.

 

[ríomhaire]

No, they don't. No time travel...and I don't think we'll see time travel in Half-life at all. Least, I hope not.
Besides, they aren't very good at teleportation. The human resistance is leaps and bounds ahead of the Combine.

Well, they never had Xen did they?

 

[Reginald]

The one semi-plausible time-travel orientated plot would be a Time-Viewer through wormholes. A wormhole can go from one point to a point millions of light years away. If you can stretch the fabric of the wormhole to actually look through it, you are in theroy looking at something faster than light reaches it. Hence you are travelling faster than the speed of light, hence can look back in time without asploding the world.

It's only an abstract theory though.

 

[cyk]

Time traveling back to Black Mesa would be one hell of a way to end the series, but makes no sense.

I wish :<

Samon: What do you mean about human teleportation being better? They did have teleportation at Black Mesa, but I thought the Combine still had more stable (not prone to Harmonic Reflux and such, though that is mainly from machines blowing up and what not) teleporters.

 

[Jintor]

Lol, ending would be Gordon somehow influencing the Resonance Cascade... again.

 

[Atomic_Piggy]

Lol, ending would be Gordon somehow influencing the Resonance Cascade... again.

He does! G-Man does and G-Man is teh fr33man!!1111!11oneeleven!!!

 

[Costin]

The one semi-plausible time-travel orientated plot would be a Time-Viewer through wormholes. A wormhole can go from one point to a point millions of light years away. If you can stretch the fabric of the wormhole to actually look through it, you are in theroy looking at something faster than light reaches it. Hence you are travelling faster than the speed of light, hence can look back in time without asploding the world.

It's only an abstract theory though.

It's not abstract.If you are traveling faster than the speed of light-the time frezees,but don't think that would flow backwards.

As Absinthe said:the slow teleport it has some capabilities,unknow to the Combine...but imo what they have done is nothing but a teleportation in future...how they did that?

 

[Tagaziel]

Technically, each teleportation is not instantenous, there's always a delay, during which atoms travel. In the case of Alyx and Gordon, well... the receiveing teleportation field was active, and the rift was open, but the field did not transmit all the atoms immediately... possibly Alyx and Gordon were stuck in a Xen-Xen-Xen teleportation loop, in which they were bounced back to Xen every time the teleport wanted to drop them off... so, the loop was broken after a week of real-world time... but as Alyx and Gordon were in a trans-dimensional state, it was just like if seconds passed.

 

[Darkside55]

The reason I want to see Barney alive, is because, well, I'm attached to him as a friend. And because he's my old PC, not to mention the general of sorts for the resistance.

I'm against his death.

I don't want to see him die either, but I want to see him die, if you catch the difference.

Technically, each teleportation is not instantenous, there's always a delay, during which atoms travel. In the case of Alyx and Gordon, well... the receiveing teleportation field was active, and the rift was open, but the field did not transmit all the atoms immediately... possibly Alyx and Gordon were stuck in a Xen-Xen-Xen teleportation loop, in which they were bounced back to Xen every time the teleport wanted to drop them off... so, the loop was broken after a week of real-world time... but as Alyx and Gordon were in a trans-dimensional state, it was just like if seconds passed.

That's the best theory I've heard about the slow teleport. Almost like a bottleneck; Alyx and Gordon being transmitted very slowly between the two places, atom by atom, instead of all of their mass at once. Which is funny when you consider that Xen is said to be a dimensional bottleneck between the worlds.

Time traveling back to Black Mesa would be one hell of a way to end the series, but makes no sense.

I wish :<

Lol, ending would be Gordon somehow influencing the Resonance Cascade... again.

He does! G-Man does and G-Man is teh fr33man!!1111!11oneeleven!!!

Shut up! Shut up, all of you!!!

 

[Asknoone]

Time traveling back to Black Mesa would be one hell of a way to end the series, but makes no sense.

I wish :<

Get out.

Samon: What do you mean about human teleportation being better? They did have teleportation at Black Mesa, but I thought the Combine still had more stable (not prone to Harmonic Reflux and such, though that is mainly from machines blowing up and what not) teleporters.

The resistance teleporters are a great deal more stable, and can travel small distances. The Combine can only go from one massive location to another. I mean, look at the sheer size of the portal spire in Dark Energy, and how it long it takes to charge up. Blow a resistance portal, and you get a big hole in the wall.

Blow up the Citadel portals and you create a small nuclear explosion.

 

[Jintor]

Mossman said something about Combine Dark Energy Portals tunnelling through universes, whereas Human teleporters use Xen as a dimensional slingshot. This has probably been said already, but I feel it's relevant here as well.

 

[cyk]

Shut up!

Get out.

Buh

buh

WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH
Overused suggestion or is it too far-fetched or ...? I thought it would be a unique, if not very satisfying, way to end the series, though of course it would make not much sense with G-Man stringing Gordon along and suddenly going "k go back to the past now!" Maybe Gordon's just doing things to keep humanity going until the technology is there or something.

 

[Asknoone]

Would suck.
Besides, time-travel is awful. It's just...naw. Just naw!

 

[Darkside55]

It's both been said way too often and it's also too "out there." It's also a very cliched way of dealing with a problem, going back in time to redo something. In addition to all that, it invalidates the story thus far, and any dramatic situations.

Consider: you inadvertently cause a rift between worlds. You stop the first "invasion," only to (again unwittingly) cause an even bigger problem. You end up fighting in a big war with a lot of losses on the human side, including those of one or more important people in your life. At the end of it all, the G-man comes back and says, "Now you get a chance to do it all over again."

You just took everything you ever did, all the choices you ever had, all the sacrifices you ever made, picked them all up and threw them out the window. Why would you be forced to do all that if you could simply go back to Day One and not push the sample into the anti-mass spectrometer?

 

[function9]

Why would you be forced to do all that if you could simply go back to Day One and not push the sample into the anti-mass spectrometer?

Because if you do that, you end up sitting there staring at the cart. And the game doesn't move forward. That would be boring.

 

[ríomhaire]

The thing is, can a human portal go anywhere other than Xen (The local teleportation goes to Xen and then back to Earth, hence Xen Relay)? It doesn't seem like it. If there was a way to stop human teleports getting to Xen (as Nihilanth seemingly did to the Combine) then it would be entirly useless. And Grizzly, isn't the entire point of teleportation that it is instantenious?

 

[Snappel328]

Maybe the G-Man IS a time traveller after all...

 

[Asknoone]

D:

 

[Atomic_Piggy]

It's both been said way too often and it's also too "out there." It's also a very cliched way of dealing with a problem, going back in time to redo something. In addition to all that, it invalidates the story thus far, and any dramatic situations.

Consider: you inadvertently cause a rift between worlds. You stop the first "invasion," only to (again unwittingly) cause an even bigger problem. You end up fighting in a big war with a lot of losses on the human side, including those of one or more important people in your life. At the end of it all, the G-man comes back and says, "Now you get a chance to do it all over again."

You just took everything you ever did, all the choices you ever had, all the sacrifices you ever made, picked them all up and threw them out the window. Why would you be forced to do all that if you could simply go back to Day One and not push the sample into the anti-mass spectrometer?

Because someone else would push it. :x

Maybe the G-Man IS a time traveller after all...

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:x :x :x :x :x :x :x :x :x :x :x :x :x :x :x :x :x :x

 

[Jintor]

The thing is, can a human portal go anywhere other than Xen (The local teleportation goes to Xen and then back to Earth, hence Xen Relay)? It doesn't seem like it. If there was a way to stop human teleports getting to Xen (as Nihilanth seemingly did to the Combine) then it would be entirly useless. And Grizzly, isn't the entire point of teleportation that it is instantenious?

Maybe they're drawn to Xen automatically and that's why they have to use them to *slingshot*. Like a magnet!

<---- is slightly High. I'll be back in thinking condition later.