Resinance Cascade Time rift Theory (SPOILERS GALORE)

[Simplepsy]

I have created this thread as an offshoot from the Combine, earth, g-man Theories thread to discusss an alternative idea briefly mentioned.

Firstly advanced thoretical physics 101. With great thanks to mr Einstein.

Time is not constant. Space is not constant.
Neither are either of them linear.
They are however linked. Any distortion of space would in fact create a distortion in Time.

Ok skip the hard part and on to the fun bit.

At the begining of HL1, after Gordon Freeman arrives late, an experiment takes place on a hazardous material from Zen.
The result is a catastrophic resinance cascade, a chain reaction effectively altering the sub atomic harmonic of local space. This cascade created a rip in space joining two distant points (earth and zen) together, bending space.
This would undoubtedly have created a rift in time also. Linking two points in time, possibly more than 2.

Could it be possible that the G-man could have been a being who was able to exploit this weakness in time, a man who came from a time after gordons exploits, had traveled along this rift, and learned to master time.
This may sound far fetched, however, once this rift links a point in the past with a point in the future you have a circle. A circle of endless cascades...infinity. You can apear at the point the rift was made... past / present, then use time, then hop back in the rift when it apears in the future point of time, nipping straight back to the begining, able to try again.

The g-man has a very intimate knowlege of gordons time. He apears at just the right moment, with the right tool, and the right advice over and over again. Surely he's had practice.

And his ability to get gordon out at the end... just another point in time, linked to yet another, and another, and another.... cascade....cascade... cas..... you get the idea.

 

[Asknoone]

No becasue gman is already around before the experiment, also its alot more organised....

Breeen has alot to do with it as well....and i dotn think gman can control time

 

[the bug man]

No becasue gman is already around before the experiment, also its alot more organised....

Breeen has alot to do with it as well....and i dotn think gman can control time

Then who does at the end of the game if not g-man

 

[DevgruSeal]

Then who does at the end of the game if not g-man

My thoughts exactly.


This is a good theroy..Although, I think a rip in space would of created a giant Black Hole, with an enormous amount of gravity, ripping everything going between it to shreds. As we've seen with Gordon, on the Xen "islands" with the houndeyes, I don't think a blackhole existed, or Gordon would of been pulled to chunks.

Although, maybe the Black Mesa lab "accidentally" made a portal, gaining more knowledge on the same portal, so that Gordon could be transported to the Xen islands...

 

[Asknoone]

Then who does at the end of the game if not g-man

Theres alot of science behind a singularity collapse...it slows down time for those near it etc.

Also, time may not have stopped, gordon might just have a fixed imagein his head...and isnt there no more

 

[RandomDan]

Interesting theory, well researched. Oh, its Xen btw

 

[Simplepsy]

My thoughts exactly.


This is a good theroy..Although, I think a rip in space would of created a giant Black Hole, with an enormous amount of gravity, ripping everything going between it to shreds. As we've seen with Gordon, on the Xen "islands" with the houndeyes, I don't think a blackhole existed, or Gordon would of been pulled to chunks.

Although, maybe the Black Mesa lab "accidentally" made a portal, gaining more knowledge on the same portal, so that Gordon could be transported to the Xen islands...

I dont think a black hole would nessisarly be created, i was considering something more like a temporary worm hole.
A worm hole is effectivly a shortcut in space formed by pulling 2 points of space and time together, its all relative. To an outside observer time and space would apear to be normal, however to the person close enough to the distortion, time and space would be bent, possibly slowed to a point where the passage of time would be hardly noticable.

Secondly, at the end of HL2 when the Dark matter explosion rips the citidel to pieces, such an explosion, with a portal already formed could have created a secondary rift, allowing the g-mans next intervention. There is evidence of rifts and portals, wormholes and cascades etc of different forms throughout the games. Maybe one linked back to b4 the adventure, a possible sequal (or more like prequal!), where the G-man gets involved in the first place.

Also I'm not sure the G-man can CONTROL time, however, he could exploit the rifts created by the various accidents, the portal storms, and the overuse of experimental teleport technology.
Its all theory and speculation, i dont thing the correct answer exists yet, but it would be interesting to find out who's right in the end.

Any other ideas and theories?