How Hardlight Works (Halo Lore)
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- čas přidán 15. 07. 2024
- Hard light technology is prominent throughout the Halo universe, with Cortana harnessing its power to save Master Chief in Halo 4. Today we delve into the science of hard light, while exploring its uses, ranging from shields to light bridges.
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Chapters:
00:00 - Intro
00:18 - Science of Hardlight
01:52 - Hardlight Buildings
02:40 - Hardlight in Forerunner Ships
03:29 - Hardlight shields and weapons
04:56 - Hardlight on Halo Installations and The Ark
06:28 - Cortana uses Hardlight to save Master Chief
Sources:
Solid Light (Princeton University) - engineering.princeton.edu/new...
Solid Light (Huffington Post) - www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entr...
"What are photons" (Universe Today) - www.universetoday.com/74027/w... - Hry
Worth noting - Humanity hasn't reverse engineered the Hard Light shield - they're just using the ones that detach from destroyed Forerunner constructs.
This is a really good point, and helps in clearing up any confusion of Master chief being able to wield the hard light shield before coming into contact with the Infinity.
In The Study I was just going to state this. Great stuff!
don't they have a working prototype hardlight weapon in 4 or 5 though?
@@thecondiffs No. There arent any prototype headlight weapons. There are however certain weapons with hardlight bayonets.
What about the bubble shield that came around in Halo 3? You mean humans just scavenged that from Forerunner artifacts?
When my older brother and I was playing Halo 1 for the first time, we were worried when we first came across the first Hardlight bridge. We turned it on, but we had no idea if it would just drop us to our deaths. So I had the genius idea of shooting the damn thing. Seeing that the bullets were hitting, I kept shooting a couple hundred more times, and only then did my brother jump on the bridge.
5 minutes of our lives gone because we had no idea of what the hell we were looking at.
lol
monke
That's pretty damn clever, a cool use of ingame physics.
Good thinking :)
Edit: That alone has earned ye my sub
Bruh, it was spanning the chasm blocking your progress; it could ONLY have been a bridge, context!
@@kjj26k didn’t mean we trusted it.
What I'm afraid of is that hard light is almost too versatile. It becomes almost like a deus ex machina, so hopefully, the developers don't overuse it, making it lose its alien impact.
Frode Opdahl I don’t like humanity became OP post war, it’s better when their underpowered or balanced
MinecraftPro15 you also need to remember Halo has always been a gritty sci fi story. Making Humanity OP is counterproductive. Sure, it may be realistic even when you throw the Engineers in the picture and how fast the progress happened (a boring cop out for advancing the lore if you ask me). But you also have to wonder, why is literally no other species advancing? You said progress is inevitable but the writers are showing favor to Humanity, giving them new tech, better armor, updated guns, better ships, etc. Meanwhile the former covenant species are stuck with the same stuff: same model weaponry (visuals do not distinguish an upgrade), same ships, same vehicles (again, new visuals =/= new models), less armor, less resources. This includes the Elites who were on the winning side of the war with Humanity, yet they got shit.
What I’m saying is 343 is so inconsistent with how species are progressing and why. Humanity is OP with the only reason being the Engineers. If the war continued, they’d be OP anyways. The Covenant had Engineers yet they didn’t advance to the same point of Post-War Humanity. Not to mention how all Post-War covenant species have technologically stagnated. Its dumb, boring and uninspired.
Humanity isnt op though, if you're referring to the infinity, while yes its a big, highly advanced ship utilizing forerunner technology, its still just one ship, take that out, humanity lost its best ship and weapon (apart from spartan IIs)
@@areallymeanperson its barley on par with the shadow of intent for combat use..its not that powerful...
@@nonkynonk pff im tired of games always having humanity weaker than everyone else its cliche
1:40 “What do you think I am? Crazy! You’ll just turn it off when I’m halfway across!”
Batman: The killing joke
That jokes.... pretty killer
Holy shit i was exactly thinking about that
You beat me to this by a year. I'm only just seeing the video now though!
Hardlight is an amazing concept, I would love to see the day that humans recreate it somehow
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Tbh its quite sad that Cortana went nuts and we had to kill her.
I see you everywhere
Scientists have allready done it.
Not on the scale you are hoping for, but enough to proove a concept.
cortana, manifesting herself into a physical form out of hardlight, was one of the coolest moments in halo history ever.
me: aha he is gonna explain how hardlight works, im intrested
*actually explain that its possible*
me: holy shit waw waw holy shit
While "solid" and "liquid" light are possible, it's only possible use is in computers. These light "atoms" don't have mass, the electro static force, or Pauli Exclusion Principle, so it can't have the same physical properties as, say, wood or metal.
@@christianyaerger1751 It still can be used as ebergy shield?
@@engelsteinberg593 Nope. There's nothing to actually stop particles of matter.
The closest thing to an energy shield would be to target the incoming matter (say, a bullet) with a discharge of plasma, and have the ionized debris be deflected by the Lorentz force.
It would essentially be a highly specialized point defense system, or close-in defense weapon system, that's very energy intensive.
The cool thing is that they've already created triple bond photonic molecules through a rubidium gas cloud.
Aha yes... of course.. I know what you're talking about haha..... rubidium gas cloud yeah that's my favourite word because... I know what it means... what? Did you say something? Oh ok..
Haha unidentified butter you are so smart look at all those big words you said hahaha youre so cool I wish I could be as cool as you, unidentified butter
Oh I know haha. But a pure old simpleton such as you could not understand such vigorous words such as 'higgaboogusdigabooweee' as that word defines exactly what you are, good sir
Oh I know I know. Nothing could compare to your jaw dropping genius. However I ask but one thing, why exactly do you use words too complicated for the majority of commenter on this video? The people here will never know you you are so flashing you knowledge about to everyone who comes by will do nothing but confuse them. if you want people to agree with you the first step is making sure they understand you.
Well er um uh well its to confirm that the people I want to agree with me are on the same level of uh smartness. I do not allow simpletons to speak to me
nobody:
forerunners: hey are you a hoola hoop shaped super weapon because my light is getting hard
Wat
nice one
Why is this funny
Lmao
What is this
I am making a prediction right now. By November 2020 you SameToken will have passed 100,000 subscribers. I and many others love your videos. Thank you for the awesome content.
Thanks for your support!!
Geoffrey Pixton I agree his video structures are very well put together the sound quality is excellent your choice of words/storytelling is impeccable keep this up and you will excel especially when the halo community content resurges when Halo Infinite comes out creators who consistently put out will succeed
Best halo lore channel
Aaahh man. He barely broke half way. Still a cool channel by far tho.
Why do people doesn't sub him?
"Photons do not interact with each other" let me introduce you to wave interference
If we're talking about interaction in the sense of particle scattering, photons do not interact with each other. Interference is a summation of the fields from the 2 photons, and once they part ways they carry on unperturbed
Need a collaboration with Installation 00! 😂
Holy crap, it all makes sense now. This video is actually fantastic.
Also can someone help me out with all 3 pieces of arranged music he used? Been trying for weeks.
Thanks for watching! For this music used in this video:
Detergent by Dylan Sitts
Metamorphose by Taylor Crane
Blurred Out by Yomoti
Pineapple by Yomoti
Findings by August Wilhelmsson
Retrouvailles by Ooyy
@@SameToken You saved me so much time, Token! Thank you so much, good sir - from one creator to another.
@@helljumper9828 Not a problem! As you might be able to tell I'm addicted to those songs haha
My lamp was turned on by this video.
I find it funny that in Destiny, which is made by bungie, there's a gun called hardlight
Ah yes, the rave cannon XD
Does it fire hard light rounds?
Destiny is pretty much a clone of halo, they even use the same reload animations for guns and a lot of vehicles are the exact same concept as halo vehicles. Bungie sold halo to remake halo and it’s sad
But does it use the same tech is my only question
@@lukefurno1151 No. Hard Light in Destiny uses some sort of advanced polymer ammunition, not bolts of solid light like Forerunner weapons. The name Hard Light refers to it being able to channel all three aspects of Destiny Light into its projectiles on demand, although it's also obviously a Halo reference.
How did CZcams, a company that recommends everything, manage to not recommend this video the day it came out? WTF
IM SUBSCRIBED, I HAVE THE BELL AND I'VE WATCHED ALL OF THE NEW VIDEOS AND EVEN THE OLD ONE. BUT NO CZcams RECOMMENDS A BUNCH OF VIDEO'S FROM 2007!!! I DIDN'T EVEN GET A NOTIFICATION
Great video, thanks! What I really love is how something that I just thought of as being cool is suddenly given real purpose and shows the thought behind the design choices. I'd never even thought about the purpose of the hardlight bridges in Halo CE, really cool to suddenly understand its purpose. Thanks for another informative video :)
I've just discovered this channel, and have really enjoyed your videos into how the technology in Halo works; the technology is both really cool in how it is in the game and how you explain its realistic properties in how it would be applied in the same manner the games uses them for. I'd like to see more videos on you talking about stuff like this; even in other games that have fascinating uses of technology, if it is possible to scientifically explain and justify being pulled off.
Also, the editing in these videos is beautifully done.
broke: Hardlight can be used to create incredible structures and weapons
woke: Hardlight can be used to make my Anime Waifu real
I was wondering in Halo Infinite, Master Chief’s armor would upgrade made of Forerunner body armor and hard light shielding system. That would be awesome!
My only question is why did CZcams just now recommend your channel? Great content!
Hardlight is likely used on the installation 00 as an omnipresent assembly tool for building the halo rings
The Combine also utilize hardlight bridges inside their spire, as well as utilizing hardlight fields to block off passageways. They use the fields to allow only Combine forces to pass through so that control the humans is easier. It seems GLaDOS was able to utilize some Combine technology within Aperture as a testing element. The hardlight bridges GLaDOS used, however, were far more robust in that they required only an emitter in order to function, deriving their power directly from the reactor core that powered the entire facility.
Woah woah woah, you just blew my mind. I don't know why I never put any thought into it. Infinitely customizable tactile holographic controls would be siiiiiick!
I would like to see a game based on the torch example. Based around the player using a hardlight flashlight to go through obstacles.
Yes I love exploring this type of stuff in Halo keep up the good work I love this vids thanks for being original and not falling into the pitfall of copying other channels
Keep up the good work my guy, you're doing a great job
Wow, I'm impressed by you and the lore. I just figured it was all "Well video games!". All this "science" lore makes the world even better.
I'd like to see the hard light emitter built into the Mjölnir armor adapted to generate a hard light body for an attached AI as well. So if the Cortana chip is inserted into the Chief's armor, she could project herself physically into the real world when they aren't in combat.
Well... The Weapon does show up on his hand in Infinite, although that's something different
Still cool though
I've known about the concept for ages, and it's still epic.
Another great video. Thank you again, Mr. Token. As a suggestion for a future video, maybe do one about Mjolnir armor? The number of variants, equipment uses, etc. has always been a great topic of conversation for me.
Whatever topic you choose, your videos are always a pleasure to watch. You deserve more subs!!!
That's a really great idea, will note it down, thank you! And thanks for the support!
I think the customization of hard light devices would likely be related to the familiarity of device functionality. In example pistols or rifles when people got an idea how to get it to work, a medic might have a reconstructive tool or engineer would fix, tear down or build useful things. Of course limited by the energy available, control devices and maybe emiter size. Tho thinking of function it sounds similar to say the study of frequency. Different frequencies create different shapes. Not to mention scalar waves can trap particles between waves. Suspending water and sand like wise. But this seems more like infusing extra energy to temporarily alter the matter of an object. Like adding more electrons/protons to a space traped in a field to change the element or atom into another.
Interesting ideas. Tho I dont see the item smartly making up for the lack of knowledge unless say there is a data crystal infused with the blueprints or memories of a forerunner from the past. Tho for game mechanics it would be fun to make different characters to level up andtheir abilities are saved say on a memory crystal that each new character can use. And thus give multiple gun type weapons to a medic, then enable an engineer to use the previous 2 skills in the next play threw. Could be a lot of fun.
Yeah we have already made hard-light, it's just not at that level and I have no idea if they are affected by magnetic fields or not. Search up "photonic molecules" on wikipedia
Light isn't really affected by magnetic fields in any case, as magnetic fields themselves are comprised of photons. The only instances photons interact with each other is when they separate into virtual particles or have hard light properties, which might actually be a result of also separating into virtual particles as well.
@@InveterateMendaciousness so then my question now is how exactly would we manipulate them to form structures? Also I never knew that magnetic fields were essentially just photons
MidgetMan 420 magnetism is part of the electromagnetic force, which is carried by photons (the force carrier of that elementary force). So there’s your fact for today.
As for how forerunners manage to manipulate hard light into different shapes and forms, it isn’t really explained, it’s just assumed they’re advanced enough to do that fluidly. I mean we can currently make “beams” of Hardlight as stated in this video but it seems not without some sort of physical conductive device.
If I were to guess, I would infer that they can use magnetic fields to interact with virtual particles that hard light might turn into momentarily, as they are susceptible to interaction with photons through charges, and then fluctuate back into hardlight themselves. This mechanism could allow the light to be shaped as it fluctuates into different particles when manifested. That’s a really rough and vague explanation but it’s the best i could think of.
The animation is this video is really good! I am becoming a big fan of your channel now! keep up the good work mate.
Best Halo channel on CZcams. Keep up the great work.
check out Installation00
My goodness this man's videos are so good. I'm glued listening to your voice
Great video and content on your channel. Loving the Halo videos. You've got a subscriber
love these vids man. keep it up!
Fun fact. We are currently experimenting with the concept of hardlight. Our limiting factor right now is power.
You’re a bloody legend mate. Keep up the awesome work.
Are you English or Australian? I've noticed a lot of Bris and Aussies are fans of Halo, more so than any other video game franchise.
Planet Express I’am Aussie mate
Amazing video, as always. You deserve many more subs
Thanks so much!!
bruh almost 10k now? sick video! 100k soon !!!
*whats that last song btw?
Thanks so much!!
Last two songs were:
Findings by August Wilhelmsson
Retrouvailles by Ooyy
Great video mate. 👍😁
7:15 indeed, a very very exciting use, I agree wholeheartedly
Makes for some interesting Lightsaber theory. Star Trek's holodeck will make a lot more sense now too. Or heck even real world shield technology.
Wait, we can finally make individualized sections for videos now? I missed that update. Seems rather awesome.
How do space battles work in halo? I mean I get that the fighting is extremely far away but is there any lore that goes into detail?
Check out the fall of reach on netflix, it has a small scene of a UNSC ship vs a covenant ship
Actually there always really close because the covenant ships can make inter system jumps.. check out the scene in the fall of reach where the captain says that the unidentified ship won’t be in weapons range in awhile and then it makes an inter system jump right next to the UNSC ship..
UNSC ships fight at long range. Covenant fight at close range.
@@hunter_thespy1233 the fall of reach is not an accurate source whatsoever.
@@cookiemuffin3208 not accurate
Slipspace and Hardlight has made me a subscriber.
Keep the god job bro ,congrats from Mexico
3:02 He can have my kind of deck, if you know what i'm saying ;)
Havent seen you since the last reach community game you did while you where on halo follower. I missed you dad!!!
Wait wait wait, same token is your father?
Same token is your father?
Commodore's ToasT I think he just joking but he could be lol
Liked this one
Sounds like similar concept as a lightsaber
Lightsabers aren't hardlight though; they're an exotic form of energy field that strongly interacts with other energy types (including other Lightsabers) and that can melt/burn through nearly anything, except for a strong enough energy field or an energy-resistant material.
@@blam320 it is plama
@@Johan-uu7io They're not plasma either; plasma is superheated gas, meaning the entire lore behind Lightsabers would need to be reworked if they were. As it stands, Lightsaber blades derive all their properties from the _primary focusing crystal,_ most notably their color. If Lightsaber blades were plasma, they'd derive their properties from the gas that's being ionized. Meaning if you wanted a blade with consistent properties you'd need to keep a canister of whatever gas you want to ionize in the hilt. You'd also need a magnetic field to contain the blade, which would dramatically change the shape of the blade. It'd also be completely useless underwater.
And with this formula we can make light saber
Oh my God, I think I finally understand how the Holodecks from Star Trek work
This gives Halo Forge a whole new perspective !
1:32 lightsabers
No lightsabers have plasma blades not hard light
@@hunter_thespy1233 well it looks like a lightsaber dont ruin the fun Mr smith
@@hunter_thespy1233 A lightsaber in real life could be either plasma or hardlight
@@XbninjaXIV not really. HardLight doesn't induct heat to other objects as fast as plasma does. Hardlight is pure radiation in an exotic format whilst plasma transmits heat to other objects much quicker because it itself is just heated matter.
I want the next story to be a love story between Chief and Cortana
Well, this was a pleasant surprise.
Where do you get your music man?! That is some good shit!!!
I don't think there's too much of a discrepancy when it comes to the matter of the Covenant and hardlight. Key point is the phrasing of it- The Covenant can't, or haven't, *reverse* *engineered* the technology, but they still *utilize* it. Humanity is much the same when it comes to a lot of Forerunner artifacts; We don't know how to make it, but we know how to use it when we have it.
This is why i love halo lore, its based on quantum physics. We have the ability to rise, i just hope we do before resources dwindle to far.
So basically a more practical version of the holographic technology from ST.
Basically not at all.
Star trek holograms are beyond this, wich you would know if you had seen it all.
They use holograms to duplicate their ships, the holograms are able to pick up objects.
The doctor in voyager get's a mobile emitter from the future and is able to do all of this without massive power consumption.
Having a floor that you can turn off seems kinda gimmicky.
If i could choose, i'd go with holodeck technology.
StopaskingformynameCZcams I think by practical they meant achievable.
@@StopaskingformynameCZcams I wouldn't judge if ST's "superior" than HALO's, as they were essentially different technologies with different applications.
ST's halographic technology was presumably based on transporter and replicator(particle synthesis) technologies, making them more suitable for simulation and manipulation. However, it seemed to require either enclosed environment or short distance. For instance, the holo ships deployed against Kazon had no offensive capabilities(but they somehow "absorbed" incoming energy beam), and the mobile holo emiter didn't seem capable of projecting over longer distance. While the ablative armor generator was extremely effective as a defensive measure, it was more like a replicator than a holo projector.
HALO's hardlight technology seemed more related to force field and plasma torpedo technologies(the latter utilized magnatic field to trap plasma, maybe that's how the Covenant acquired plasma torpedo and shield technologies?), making them better at force projection and defense, however as far as simulation goes it seemed very crude and inefficient.
I had no clue hardlight had basis in fact. That's the coolest shit I've ever seen.
Wow thank you , i did almost finally understood what happens at the end of Halo 4
youre on a grind lol
i immediately thought of Green Lantern powers on this
I would like to see an enemy weakness being that if you can get to the source of the emitters, you can destroy it and cripple the enemy’s ability to deploy troops to that area. Of course they would defend it, so you would need a Spartan, or a TEAM of Spartans, or TWO teams of Spartans (Hello Osiris), or MORE than two teams of Spartans (Hello Red Team, Blue Team, Grey Team, Team Black, Spartan IVs, etc) to assault one of these emitters. Or maybe the emitters are just the means and there is a massive data core (like Cylon Resurrection Ships) that you can destroy.
Between Hardlight weaponry of the Forerunners and Turbolaser cannons on Star Wars capital ships in the Expanded Universe said to be 200 gigatons per shot which weapon was more powerful, destructive, and fitting for galactic wide war?
My guess is hardlight. The light is solid but still moving at relativistic speed. So the solid light is carrying the energy needed to travel at the speed of light into a target.
Light already pushes objects. Tecnically it can already do all the things you mentioned but it can't be shaped.
And the energy requirement is so big that the object would instantly melt.
Also, when entangled photons leave the gas, they loose their propriety to interact with each other.
Becouse they can't directly interact with each other, they can do so only by interacting with the gas first.
Basically the gas is the bridge that permits photons to act like molecules, even if they are not.
What i would do in a sci fi universe is have that gas in a particular location and then shoot and somehow control the hardness and mass of the gas with the photons. Essentially making gas + photon act like a solid structure.
we see so much forerunner and covenant tech i'd like to for once see ancient human technology.
Every time i see something like science fiction explained to me, it makes me think that everything in sci fi movies like Star Trek and sci fi games like Titanfall are actually possible.
I don't care what anyone else says... Hardlight armor and blades would be awesome, and now you're telling me a chance
damn this blows my mind
7:26
Master Chief: ayye gurl 😎
What a fucken nice video
Make a Hardlight Holodeck to train the soilders. ... You could train against everything ^^
Make a proper lightsaber with that stuff!
Please make a video about Gray Team.
7:30 Now people will wonder....what hard light would feel like, in THAT way. After all, a now physical Cortana would get people thinking.
Really awesome video 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Hardlight human melee weapons, like a sword or axe would be kind of dope
I would've liked to see that Jakel sniped 04:55
I was using the Hard light in the crucible the other day.
Get out
Same, that auto is fun.
WITHIN CELLLS INTERLINKED 2:49
As a last resort, it would be possible for the Created to engage in combat themselves. If they can use hardlight to manifest physical bodies that is. Depending on how many copies a smart AI can make of themselves, its even conceivable that they could create an infinite number of hardlight bodies capable of combat with all the precision and perks of a smart AI.
Cortana using hardlight like that at the end of halo 4 was kind of jumping the shark for me. If there'd been a better lead up to it I might have accepted it, but when playing through the game casually it's a bit hard to swallow.
Hm, I didn't realize the technology could be rated as not just plausible, but possible. As a sci-fi writer, I'm always on the look out for things like this that help me build and design future technologies.
Now I have one more piece of tech to add to the mix. Though I suspect power is a big limiting factor. Would a hardlight hologram use more or less energy than a Star Trek holodeck? For that matter, are there other systems that provide equal or even only a little less shielding for far less energy? If you need an entire fusion reactor just for your hardlight shields, may not be worth it when a different tech can be fed just fine on the same reactor that powers your weapons, even though it can only take 6-8 MAC rounds instead of the hardlight's 8-10. So while the tech may be viable, in the end, it may not be the best choice.
The kind of mental gymnastics I love!
7:14 hardi har har space pirates
Imagine if we had the forerunner technology 😞
For a second my brain thought of the Exotic auto rifle
You mean the Suppressor?
@@keulron2290 he's talking about destiny
@@jeddjoseph237 Ah, I don't know a whole lot about that series.
imagine makeing houses with it on new planets for new colonies,
Android 17 stood on light at the tournament of power while fighting Kakuna .
He did? I don't remember that
hard light sounds like photons that are vibrating at such a low rate, either from temperature or from other means, until it becomes "solid" enough likened to matter. It seems very possible. Like if you were to take a virtual particle and apply spin/vibration until it generated mass/density, thus making it "real"ish. Sorry I said this before watching your video. My bad
5:35 whats the soundtrack called again?
Cell doors was a use it had in halo 5, well unless that was plasma like on the covy ships they had in earlier games.
Exuberant did contain a lot of specimens, even 1 of the forerunner's soldiers.
With hard light mad into any form. Is there a limit to how hard it can push or squeeze something? What keeps a limit on say a hand made from hard light from crushing anything just from pinching?
LIGHTSABERS!!
I think you missed an entire major element here.
Prometheans ARE hardlight.
This is mentioned by Laskey in one of the cinematics in Halo 4 Spartan Ops.
Of course, he could just be wrong.
Magick
Covenant: plasma
Forerunners: hardlight
Humans: metal
Brutes: Spikes