This weapon is the most accurate of all weapons in Half-Life partly because the environment has no effect (distance, wind etc) and partly the beam is perfectly straight. The second method gives some recoil which can be used to jump. when the charged can be stored in spinning capacitors. So what we have here is a weapon that fires Tau particles. Due to their mass, at very high energies that are described as вЂњpotentially highly penetratingвЂќ. In this case itвЂ™s a particle, just like the gluon, (itвЂ™s sometimes called the Tauon) but unlike Gluons which are part of the Bosons family, the tau is a fermion. Tau is another Greek letter, just like Lambda. I love this weapon and you probably do too. Egon Spengler from Ghostbusters who invents the Proton Pack which is designed to weaken ghosts through some sort of atomic manipulation. The CombineOverwiki also refers to this as the вЂњ Egon gunвЂќ and it is possibly a reference to Dr. Clearly for 1998, the engine was just not capable of that detail. I would have been cool if this also worked with inanimate objects as well as living objects but then you have to worry about destructible walls etc. The gluon gun simply stops the gluons from working within atoms and the object it hits loses its nuclear strong interaction and falls to pieces. In the Feynman Diagram, the gluon is represented as a helix, which is probably why when you fire the weapon in the game, the beam has straight line beam AND a secondary helix around it. He then deems Gordon less hesitant to kill things and gives the gun to him.вЂќД®ssentially, Gluons are massless particles that help other particles bind together, hence the idea вЂњglueвЂќ. Upon entering the Test Firing Chamber, Gordon is met by the weaponвЂ™s designer himself, who is unwilling to use it on living creatures. вЂњThe Gluon Gun was developed in the Weapons Section of the Lambda Reactor Complex in Black MesaвЂ™s Sector F and first discovered by Gordon Freeman in a Test Firing Chamber right before the Lambda Reactor Coolant System. IвЂ™d like to mention that IвЂ™m not going to cover all the weapons used in the game, just the ones with science connected to them. In the first part, I looked at the game names and this article looks at some of the weapons. Welcome to the second part of The Science Behind Half-Life. The Replay Experience Experiment aka TREE.The Science Behind Half-Life: Weapons | RTSL Menu

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