How Every Mass Effect Biotic Power Works! (Because Science w/ Kyle Hill)
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The biotic powers of Mass Effect seem supernatural, but could they actually work in real life? Kyle discusses the dark matters on this week's Because Science!
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Nerdist u look like Thor...
You must be new here, welcome! -- KH
Nerdist how luffy stretch himself so much without lossing any weight
Personally more interested how he can eat so much and not gain an once of weight.
But practical armor plates are not sexy.
why become a biotic warrior when you could become a biotic GOD
I let that dude take a nap. -- KH
ahaha niftu cal FTW
i let him charge
I THINK THINGS AND THEY HAPPEN
WHY BECOME A KING WHEN YOU CAN BE A GOD.
This episode almost seems like a tutorial that teaches students how to use these biotic abilities!
Vanguard is my favorite class, the first time I tried the biotic charge. I was like oh shit, this is awesome. The mass effect 3 just made my favorite class even more fun. Really makes my old soldier character seem kinda boring in comparison.
If you're going to WonderCon this year...it's finally happening. The one and only MatPat and I will be talking the science of Mass Effect together. Maybe I'll convince him to do a collab for you all here! -- KH
Fangasm!
the time of year when it sucks not to live in the US
Hell yeah!!
you should have told garrus to go calibrate some stuff =D
Vinicius Monteiro Carvalho haha, you're so funny! Haha, oh wow, I'm in tears after that one
yay for me.
Garrus: I have spent days on these calculations
It's actually pretty close to how they explain it in game. According to the codex, Element Zero, upon being electrically charged, can increase or decrease the mass of things around it. Biotic powers would come from small nodes or Eezo on a subject's brain, activated by the electric impulses of the cortex.
Hey Kyle, won't you do an episode on how -to grow majestic hair like yours- loud Black Bolts loudest scream would be?
Funny, also genuinely curious how loud his voice is.
Rew Rose I would like to see that
Vin Diesel will be Black Bolt in the inhuman movie, so wait a little
mauricio guz The Inhumans movie isn't happening, its now just a TV show. Black Bolt has been cast, and it's not Vin Diesel. Check out Dan Casey's last Dan Cave about it.
Rew Rose actually yes, I would like to know this
Best show the Nerdist does. 10/10 as always.
EnazAF I love the Dancave as well.
EnazAF it's actually the main reason I subscribed to Nerdist in the first place, tbh
The only one I watch on Nerdist as well
EnazAF this and natural selection and sometimes Dan cave are the only things are watch on this channel
That sounds like the force from Star Wars doesn't it?
mass effect has so much cool physics related things! I remember that on the normandy the comunication system, in order to be instantanous, used couples of entangled particles,and by changing the quantum state of one of them,the other would change consequently, giving the possibility to comunicate live from one edge of the galaxy to the other, so fuckin cool
Can you explain Omni blade and omni-gel ?
Omni-blade video coming soon! -- KH
Nerdist HELL YES!
Im nerdgasming all over the place
the reaper sound still makes my heart beat a lot faster
Sentinel and Vanguard were my main classes for a while. But now that I can mod ME1,2 and 3 I now have tech armor with biotic charge, with throw, warp, cryo blast and overload and pick and choose which ever 2 abilities I want…I love modding.
I am disappointed, no surprise light saber.
SURPRISE OMNI-BLADE!!!
Also! surprise double blade/saber
Hey man I can't have it every time or it won't be a surprise anymore! -- KH
It's becoming more like an expected lightsaber at this point
Honestly, I'd be more shocked to see a Surprise Laser Sword!
ME Series is full of shit...
... good shit.
Got me
I guess Nova isn't mentioned because it wasn't in the first ME, but the Charge-Nova combo is the best.
I'm a charging monster in Andromeda right now -- KH
😂no Garrus I'm with Liara now
This is a very interesting video but there are other abilities that you haven't explained. Reave and Dominate. How would you explain those? You also didn't mention Barrier but that could be explained as negating the energy of any projectiles that enter the field.
i think these powers are not trully biotic, im pretty sure they are exclusive for asari who have connections with ardat yakshi, only who can manipulate your nerve systems. It was shown than Morinth could pretty much manipulate people, and as far as we know it all asari can do that with their looks being different for different species, so dominating someone completely is not hard for a biotic who is as skilled as morinth plus the whole ardat yakshi thing that adds to the power. As for reave, my opinion is that its basically just distanced simulation of sex with ardat yakshi, Samara is the ardath yakshi mother of three so i think it is possible for her to tap into that power, connecting to the nerve system of people and siphoning their strength. Shepard can use them just for gameplay purposes though. But its just speculation on my part.
Reave isn't exclusive to Asari though. Kaiden and Miranda are capable of using it and even Drell with Biotics.
Biotics also doesn't explain why Asari are psychic.
Everything else is psychokinesis, which is easily handwaved away with "your brain chemoelectrical impulses generate mass effect fields." But Asari can fucking read minds. The game just sorta throws it out there and pretends you won't notice that it's completely unexplained.
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But they aren't supposed to be able to; they even joke about it in the Citadel DLC.
Kaidan: "I worked really hard....I even learnt how to reave"
Miranda/Jacob: "What? No..."
Liara: "That's a bit strange...."
Hi! I have an idea: Do an episode about Nanobots.
Or Microbots like in Big Hero Six.
Also, to anyone who thinks this could explain the Force in Star Wars, it could explain some things but not everything. General telekinesis and choking would be easy to explain. Lightning however, would be harder to explain with dark matter. Also, not to mention the Force acts as a 6th sense, alerting to danger among other things. I fail to see how dark matter can do that. I also fail to see what about dark matter could allow communication with animals (yes, that's a thing, light side power only), or the classic one, Force Ghost. And that's not even talking about the biggest part, the 2 sides of it. What about dark matter would turn someone evil and cause some bodily decay and eyes changing color by using only "dark" powers, or animal communication by only using "light" powers.
SheosMan117 That'd be cool to explain
I read a thing somewhere that controlling the electromagnetic forces could lead cover things like invisibility and lightning throwing, I can't really remember how it was explained but maybe it ties into what you are saying...
Another argument which is kinda lazy is to say that the force is a mystical... energy? i.e. not something that can be explained by science
SheosMan117 If the force was some kind of sentient being that covers the breadth of the universe, then that might account at least for the differences in light and dark powers since a sentient being could bestow powers as it sees fit. The rest of it, I'm not sure. For the fiction of the Star Wars world it's a power best left mysterious in my opinion.
True, true. Let us not forget the M word. L dropped the M word on us, and we hated it. So trying to scienceify the Force any more than that would be bad, and impossible, all things considered.
Electromagnetism is currently one of our least understood fundamental forces of the universe, even though we can create Electromagnetic feilds(Electromagnetism and magnetism are the same force by the way.).
We know that somehow it repels both Nuclear Forces, but we also know it can create electricity and even transport it, the things we don't understand is how it can mimic gravity if there's a strong enough electromagnetic force. We also don't know why electromagnetic forces can copy, and memorize eachother, that means that if a human being were to walk through a VERY strong electromagnetic feild, it would create a pseudo "Hologram" of that person by using their magnetic feild, we don't know how it works, but it does happen.
Electromagnetism is also the general accepted explanation, or the most sought after one, of the Paranormal due to how little we know about it but also due to how much we've seen it do.
Edit: The four fundamental forces of nature are Strong Nuclear Force, Weak Nuclear Force, Gravity and Electromagnetism.
hey Nerdist can u explain the science behind Gambits powers
the main evidence for dark matter is the bullet cluster, a bunch of galaxies warping space which we use to detect gravitational lensing to see where the mass of colliding galaxies is. galaxy spin happens to be one of the first phenomena we noticed and attributed to dark matter, but galaxy spin might just be an effect of spatial distortion, and not related to dark matter at all.
A video about The Witcher. Please. I would love if you could explain Roach's behaviour.
so Force Choke could possibly just a jedi applying some quantities of Dark Matter against the target's throat?
That's an awesome idea but I prefer the idea of the force
could it be that Force Lightning is just Siths applying microscopic dark matters over electrical charges in atmosphere and redirect it to the target general direction..
Adrindrata Zainal That is some call stuff, my friend
Can Wolverine's Claws cut Luke cage
Yes. -- KH
But can Luke Cage's Claws cut Wolverine?
I think you typed that wrong.
Ryan Henriquez I do not think Luke cage has claws
Don't you mean, Can Luke Cage's abs cut Wolverine?"
Perhaps this is a similar explanation for Force powers?
i haven't been the same since i saw that speedster living more in the present than every one else, it's got me enjoying life more
is it ironic that a mass effect commercial came up before the video
No irony, but rather targeted advertising. "They" know what you clicked on.
Why would a Mass Effect commercial be unintended on a video about Mass Effect?
That's how ads work. You show interest in Mass Effect, and youtube tosses a Mass Effect ad your way.
Because they're spying on you...And because science.
Dumbass.
EA and Google watch you poop.
Irony would be more an ad promoting the game and making it look really cool before a hate video or bad review etc
How would the hologram communicators work? It said in the game that the communicators exists in two places at the same time, but how?
Applause for using sounds from C&C series ;)
You know, one of these days someone is going to figure out how to control these things and end up becoming a god...
Can I put my hands down now?
nerdist on the "Renegade" or "paragon" images you should have made a link to another video. i.e.: renegade, kyle gets kicked out of a window. Or paragon, he dances like shepard.
Do something on...
Ben10
PowerRangers
Jimmy Neutron
Scarlet from MortalKombat Please!
First.
Fuck yeah! I've always wanted to achieve this!
You did it. You really did it. -- KH
Bro casually created a biotic training course.💀
OK sure Not bad From Mass Effect but what about GRAVITY RUSH (DAZE) 1 and 2 . She has the Chaos around her lifting people and objects that are not the intended target. and we know her power is Based on Gravity not DarkMatter. SO how bout it, GR needs a episode!
Which way do you see the cube 1:12. Front up or front down.
I know he has done a video on Titan physiology, but I'd like to know if any of the colossi from Shadow of the Colossus could ever function? Some of them are humanoid in shape but others follow different rules of nature....would be interesting.
Dark matter could explain it
You assume that dark energy is the universal constant, but an equally viable candidate is quintessence. Unlike the Universal Constant quintessence can be positive or negative, which would make it much more compatible with the with the powers in question And because it is "dark energy" it would not disagree with the canon of the game.
Can this video wait? I'm the the middle of some calibrations...
Kyle, how much do you know about the Warhammer 40K universe. I'd love some episodes on it's pseudo science.
Are we certain that dark matter is a particle? Also, reveal the secret of your transparent marker board, damn you!
Uggh....dark matter,for an Astronomer, is simply matter in the Universe that has no light to make it visible...99% of a galaxy's mass is gas with the visible spiral the center of a huge dense gas envelope not visible
Astronomer = gas, "Astrophysicist"= spooky magical substance that magically "expands" the univrse after a magical "big bang" that created everything without being religou like the Catholic Priest that proposed the "super atom" hypothesis originally (wink,wink)
As for "dark energy"...that's most commonly heat in the universe...gives off infrared light which human eye can't seer, but "astrophysicists" gotta make it all mysterious/mystical
I remember hearing a quote from someone i forgot the name of but they way he described the concept of biotic is "Its basecally the force but minus the bullshit and inconsistency"
How would you eject the Dark Matter? How would you guide it to a specific location?
Great video as always.
I was wondering if you could do an episode on how strong Jaws, from the James Bond franchise, is? Both his physical strength and his jaw strength.
What's interesting is that your comment on how this would realistically cause a lot of general mayhem stumbles close to what the original story was for the motivation of the Reapers. Rampant use of biotics (and, I assume, the use of the eezo mass effect in general) lead to a premature breakdown/death of the universe, and the Reapers are trying to stop it. It's the original plot that's alluded to by Tali when you find her on Haestrom, the planet with a prematurely dying sun. None of this made it into the final game due to that massive story leak that dumped the whole plot way early in production. The producers panicked, wanted an unspoiled surprise ending, and we got what we got.
Nah, the initial leaks gave us the same general story that we got in ME3 -- the "dark energy" plot had been long since scrapped before that.
I can only assume it was for the same reason every hates what we did get -- it doesn't really make sense. If the use of eezo accelerated the heat death of the universe (and the Reapers are only active in the Milky Way, though they could have changed that), then it opens the massive plothole of the question why they would be creating/manipulating civilisations and species into using element zero technology. There's no real way around it that wouldn't be silly, but imo that would at least have been more bearable than the whole Catalyst/Leviathan shenanigans from left field.
I personally was hoping/expecting that the Reapers were some organism/construct like Multivac from The Last Question, but hey. What can you do.
Having biotic powers is kinda like having a weaker space stone on you for the rest of your life
Do one about how poison ivy's power's work. PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
its kostichs! very unlikely but overtroghd . you know some and when reallyness but shore shore pick ups . never elery . rantzors squaluga . babality . bloef. bloef bloef bloef .
bloef .
Are you ok? -- KH
I think we need an alternative ending for this episode.
So... the Reave power. I could see just handwaving the Dominate power as "Meh, weird alien biology" but...Reave. That's the one I was really hoping for. It's a biotic power that restores health, but only by damaging unprotected organic targets. Kinda vampiric. How do telekinesis-like effects, or adjusting the mass of objects, possibly make that work?
Dude, you forgot the most crucial element to the story, its actually the number element, Eezo, otherwise known as classification Element Zero. Haha, come on. I'm liking that Garrus bit man.
Hey Kyle. WITH SCIENCE can you explain how Danny Fenton got his powers, or how he became Danny Phantom?
You know you'd try again with Garrus
JaggedJ ;-; I always romance Garrus.
Gavin MacDierney tali for me
Then what would cause a warp explosion?
Can you do an episode on how Sword Art Online's VR Full-Dive technology could or couldn't be possible?
My fave combo is singularity and warp, especially if there are a bunch of baddies in a group! 💥😆
Me too! In Andromeda, the number of combos you can pull off expands dramatically. -- KH
The Kyle, Garrus, and Liara love triangle is something I need to explore further, because science. Yeah, science.
I'm a simple man. I see Mass Effect and I click like
I love the rant in the end! It was empowering.
Think I'm a little bit in love with Kyle #sapiophile
Can you do the one that describes the mass effect field for spaceships and how they get around the time dilation going up to speed light and how it is circumvented?
And figure out how to apply it to only specific objects? Yeah, at this point, a better explanation would need to be to add, reduce, or remove mass, which requires knowing what makes up mass. Looking at Wikipedia on Mass Generation and you quickly find we have none given we don't understand how mass can be generated to include gravity in a way that makes micro-physics work out, you could develop your own pseudo-theory just for the fiction, something that seems real enough with some investigation and needs a deep magnifying glass to really disprove would probably work. Other then that, its just a huge question with no answer.
Please, please PLEASE, make video about true unused power of telekinesis in movies and comics :3 About untapped potential to defeat emebies just by squshing their brains in their heads etc. :D
I'm a biotic god, a great biotic wind...
Hey Kyle,here is a suggestion for a video.In the Devil may cry 4 game the badass protagonist Dante stops a punch from a titanic animated statue called the Savior and shrugges it off like a true badass would.How much force can a punch like that pack and how much weight is Dante lifting when stoping it?
And by the way,I am trying to insintivise the fact that the old Dante is alot better and more badass then the new one,and a video of you showcaseing the original would be great.
"You're living in an opportune time to know. So do it." Yeah but if the heat death thing is inevitable, billions of years from now, what's the point? Maybe there was a species offshoot of dinosaurs millions of years ago which managed to evolve to self-awareness and may have even figured out some basic sciences, but they were not able to make anything that survived them to enable us to know they ever achieved sentience. So what'd be the point?
I have been going through Isaac Asimov works and one thing that keeps popping up is Psyco-history. I just finished a master's course in statistics and we talked about the idea of predictive algorithms. How close are we to this field of science?
can you do a video about IRON FIST
(In the future)
Biotic kid: When was this made ?
Teacher: Idk 2000 something it’s older than me...
On the paragon/renegade part I was expecting a surprise omni blade for renegade...
i know its not really nerdist, but when you mentined Tokamak reactors in the lightsaber video i thought could you make a video about the Throrium reactors?
First saw Kyle like a week ago! I've been missing out! Awesome work man, love the videos
how powerful is King Kong in the movie Kong: Skull Island? in the movie it appears as though he has a healing factor and super strength
Yo are you that guy auditioning for the new mythbusters
Is that you on Mythbusters The Search
Yep! -- KH
But can you explain the magical insta-glass beam used to repair your helmet
Could be that they manipulate Dark Energy to create Dark Matter (DE=DM*c^2??). And, as I see it, since 'travel time' is in the equation for mass and energy (depending on which one you want to solve for)...maybe Charge is really just manipulating Energy and Mass to travel at near the speed of light. I mean, when you use the ability you don't just 'poof', you kind of _phase_ back then accelerate forward *THEN* 'poof' and appear to deliver a Falcon Punch to the enemy.
Also, for the other ME abilities that I've seen asked about...
Backlash: You're simply changing the direction of incoming mass, which we see happen all the time with stellar bodies, you'd just need to quickly create these dark matter clumps in an arc. Or. You could manipulate 'c' by shunting an enormous about of Dark Energy into 'somewhere'. Which, if the above is accurate, would make 'c' (aka travel time) '0' then immediately reapply that shunted Dark Energy to accelerate the object back at the target. - I use Energy because you'd have to increase the mass of an object to biblical proportions...like..a 9mm being given the mass of a black hole- proportion. :P
Reave: it says it restores Health...well, what is health if not Matter (Blood, tissue, nutrients) and some Energy (nerve signals; no signals no heartbeat, no life). So, you could maybe use Dark Matter. Since we don't know much about it...who knows how it'd affect us. Now, for the temp 'health boost', well...think about getting an Blood Transfusion (to you). You tend to feel pretty alert and that alert feeling slowly fades. As for the extra damage to Organics...well...we did get Dark Matter _somewhere_ (mauahahah!) the Double Damage to Armor (Mass) and Barriers (Energy)...we're manipulating E=Mc^2 and M=E/c^2, I'm pretty sure we got enough 'umph' to deal extra damage to Matter and Energy.
If the Millennium Falcon can fly at 1.5 the speed of light AND go through hyperspace, is the 1.5 speed like the impulse engines in Star Trek? And if you could travel at 1.5 the speed of light, would you be subject to relativity like you would going 0.999999999999 the speed of light?
So dark matter is really the Force?! As Obi-wan says, "It's an energy field created by all living things. It surrounds us and penetrates us; it binds the galaxy together." It's not created by living things, but it surrounds us and penetrates us, and it kind of binds the galaxy together? Whatever, in my head the force is now Star Wars' dark matter. Now how the Hoth do Force lightning, Force judgement, and mind tricks work...
What's the difference between being burned by a flame thrower and being burned by a dragon?
This is the Force!! Obi-Wan tells Luke in Episode One the the force "surrounds us, it penetrates us, and in binds the Galaxy together." Dark matter fits this description, because, like Kyle said at the beginning, there are millions of dark matter particles zipping through us at any given point. And, although Kyle also said that dark matter is what is making the universe expand, dark matter is why galaxies spin the way they do, so it keeps them together with their unseen mass. Some of the other Force powers can be explained with other reasons, but the telekinesis-like abilities the Force grants totally match Kyle's description of the abilities given by Element-0.
What about FLARE?
And explosive Biotic power that erupts in a concentrated area that radiates outward with X-amount of TNT force, enough to fill an entire room, and..... kill everyone inside of it, regardless of Armor, Shields or Biotic Barriers.
So is Element Zero dark matter? Or at least capable of making it somehow? That would explain various other things, considering that literally all their tech runs on eezo. From biotics, to starship drive cores, artificial gravity, guns, shields, and even a toothbrush (which to me is a sign that toothbrush technology is fine as it is right now. Why spend all that money for advances in a toothbrush? Though it is slightly hard to knock the thing, it did open the Normandy's escape hatch.)
Also, don't you know? Garrus is love, Garrus is life.
Unless your Asari, Biotics are rare among other Mass Effect species. Also exposing yourself too Element Zero(commonly called Ezzo in the game) bombards your with very nasty side effects that includes among other things: Cancer, Neuro degenerive disorders as well as unknown problems.
Yay Mass Effect almost out!
Could it be that Wolverine has AIDS after all the years he stabbed people and came in contact with their blood.
Could be possible because Wolverine is just a human whos healingfactor is much stronger, that doesn't mean he has something that works against HIV.
Our T-Cells don't work against HIV, why should Wolverines. And all of that is the reason why is healingfactor doesn't work that good anymore.
Uses Singularity 100m above a planet with more gravity than the planet ripping huge chunks of the planet at the Singularity with enough force to generate massive explosions. After huge chunks of the planet rain back towards the planet from 100m above it's surface causing massive destruction.
Uses Singularity inside a space station. Space station implodes at the speed of the gravitational force like a train tanker suddenly forced to have a vacuum inside it, inside the atmosphere.
Kyle the way you just described biotics would make it telekinesis with the use of gravity. The options become almost limitless... Never more have I been more afraid of an Asari.
Well if i know well, eezo changes it's mass if it gets electrical.
How it works is the SCI-FI part, but the cause of the mass change is more likely because of the dark energy rather then dark matter. The only special in dark matter is that, it can not be seen (no body know how it looks, but maybe it would simply looks black). However it does the same thing as normal matter in relation with gravity. So you don't need dark matter to do this kind of thing, you can do it with normal matter too (of course you can use dark matter). Probably micro black holes make the gravity (which cannot be seen).
The dark energy is a thing which has the opposite attribution of mass, basically some kind of negativ matter. So the optimal number of matter and dark energy would cancel each other out, and that's what we need. If you can control the dark energy, you can control the mass, and that's the point in the eezo.
So nope, ME uses dark energy.
RENEGADE FOR LIFE BITCHES!
Speaking of future aliens civilizations and space and galactic treaties, I had a question about Futurama! In the episode "Crimes of the Hot", bender and the other robots use their exhaust to push the push the earth slightly farther away from the sun, directed by the Professor! This cooled the earth slightly and gave an extra week or so to the year! Could this actually work, and how much force would be needed, and how much force did Bender contribute?
Hm! I think the 'official' idea of mass effect fields is creating a field that actually changes the gravitational/inertial mass (as distinct from matter) within it. Some kind of Higgs manipulation or something. The 'dark energy' thing is just jumping onto a pop-science catchphrase from when the series was made. :)
the pie chart doesnt add up: 72% (Dark Energy) + 23% (Dark Matter) + 4,6% (Matter) = 99,6%
are those remaining 0,4% lost in space or vacuums/empty sets?
Here's my question: Mass Effect's lore talks a lot about how Element Zero exposure caused a lot of cancer and death before (and even after) it was figured out. So why didn't they just load up these Biotic powers into their omni-tools? They operate on the same technological foundation of eezo, so wouldn't that be safer than exposing fetuses to radioactive material?
Hey quick question!!If in order to have big, cool muscles a man(alien) needs to tear some of the old ones first via training, which is a little beyond the normal abilities of this individual,how can Superman be buffed if his body is adapted to the harsh enviroment on Kripton and should be able to lift horses like we lift 1,5 kg weights ?Does he lift his whole family barn every day so he can look like that??
words of wisdom at the end!!
Aren't you confusing 'dark matter' which is inobservible material in outer space widely hypothesized to be gas clouds and other non-light-emitting hard-to-detect substances, with Dark Energy, which is a universe-permeating giant question mark floating in the middle of astrophysics because we have no idea what it is, where it is, how to find it or why it's there.
Maybe I don't fully understand dark matter, but if has gravitational forces similar to matter, then it wouldn't work for Mass Effect aside from maybe the singularity power because it'd affect everyone and everything nearby simultaneously and that's not exactly how biotics work in Mass Effect.
You can get around the catastrophic collateral damage by remembering the basic application of Mass Effect, the manipulation of Mass, or at least relative mass.
Remember how the Tantalus core works with it's stealth mobility? It creates a pocket of high relative mass ahead of the Normandy so she can 'fall' into it.
The same applies here, first the biotic lessens the target's mass before manipulating the conditions around them.
It can't be pure Dark Matter manipulation as mass effect can explicitly reduce the mass of an object.