How would the science team discover that the Diamonds are more superior to them and the H.E.C.U. Friends are immune to any detrimental effects, but Foes hit by the ripples will take a moderate amount of kinetic damage and find their damage resistance decreased. Gordon Freeman accidentally causes a Resonance Cascade which he placed a crystal from the Gem Homeworld into an anti-mass-spectrometer within the Anomalous Materials department of the Black Mesa Research Facility.