Hilbert Effect
The Hilbert Effect is an ability in the Xenosaga series. It is an anti-Gnosis field generation system that allows Gnosis to be vulnerable to attacks.
Description[edit]
The Hilbert Effect typically appears as a blue shock wave that expands outward from the user. It draws Gnosis and other beings from Imaginary Space into Real Space so they can become vulnerable to conventional weapons. It can be also used to disable many high-end sensors using cross-interference. KOS-MOS, MOMO Mizrahi, the 100-Series Observational Realians, and the Kirschwassers are equipped with the Hilbert Effect. KOS-MOS's Hilbert Effect generator is unique that it can reach at least 300,000 kilometers, but when using all her power, that field can expand to several hundred astronomical units.
Story[edit]
History[edit]
The Hilbert Effect was invented by Joachim Mizrahi at the Cerebral Sciences Research Center on Miltia sometime before T.C. 4753. Most likely posed as a more efficient method at destroying Gnosis, it was most prominently implemented in 100-Series Realians. Presumably as a result of the Hilbert Effect's inaccessibility, its predecessor in anti-Gnosis technology, the D.S.S.S., continued to be standard use over the next 14 years.
Episode I[edit]
In the KOS-MOS Simulator, Shion attempted to test the Hilbert Effect on a Gnosis-type drone, but the simulation malfunction upon activation, prompting Allen to remove her from the simulation. During the Gnosis raid on the Woglinde, KOS-MOS used the Hilbert Effect to draw all the surrounding Gnosis in the physical realm and make them vulnerable to conventional weaponry. At Pleroma, MOMO used her Hilbert Effect to disable some U-TIC A.G.W.S.'s sensors, allowing Ziggy and MOMO to defeat them with ease. After the Elsa was pulled from Hyperspace by the Cathedral Ship, KOS-MOS activated her Ultra-Wide Range Hilbert Effect before the ship is pulled in by the Cathedral Ship. When the Gnosis attacks the Kukai Foundation due to the prescence of the Song of Nephilim, KOS-MOS once again uses the Hilbert Effect to draw the Gnosis into physical realm to buy time for the evacuation.
Episode II[edit]
The Hilbert plays a relatively minor role during whenever KOS-MOS engages in battle with Gnosis-type enemies.
Episode III[edit]
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As a Gameplay mechanic[edit]
The Hilbert Effect is an ability that KOS-MOS and MOMO can use. It decreases all abilities of mechanical and Gnosis enemies.
Database[edit]
Episode I
Hilbert Effect
A device which generates a finitely bound realm (a "sensory" realm, to be exact), to enable an intersection with the imaginary realm.
There are specific wave energies that exist in both the realms of real numbers and imaginary numbers. This device "interprets" such wave energies into a "common language," thereby allowing the physical realm to interact with the imaginary realm (the realm of Planck scales).
What this means, then, is that the Gnosis, which exist outside our physical laws, can effectively be dealt with using a physical, real-world approach.
Ultra Wide-Range Hilbert
The deployment of the Hilbert Effect over an extremely large area.
Ordinarily, the range of KOS-MOS' Hilbert Effect is set to cover a radius of about 300,000km. However, when Shion witnessed the impending massive swarm of Gnosis, she decided to enlarge the effective range to a radius of several hundred AU (astronomical units).
Episode III
Hilbert Effect
A limited perception field generation system for interacting with Gnosis.
A limited perception field generation system developed as a method of reaching
out from real space to interact with the Gnosis, which exist in imaginary
space.
It makes interaction by real-world humans possible by translating
imaginary-space pulsations into a "common language" and intentionally expanding
the accessible area of imaginary space (normally Planck-scale sized). This also
allows the use of everyday weapons against Gnosis, who ignore the laws of
physics.
Usually, KOS-MOS can create a field of about 300,000 kilometers, but when using all her power, that field can expand to several million astronomical units. MOMO and 100-Series Observational Units can create a field with a range up to 100 kilometers using a special large-scale amplifier; without this device, however, they are limited to only a few hundred meters.
Ultra-Wide Range Hilbert
Deploying the Hilbert Effect over an extremely wide range.
KOS-MOS has an effective radius of about 300,000 kilometers within which she
can use the Hilbert Effect. She can also deploy it over a super-wide area,
should the situation call for it.
Normally, even when using a system with an amplifier, the area maxes out at only a 100 kilometer radius; KOS-MOS, however, can far surpass that limit, unleashing the Hilbert Effect over a radius of several hundred astronomical units.
Xenosaga I & II
ヒルベルトエフェクト
虚数領域に存在するグノーシスに対し実在事象面からの干渉手段として開発された、限定知覚領域発生システム。
虚数領域の波動を『共通言語』に翻訳することで、プランクスケールまで縮小している虚数領域への干渉可能範囲を意図的に拡大させ、実数世界の人間による干渉を可能とした。
これにより、物理法則を無視していたグノーシスに対して、通常兵器での攻撃が有効となった。
Hilbert Effect
A limited perceptual field generation system developed as a means of interfering with the Gnosis that exist in the Imaginary Number Domain, via the plane of real phenomena.
By translating the waves of the Imaginary Number Domain into the "common language", the range of potential interference with the Imaginary Number Domain, shrunk to Planck scale, was intentionally expanded to allow interference by humans in the Real Number realm.
This has made conventional weapons effective against the Gnosis, who defy the laws of physics.
ヒルベルトエフェクト その２
通常、KOS-MOSの場合、その展開範囲は30万km程度だが、最大出力時にはその範囲を数百天文単位にまで拡大させることが可能である。
M.O.M.O.及び量産型百式観測器は、専用の大型アンプリファイアーを使用することで100kmまでの範囲拡大が可能であるが、単体でのシステム使用時の有効展開範囲は数100mが限界とされている。
Hilbert Effect Part 2
Normally, the deployment radius from KOS-MOS is about 300,000km, but at maximum output, its radius can be extended to several hundred astronomical units.
M.O.M.O and mass-produced 100-Series Observational Units can expand their range up to 100km by using special large-scale amplifiers, but their maximum deployment range is limited to a few hundred meters when the system is operated on its own.
超広域ヒルベルト
ヒルベルトエフェクトを超広域に渡って展開する事。
KOS-MOSのヒルベルトエフェクト展開半径は約30万kmを基本としているが、実際は状況に応じて超広域に渡るヒルベルトエフェクトを展開する事が可能である。
通常アンプリファイアーを装備したシステムでも周囲約100kmが限界だが、KOS-MOSの場合はその限界範囲を大幅に越え、半径数百天文単位にも及ぶヒルベルト展開が可能である。
Ultra-Wide Range Hilbert
The deployment of the Hilbert Effect across an ultra-wide range.
KOS-MOS has a base Hilbert Effect deployment radius of approximately 300,000km, but in truth, it is possible for her Hilbert Effect to be deployed across an ultra-wide range depending on the situation.
The limit of the standard system equipped with an amplifier is approximately 100km in circumference, but in KOS-MOS's case, this limit is far wider, allowing for a Hilbert deployment with a radius of several hundred astronomical units.
Trivia[edit]
- The Hilbert Effect is likely named after David Hilbert, a highly influential mathematician in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The exact relation between Hilbert and the eponymous effect is unclear.
In other languages[edit]
| Language | Name | Meaning |
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 English
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Hilbert Effect | — |
 Japanese
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ヒルベルトエフェクト | Hilbert Effect |
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Screenshots[edit]
MOMO using the Hilbert Effect.
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