Physics terminology as track names and music that sounds like reality tearing at the seams. Mike Morasky's score for Half-Life: Alyx Chapter 11 is the endgame, and it sounds like it. "Supersymmetry Dilation" pulses with this barely-controlled energy, like the Vault is warping everything around it.
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"Stringularity" takes string theory and makes it a sound, all vibrating tension and harmonic instability. "Ekpyrosis" borrows its name from a cosmological theory about colliding branes and sounds exactly that catastrophic.
"Gravity Grenade Conflict" is combat music for the final stretch, frantic and disorienting. Then "Consequences" and "HIRE" close out the whole thing. That ending. "Icosahedron" sits early in the tracklist like a geometric puzzle you're not meant to solve yet.
If you finished Alyx and sat through the credits in stunned silence, this chapter's soundtrack is why.