Call them Stargates, Jumpgates, Fargates, Hypertubes or just an invitation to every unwanted pest from the far reaches of the Galaxy to visit, they are absolutely necessary if we are to have the glorious Science Fiction action we desperately need. But could they actually be built? We look at what modern physics has to say: how to glue black holes together to build a wormhole, how to avoid the dangers of spaghettification, radiation poisoning, and paradox noise, and just what it would take to build one in practice.
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What do we mean by a
StarGate
• Any instantaneous transport
• Usually associated with a gate
or a tube (slime trails in space)
• View from the backside?
stargates & the continuum
31. http://timeandquantummechanics.comStargates/Ashmead - Philcon Nov 19th, 2016
What do we mean by a
StarGate
• Any instantaneous transport
• Usually associated with a gate
or a tube (slime trails in space)
• View from the backside?
stargates & the continuum
• StarGates & Faster-than-light
travel (i.e. Instant!)
32. http://timeandquantummechanics.comStargates/Ashmead - Philcon Nov 19th, 2016
What do we mean by a
StarGate
• Any instantaneous transport
• Usually associated with a gate
or a tube (slime trails in space)
• View from the backside?
stargates & the continuum
• StarGates & Faster-than-light
travel (i.e. Instant!)
• StarGates & Parallel universes
(don’t go there)
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Uses of StarGates
• Fill in plot holes,
• Give us deeper
understanding of our
theories & our universe,
• Maybe, even, help get
the human race a bit of
badly needed breathing
room,
128. http://timeandquantummechanics.comStargates/Ashmead - Philcon Nov 19th, 2016
Uses of StarGates
• Fill in plot holes,
• Give us deeper
understanding of our
theories & our universe,
• Maybe, even, help get
the human race a bit of
badly needed breathing
room,
• And lots of fun!
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references
• Lorentzian Wormholes- Visser
• Physics of Stargates - Rodrigo
• From Eternity to Here - Carroll
• Science of Interstellar - Thorne
• Time Travel & Warp Drives -
Everett & Roman
• The Physics of Time - Muller