What are StarGates? Why & wither wormholes? Dangers of sphaghettification. How to build a wormhole? Negative energy & vortices. At the edge of testable. Today, a bridge of birds, tomorrow the cell phone: nearly impossible today, but tomorrow?
8. http://timeandquantummechanics.comStargates/Ashmead - FossCon / Aug 26th, 2017
What do we mean by a
StarGate?
• Any instantaneous transport
• Usually associated with a gate
& a bit of tube-y-ness
• Mostly wormholes here
• StarGates & Faster-than-light
travel
• StarGates & Time Travel
• StarGates & Parallel universes
10. http://timeandquantummechanics.comStargates/Ashmead - FossCon / Aug 26th, 2017
The Ant & the Worm
• “We burrow our
way through the
apple like a
worm, crossing
from one side of
the galaxy to the
other instead of
going around the
outside” — Col. S.
Carter
13. http://timeandquantummechanics.comStargates/Ashmead - FossCon / Aug 26th, 2017
Black Hole at the
Center of our Galaxy
• “The stellar orbits in
the galactic centre
show that the central
mass concentration
of four million solar
masses must be a
black hole, beyond
any reasonable
doubt.” - Genzel,
Max Planck Institute
27. http://timeandquantummechanics.comStargates/Ashmead - FossCon / Aug 26th, 2017
Fabric of spacetime
• Quantum vacuum
noisy with
wormholes
• Find (with exotic
matter)
• Grow (feed with
exotic matter)
• Keep from eating
the solar system
(feed with normal
matter)
32. http://timeandquantummechanics.comStargates/Ashmead - FossCon / Aug 26th, 2017
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!
33. http://timeandquantummechanics.comStargates/Ashmead - FossCon / Aug 26th, 2017
Ad astra per aspera
• Physics of Stargates - Rodrigo
• From Eternity to Here - Carroll
• Science of Interstellar - Thorne
• Time Travel & Warp Drives -
Everett & Roman
• The Physics of Time - Muller