Call them Stargates, Jumpgates, Fargates, Hypergates or just an invitation to every unwanted pest from the far reaches of the Galaxy to visit, they're absolutely necessary if we're to have the glorious Science Fiction action we desperately need. Could they actually be built? Modern physics may permit: 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 would it 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
& a bit of tube-y-ness
• Mostly wormholes here
• StarGates & Faster-than-light
travel
• StarGates & Time Travel
• StarGates & Parallel universes
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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
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7 Gravitational Wave
Detected as of now
“In the August event, one black hole with about
31 times the mass of the Sun and another with
25 solar masses, combined to make a hole of 53
solar masses. The remaining three solar masses
were converted into gravitational waves that
radiated more energy than all the stars in the
known universe. The observation is in line with
earlier gravitational wave detections, confirming
an evolving view of the cosmic night full of
monsters and violence.”
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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)
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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,
• And lots of fun!
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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