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ChiperSoft 11 hours ago [-]
We never see the wormhole in Stargate, at least under SG1 canon. It's microscopic and simply used for transporting a matter stream. The ring field is a matter destabalizer and recombinator, pretty much the same thing as Star Trek transporters. Thats why radio waves can move two-way but matter is one-way.
Now if you're using Movie canon, yeah, it's broke.
Also, Marvel? Those aren't wormholes, they're magic portals.
Chaosvex 9 hours ago [-]
Isn't the whole CG effect of flying through a magical tube seeing the wormhole?
Although the explanation of how it all works is rather inconsistent in Stargate. Initially, gate travel was something that people experienced and it was only later changed to being dematerialised.
procarch2019 9 hours ago [-]
I don’t think so, or maybe it was… IDK anymore. Now I’ll have to go rewatch it.
It definitely is explained as described above. The gate itself, the “event horizon” is all part of the apparatus for accessing the wormhole, not the wormhole itself. I forget the episode, but there is one where something happens due to the fact that they recreated/reverse engineered the “brains” of the device with human design (missing some key failsafes) and some of them get stuck in the “buffer” (dematerialized state) until it’s figured out how to reconstitute them.
nlawalker 5 hours ago [-]
If you’re inclined to add any more, consider Outer Wilds! “Black holes technology” is a major plot point and shows up as a neat gameplay mechanic in a couple places.
smcameron 11 hours ago [-]
Scott Manley has a couple of nice videos about wormholes:
Seconded, and don't worry, the initial art gets a lot better over the decades. :)
wiml 8 hours ago [-]
Nothing requires the wormhole "surface" to be a sphere, just like nothing requires the wormhole in the 2D analogy to be a circular hole. If you make it a sphere with one flat side, travelers won't have to traverse curved space (with the attendant weird tidal/gravitational effects).
Terr_ 10 hours ago [-]
PSA: This was posted 4 days ago and seems to have been given a "second chance", so take all the HN timestamps with a grain of salt.
I won't pretend to understand the code involved, I just know it happens occasionally on HN, and that my own comment is being shown as 3-days-younger than it actually is.
Unsure where to safely step forward. The bending boundary bits look terrifying.
rznicolet 5 days ago [-]
Yeah, I expect the tidal forces and whatnot are, shall we say, not negligible in practice.
inigyou 62 days ago [-]
I thought stargates were explicitly not wormholes. For one thing, they're one-way.
Terr_ 5 days ago [-]
Yeah, even if a wormhole is involved, the "surface" is some local magic machinery designed to make the trip survivable and ensure you pop out in the right shape on the other side.
Now if you're using Movie canon, yeah, it's broke.
Also, Marvel? Those aren't wormholes, they're magic portals.
Although the explanation of how it all works is rather inconsistent in Stargate. Initially, gate travel was something that people experienced and it was only later changed to being dematerialised.
It definitely is explained as described above. The gate itself, the “event horizon” is all part of the apparatus for accessing the wormhole, not the wormhole itself. I forget the episode, but there is one where something happens due to the fact that they recreated/reverse engineered the “brains” of the device with human design (missing some key failsafes) and some of them get stuck in the “buffer” (dematerialized state) until it’s figured out how to reconstitute them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7e-1bRpweo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVO8nvb1o2w
The second video is about how the first video was made.
Seconded, and don't worry, the initial art gets a lot better over the decades. :)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48793637