Wormhole
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In Stargate physics, a wormhole is a "tunnel" created between two active Stargates after one of them successfully dials the other, enabling faster-than-light travel in one direction.
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[edit] Overview
A wormhole is a subspace bridge created between 2 locations that allow matter to be transferred through one end to the other. Allthough not travelling at a higher speed, a wormhole reduces the distance neccessary to reach a given location within itself (similar to Hyperspace but a lot more powerful.) To put wormholes into relative place, the time neccesary for the most powerful Ancient hyperdrive to reach Lantea in the Pegasus Galaxy from earth is 4 days, if transferred through a wormhole is is less than 20 seconds, and to reach closer planets it is around 3 seconds.
Wormholes are a vaccum of matter, like space itself, and the temperature of one in close to absolute zero (which is −273.15 degrees celcius.)
The only known method of creating stable wormholes is with an Ancient Stargate. A device which when a given address is inputted, connects to that gate over a subspace link and quickly exchanges precise locational details then establishes a stable wormhole between them. Wormholes are only 1 way, and the dialing gate is the one that you must enter through. The stargate creates it's own event horizon just in front of the wormhole and dematerialises any object attempting to pass through it so it is not damaged or killed by the deadly low temparatures. It then fires it through the wormhole and the other gate rematerialises it at it's event horizon. If a barrier is placed between the two layers then the matter is unable to rematerialise and is destroyed.
If an object or somebody walks through the incoming wormhole, it will be destroyed, or pulled back, as wormholes are one-way travel only, except for radio signals.
If a wormhole impacts a solar flare, the magnetic disturbances can create a time travel effect on a wormhole passing through it based on the intensity and location.
There have also been times when a wormhole has crossed into an alternate universe
Wormholes can also pickup and deposit matter from places, allthough the recieving gate can remove this exess matter. On one occasion, however, a superheavy material was picked up by the wormhole and deposited into a passing sun, causing it to shift to infa-red and stopping plants from photosynthisising on the nearby planet.
The Ancients did, however, put in place effective safty protocols in their Stargates that prevent wormholes being formed if there is a high risk of any of thease.
[edit] Behind the scenes
Seasons 1-8 of Stargate SG-1 used an older wormhole CGI effect, carried over from Stargate the movie. Seasons 9-10 used a new version of the effect retrofitted from Stargate Atlantis; the difference between them is that the effect appears green in Atlantis, but blue in SG-1.
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- The Wikipedia Wormhole article includes information about the scientific theory and the use of the concept in science fiction.
- GateWorld's article on Wormhole in The Stargate Omnipedia
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