StarGates: Theory and Practice

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StarGates:
Theory & Practice
John Ashmead

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• Wormhole
• Occasional
real physics,
i.e. time
dilation
effects
• What’s
behind the
curtain?

The Fall of Hyperion

Beware of
unexpected doors!

Steampunk Portal

Making contact with
the science

Seeing the invisible

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

Wormholes
• 2 * Black Holes
• Avoiding
Spaghettiﬁcation
• Negative energy
• Avoiding the
Time Police
• How to build?

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

Embedding
• Like pages of a
book
• Black hole glue
• Then large
rollers to ﬂatten
out on each
side

Frame Dragging

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

Gravitational Radiation

Negative Energy
• Lots of
positive energy
required
• Also, negative
energy
• Constant
feature of all
[interesting]
wormholes

Spaghettification
• Tendex lines
• Blue is
squeeze
• Red is
stretch
• Oil is found

Unfocusing

Are we positive about
energy?
• Average Weak Energy
condition: energy
mostly positive
• Requirement from
quantum ﬁeld theory
• But may not be
fundamental

Casimir Effect

Hawking Radiation
• Virtual pairs
form all the time
• Sometimes one
captured, other
escapes
• Carrying energy
with it

Quantum Banking
• Longer the
pulse, the
weaker
• Pay-back
ensues
• And interest

vortices
• Strong association
between vortices
& stargates
• Framedragging
• May be hard to
keep the wormhole
mouth open
without something
spinning.

FTL = Time Travel
• Instant from A to B
(from A’s perspective)
• Instant from B to A
(from B’s perspective)
• Backwards in time to
A

Wormhole
= FTL

Paradox Policing
• The Chronology
Protection
Conjecture
• Multiverse/Everett
Interpretation
• The Novikov Self-
Consistency
Postulate
• Paradox noise

How to Build?
• Wormhole harvesting

Electric Charge really
opposite ends of a Wormhole
• Einstein &
Rosen
• Maldacena &
Susskind (2014)
• Solves some
problems with
black holes

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)

Woodward’s
Wormholes
• Mach’s principle
• ADM Model of the
electron (Arnowitt-
Deser-Misner)
• Testable!!!

Mach’s Principle

Arnowitt-
Deser-
Misner

Testable!

Practical Cavorite?

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!

references
• Physics of Stargates - Rodrigo
• From Eternity to Here - Carroll
• Science of Interstellar - Thorne
• Time Travel & Warp Drives -
Everett & Roman
• The Physics of Time - Muller

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