The Stargate : How it Works

[@harlankovacs6276]

missing parts: -size of the gate -38 min law -desynchronisation/time dilation bug (connect to a black hole ) -time travel bug -exotic matter bug (pass through star) -gate proximity bug/security? (locks a gate when another gate is too close) still a good episode ;)

The 38 min is easy to explain. The Stargate is a huge energy storage device, when activated it is charged once by the DHD or another power supply. This energey storage is enough for an intragalactic wormhole about 38 minutes. As soon as the energy store is used up, the wormhole collapses. The weapon that Anubis used against Earth bypasses this reservoir and directly supplies the wormhole with energy, so that it can be kept open for an indefinite period of time. That is why the connection collapsed when the weapon was destroyed and not 38 minutes later. Extremely strong radiation, such as after an atomic explosion, can supply the wormhole with energy for longer. That's why the wormhole stayed open a few minutes longer in one episode when a nuclear weapon test was carried out on the other planet. If you select a planet in the gravity range of a black hole, as P3W-451, the flow of energy is much slower due to the time dilation. The wormhole consumes the gate's storage more slowly. Sooner or later this wormhole will also collapse, but only after many years or decades.

That you can't connect two Stargates if they are too close is probably not a bug. I suspect it's because a wormhole has to be a minimum length in order for it to stay stable. Otherwise Stargate could also be used to connect several planets in a planetary system or on one planet. In addition, the Stargate addresses do not really designate points in the room but areas of space. The number of addresses is limited and there are more planets in the Milky Way than there are addresses. So you could move the Stargate from Earth to Mars and it would still have the same address as Earth. And the fact that you cannot dial out when a second Stargate is active in the same area of space is probably a safety feature so that the wormholes do not cross or otherwise interact with each other and disrupt the transport.

The episode with the interaction of the star with a wormhole doesn't really make sense because the wormhole is outside normal spacetime. I wouldn't attach that much importance to the episode. The same applies to the time travel episodes and the film "Continuum". Normally, objects outside of subspace shouldn't have any impact on the wormhole within the subspace. The only meaningful explanation is that the gravitational field of stars, black holes and other heavy objects leave a "shadow" in the subspace, which can deflect or bend the wormhole. This contradicts the fact that Stargates are on planets and therefore within a natural gravitational field, when there are used.

The size of the Stargate is probably due to technical reasons. The ancients chose a size that is sufficient for most purposes (transport of people and material), but which does not require too much energy. The larger the Stargate, the greater the energy consumption. The wormhole itself is smaller than the Stargate anyway, i.e. the diameter of the wormhole of a supergate is not significantly larger than the diameter of the wormhole of a normal gate. Because only information and energy are transmitted from gate to gate, not solid matter. (Which makes the story of how a star's spectrum changed by a wormhole even more absurd.)

[@herdsire90210]

Pretty buggy.

[@mrfafaa96]

Born too late to explore the earth, born too early for interstellar exploration. To be honest you can criticize the Ancients for a lot of things, but they sure knew how to make durable things.

[@jacksonheathen2092]

They really did. Although Stargate command & the Atlantis expedition were sure good at ruining a variety of ancient stuff (from stargates to puddle jumpers).

[@mrfafaa96]

@@jacksonheathen2092 They sure did and a 2004 Dell laptop can be connected to a surprisingly large amount of highly advanced alien technology. But the Tauri has never really been shown to be able to build something anywhere near the same level of either Asgard nor Ancient. The closest they've been is copying Asgard tech where they literately got both the blueprints and working modules for said tech to work off. I highly doubt the Tauri can build something(without ripping off someone else's tech) and leave it running for several thousand years like the lanteans did with the Atlantis shield.

[@jacksonheathen2092]

@@mrfafaa96 Perhaps they figured they could go around recklessly destroying ancient devices & always find more. The Atlantis expedition sure crashed, broke, sunk, exploded, and abandon more than a few puddle jumpers for people who had no apparent way of replacing them.

[@mrfafaa96]

@@jacksonheathen2092 That they did. It always hurt to see Ancient or other highly advanced technology get destroyed since no one(that was willing) knew how to replace them.

[@jacksonheathen2092]

@@mrfafaa96 Yep. I was really glad on the final episode of SG1 "Unending" that they didn't end up losing the newly installed Asgard computer core. That would have truly have been a waste.

[@Michael29040]

Energy is conserved too with the Stargate. So a bullet or energy blast comes out of a Stargate with the same force it enters.

[@clallen2000]

Was there ever an episode where we see the back of the gate and does it look identical to the front. If it is identical then how do you know you are going into the gate correctly? This would be important to know if a gate has fallen over.

[@treadingtheboards2875]

Going over the episodes of Stargate, I have been led to believe that while they may look the same on both sides, there is only one entry and exit side. Which is why a person exiting the Stargate cannot reenter to return, instead the stargate needs to be shut down and redialed from that location. Most Stargates have a ramp on only one side. Hmm, now you have me thinking, what would happen if someone tried to access the interface from the "back" of an active gate.

[@bobingabout]

Naquadah: "The stuff the stargate is made of", that's pretty much the first description of it.

[@MegaKlander]

Great, now for stargate position calculations, for that we seem to need six x, y, z positions and the origin position to calculate a course. How do we get these positions?

[@Ikaros473]

so lets say you are in the sg1 gate room. you make a stable connection. what would happen if you walked through the other side of the gate? instead of through the front. Also what would happen if on the receiving gate side someone tried to walk through that side ?

[@bkdan262]

Awesome video. Now we need one on DHD's

[@Shaden0040]

I'd like a video on the human dialing computer and program. Including all the troubles that had / caused. wormhole through a star, time travel, Baal's subverting Felger's dialing program.

[@j0code]

@@Shaden0040 Don't forget Teal'c getting stuck in the stargate buffer

[@OmegaOrdained]

Very well explained! Thank you! I love the DHD's in Atlantis way better than the original ones. Could you do something on the differences between the DHD's and Stargates? Have a great day ! And thank you again for telling me how to schedule videos, it has made video production way easier, and more enjoyable! You rock man!

[@nathanielpratt7413]

I love your vids man, I recently discovered your channel and have been binging all of your videos and they are all amazing. Keep up the amazing work man and keep on gating!

[@deborahduthie4519]

We have seen a wobbly part of sky from my backyard. Could that be part of that network?. I have wondered. I watch the security camera and have seen people walk from just past that area but not before it. This must be a glitch right?

[@Dragonmage967]

Kinda still has the same debate as Star Trek transporters. Is the you that comes out of the gate/transport pad still you? Do you die and an identical you appears elsewhere and so on with your same memories and bodily makeup? These are the questions that keep me up at night!

[@aprilpower1158]

Wow, I have been thinking about this too. But also thinking about teleportation. Is it you that comes out, or a clone, and the real you died? There is no way to know... Thats what creeps me the hell out.

[@waynemacleod3416]

law of conservation of matter and energy. neither can actually be destroyed or created, only converted from one to the other.

[@raleigh2747]

@@waynemacleod3416 this... is not actually true... In simple computations in physics and chemistry, sure, but really in reality, no...

[@treadingtheboards2875]

@@aprilpower1158 Dark Matter use the clone theory, sort of. You enter a pod, a clone of you is created at another pod with your personality while the real you is asleep in the first pod. After the clone's mission, it returns to the pod and all it's memories are sent back to you as the clone is "destroyed". If the clone is killed or destroyed before returning to the pod, you wake up not knowing what happened.

[@aprilpower1158]

@ Hmmm fascinating. Wouldn't that be smart to do when exploring new worlds etc without risking real humans?

[@skynet-gaming540]

Schumann resonance is basically a gateway to travel using earths field at the right place. Compressed energy is basically granite (peizoelectric) for long term use lasting more time to use.

[@FirstnameLastname-py3bc]

And how can radio signal (any signal for that matter) can be bidirectional while everything else is unidirectional?

[@Maeshup]

Serious question: What would happen if the receiving stargate was a different size than the starting one? Like the other end is too small for a human with a diameter of lets say only 1 meter and you were to walk in the bigger one?

[@Ragitsu]

Stargate SG-1 - Season 5 - "Ascension".

[@anthonygagan4398]

Greet job as always Your assistant sounds like she’s having fun too

[@treadingtheboards2875]

A question going through my mind brought me to your video, which was very informative. First, the question, how close to the Star Trek transporter is the Stargate, after watching your video has me thinking that they virtually do the same thing, decompose, send, and re-join. I am an avid Sci Reader and have been since at least the last 1950's. There was a story i read way back then that had a similar "stargate" like object but with a difference. Rather than decomposing a person or object to something that could be transmitted, this instead it would reduce the distance between the two "gates" to zero and create a doorway similar to the doorway between two rooms where you just stepped through. There was no interface as in the Stargate, instead you could see what was on the other side, similar to the device in the Star Trek episode The City On The Edge of Forever. The persons was not converted to energy, instead would simply walk through. Since it was almost 60 years since I read the story, that is all i remember.

[@luxxulyanite]

What happens if you enter the event horizon of an outgoing gate, but from the other side of that gate?

[@TheStargateGuy]

off the top of my head I have no idea.

[@Moxxuren]

You're awesome! Just found your channel and you're so cool, thanks for the great videos. Love the jacket btw

[@TheStargateGuy]

Well thanks Moxxuren and welcome to the channel! I'm glad you like it so much.

[@RRW359]

Giant worms. HUGE. Also, wouldn't the Ancient's biggest contribution to the local group be humans?

[@therealpeter2267]

What I never understood is how the startgate started to activate the chevrons on the other end when dialling, I mean, did all other stargates with the same first few characters started activating chevrons aswell and when the next character did not match they de-activated? In the show clearly not, so did the stargate know that it is going to be activated? Because sure, when using an actual dialing device it might send over the whole address, but when dialling manually it won't.

[@wolfieblackheart4185]

It's like a cell phone, you dial a number and the person receiving the call gets the callers info up on the screen so the star gates that are being dialed get the symbols from the caller and match them on the reciever

[@therealpeter2267]

@@wolfieblackheart4185 but even when the gate is manually dialed, when it's last chevron is set it instantly opens, even tho the gate on the other side should need more time to spin around

[@EgoEssex]

@@therealpeter2267 the buttons were already pushed though... Maybe the spinning and chevron locking is energy generation related instead of finding which place to dial related, since you already know based on the buttons that were pushed.. Then they both spin to connect and generate?

[@kukivave]

the gate rips matter apart and streams it across as base elements to be reconstructed on the other side (that's why they were able to shove the heavy element through the stargate and disconnect mid transmission so it would end up in the SUN and undo the redshift...

[@allistair61]

Great episode, love the channel as always. Keep up the hard work

[@theoutspokenscotsman884]

If it demolecularises you into energy/data then sends you though subspace can we even say that wormholes are involved at all? Personally I always thought it demolecularises you into energy/data then sends that energy/data through a far smaller wormhole linked to the receiving gate

[@EgoEssex]

I like how you tell me this in such detail like one day my life is going to 100% depend on it.

[@UncleMikeDrop]

7 Chevron's dials a gate within its local Galaxy, the 8th chevron allows for intergalactic dialing, and the 9th Chevron is magic.😁 It's just kind of strange that the dialing process wouldn't require a 6 Chevron point of origin totaling 12 chevrons(6 for point A and 6 for point B). That clip you showed of Samantha Carter trying to explain the idea of a wormhole to Jack O'Neill reminds me of how glad I was that they went with Richard Dean Anderson's lightly humorous approach to the character as opposed to Kurt Russell's brooding approach. Movie Jack O'Neill was a bummer and if they had gone with that approach, I imagine the show would have barely made it to season 3.

[@thoughtfortheday7811]

I think you meant to say "worm"hole, no? 😁

[@UncleMikeDrop]

@@thoughtfortheday7811 lol thanks for the catch

[@merlyndraconis9345]

Love the vid

[@TheStargateGuy]

Awesome I'm glad you do. Thanks for watching.

[@patrickradcliffe3837]

The Jack O'neill discription. It flushes sideways and then we walk through it.

[@ralphyfosterjr]

Thank you for another video, this cheered me up

[@skullboneslayer]

But why can't a stargate be entered from either end? And yet radio signals can?

[@thoughtfortheday7811]

If the gate has a maximum "stay open" time, how does it know when to shut off after the last traveller has passed through? How do SG1know which is the Point of Origin symbol on an alien DHD? Why do the chevrons light up on an incoming wormhole? Why do travellers no longer get icey like they used to at the beginning? Thanks

[@RikkiCattermole]

Stargates themselves had pretty complex computers on board. This is evident based upon the earth gate usage and as well as the buffer that it had. We do not know much about this computer, as the DHD is given precedence in the shows. But it could be considerably more powerful than the DHD itself. Just isn't designed to be updated. Within the gate network the stargates will automatically every X years "dial" one another to update their databases. They will also need to update when moved. This should answer your questions 1, 3 and 4. For 2, they would use a MELP and figure out the address for earth ahead of time, although my understanding is that later on they didn't do this beyond a quick sensor check about the environment (which the gate probably can do as well). But most likely the simplest answer is easiest and that is the point of origin symbol was in the same place for each DHD. Which makes sense.

[@thoughtfortheday7811]

@@RikkiCattermole Thanks for your suggestions. I agree about the Point of Origin symbol being in the same place, it does make sense. Still pondering about the other things, though.

[@backupplan6058]

I would like to make one slight change based on the information given about Stargates in later season compared to information given early on. Where it’s talked about as an Event Horizon, a physical representation of the wormhole, I disagree yet would have been understandable assumption to make when she said it. The event horizon is not actually a result of the wormhole at all but a product of the gate as an barrier produced as part of the demolecularisation process. In order to breakdown matter from one side in order to be read and transferred in a form through the wormhole as energy it first need a way to in essence destroy the matter in a known location and use the energy from that process in the transmission and to reassemble it on the other side. The wormhole itself is formed behind the gate however it’s a micro wormhole that is completely invisible to the naked eye as black holes form in high energy collisions in reality. Evidence for this is shown in the episode when dialled into the black hole. It’s clear the point of gravity is located at a single point behind the Stargate itself. This is simply a way of the gates to create a wormhole on the relatively remarkably low energy required to activate the gate, having a micro wormhole energy can be transferred between two gates without needing to be large, size is not everything. Supergates for example may not actually have wormholes produced any larger than a standard gate however they do need the extra power in order for the vast distance covered and disintegration, reassembling process which covers a far larger area and vastly more matter in the transfer. The best example to show this is the episode where Teal’c is not rematerialised and stuck as a patten in the gate. They are able to form the rematerialisation field without a wormhole at all showing its not actually part of the wormhole itself but a product of the gate.

[@TheStargateGuy]

That is a good observation I haven't thought of that.

[@backupplan6058]

The Stargate Guy, I never though my comment/ramblings would actually be read by anyone this far after the video got posted. Thank you. That’s just my theory based on what we see in show, how it’s explained later in seasons and what actually physics details. You explained everything perfectly and it is often referred to in show and online as an event horizon but how it described in show use never actually matched what a true event horizon for a wormhole would be. I do however believe the unstable vortex is just a way to ensure that nothing could be blocking the path of an incoming traveler. As a wormhole to confirm connection would have to be established first, the amount of energy the gate puts into the initial field determines the vortex. Edit - It also explains how in Carters words she states no one has witnessed a correlative update between DHD’s. If the wormhole can be formed without the need to send matter through so no field, the Stargate coordinates can be updated without anyone knowing. It why Avenger activated no one noticed any random incoming wormholes. While having a subspace communication network between DHDs is possible, they clearly had that technology with communication stones I’m not convinced it’s the technology at play with the gates as the updates moved far slower throughout the system than with a direct subspace communication network, accounting for the time to dial.

[@davidwalker6438]

Since the home planet of the gate has a single glyph representing it on the gate. Why aren't all of the gates able to just dial that one glyph instead of dialing the position in a three-dimensional space with 6 points?

[@ShrekWallBee]

8:20 if its ok with everybody who gives a damm i prefer the folding space theory when it comes to gate travel. Imagine you have a piece of paper and you draw a dot at each end now fold the paper so the dots at each end line up with each other now punch a hole though the paper with lets say a pencil thoses two dots repersent the two gates and the pencil is the connecting wormhole between the 2 gates. now i know thats a lot for all of you to take in but thats how i see it ok so deal with it.

[@Shaden0040]

How about the ring system and the asgard beaming tech?

[@Marcus51090]

Pup314 the rings where ancient but they stoped using them eventually in favour for their version of beaming tech as seen in their latest tech on Atlantis etc

[@RikkiCattermole]

@@Marcus51090 The rings and the teleporters on Atlantis is the same technology. The rings however were far less advanced and designed to work outdoors unlike the teleporters. The Ancients don't seem to have a direct alternative to the Asgard teleportation technology. I suspect that it is actually more dangerous given that it isn't constrained. After all, Ancients didn't really make weapons beyond the one drone design. Since the goal of the rings was for transport of personal and goods not weapons. But the Asgard beaming technology could be used as a weapon. When properly driven the Ancient drone was definitely the most powerful of all weapons seen, sadly I don't think they realised that you couldn't perfectly control them in an actual fight. I do not understand why the Ancients didn't invest in matter creation or generator technologies more. Given that they applied both seemingly endlessly within the stargates themselves. Unless they did...

[@Marcus51090]

Richard Cattermole but in stargate search for the sangral on that planet and in Glastonbury we see stuff beamed in not using rings so I think they did have it but was very late.

[@RikkiCattermole]

@@Marcus51090 It'll be the same science under the hood. So the Ancients would have understood how to do it, except the rings were constrained. In the examples you gave, the technology was used in very constrained situations (Merlin at the time was a bit desperate so safety wasn't the top priority). The Ancients didn't leave manuals, they left safety systems that were almost always foolproof. So it makes sense that the technology as a whole would be designed around the idea of constraining to safe designs if it was not explicitly under their full control (like Project Arcturus). Keep in mind that stargates themselves can destroy + create matter. So the science was understand a long time before they were called the Ancients. It is the most notable achievement (Dakara superweapon when used for life creation).

[@Marcus51090]

Richard Cattermole I’ve always wondered where the rings went ? Lol the ground versions couldn’t possible all fit in that tiny area.

[@raven4k998]

so in stargate point of view dose that jafa die when he goes through and the stargate cuts off while his staff weapon goes partially through or dose his weapon just not come through or does he get deleted and killed along with the weapon? what happened to him? explain that one stargate guy lol

[@dragonweyr44]

I can't wait for you do do videos for Anubis, Ba'al and the Lucian Alliance

[@PathsUnwritten]

So if each address needs a point of origin, does that mean each gate has a single unique symbol as its point of origin?

[@primezero86]

Yes every gate has 1 unique symbol

[@backupplan6058]

@P Mason , while that may have been the original intention earlier on in the program that changed. Each gate has a selection of the exact same symbols apart from the point of origin. Gate addresses will be the exact same no matter what gate you use but the point of origin is determined upon arrival at a gate by whatever symbol is unique to that gate and DHD. Likely they are located at the exact same position which helps identify them. Could you imagine having to work out a return address every time an SG team had to return to Earth?

[@gabrielfagris6487]

I have to ask you my biggest problem with the Stargate because I can't find any topic on that, when someone is entering an adress to earth, how they manage to know that someone is calling ? In many episode we see the chevron ligthing up one by one and finnaly the vortex creating himself, but that doesn't make any sense for me, because why the gate know it's been called before the vortex create ? When you wan't to call someone on his phone, his phone doesn't ring before you put all the number in

[@ronroberts3967]

If each star gate has the same symbols, how can there be thousands if not millions if each gate needs a unique starting symbol. Wound it be limited to the number of symbols on the ring?

[@wolfieblackheart4185]

That's where the DHD comes in, depending on the part of the galaxy and the point of origin it translates other symbols into the combination of the start gate and end gate, infact it's even mentioned in an episode how the symbols work

[@qdllc]

How did they manage to dial all gates at the same time? This would imply that wormholes pass through a layer of subspace because.... 1. Gates have to beam from Gate A to Gate B. That means a solitary connection between two gates. 2. If the Dakara weapon could go from Gate A to all other gates, it had to pass through a medium. A physical object couldn’t go to all gates because it’s a finite amount of energy. An energy pulse powerful enough to engulf the whole galaxy could emerge from all other gates in sufficient quantity to do the job.

[@TheCaptainCrack]

the black hole- white hole connection you describe is pretty close to what you would imagine as a functioning wormhole.... but there is no massive singularity within the wormhole which would tear you appart. The one thing I always wondered about is the energy vortex and the event horizon which looks like watersurface... I would imagine a wormhole to look like a 3D spherical window to another location... no blue light, water or energy effects...

[@wolfieblackheart4185]

It was the 90s everything was a mystery till the place/time was explored so things like clear windows to other worlds wasnt a thing because that would ruin half the surprise of the episode

[@TheCaptainCrack]

@@wolfieblackheart4185 yea if they spot Apophis looking at them through the Stargate the entire SGC would be like "nope" and the episode ends :D

[@wolfieblackheart4185]

@@TheCaptainCrack or the apophis would dial up the sgc symbols and attack them since you know.....phones/star gates are 2 way devices

[@Shaden0040]

I remember an episode where a food slide was placed on one side of the gate and went through to allow food (slop/gruel) to be fed down it through the gate to the rest of the trough on the other side. Shouldn't the buffer prevent that? and wasn't the trough withdrawn back through the gate meaning matter went back through a one way wormhole? Daniel came back on this penal planet after his first ascension, and they met the mass murderer woman doctor, Ke'ra.

[@mark-kg7wg]

If u rewatch the episode (destroyer of worlds i think) its the inmates that bring a "slide" close to catch the "food" ...

[@esoopthederp7672]

Also in the NID stealing episode (one of them) while arresting some agents O'neill puts his arm through then pulls it back out

[@Shaden0040]

@@esoopthederp7672 it would have been held in the buffer until the rest of his body went through. There is an episode where Kowalski was a Goa'uld and T'ealc held his head partly inside the event horizon until it was shut off killing both Kowalski and the goa'uld inside him. Still there were a few stretching of the gate's abilities now and then.

[@caseyroberts9923]

I have a question that might make for an interesting video, we know there was a Pegasus colony of asguard, we know that they’re the only race to use cloning for thousands of years to extend their life. We also know they’ve been looking for the problems in their cloning for 1,000 of years. Could it be possible that the asguard where studying the bugs that the wraith are closely related to for their healing properties and combining their DNA in labs as we saw pop up in the Atlantis saga. Could the wraith be a failed experiment to replace the current asguard clones? We also know the wraith used cloning tech to win the war against the ancients. They also had technology that rivaled that of the ancients they had to get their start from somewhere right? The whole immortal and intelligent beings the wraith are would have made perfect hosts for the asguard minds. Also we know they where conducting unsanctioned experiments on humans in the Pegasus galaxy. Would explain the wraiths rudimentary understanding of energy weapons, slower hyper drives like found on Pegasus asguard ships, cloning, and their beaming technology and how wraith tech was better then most but not on par with ancients.

[@midoribishithegamer]

Great video, man!

[@idilhassan9201]

I think the region that I come from in Somalia which was once known as land of punt ‘the lands of gods’ has a star gate

[@milesmcloughlin1767]

Hello Taylor. Discovered your channel after I rewatched Children of the Gods. I have a question about the Stargate I'm hoping you'll address sometime. In watching the Jaffa and Apophis exit the gate, I notice the gate stays on. After the Jaffa take out the Air Force guards and kidnap the female Airmen I notice they just walk through the gate. It's my understanding in watching the series that the trip through the gate is one way. Meaning after you make it to your destination you can't just walk through the gate to get back. You have wait or shut off the gate and then dial back to your destination. Was this limitation retconned later? Thanks. Also thanks for your channel.

[@michaelnelms4296]

Good stuff. Always interesting. One question that has puzzled me for many years is: Catherine's ex that went through the gate in the diving suite, how and why he survived the gate travel as he was still connected via the life cable. Surly that would have stopped he coming out the other side as a hole thing didn't enter the gate.

[@KohuGaly]

An exception the writers made. If you want in-universe explanation, here are several: perhaps the cable snapped maybe gate is smart enough to ignore the cable... I mean, imagine you enter a gate that is covered in cobwebs and part of the cobweb is stuck on the outside. That'd be a dumb way to die... That seems like a plausible explanation to me.

[@mrfafaa96]

@Michael Nelms There's a lot of things that has been retconned in Stargate. Most famously is probably the fact that 3 shots from a zat disintegrates the target. The writers quickly abandoned that idea. I pretty much draw my line around the time that Daniel ascended. Any technical thing that hasn't been confirmed as canon AFTER that point is considered uncanon to me.

[@michaelnelms4296]

The episode I'm thinking of is: The Torment of Tantalus, Season 1, Episode 11. In the episode it shows the cable/life line being cut off when the worm hole disengages. Ps I like the idea regards to the spiders webs as spiders get everywhere.

[@mrbojangles8133]

could indeed be a protocol issue within the network as the Asgard mention certain safety features within the system

[@TonyP9279]

@@mrbojangles8133 The one that doesn't fit is the episode where Teal'c fires a spear with a rope so he can climb into the cavern left by the unstable vortex on the other side.

[@pforce9]

WE know that the last symbol dialed is the point of origin. You said that the symbols represented star gates. There are 39 symbols if memory serves. Now hold that thought. What are the base points for that coordinate system that they seem to be using. They use six planetary symbols to establish a point in space which makes no sense. And now back to the last symbol to be dialed, the point of origin. Does that mean that there are only 39 points from which you can depart?

[@qdllc]

pforce9 - I suspect that a single chevron on each gate represents point of origin...it’s probably in the same location. It would easily explain how they know how to dial Earth from any given location.

[@pforce9]

@@qdllc I thought that the symbols on the stargate represented constellations, not planets so are you saying that there are 38 constellations and one planet on each stargate?

[@qdllc]

@@pforce9 - No. All the other symbols represent constellations. Earth's symbol is unique. So, I think each world has a unique slot for point-of-origin that's probably on the same spot of the DHD. There is a bigger plot hole that depending on location, "constellation" symbols would change based on you position in space and several glyphs would be different, but the series kind of glossed over that issue entirely. That, or the movie was completely off (Daniel's explanation of addressing). Six symbols out of 38 makes an insane number of possible combinations. He just happened to notice "Orion" matched one of the symbols on the tablet and realized what the symbols represented.

[@pforce9]

@@qdllc All of this kind of goes out the window when you point out that constellations would look different from different locations.Anyhow since each stargate has the point of origin printed right on the ring, you can't steal someone's stargate and take to your planet, right?

[@qdllc]

@@pforce9 - Well, you could, but you'd have to reprogram the DHD to accept the point of origin on the gate as valid for that planet. One of the System Lords (Ba'al?) had enough know-how to reprogram stargate DHDs. If you scrutinize what's said in the movie against the TV show, a lot was left unexplained. Still if all gates had identical symbols (sans point of origin), you could have enough combinations to dial thousands of gates.

[@KeithHomel]

A question I've always had...how did they know the point of origin symbol to get home when they visited new gates? It couldn't just be a replacement symbol on the DHD/gate for the Earth point of origin. If symbols were different on each gate/DHD you couldn't move them from place to place, because then they would know where they lived...or at least they would have been programmed to a location and if they were moved would have to be reprogrammed.

[@TheStargateGuy]

As we go though the series we learn that just one symbol is swapped out with each set of gate/DHD. So yeah they would just look for the symbol they don't recognize and that's it.

[@KeithHomel]

@@TheStargateGuy But that's the problem I mentioned...each gate would have to be made specifically for one spot if the symbols change on every gate. Surely some points of origin match other symbols on the ring. So in that case are they doubled up? Doesn't seem like that would make sense. How were both the Earth gates the same? How did the gates they collected for Midway station work if they all have one symbol different? How could they use a different DHD/gate combo together if the symbols don't match? It's the one thing that has always bugged me. I suppose a possible solution would be that the tracking system the SGC built would tell them the point of origin before they went. But if they wanted to go anywhere else from a gate other than Earth's they might be in trouble.

[@atropiaveteran]

Who is the lady behind the camera?

[@NitpickingNerd]

It only takes a car battery to power the gate

[@adamschofield7779]

Will you please do the ori vs The Wraith battle

[@STELLVIA.]

ORI are too advanced for the wraith I’d rather see Anubi vs ORI

[@AliceWonders22]

Great explanation!

[@FrendlyM]

Have they ever explained why the gate can transfer matter in only one direction but waves can travel both ways? If you wanna go through you need to dial from your side but if someone dials from their end to you the gate can still send from your side radio communiaction and video feed? I also always wondered - in the episode where they dialed every stargate in the milky way from Dakhara to send through the pulse from the ancient weapon to kill replicators - what would happen if a person walked through the gate on Dakhara at that moment? The buffers obviously still work (otherwise the pulse would not be sent to all those gates) so the buffer would send the information about the person to all the other gates and the person would practically be "cloned" countless times?

[@wolfieblackheart4185]

You can only call 1 gate at a time so no the person going through the gate wont be replicated in multiple places at once

[@FrendlyM]

@@wolfieblackheart4185 Yes, you can dial one gate at a time. However in that one episode they dialed ALL the gates in the galaxy at once (from Dakhara to every gate in the galaxy) and from Dakhara they sent the pulse through and it was transfered to all the gates, so by what logic or information that we got from the show would the gate treat a person differently?

[@wolfieblackheart4185]

@@FrendlyM matter and frequency are 2 different things so I assume from your reiteration of your question your asking why the signal can pick up every star gate but a person cant replicate in more than one place at a time to which I think it's due to the unity equation where a single person cant be in more than 1 place at a time

[@FrendlyM]

@@wolfieblackheart4185 However when the "wave" hit the gate, you could see the "ripple effect" which only happens when a matter goes through the horizon - the effect was never there when then were operating MALP over radio waves or using radio communication in general, this would suggest the weapon fired some sort of particle stream. If particles can enter one gate and exit at every gate (practically being duplicated at each gate) it should work the same way for other matter too. Anyway, it is pointless to argue about it, it might be just something the writers didn't think through enough, I was just wondering about it because it was never explained on the show, that's all.

[@wolfieblackheart4185]

@@FrendlyM well it's an old TV series which only explained radio frequencies were 2 way through the gates (even when its turned off) and that people can only go through 1 gate at a time due to the telephone idea of 1 number being called at a time between 2 devices (since it was before conference calls were possible)

[@TonyAnnechino]

I'm curious about what the computational elements look like, the programming, etc. In the shows, they seem to look like (naturally formed) crystals, and all they do is hook up a conveniently compatible Terran laptop that interprets and interfaces with this millions-of-years-old technology. Why are all ancient or super-advanced computer-type things always crystals? How did they get those gates to those other worlds in the first place?

[@thoughtfortheday7811]

I wondered that about transporting the stargates, I think it must have been by ship.

[@tajayeb]

Crystals are superior to our tech. and the gates where transported by ship

[@sullyandmike188]

Thank you, this makes so much sense! My mind is blown 😁

[@manvo]

Can you explain how the Nox and a few other species are able to just wave wormholes into existence without ever dialing?

[@TheStargateGuy]

I can add it to the list. That might take a lot to figure out though.

[@therealpeter2267]

Didn't they just hide the already active wormhole and make it re-appear again? (might be a stupid theory, I only saw one episode where they did that)

[@davepackard7897]

I like to 3D model. One 3D position only needs 3 identifiers to be found, if you can break the entire universe down to a 3D grid system. Width Height and Depth, X Y and Z, Horizontal Perpendicular and Vertical. EX: I am at 3,3,3 and I want to travel to 14,-12,26 should be good enough. Unless the six coordinates define an area to look within for a gate.

[@warlockjmn]

2 points. 1. The "address" is the name of the location, as discovered by Dr. Jackson. 2. The "swoosh" doesn't take out matter if it is a micron off the formation of the wormhole. I.e. the iris.

[@primezero86]

Yeah the swoosh and the iris/forcefield bugs me. It is a massive release of energy and the iris/ forcefield stops it.. So theoretically the energy should transfer to the gate and explode. That's always bugged me.

[@keithmallory5228]

Looking at hieroglyphs, Stargate makes increasing sense. Thinking WAS Staffs Ankh et cetera to be keys to enter sphinx and that electricity was there and powered by water, batteries, crystals embedded above and in sides or in columns.

[@KohuGaly]

I have one nit-pick. You say the address works by defining position using 6 points on a cube + one symbol for origin. That is how Daniel Jackson interprets it in the original movie, when drawing the neat diagram. However, it's clearly not how the address works - to uniquely identify a point in space you need exactly 3 coordinates. No more, no less. The pattern is obviously not that simple, with the 6 symbols, though it definitely signifies position, since we see SGC calculate positions of worlds in the galaxy from address alone. Also, the last symbol is obviously not for origin, it's a terminating symbol that signifies end of address. The gate obviously knows where it is dialling from and portable DHDs (like the ones in puddle jumpers) obviously don't care what specifically the last symbol is.

[@Marcus51090]

The puddle jumpers don’t need 7 symbol dialling, watch SGA they always only dial 6 I assume the jumpers interphase with the network like a data link to automatically fill in the last symbol like auto prefix dialling on your phone it knows where it is when the dialling process begins I think it works exactly the same when the puddle jumper transmits dialling data the gate just automatically fills in the last symbol

[@thoughtfortheday7811]

Very interesting thoughts there. Things to think about.

[@TheDjbz]

I mean, it’d make sense for the activation button on the DHD to also be the point of origin/address finisher. Which I thought they did on Atlantis, but my memory is faulty so it might not have been.

[@Marcus51090]

TheDjbz oh yeah Atlantis city DHD is the same only 6 symbols needed but it’s a city ship you need to recalibrate where you are in the galaxy or other galaxy’s, in order for it to work, the city’s address changes on where it is. For example when Atlantis when back to earth and since the Pegasus gates are the newest versions Atlantis new address was earths address.

[@drewmandan]

The whole point of the 6 symbols was that you're specifying the address indirectly, relying on the assumption that there are enough functioning gates in the system to closely approximate the desired location at any given time. You can't do this with 3 symbols because they're just SYMBOLS, not coordinates. It takes 2 symbols to form a coordinate. Why? Because a coordinate is actually just multiples of a basis vector. You need a start gate and end gate to draw a vector between them. That's why it's 6, not 3.

[@jordanedmond5618]

I have a question that maybe you can answer, what are the three symbols that are missing from the gate in Stargate Origins? Also do you like the idea that all of the gates that the Ancient's made only had 36 symbols instead of the 39 that the gates in SG-1 had or the 70 some the gate in the original movie had?

[@keithmallory5228]

So using personal black holes 🕳 for home waste disposal would be a bad idea and might start an interstellar incident.

[@JoaquinPhi]

Hey Mr. Stargate Guy could you please make a video about the first actors and actrees from #SG where are they now, and i am not talking about the famous ones but those who were important for the storyline but not regular in the show. I found that this little girl named #Cassandra who was used as a Trojan Horse by the Goulds now is a singer or something like that and she is an adult by now. What about the actors that play the nox, etc. Hey Thanks👋

[@michaeldmingo9454]

Wasn't the nox guy Quark from Star Trek DS9?

[@bobotheclown88]

What would happen if you walked into the back of the stargate? if it means you come out the back of the dialed gate then the iris is sort of useless. I know probably the best answer is that on the show it's meant to look like the movie where there is a swirling vortex behind the gate, I'm just saying on the show, if there was no indication of which side of the stargate is the front such as steps and you didn't see the gate get dialed you would have no idea which side of the gate is the right side to go through.

[@chriscr21]

haha I like how you skipped the fact that the Stargates have a particular Frequency as well.

[@martin36369]

It's a pity that they have an object/person dematerialized transmitted & the rematerialized as the whole point of a wormhole makes that unnecessary, as it connects two locations to each other, I think there was a bit of influence from Startrek going on here, by the way 13 "Now's"?

[@TheStargateGuy]

It's interesting to think about.

[@CLEODIZX]

So I'm re - watching how it works the Stargate. I don't know why I've never noticed this , til you mentioned the Stargate has nine chevrons . so do you think since the inception of the movie they have always planned on making a nine symbol gate address or they figured out later , well we have nine Chevron's we should make a nine symbol gate address ? and I suppose that would rule out a 10 symbol addressed in the future .

[@TheStargateGuy]

I don't know what the original writers or producers intent was. I'm just glad that Brad Wright and Johnathan Glassner took it and ran with it.

[@JosephBeach-Razyel]

I wonder... When you dail a symbol... Dose every planet that starts with that symbol light up on the other side?

[@eligalbraith9123]

Very informative. Now I'd like to know how the actual stargate technically works (does the dialing).

[@x_hibernia]

Basically it's entanglement, but wouldn't that mean you're killing and cloning yourself like teleportation, fuck that I'll walk instead

[@modarsesekil2408]

If you stick your head into a Stargate, but not your body, what happens?

[@jvp714]

But when is Stargate coming back

[@nathanahedgehog2871]

Can’t forget the less traditional uses for the gate, like as a weapon or a time machine

[@Ragitsu]

It also makes one hell of a foxhole.

[@MRptwrench]

Correction! 5:06 That is not "water". It is Diet Mr Pibb.

[@LeoH3L1]

So the ninth chevron is for mobile star gates, that should be explored more, and we need a real conclusion to destiny

[@mayanboricua]

Did Destiny suck? Or did it just fail to capture the magic of SG1?

[@AJZulu]

Basically....the 7 chevrons are IP Addresses for gates in the Milky Way Galaxy that can change as they move through Spacetime. 8 Chevrons is for IP addresses that are in other galaxies far away (like for the gate used by the Asgardians and the gate to Atlantis). The 9 Chevron combination is a MAC Address that only goes to ONE PLACE with a dedicated permanent address (like a MAC for a device joined to a network). So yeah. In a sense you are correct saying that the gate that they went to is a mobile stargate. And it only ever has 1 address to differentiate it from other possible mobile stargates like a MAC address.

[@siddharthnagani]

I keep watching your explanation. Gives me hope. We can do it. Once our Mathematics is ripen enough. First we got to delete Pi. Pi should not exist.

[@Art_Vandelay]

Didn't it work like a toilet (John) and flushing the buffer?

[@kimsmith9180]

You don’t make sence because they dialed the gate to the Pegasus galaxy and you said that you can only go some where with in your galaxy

[@bretbenziger6908]

Saying gravity is theoretical isn’t what you think it means. A scientific theory is one that fits the evidence and appears to be completely true. It doesn’t mean the theory hasn’t been proven time and time again. It just means there could be room to learn even more. Scientific theory and lay-man theory are completely different concepts.

[@BlackEmigo]

How does he knows this?

[@jaspr1999]

So... Like... What's a Stargate?! :-D Seriously though, great video and enjoyed the outtake and the young lady laughing. It sounds like you two had a blast! Oh... Warn her about the EVIL puppet O'Neal (one 'L' or was it two?)

[@JamesBond-xx1lv]

Two Ls. Theres another colonel O'Neill, but he spells his name oneil. He has no sense of humor.

[@TheAkashicTraveller]

I'd just like to point out that IRL to make a wormhole the size of a regular door you'd need the negative mass energy of the moon. So yeah.

[@qdllc]

Jack Evans - That’s why it’s basically a transporter. The aperture to send a transport beam is extremely small.

[@TheAkashicTraveller]

@@qdllc Transporter plus keyhole (tiny wormhole) equals profit? It might actually even work IRL if someone ever figures out negative energy. People have already used quantum teleportation on simple molecules. So it's maybe something that'll actually happen in the far future.

[@qdllc]

@@TheAkashicTraveller - That's what amazes me about the concept and when it was put out there (1990s). I'm sure for production reasons, showing a "hole" to another world was a special effects nightmare, but a similar issue was made in ST: Voyager when Project Pathfinder realized that a "wormhole" to communicate across the galaxy didn't need to be huge...just enough for 2-way communication to work. So, either the creators of Stargate had some understanding of the power requirements to make any type of wormhole, or they just stumbled across an "easy" explanation that happened to work with IRL physics.

[@johncunningham4820]

So let me get this right.......A Stargate is Powered by Unobtanium , and operates by Inscrutable Black Magic ? Yes ? Actually , the Buffer works different than described . You CAN lose a Body-part in an Event Horizon . That happened a couple of times .

[@josephroseen7188]

I was quite happy with the video until you said “gravity is just a theory” I understand that you may have been being satirical, but if you weren’t please look up the scientific definition of theory, it is different then the common definition of theory.

[@ObeMossop]

I just watched this episode and was about to say exactly the same thing. :-)

[@someguy4853]

What that means is we still really don't understand how gravity works nor can we prove it exist though math.

[@martijnvanweele6204]

Gravity is theoretical? You, my good sir, have to get out more. What do you think is keeping you on the ground right now? Gravity. What do you think causes a pen to fall when you drop it? Gravity. Gravity is a phenomenon that we observe and experience basically every waking moment of our lives. How gravity works and why it works the way it does are still up for debate, and that is where theories of gravity come in, but it's no theory that it works. That's just a fact.

[@TheStargateGuy]

Your right, Gravity has forces that are scientific laws, but as to why those forces works, are still theories. That is what I was referring too, is the theories as to why Gravity works. Here are a few videos to help other people understand this discussion as they read the comments. Thanks for asking for clarity. The Difference Between Law and Theory: kzbin.info/www/bejne/faqxY4Wel82ce7c Gravity, From Newton to Einstein - The Elegant Universe: kzbin.info/www/bejne/aqrck5KIg6-Ki68

[@Marcus51090]

Here’s something that will fuck with your mind lol 😂 when you drop something it’s not gravity pushing it down that’s a misconception the earth is moving to meet the pen, In the last ten years we have discovered gravity is a particle called a gravaton where they come from no idea it’s believed they seep into our dimension gravatons are a new form of matter/energy as they are energy but behave like matter The saddest thing ever I think is Stephen hawking died 2 weeks before we directly observed a black hole consuming a star thus proving all his theory’s I think it would have been nice for him to see his life’s work vindicated

[@martijnvanweele6204]

@@TheStargateGuy Don't take my comment as calling you out. I was merely poking fun. You seem like a guy who knows what he is talking about, and everyone misspeaks sometimes. Think of me like Korg in that scene from _Thor: Ragnarok,_ where he keeps interrupting Thor while he is talking about his hammer and deliberately misinterpreting what he means by taking what he literally says too literally.

[@SpockBorg5]

Capacitor would be more correct than superconductors For a device that's supposed to be nearly maintenance free the gate design kinda doesn't make much sense. Since there's constant stellar drift this device should have to be recalibrated once in a while. Problem made worst because gate is depicted as an electromechanical device. This would entail that not only will it require reprogramming or software upgrades , but may very well need rebuilding. Since there's apparently no one performing routine maintenance on these things, the primary plot device of the franchise is also it's primary plot hole.

[@jamiestewart48]

Stellar drift is a natural occurrence where stars slowly move. Due to this phenomenon, every several thousand years the Stargate network shuts down temporarily and starts a correlative update system to counteract it. (SG1: "Children of the Gods", "Avenger 2.0")

[@josephmchugh4040]

"I wouldn't mind one more jaunt through the old orifice. What? We call it that some times don't we? Orifice?" General Jack O'Niell, 2 L's.

[@omahajim45]

The other Jack O'NEIL has no sense of humor.

[@jonson856]

TBH 6 symbols is kinda overkill. I mean 4 should be enough once the 2 lines cross each other, we know where we are headed......

[@wolfieblackheart4185]

1. Origin 2. Destination 3. Distance 4. Time 5. Species 6. Technology 7. Galaxy

[@plummet3860]

Title should be : How to use Airquotes

[@richardanthonygilbey]

The point of Stargate is to get a Galaxy class Starship to its destination instantly (275Million light years per second) Otherwise it would take 16days to get to the fight . Interdimensionalelectricalradiofluxteletransmorphifacation

[@adamschofield7779]

Or if Anubis discovered Atlantis but had to fight The Wraith video?

[@refulgent_fanta]

The only theoretical thing about gravity is its nature and the way it works. But gravity itself is not theoretical. It very much exists.

[@mrbojangles8133]

standard trope of course, advanced aliens are selfish and arrogant and remarkably stupid if they are advanced by human standards. unless it's ST in which case your fed allies are advanced to ( near ) your level. but there you go

[@WilliamSmosh]

Gravity isn't "only a theory" anymore XD

[@Ragitsu]

Isn't every scientific fact technically a theory (or falls under the umbrella of a specific theory) because they are always open to revision/correction?

[@IndigoStar]

So a stargate works kinda like a star trek transporter

[@PtrkHrnk]

You still consider Destiny's stargate a prototype? Was my assumption it is not prototype but _portable_ version disproven?

[@Marcus51090]

Ptrk Hrnk I always thought it was just a temporary network, until the ancients arrive and install a permanent galaxy wide dialling ability network.

[@PtrkHrnk]

@@Marcus51090 Portable, temporary, easy-to-made, all-in-one solution... I think we agree

[@RikkiCattermole]

The stargates that were seeded for Destiny were early prototypes that were specialized for data recording and processing. The data was sent to Destiny automatically when it was in range. They were designed to be expendable using easily mined materials that every solar system should have. It wasn't meant for transportation. It was a temporary system put in place that only needed to sort of exist until the Ancients arrived. Hence the shuttles as a backup option. The gate on the Destiny itself wasn't this type. It was a more generic prototype of the era. Hence it had the ability to dial gates that weren't in that same solar system. But ultimately, the gates themselves all had pretty basic capabilities and required an external device to operate unlike the later gates which were fully functional and safe to use without a DHD.

[@Marcus51090]

Richard Cattermole destiny gates are not made of naqudia interesting fact

[@DevilSpider_]

Stargate aka. a giant rotary fax machine

[@Acidoverwrite]

Lol Quantum engineered tachyon particles created out of water as to coincide with the fact that humans consists mostly of water Soap would be used to protect DNA from damage either used directly on skin so that a human can slide through the bridge Safely with the soap working as a shield for the DNA or the slider could use soap on a rubber suit And where time traveling clothes underneath the rubber suit? There's obviously a lot more to this process, but what it basically does Is punch a hole through the fabric of space and time creating a spaghetti effect with the water particles Leaving what would appear to be a wall of water in two different locations Distance is determined by density of the particles.