This has to do with a few things, and it might be hard to follow; bare with me.
First I want you to read this piece of the Episode Enigma (season one)
She takes out a tomcat from the cage. The cat meows.
NARIM: I never thought I'd see a living animal.
CARTER: His name's Schrödinger. (She hands the cat to Narim, who takes it, and begins petting it.) Oh... it's kind of a joke really. His name, that is. Schrödinger's cat...
NARIM: Oh? (Confused)
CARTER: (The cat is heard purring softly) Right. Uh, see, there was an Earth physicist by the name of Erwin Schrödinger. He had this theoretical experiment. Put a cat in a box, add a can of poison gas, activated by the decay of a radioactive atom, and close the box.
NARIM: Sounds like a cruel man.
CARTER: Oh, no, no. It was just a theory. He never really did it. He said that if he did do it at any one instant, the cat would be both dead and alive at the same time.
NARIM: Ah! Kulivrian physics. An atom state is indeterminate until measured by an outside observer.
CARTER: We call it quantum physics. You know the theory?
NARIM: Yeah, I've studied it... in among other misconceptions of elementary science.
CARTER: Misconception? You telling me that you guys have licked quantum physics? (Omac is seen lurking behind her.)
Great, so our understanding of quantum physics is flawed. I am fine with that, we are very "young" compared to them. But, if they are right, then we hit a very hard problem: energy. Think of the best life form created, stable energy source out there. The most common one is the ZPM. What does that stand for? Zero-Point Module. Where does the energy come from? A piece of created subspace. How is the energy made? Why, as the name implies, from zero-point energy. But, that is the problem. If what Narim says is true zero-point energy cannot exist. I now point you to read what WIkipedia has to say about Zero-Point energy:
In a quantum mechanical system such as the particle in a box or the quantum harmonic oscillator, the lowest possible energy is called the zero-point energy. According to classical physics, the kinetic energy of a particle in a box or the kinetic energy of the harmonic oscillator may be zero if the velocity is zero. Quantum mechanics with its uncertainty principle implies that if the velocity is measured with certainty to be exactly zero, the uncertainty of the position must be infinite. This either violates the condition that the particle remain in the box, or it brings a new potential energy in the case of the harmonic oscillator . To avoid this paradox, quantum mechanics dictates that the minimal velocity is never equal to zero, and hence the minimal energy is never equal to zero. (to read the rest go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_point)
Putting these pieces together one finds something is wrong. The Ancient technology is based off of quantum physics, but Tollan is from non quantum (as in quantum is fundamentally wrong). The writers of Stargate usually do a very good of using good physics and keeping it straight, but they blundered this time.
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First I want you to read this piece of the Episode Enigma (season one)
She takes out a tomcat from the cage. The cat meows.
NARIM: I never thought I'd see a living animal.
CARTER: His name's Schrödinger. (She hands the cat to Narim, who takes it, and begins petting it.) Oh... it's kind of a joke really. His name, that is. Schrödinger's cat...
NARIM: Oh? (Confused)
CARTER: (The cat is heard purring softly) Right. Uh, see, there was an Earth physicist by the name of Erwin Schrödinger. He had this theoretical experiment. Put a cat in a box, add a can of poison gas, activated by the decay of a radioactive atom, and close the box.
NARIM: Sounds like a cruel man.
CARTER: Oh, no, no. It was just a theory. He never really did it. He said that if he did do it at any one instant, the cat would be both dead and alive at the same time.
NARIM: Ah! Kulivrian physics. An atom state is indeterminate until measured by an outside observer.
CARTER: We call it quantum physics. You know the theory?
NARIM: Yeah, I've studied it... in among other misconceptions of elementary science.
CARTER: Misconception? You telling me that you guys have licked quantum physics? (Omac is seen lurking behind her.)
Great, so our understanding of quantum physics is flawed. I am fine with that, we are very "young" compared to them. But, if they are right, then we hit a very hard problem: energy. Think of the best life form created, stable energy source out there. The most common one is the ZPM. What does that stand for? Zero-Point Module. Where does the energy come from? A piece of created subspace. How is the energy made? Why, as the name implies, from zero-point energy. But, that is the problem. If what Narim says is true zero-point energy cannot exist. I now point you to read what WIkipedia has to say about Zero-Point energy:
In a quantum mechanical system such as the particle in a box or the quantum harmonic oscillator, the lowest possible energy is called the zero-point energy. According to classical physics, the kinetic energy of a particle in a box or the kinetic energy of the harmonic oscillator may be zero if the velocity is zero. Quantum mechanics with its uncertainty principle implies that if the velocity is measured with certainty to be exactly zero, the uncertainty of the position must be infinite. This either violates the condition that the particle remain in the box, or it brings a new potential energy in the case of the harmonic oscillator . To avoid this paradox, quantum mechanics dictates that the minimal velocity is never equal to zero, and hence the minimal energy is never equal to zero. (to read the rest go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_point)
Putting these pieces together one finds something is wrong. The Ancient technology is based off of quantum physics, but Tollan is from non quantum (as in quantum is fundamentally wrong). The writers of Stargate usually do a very good of using good physics and keeping it straight, but they blundered this time.
Opinions?
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