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    Tollan phase-shift technology: how come they don't go through the floor?

    At some point in the series the question was posed: "if the Tollan can go through stuff when they are out of phase, how come they don't sink through the floor?"

    There are 3 dimensions in nature (actually 4, but we don't need to consider time): length, breadth and height. More importantly, these dimensions are independent of each other. If you are phase-shifted by 180 degrees in one of these dimensions, you will be able to pass through stuff in that dimension. The Tollan don't sink through the floor because they are phase-shifted by 180 degrees in length and breadth, but they aren't phase-shifted in the height dimension, so they can't pass through objects that are above or below them.

    If anybody has an alternate theory, please post it on this thread.

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    You bob up and down as you walk, so that would be a problem when walking through walls.

    Consider that you see the wall they are about to walk through become distorted. Maybe both the Tollan and the wall are phase shifted to dimensions that interact with our normal dimension, but not each other. That way the Tollan can pass through the wall without them or the wall sinking through the floor.

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      #3
      Originally posted by Britta View Post
      You bob up and down as you walk, so that would be a problem when walking through walls.

      Consider that you see the wall they are about to walk through become distorted. Maybe both the Tollan and the wall are phase shifted to dimensions that interact with our normal dimension, but not each other. That way the Tollan can pass through the wall without them or the wall sinking through the floor.
      brilliant theorizing; I was thinking of this very recently and noticed the device affected both the person AND the matter they intended to walk through. BTW, anyone ever consider why the Tollan have this device but more advanced cultures don't have something like it?
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        #4
        Originally posted by StargateWatcher View Post
        BTW, anyone ever consider why the Tollan have this device but more advanced cultures don't have something like it?
        It's more of an economical and cultural reason. Technological advancement is not linear. Civilizations advance in different ways depending on where they are, what happens to them, and what they are exposed to. Culture affect what a civilization builds. Available resources affects how they build it. If certain needs arise, they may have to shift their attention into building certain devices.

        Back when humans were simple nomads and tribes with a couple hundreds miles between them, there were massive differences in technology of one place compared to another; different tribes build different things. Now that Earth has been mostly populated and our closest neighbor is a few seconds away, the differences between the technology of different countries is small. Extend this to a galaxy, where the closest neighbor is several hundred light years away, the differences in technology comes back in a very extreme way. Civilizations on the 'same level' of technology may not have built any phase shifting devices because of their background.

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          #5
          The same question has come up in relation to both Daniel and Mitchel/Sam when they were 'phase shifted out' during the Crystal skull episode (Daniel) and later on in S9 with Merlins device.

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