Intergalactic gate network and midway station flawed
According to the expanding universe model (which stargate accepts as true), all bodies in the universe are constantly moving, closer or apart at tremendous speeds, including galaxies, therefore the gate network set up by McKay would become useless in a very short space of time!
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they could have just added a couple of extra gates which would compensate for it. -
Or maybe they know about it and will move them each year/monthComment
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As i understand it corrlative updates aprise all stargates in a network of the location of other stargates in order to take into account planetery drift, so both the milkyway and peguses networks will be taking into account any change in postions of all gates in the network while they keep the same address so there should be no problem in either locating the gates in the chain including the middway gate in that network.
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Not useless at all. The stargates, even operating under their own normal power, can still dial other gates thousands of light years away. They have TONS of gates in that network, so it would make sense that they put them close enough to compsensate for something like stellar drift.Comment
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Even if they did, then I am sure, that the thrusters on the gates compensate for drift, and are constantly being monitored. Everything should be taken care of, McKay and Carter are smart enough that they would have made sure that was accounted, at least I would imagine. 
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Lets hope so, although McKay working with Carter, McKay does tend to droolOriginally posted by Cap116 View Post
Maybe he hasnt been paying attention
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I think you are all grossly underestimating the speed of galaxies, by the time the network is set up it'd already be useless!
The drift between planets is dwarfed by the drift between stars, which in theory could be compensated for by means explained, but the drift between stars is dwarfed by the drift between galaxies, which are so far apart and moving so fast that there is no way this would work! I mean stars all stick to the same area, their galaxy, but galaxies are very different (with the exception of smaller orbiting galaxies, which the Pegasus is not!).Comment
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Well I dont think it matters that much as McKay and Carter will get it working no probs, plus it would make the show pretty borin if it could never happen, I mean come on, its Stargate, anythings possibleOriginally posted by ARMS View Post
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You also forgot that the Ancients did this thing called calculations to compensate for stellar drift and I would assume galactic drift, and built these programs into the StarGate network.Originally posted by ARMS View Post
Please define "short time" because 3million years has passed since the Pegasus galaxy was in that area of the sky we see now. It could be anywhere at this time! :-PComment
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Thats a good point, they must have compensated for galactic drift, etc. otherwise the Atlantis gate could not dial Earth and vice versaOriginally posted by Peoples_General View PostComment
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Wouldn't they move at a steady speed? Then you forget there is no friction into space, all you have to do is calculate the direction and speed, match the gates to that, and let em fly.Comment
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The theory of the the ever expanding universe I think is not proven yet.
Andromeda galaxy is the closest galaxy to the milky way. The Andromeda galaxy is about two million light years (20 billion billion kilometers) away, Current measurements suggest that, in about three billion years, the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies may collide in 1 billion years own solar system is 4.6 billion years old. We have only been on this planet for over 100,000 years.
I said that so I could say this the galaxies wont have any measurable effect on the intergalactic gate bridge. It will take hundreds of thousands of the year to have any effect on the bridge in our life times or in any other generation for thousands of years.Last edited by boberth2o; 28 December 2006, 06:52 PM.Comment
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Perhaps the midway station monitors the stellar drift, changing addresses accordingly. The computer necessary for these calculations may account for a lot of the station's mass.Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering-Yoda
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Originally posted by ARMS View Post
Where are you getting your information on this? Galaxies do not move so fast that a device capable of transportation over millions of light years would be made useless in a mere matter of months.
If Galaxies moved that fast than there would be some pretty odd relativistic effects, don't you think?Comment
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