I read "I, Robot" recently, and in the "Escape!" story, a concept I hadn't thought of had to be dealt with by "The Brain". "The Brain" had to make an engine for hyperspace jump so the humans can travel around. The emphasis on the 'First Law of Robotics' was lessened for the calculations and creation of the engine.
There's more to it, but the deal was that to complete a hyperspace jump, humans temporarily cease to exist.
So is that explained in the SG world? Do humans 'die' (temporarily) while moving from gate to gate?
Also, can the gates be used sorta like the two chambers in "The Fly"? But instead of remolecularizing a fly and human together, can a person operate the controls to separate parts of the distinct object? If possible, then a person can have a tumor removed, just by being able to separate it out as a "distinct" object, right? Just curious, because if a person were in limbo between the gates for at most, say, 38 minutes, and if the technology could isolate and display on a screen distinct objects, then some medical applications could be used with gates. Just a thought...
There's more to it, but the deal was that to complete a hyperspace jump, humans temporarily cease to exist.
So is that explained in the SG world? Do humans 'die' (temporarily) while moving from gate to gate?
Also, can the gates be used sorta like the two chambers in "The Fly"? But instead of remolecularizing a fly and human together, can a person operate the controls to separate parts of the distinct object? If possible, then a person can have a tumor removed, just by being able to separate it out as a "distinct" object, right? Just curious, because if a person were in limbo between the gates for at most, say, 38 minutes, and if the technology could isolate and display on a screen distinct objects, then some medical applications could be used with gates. Just a thought...
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