Originally posted by Calhoun
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In "48 Hours", McKay and Carter refer to the kawoosh as an "unstable vortex" of energy, which wipes clean the crystals that store a traveller's energy pattern. They manage, in that episode, to open an event horizon (sans wormhole, and without a kawoosh) to rematerialise Teal'c, but it's implied that you will always get a kawoosh when you open a wormhole (unless you're a "magical fairy being", i.e. a Nox).
Now, correct me if I'm wrong, but in the five years or so since that episode, it would appear that Carter and/or McKay have figured out, not only how to create an event horizon without a kawoosh (and without blowing a DHD to hell), but how to open a wormhole from one stargate to another without a kawoosh.
The McKay / Carter Intergalactic Gate Bridge. You dial the first gate in the series, upload the macro, and step through the event horizon... but instead of rematerialising, the receiving stargate stores your pattern, dials the next gate in the chain, forwards your pattern to the next gate, and so on and so forth.
But... if the energy of the kawoosh wipes the pattern from the stargate's crystals, then McKay and/or Carter must have found a way around it; otherwise, the first gate in the series would receive your pattern, store it, dial the next gate in the chain... and your pattern is erased by the kawoosh as the wormhole connects.
So have Carter and/or McKay found a way to establish a wormhole without a kawoosh? Have they somehow isolated the memory crystals from the kawoosh's energy? Do all 17 stargates in the chain somehow all link up at once (which might explain the apparent two-way communications from one galaxy to the midway station in "The Return, part 1" and "Adrift")?
Please discuss: I'm getting a headache trying to work this out.
Now, correct me if I'm wrong, but in the five years or so since that episode, it would appear that Carter and/or McKay have figured out, not only how to create an event horizon without a kawoosh (and without blowing a DHD to hell), but how to open a wormhole from one stargate to another without a kawoosh.
The McKay / Carter Intergalactic Gate Bridge. You dial the first gate in the series, upload the macro, and step through the event horizon... but instead of rematerialising, the receiving stargate stores your pattern, dials the next gate in the chain, forwards your pattern to the next gate, and so on and so forth.
But... if the energy of the kawoosh wipes the pattern from the stargate's crystals, then McKay and/or Carter must have found a way around it; otherwise, the first gate in the series would receive your pattern, store it, dial the next gate in the chain... and your pattern is erased by the kawoosh as the wormhole connects.
So have Carter and/or McKay found a way to establish a wormhole without a kawoosh? Have they somehow isolated the memory crystals from the kawoosh's energy? Do all 17 stargates in the chain somehow all link up at once (which might explain the apparent two-way communications from one galaxy to the midway station in "The Return, part 1" and "Adrift")?
Please discuss: I'm getting a headache trying to work this out.
9x09 Prototype? 
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