Travelling the speed of light

[bamos2]

does anyone on this website have a plausable idea as to how the people in Stargate travel the speed of light

or do you have your own idea as to how to travel the speed of light it would be great to know about

[blazingfire]

Hyperspace, basically. Stargates, stones and ships all use it.

[SaberBlade]

Space is made up of different layers. What happens in Stargate (and a ton of other scifi shows), is a hole is created and a ship enters this new layer of space and is capable of travelling across vast distances very fast.

This allows them to ignore the law of relativity because they aren't technically travelling faster than light (so time doesn't slow down) but travelling through a different layer of space.

[boyd22]

Space is made up of different layers. What happens in Stargate (and a ton of other scifi shows), is a hole is created and a ship enters this new layer of space and is capable of travelling across vast distances very fast.

This allows them to ignore the law of relativity because they aren't technically travelling faster than light (so time doesn't slow down) but travelling through a different layer of space.

That applies to hyperspace seen in SG1/SGA, not SGU's FTL. Destiny and other ships in SGU actually seem to be traveling at or faster than light(i'd say much faster, seeing as it was able to cross the void between galaxies within weeks). How there able to overcome the effect's of relativity hasn't been explained on the show. You could say the ship phases to another dimension that allows it to overcome relativistic effect's when it enter's FTL. But if thats the case, why would Destiny even need it's shield active during FTL.

[jmoz]

They throw out actual science out the window for the sake of storytelling.

[DigiFluid]

That applies to hyperspace seen in SG1/SGA, not SGU's FTL.

This has never been stated. All they've said is that it isn't hyperspace.

Hyperspace is just one level of subspace. Presumably Destiny's FTL is another, functioning in exactly the same way.

[blazingfire]

This has never been stated. All they've said is that it isn't hyperspace.

Hyperspace is just one level of subspace. Presumably Destiny's FTL is another, functioning in exactly the same way.

But normal hyperspace doesn't require you to go around planets in order to not get hit.

[DigiFluid]

And we don't know that FTL needs you to, either.

[traylormatt]

They throw out actual science out the window for the sake of storytelling.

I think that is where the "fi" part of sci-fi comes in. I would probably get pretty bored watching a sci-fi show based sloely on our current technology and understanding.

It would be cool if they applied more real world attributes every now and again, or at least explained some things in a little more depth.

[escyos]

It is my understanding that subspace is not affected by the laws of physics such as the "apparent" inability to travel faster-than-light within regular space.

[Archaeis]

This has never been stated. All they've said is that it isn't hyperspace.

Hyperspace is just one level of subspace. Presumably Destiny's FTL is another, functioning in exactly the same way.

It has been stated a couple time specifically that the Blues use hyperspace.

I gather that Destiny's FTL in analogous to Star Trek's warp drive or the hypothetical Alcubierre Drive, compressing spacetime in front of it and expanding it behind, propelling it forward faster than light.

[boyd22]

This has never been stated. All they've said is that it isn't hyperspace.

Hyperspace is just one level of subspace. Presumably Destiny's FTL is another, functioning in exactly the same way.

If Destiny's using subspace, why the need for the shield? Destiny's shield being active during FTL is presumably to protect the ship from being ripped apart by the gas and space dust thats flying around the ship during FTL. If Destiny was using subspace, why would they need to worry about that?

[SaberBlade]

That applies to hyperspace seen in SG1/SGA, not SGU's FTL. Destiny and other ships in SGU actually seem to be traveling at or faster than light(i'd say much faster, seeing as it was able to cross the void between galaxies within weeks). How there able to overcome the effect's of relativity hasn't been explained on the show. You could say the ship phases to another dimension that allows it to overcome relativistic effect's when it enter's FTL. But if thats the case, why would Destiny even need it's shield active during FTL.

Destiny probably needs it's shields active during FTL for the same reason Atlantis does during hyperspace, it's too fragile at those speeds without it (Destiny needs at least 4% shield strength to survive) and would suffer catastrophic damage. As for relativity, never explained but if the ship does travel through a different layer of space (like hyperspace but a different layer to it) it could bypass the slowing of time the same way. It's only when a ship travels through normal space that it seems to be affected by the slowing of time. However, the Asgard did have time dialation technology so perhaps the Ancients knew how to do that as well, so when they travel at FTL, a time bubble is created which speeds up time within the field to balance it out.

Often the science is ignored for good storytelling like Jmoz said, as more than often you'll see how something is well known to happen but ignored just because it's easier.

[DigiFluid]

If Destiny's using subspace, why the need for the shield? Destiny's shield being active during FTL is presumably to protect the ship from being ripped apart by the gas and space dust thats flying around the ship during FTL. If Destiny was using subspace, why would they need to worry about that?

And you know the exact ins and outs of how hyperspace and FTL function....how? I could just say that the subspace that Destiny uses has deadly blocks of cheese floating around in it and be no more incorrect than you.

[mathpiglet]

It's a kind of magic.

(oops, wrong franchise)