As we know, the McKay-Carter Intergalactic Gate Bridge works by a macro. The first gate dials the second gate, but the second gate does not open a wormhole. but merely establishing the connections between the hyperspacial buffers. So a person enters the event horizon and is stored in the first gates buffer. They are transfered to the second gates buffer. The connection between the gates is terminated, terminating the connection between the hyperspacial buffers. The second gate dials the third gate, but no event horizon is formed. The people are transfered to the next buffer. This repeats until the gate at midway where a half-wormhole (event horizon) is formed. When the people arrive at the buffer of this last gate, they emerge through the event horizon. this process takes some time and is definitely not instantaneous.
But in S04E01, Apollo engages in real-time communication with midway via the pegasus-side stargate. The only logical explanation is that they used a ZPM to direct dial that stargate (a zpm would be needed because of the distance, but it is a pegasus gate, so the special control crystal of Atlantis should not be needed). Otherwise, the communication would be delayed as the gates called each other to pass the transmission between hyperspacial buffers.
But Apollo does not have a ZPM that I am aware of, so what is going on?
(As for normal operation of the bridge, It is interesting to note that only 2 half-wormholes are created, the rest being hyperspacial connections. This is important because the kwoosh would otherwise empty the hyperspacial buffer. )
But in S04E01, Apollo engages in real-time communication with midway via the pegasus-side stargate. The only logical explanation is that they used a ZPM to direct dial that stargate (a zpm would be needed because of the distance, but it is a pegasus gate, so the special control crystal of Atlantis should not be needed). Otherwise, the communication would be delayed as the gates called each other to pass the transmission between hyperspacial buffers.
But Apollo does not have a ZPM that I am aware of, so what is going on?
(As for normal operation of the bridge, It is interesting to note that only 2 half-wormholes are created, the rest being hyperspacial connections. This is important because the kwoosh would otherwise empty the hyperspacial buffer. )
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