Ok, I just had the weirdest thought, it has being stated that the stargate sends components through in one piece, I.E. it doesn't transmit data unless it it has completely entered the event horizon.
Using this information it is possible to work out the amount of storage that a Stargate must have.
A Stargates internal dimension is around 5 meters across or 500 cm, using the formula of pi * r^2 we know the internal area is:
pi * (250*250) = 196250 cm squared.
We know that a stargate can stay open for 38 minutes or 2280 seconds,
if we assume that an object that is the same area as the stargate were to enter the gate, at the fastest speed possible i.e. for the sake of arguments light speed we can work out how much matter can enter a gate.
lightspeed in metre per second is 299792458 metres per second
or
29979245800 centimetres per second.
this means that the number of cubic centimeters that could go through the gate in the 38 minutes is (time on * cm per second * area)
2280 *29979245800 *196250 = 13414213533210000000 centimeter cubed
if we look at the number of atoms in a cm cubed of copper (using cos I have that info but this isn't the highest value so this could be a lot bigger)
there are around 100000000000000000000000 atoms in a centimeter cubed.
this means that in total approximately
1341421353321000000000000000000000000000000
atoms would have to go through the gate,
the gate then has to get the information regarding the atoms status, I have no idea how that would be done but this would likely require thousands of bytes of data to represent.
I am going to use the value of 100 bytes of data which I am sure is very low but I have no idea how to get an accurate value of the storage requirements.
This means that:
134142135332100000000000000000000000000000000 bytes of data storage would be needed to hold all that information.
this is
134142135332100000000000000000000000000000 kilobytes
134142135332100000000000000000000000000 megabytes
134142135332100000000000000000000000 gigabytes
134142135332100000000000000000000 terabytes
134142135332100000000000000000 petabytes
134142135332100000000000000 exabytes
134142135332100000000000 zettabytes
134142135332100000000 yottabytes
After that I have run out of names,
this however shows the capabilities of ancient technology, we are literally talking
134142 billion billion billion of today's largest hard drives, that many hard drives would if sat next to each other cover an area of 19780599276071466000000000000 kilometres squared, to put this in perspective America has a surface area of 2631000 kilometers squared.
Or in another term a total of
479079054757500000000000000000 DVD would be needed,
or
9213058745336538461538461538 Stargate boxsets, thats a lot of stargate :-)
I have no idea why I had this mad idea but I do think that it gives an idea of the ancients level of technology in respect to ours.
Comments, suggestions or if you just want to tell me I am mad feel free...
Using this information it is possible to work out the amount of storage that a Stargate must have.
A Stargates internal dimension is around 5 meters across or 500 cm, using the formula of pi * r^2 we know the internal area is:
pi * (250*250) = 196250 cm squared.
We know that a stargate can stay open for 38 minutes or 2280 seconds,
if we assume that an object that is the same area as the stargate were to enter the gate, at the fastest speed possible i.e. for the sake of arguments light speed we can work out how much matter can enter a gate.
lightspeed in metre per second is 299792458 metres per second
or
29979245800 centimetres per second.
this means that the number of cubic centimeters that could go through the gate in the 38 minutes is (time on * cm per second * area)
2280 *29979245800 *196250 = 13414213533210000000 centimeter cubed
if we look at the number of atoms in a cm cubed of copper (using cos I have that info but this isn't the highest value so this could be a lot bigger)
there are around 100000000000000000000000 atoms in a centimeter cubed.
this means that in total approximately
1341421353321000000000000000000000000000000
atoms would have to go through the gate,
the gate then has to get the information regarding the atoms status, I have no idea how that would be done but this would likely require thousands of bytes of data to represent.
I am going to use the value of 100 bytes of data which I am sure is very low but I have no idea how to get an accurate value of the storage requirements.
This means that:
134142135332100000000000000000000000000000000 bytes of data storage would be needed to hold all that information.
this is
134142135332100000000000000000000000000000 kilobytes
134142135332100000000000000000000000000 megabytes
134142135332100000000000000000000000 gigabytes
134142135332100000000000000000000 terabytes
134142135332100000000000000000 petabytes
134142135332100000000000000 exabytes
134142135332100000000000 zettabytes
134142135332100000000 yottabytes
After that I have run out of names,
this however shows the capabilities of ancient technology, we are literally talking
134142 billion billion billion of today's largest hard drives, that many hard drives would if sat next to each other cover an area of 19780599276071466000000000000 kilometres squared, to put this in perspective America has a surface area of 2631000 kilometers squared.
Or in another term a total of
479079054757500000000000000000 DVD would be needed,
or
9213058745336538461538461538 Stargate boxsets, thats a lot of stargate :-)
I have no idea why I had this mad idea but I do think that it gives an idea of the ancients level of technology in respect to ours.
Comments, suggestions or if you just want to tell me I am mad feel free...
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