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Out of curiosity I did some calculation of the gate coordinate system. Either by sheer luck or diligent research, the people who create and/or vet all the finer details of the Stargate mythology really hit the nail on the head. I feel like adding parts of these calculation to the Stargate wikia, but I also like some opinions/vetting of this information first from you Gaters out there.
1. There are 38 symbols on the Milky Way galaxy gate, using a 6 symbol address to identify the destination gate and 7th symbol for point of origins.
2. This gives 38x37x36x35x34x33 = 1,987,690,320 possible addresses
3. Our galaxy has radius of 50,000 ly (lightyears) and a thickness (sun to vertical edge) of 500 ly.
4. Assuming Milky Way is a perfect ellipsoid, its volume = 1.6667x1012 pi ly3
5. Therefore a single gate address encompasses a volume = MW volume/no. addresses = 2634.21 ly3
6. It also equates to a sphere with radius = 8.5675 ly
To put it in perspective, our solar system extends from Sun to the Oort Cloud at 1.87 ly away. At 8.5 ly, a single gate address would reach Sirius A and B, one of the brightest stars in our night sky. Based on my research, a single address would then perfectly cover a large enough region of space to, with high probability, find one habitable planet but small enough not to include another habitat planet. As far as I can find, Google says that the nearest "Solar system" is Epsilon Eridani at 16 ly away. In other words, if our gate sector is centered on our Sun, the neighboring gate address would just right be centered on Epsilon Eridani with no huge overlaps. It also seems that there can only be one habitable world in a single solar system. Therefore it seems Stargate's sci-fi science was actually spot on.
What do you think on the accuracy of the calculations above? Apologies if the flow of presentation or wording is unclear.
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Out of curiosity I did some calculation of the gate coordinate system. Either by sheer luck or diligent research, the people who create and/or vet all the finer details of the Stargate mythology really hit the nail on the head. I feel like adding parts of these calculation to the Stargate wikia, but I also like some opinions/vetting of this information first from you Gaters out there.
1. There are 38 symbols on the Milky Way galaxy gate, using a 6 symbol address to identify the destination gate and 7th symbol for point of origins.
2. This gives 38x37x36x35x34x33 = 1,987,690,320 possible addresses
3. Our galaxy has radius of 50,000 ly (lightyears) and a thickness (sun to vertical edge) of 500 ly.
4. Assuming Milky Way is a perfect ellipsoid, its volume = 1.6667x1012 pi ly3
5. Therefore a single gate address encompasses a volume = MW volume/no. addresses = 2634.21 ly3
6. It also equates to a sphere with radius = 8.5675 ly
To put it in perspective, our solar system extends from Sun to the Oort Cloud at 1.87 ly away. At 8.5 ly, a single gate address would reach Sirius A and B, one of the brightest stars in our night sky. Based on my research, a single address would then perfectly cover a large enough region of space to, with high probability, find one habitable planet but small enough not to include another habitat planet. As far as I can find, Google says that the nearest "Solar system" is Epsilon Eridani at 16 ly away. In other words, if our gate sector is centered on our Sun, the neighboring gate address would just right be centered on Epsilon Eridani with no huge overlaps. It also seems that there can only be one habitable world in a single solar system. Therefore it seems Stargate's sci-fi science was actually spot on.
What do you think on the accuracy of the calculations above? Apologies if the flow of presentation or wording is unclear.
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