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What causes a stargate to not accept an incoming connection?
I'm in the middle of season 3, and I have watched 2 episodes which contain information that seems to contradict, and I'm trying to get this sorted straight.
100 days (Episode 3.17)- The stargate ...
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How do you 'travel' in a single dimension?
I do not know if I should ask this on the 'theoretical physics' stack, but I'm afraid I know nothing about Physics so I'll look like a clown there.
There are many stories in which people travel ...
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In Contact: Why not send a second pod?
I've just finished watching the Contact movie and having had time to reflect a bit more on it, I still cannot understand why the government would not just send a second pod through the machine if they ...
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In Stargate, why can radio waves propagate throught the wormhole, but not light?
Light and Radio waves are essentially the same, just at different power levels. Why can light not penetrate the wormhole?
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In Stargate why can you go only in one direction through the gate but radio signals can go both ways?
So why can people and other objects just go in the one direction while radio signals can go both ways? Is that ever explained or is it just fact?
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How does the Iris on the stargate works when establishing a wormhole?
I was watching the SG-1 earlier and realized something. When a Stargate is locked there is a surge (for lack of a better word) in front of the gate. Carter says it is unstable wormhole etc. Also says ...
