Timeline for Is Stargate the first example of a one-way wormhole in fiction?
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| Aug 30, 2022 at 8:51 | comment | added | Luaan | @lucasbachmann Yeah. The one-wayness isn't a property of the wormhole, it's a feature of the stargate - and very useful one at that. In a human-sized wormhole, you could see to the other side and avoid collisions with stuff coming from there; but stargates use tiny wormholes. You wouldn't want stuff coming out of the other side while you're going in. Maybe it's even something you could hack into the existing gates (just like other security features that the SGC managed to disable by accident). Though you could imagine stuff coming out of the backside of the receiving gate... | |
| Aug 29, 2022 at 6:09 | answer | added | Jasen | timeline score: 4 | |
| Aug 28, 2022 at 20:55 | comment | added | SpacePhoenix | It's not purely 1 way as radio waves can be sent in both directions | |
| Aug 28, 2022 at 11:38 | history | edited | Tronman | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Aug 28, 2022 at 9:07 | comment | added | lucasbachmann | It may also be worth noting that a Stargate is not purely a wormhole. It is a gadget that has a lot in common with a Star Trek transporter. That is to say a lot of the "one way only" travel is due to the gate putting what matter enters into a technological data buffer -> transmits the matter to the other gate -> reassembles and releases. The wormhole itself obviously allows radio signals to go two ways. | |
| Aug 28, 2022 at 6:12 | comment | added | lucasbachmann | I suspect most fictional portals tend to close as soon as the protagonist ends up someplace making it hard to prove directionality. Something with difficult two way travel "the Meteor Girl" by Jack Williamson (1931) a contender for first Wormhole in fiction. A quick reread of the ending has photons/images from the future traversing the wormhole backwards in time easily - but people could travel the wormhole only through space but not backwards in time. Note also General Relativity was only 15 years old when written. gutenberg.org/files/30166/30166-h/30166-h.htm#The_Meteor_Girl | |
| Aug 28, 2022 at 6:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackSciFi/status/1563768348218982401 | ||
| Aug 28, 2022 at 2:37 | comment | added | hobbs | Isn't Contact itself an example? They undergo a round trip journey of several legs that starts and ends at Earth, but they don't go back the way they came! | |
| Aug 28, 2022 at 2:36 | comment | added | Invisible Trihedron | 2001: a Space Odyssey (1968) arguably includes wormhole travel. | |
| Aug 28, 2022 at 0:47 | history | asked | Tronman | CC BY-SA 4.0 |