Stargates 

Remember that time Daniel Jackson died, or that other time Daniel Jackon died, or that other other time Daniel Jackson died....

The episode where Isaac finally put up the picture of Jack O’Neil when talking about O’Neil cylinders made me chuckle at the time as I always thought of him and most of us probably did the same.

Stargate was a brilliant franchise

“ The Einstein Rosen bridge…” Sliders loved this one. Very clever and fun show for it’s day.

You got Star Trek and Star Wars the two everyone knows but then you got the lesser known golden triangle StarGate, Farscape and Babylon 5. These show are some of the best media you will ever watch and I’m very happy to get more video on them. So keep it up Isaac with how you talk about Syfi you could make some epic video on the ideas behind these shows.

Stargate wormholes are actually very small. The "event horizon" is actually just a matter-energy translator, like a Star Trek teleporter or, the in-univere transport rings. The energy is then sent through the wormhole, and then you are retranslated back to matter on the other side. That's why radio works both ways (already energy), but mass is only one way (matter translator only works one way by convention). It is also probably a small, pinpoint spherical wormhole, and the big blue glow has no wormhole inside it. The wormhole could be behind the top chevron. Stargate was more a practical road system than a science experiment. They probably used a flat plane rather than a sphere because it worked better with ancient focus groups.

Currently rewatching SG1, this time in order and methodically, the show had great continuity (for the time!) and I’m digging the steady advancement and development of humanity over the show’s 10 year run.

Comment for Sliders. My personal fave of that era of television. Professor Gimli rocked!

Nice to see an Isaac video dedicated to my namesake! The idea of a fully-developed gate-based sci-fi empire was very well-developed in Dan Simmons' Hyperion novels as the Hegemony of Man. There, the technology was so ubiquitous and cheap that wealthy people had gates in every door in their house, with different rooms on different planets. The second two books consider, among other things, what happens when the gate system collapses--as would be expected, civilization generally regresses.

Note on Stargates whole "one portal per planet", that wasn't a restriction of Stargates themselves but rather how the original builders designed the addressing system. Because planets are always in motion around stars that are themselves always in motion, they couldn't use a static system of space coordinates and instead used star charts where you requested a planet and the ancients gate computer calculated the wormhole coordinates on the fly. This is also why gates couldn't be open more then a limited amount of time, as the computer would have to constantly update the coordinates as both source and destination changed non-stop. If more then one gate was active on a planet, then when the request from the origination gate came in, the gate that answered first would get the connection. Essentially try to think of each planet as having a single "IP address". Much alter in the series we find out that beings do exist that can are capable of maintaining it for longer then 38-miniutes as well as creating their own gates with their own addressing scheme.

"Why isn't it spinning? Well what do you mean; it has to spin, its round. OK listen I am the General and I want it to SPIN!" - GENERAL Hammond (Of Texas)

SGU had such amazing promise, I was so disappointed when it got cancelled. The concept was absolutely amazing!

Im so happy issac arthur is familiar with the battletech lore, im a big fan of that universe and i believe it deserves a wider audience.

Though rarely shown in SG1, they did send send unmanned probes ahead of the teams to each planet, as some of the environments would have been hostile to humans. In at least one episode they went to a planet that had no atmosphere and another where the gate was under the sea.

There are pros and cons to many of the biggest sci-fi shows/movies, but I will say Stargate did technological development from the introduction of alien tech perfect. They went from modern day technology to intergalactic technology in one series. They did power creep very very well, A+ 👍

One evening at an extended- family dinner, a friendly debate arose over which was better, Star Wars or Star Trek. My then 5 year old daughter won the debate, sweeping aside the conflict by confidently asserting "Star GATE!" was better than either.

I love your videos, Isaac, and I just wanted to use this early opportunity to say thank you for all the hardwork. I don't always fully grasp all the concepts you talk about, but I'm always trying to research more and educate myself. Thank you.

Very nice video. On your point regarding civilisations which rely on gates instead of starships, it reminded me of something: The german sci-fi novel series Perry Rhodan had that with the "Akonen", where they had the majority of their population inside one star system protected by a system-encompassing shield and some ouposts all over the galaxy connected to the home system and each other via a "doorway-transmitter" (the series equivalent to stargates) network.

Stellaris actually has one of the best representations of the evolution of this technology. We start with the hyperspace network (Clasic FTL). Them we move on to the Hyper relays (Highway in space) Then we go to point to point teleportations with the Gateways and Quantum Catapults. (The big Stargates in space) Then we do to the jump drives. (BSG style teleportation.) And none of them really become obsolete as we grow as a Galactic Empire. If we ever discover FTL. I wonder if we'll follow that same path.

Yes Stargate video!

I believe the best depiction of a Star Gate was from the original Star Trek episode "The City on the Edge of Forever". In that episode the Guardian of Forever could not only take you anywhere and anytime but also totally eradicate your timeline and do so with an impressive sounding voice. I love that episode, and of course Joan Collins was amazing. One of the best episodes of any show ever.

Daniel Jackson became more and more badass with the seasons 👍

30:15 I remember doing the math on this a few years ago, and assuming a 60mph train (to make the math easier, because 1 mile per minute), and a 38 minute window, you could have a 38 MILE LONG TRAIN (other factors will obviously limit this with current tech level and infrastructure priorities). I don't remember the other math I did, but I do remember coming to a figure of about 60,000 people fitting on that length of train.

Heinlein called it a Tunnel in the Sky.

In the SG series, one problem is factions in the current moment in time could not make new ones... Relying on ancient alien technology is tricky.

Stargate is initially the obvious thing that comes to mind but The Aeldari (rather Old Ones) Webway network more closely matches the contents of the video.

P90 was the star of the show

The similar tech with portal doors between planets separated by 20 to 800 light years was earlier depicted in Hyperion book by Dan Simmons and later in space opera book series by Peter Hamilton. Of course there were no technical details of any kind. By the way, it would be interesting to know how the mouth of traversable wormhole looks like, it doesn't have horizon so it's just some place in spacetime perhaps indistinguishable from the local space neighbourhood.

I already have the Stargate SG-1 theme going

Love love love Stargate. SG1 is endlessly re watchable. I honestly do hold out that some race like the ancients exists/existed in our universe. Intelligent beings that essentially figured out everything to the point of ascension as near omnipresent beings of immortal energy. That would give me some comfort as a stone cold athiest lol.

My thought with Stargates as mass transport or transit devices, is you would use them with "trains". with the proper shape and speed you could easily move hundreds [of rail cars] thru in much less than the Max 38 min. from the show, rather than have people walking thru as was often shown.

"Schwarzschild" = "Scharz - Schild", or in english "black shild" (which is actually really fitting), there is no child in it :)

I literally just finished my first watch of SG-1, absolutely stellar timing.

Back when I was in university, a friend of mine took a course on General Relativity, and told me he worked out what happens on the possibly itraversible paths through the wormhole with one end that's been moved around at a large fraction of lightspeed. for some time. His conclusion is that the ends of the wormhole end up being different ages, bu the worldlines that go through it do not go into the global past.

Stargate is a underrated franchise

22:05 This reminds me of when the ancient Janus destabilised Wraith hyperspace capabilities and they simply shattered upon jumping. And then a miniature sun was created in Atlantis. Insane to sit back and watch.

I've been working on a setting that uses Orion's Arm-esque Visser wormholes. After the big empire collapses, taking most of the wormholes with it, most systems switch to relativistic ships powered by black holes. I was trying to think of why they wouldn't try rebuilding the wormholes, then you pointed out the mass they'd have. The empire was probably sucking up brown dwarfs through pinhole wormholes to build the traversable ones.

Ooo never been this early for an IA video before

Heinlein also had a novel involving these types of portals, basically his version of Lord of the Flies, about a scout troop getting lost on an alien planet after a malfunction... cannot for the life of me remember the name of it though

Another Dr. Who connection would be to the episode "Logopolis", where an alien race opens a connection to another universe. It *does* allow travel, but the purpose was to prevent the entropic death of our universe by making it into an open system (dumping entropy into the other universe?)

Still hoping stargate universe restarts - season 2 was the GOAT and they left it open

While watching this episode, the various Star Gate theme musics were playing in my head. Nice. Oh, great episode too!

I thought wth is STÅRGÅTES when I saw the thumbnail. 😂 The letter Å/å is used a lot in Danish and is quite distinct to the letter A/a.

the SGU gates, yeah, I can see, with tight scheduling, running large high speed trains through them, up to speed on approach, set the suckers up in a rail yard, with a track switch to sideline the train on a failed dial. you could move a yuuge amount of materials or people through

Big fan of stargate here, but personally that best implementation of this kind of stable wormhole is the Hyperion cantos and their "farcasters". The concept of a farcaster home were each room is on a separate planet and each opening between the rooms is a permanently connected farcaster. They have streets and even a river running continuously through a hundred planets eventually coming back to its starting point. Just imagine taking a stroll or a boat ride through a hundred planets without any interruption or other modes of travel. Just mind boggling! Damn I need to read Hyperion again :D

The concept of a wormhole back in time to the origin of the universe that draws power into the present would nicely explain the anisotropy of the universe, since the power would presumably not be drawn from all points in the early universe equally. Of course, if you depend on something like that as your explanation, then you've created a bootstrap paradox in the process.

Though a candle burns in my house, there is nobody home.

Stargate and Farscape were my favorite sci-fi series. Far more than Star Trek or Star Wars. So this episode of sfia really triggered some delight in me.

Shwarz voice: RUUUUUN !!! GO TO THE CHAPPA'AI !!!

I really like the way you relate your science to preexisting sci-fi concepts, such as battle tech and SG-1, it can really create excitement for media that you may not or otherwise have no knowledge of.

I like the way Earth 2 TV series did Stargates, less special effects(save on budget) but more pragmatic in that you simply connect two doorways via scientific equipment without much fanfare of space distortion.

Just had a crazy idea from 4:50 - A wormhole that opens to the past (our own universe's past) directly into a ship's engine whereby anti-matter is pulled out of the young universe to turn into propulsion in the current universe's engine. Both creating seemingly limitless fuel, and also draining the young universe of anti-matter leading to the current situation of our own universe having a massive imbalance of matter vs antimatter.

*Stargate the Movie;* I went to see it with my nerdy sci-fi friends in the theater, & afterwards we went to a nearby Pub for pizza, cheesesteaks, & Yuengling beer (yes I was in Philly) to discuss the movie, where I said Stargate will be the next new Science Fiction TV Series. And here is why I said it; *I love in Star Trek* they added transporter so they would not need to keep taking shuttles from the ship to planets that would tie up the show's airtime. *And Stargate said SCREW IT,* no space travel of any kind we'll just wormhole from planet to planet with no need for spaceships, shuttle pods, or transporters we simply just walk. I do think it would have been smart for the creators of the show if they kept finding new technology and would drag it back & add it to their base to the point where after a couple of seasons they could do a bottle episode where they never leave the base and have enough technology to make it interesting to keep our attention glued to the screen but even at the end of the series the rooms, even medical looked like it did on day one when the pilot aired. With all the alien tech they've captured & dragged back to Earth they could have dug deeper that the mountain & hollowed it out & built a underground high tech city to study the tech brought back & worked at reverse engineering everything & an armada of fighter spaceships to protect Earth against invasion. Maybe many cities under all of the Ally countries with vacuum tube transportation lines between all of them that could get you to any other city in a few minutes around the world. All hidden from the general population of the world.

The Commonwealth Saga had, in my opinion, the best depiction of a non gate-based interstellar wormhole society in sci-fi beyond actual Stargate.

Time to bring out the Snacks!

We could use portals to move gases from Venus to Mars.

The first explicitly named stargate I came across was on the '70's TV show BUCK rOGERS IN THE 25th CENTURY

FINALLY!!! THANK YOU!!! I loved Stargate as a concept! And SG1 was good, though I actually enjoyed Universe the most.

sgu was a great tv show actually...its too bad it was cancelled it had so much more potential and was better than i remembered when i watched it again

I would genuinely enjoy an entire college program of arthurian futurism and theoretical physics. There's so many subtopics I love, and want to deep dive, but I wish it was possible to prioritize coursework that would help me understand and contribute to the future technology, culture and industry of mankind. Plus it would look really cool to have an Associates in futurism, grads would be like knights of the non-euclidian table

Going to save this as one of my favorites for re-watching

Stargate universe & Atlantis was my childhood ❤❤❤

I love stargate franchise, i love whole idea of instant interstellar (later intergalaxy) travel, thank you very much.

I like the way that David Weber implemented wormholes / gates in the Honor Harrington universe.

Nice call out on the 'big reveal' of the ancients in Stargate

One way to keep wormhole ends time synced is to have both ends move at the same speed so there is no relativistic difference between the ends. One of those "not understood mechanics" to make things work.

I would see this episode on my feed just before having to head into work lol. Man I can't wait to watch this one, I LOVE Stargate.

Just wanted to comment a little bit about the lore of Stargate, in it's relation to actual stars. I won't even try to hide the fact that there are major spoilers if you haven't yet had the chance to watch the best thing sci-fi ever gave to us. In the show franchise's mythology, the Stargate's ability to interact with stars directly is a major theme, especially in the later eras of the franchise's runtime. But we got our first taste of it in season 2, (after the multiple universes episode in season 1, which was not a result of the Stargate, but different tech altogether). Star interaction was a major plot point in SG:U, so much so that the gate's interaction with stars not only affected time, but also multiple realities. This time, though, the Stargate was responsible, and not some mirror. But SG-1 had already established in season 10 that the Stargate can be used to travel to alternate realities, and Atlantis had several devices of their own (Some even built by earthlings)! Time travel was such a major part of the shows. that they used it to end SG-1 twice. Once in the final episode, and again in the final film. The primary mechanism of time-travel, a solar flare, through which the wormhole travelled through, was such a major part of the show, that SG-1 had a special mission in season 1 to study them. I think if the SG:U did go on, they would have found a way home by dialing from inside a black hole star. They really need to bring Stargate back.

Battletech was an awesome franchise.

I'm reminded of the audiobook "will save the galaxy for food" where space travel becomes redundant due to teleporters.

Realistic starships tech ladder: fision->fusion->kugelblitch->lazer push. After that we would just optimize the lazer. Make it more precies and add more energy until laws of pysics are in the way Traveling at 99,99%C. I dont think we get ftl. Maby we build at birch planet with all matter in the galaxy(or local group) to put everything closer together. Making trips shorter in a different way

Seen more than eleven giant shield-bubbles and one or more fastmovers 4am, April 5th. Something hit the bubbles and made them oscillate. It looked like an asymmetric engagement or a blockade manoeuvre.

Even when wormholes don't exist in a franchise, Visser's name still came up. In the Animorphs book series I'd read as a child, a Visser was one of the enemy generals, and they had around fifty of them with a pecking order. You could take another Visser's number by killing the general that held it. And the top five or so Vissers tended to be the bleeding edge of the Yeerk invasion. But there were no wormholes. Time warps, but no wormholes.

That was a very cool one. I especially like the thought experiment behind how it would lead to a tiered network

I have watched and loved Stargate for years and never once have I considered a tiny continuous wormhole to pump fuel as suggested at 3:01. That’s a game changer and love the potential SciFi this could represent!

To be entirely fair - if the SGC had sent a probe to their own Stargate, it would never have gotten through, and they'd have never gone to that planet. So the fact that all the gates they *do* travel to are unguarded and in the middle of nowhere is mostly a selection bias! ... Not really, it's just television writing. You can justify it, but it would have been neat if they'd discussed the idea of there being plenty of planets they DID open but that their probes got smooshed like would happen if it went thru their own iris. And there's plenty of planets that *really should have been guarded better* like System Lord homeworlds that they got thru scott free.

I recall a story in which 2 stargates that were paired had 1 in close orbit of a star and the other mounted on the back of a starship. When active the star end sent to the ship end creating unlimited thrust with another set at the other end of the ship to slow down.

I genuinely think the Stargate franchise was a way to soft disclose what's going on behind the scenes

Man as a Swedish person the thumbnail reads STÅRGÅTES xD

Love it man. Keep it up. Looking forward to lunar lava tunnels.

I think of the "Portal" games in this context. Several of the most entertaining puzzles in the game have never been experimentally replicated (i.e., violate established physics). There are cases where one falls through portals at different elevations (with movable entry/exit points) allowing the accumulation of momentum by endlessly failing hence permitting entertaining though impossible (yet intuitive) long jumps.

In the series, the gates had a buffer and everything in transit was called data. Therefore, it is more of a teleportation device than a wormhole, reading the state of the brain and DNA at the entrance and assembling people at the exit.

Using a wormhole to a younger universe to tap the big-bang explosion as a power source is something somebody already came up with huh? naturally before I was born. And here 10 year old me thought he was being hella clever. Though in that setting, it did come with some pretty substantial limitations. Namely only being a power option for the very largest of ships, requiring an enormous amount of energy to start up from cold and dark, and only providing energy in the form of photons and some subatomic particles. practical reaction mass was something that was a bit easier to scoop.

This was a brilliant episode. I'm glad I rediscovered this show

SG-1 and DS-9 are best long running sci-fi shows.For short term Foundation is brilliant hidden gem.

Reminded of a story called Deathworlders, the galactic civilizations in that setting had FTL communication, but it still took days to send a message from one side of the galaxy to the other Then humans did the crazy human thing and introduced 0-dimensional wormholes, which allowed for truly instantaneous communication on galactic scales, but with the sound and video fidelity of a 1980s computer

Comunication and travel in Battletech is why I live the setting so much. Its such an odd interstellar civilization

even with stargate limitations there are super sized gates shown. so you'd probably make the biggest gate you possibly could to connect the most important planets and have a system to move as much stuff as possible through it within the time limit. im thinking an enormous magnetically aligned and braked vertical train. on schedule flip the gates around the correct way and drop some city block sized kilometer long train through it. then you'd have other smaller gates to send and receive traffic from less important worlds, perhaps also extra gates out in orbit far enough away to not risk the one per planet restriction, maybe just free floating like the ori gate for cargo ships to pass through maybe some attached to orbital rings to safely run trains through much faster. these ways you could still do industrial scale transport between worlds not just a few hundred people every 38 minutes.

rev space mentioned! My favourite scifi franchise ever. Thanks for giving it some well deserved exposure.

We could use proxy planets for security, custom inspection, & quarantining.

I liked this video before I even finished watching the first minute of the video :-)

I've been waiting for a Peter f Hamilton reference 😊 great series

All phenomena are variations of frequency. The universe is sympathic to vibration. No need to overpower physics with brute force. Simply imitate the vibratory rate desired. The effect will follow. (You may quote me.) Your welcome little blue planet.

Stargates are 1 of the means of FTL I consider for the Clandestine Exile Colony system I imagine. Regardless we would be keeping FTL travel & communication a deeply guarded secret because we want to be left alone.

Ralph Kern's Sleeping Gods series did an interesting take on Stargate technology and travel. It involved a form of very interesting light lag in the story that worked very well as a plot device in many different ways. Gates used some kind of quantum entanglement to send the compressed data (people/cargo) between the gates instantly so nothing would be lost in transport (ie no one showing up on the other side missing their head), but still required part of the signal (I think it was like the decoding information for the data packets or something) to be sent via transmission limited to light speed. Objects traveling between gates would experience instant transport relative to their pov, but everyone else experiences x amount of time based on light speed relative to the distance between each terminal. Example (cause I word salad that explanation) The first jump in the book is 4 light years with the crew doing an 8 month research mission in the system on the other side of the Gate. So from Earth's pov they are gone 8 years and 8 months, but from the crews pov they are gone only 8 months. They even get into the ethics about this form of travel since it does indeed destroy you on one end and put you back together on the other end each jump, the effects this would have on humans psychologically, and possibility of evolutionary changes happening on different lines for different human colonies become larger and larger the further the gate system reaches (your advance team for scouting a new system 100 light years away with an 8 month mission would be gone 200 years and 8 months, 1000 lights years would be gone 2000 years and 8 months; making the Earth they return to that much more different while they've only aged 8 months). They even kind of learn how to use this technology plus the "c-drive" which is a drive that can reach up to 3/4 lightspeed to get messages from the future as well, but that was where the plot ended (so far).

My main gripe is with the limerick at the beginning, the two first lines break the metre. My take would be: A clever young lady, Ms Bright, would travel much faster than light. She left home one day in a relative way, and came back the previous night.

The best thing about Stargåte is that "gåte" is a Scandinavian word that means "riddle". And the word works when read either way.

I still remember renting star gate with my mom in the nineties and the VHS has since problem where the whole movie was super dark and hard to see anything, so whenever we see submerging too dark we would start laughing and yelling star gate!!

Now we can travel the universe using Robert Monroe's technics as shared in his book," Journeys out of the body." However, credit to Stargates for they made some of us think outside the box and we have been thinking outside the box ever since.

StarGates would be so practical and useful for space travel and save so much time!