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(going to try to type this up before the Mountain Dew wears off. I've been awake 36 hours.)
So, once again, friends and I were at a restaurant: (paraphrased conversation)
"So, the Stargate, it disassembles you and reassembles you on the other side."
"So are we saying it acts more like a teleporter or is it actually a wormhole."
"Well, remember E=mc^2."
"Yes. That's a heck of a lot of energy. Also, c is constant."
"Right, but wormhole."
"Okay. But it disassembles you and sends you as energy? Or are does it also send your atoms?"
"E=mc^2..."
"Okay, okay. Still. Lot of energy. Or does it simply reassemble you on the other side using the fundamental particles to create the appropriate atoms. Because it can't be down to atoms only if you bring, for example, an element that doesn't exist on one end through."
"Also, remember that you can pass matter through to a 'gate in a vacuum."
"Oh right. So it's impossible to recreate a ship for example on the other side if the other 'gate is floating in space. So it's probably sending fundamental particles."
"Yes."
"That's kind of impressive. Especially if its loss-less."
"Hey, can you create matter just out of energy?"
"The answer is: the plot."
"Okay, with boundary conditions of "the plot", can you create matter out of just energy?"
*digression on nuclear reactors*
"Yeah, you can create matter out of energy all the time. You're just also creating antimatter at the same time."
And then we digressed to ships powered by antimatter engines to small black holes and the LHC at CERN (I believe the idea for a tabletop "The Pirates of Dark Matter" came up again) and how the world might end this summer or at least we should all be ready with crowbars in case there's a dimensional breach and the headcrabs come through.
So, once again, friends and I were at a restaurant: (paraphrased conversation)
"So, the Stargate, it disassembles you and reassembles you on the other side."
"So are we saying it acts more like a teleporter or is it actually a wormhole."
"Well, remember E=mc^2."
"Yes. That's a heck of a lot of energy. Also, c is constant."
"Right, but wormhole."
"Okay. But it disassembles you and sends you as energy? Or are does it also send your atoms?"
"E=mc^2..."
"Okay, okay. Still. Lot of energy. Or does it simply reassemble you on the other side using the fundamental particles to create the appropriate atoms. Because it can't be down to atoms only if you bring, for example, an element that doesn't exist on one end through."
"Also, remember that you can pass matter through to a 'gate in a vacuum."
"Oh right. So it's impossible to recreate a ship for example on the other side if the other 'gate is floating in space. So it's probably sending fundamental particles."
"Yes."
"That's kind of impressive. Especially if its loss-less."
"Hey, can you create matter just out of energy?"
"The answer is: the plot."
"Okay, with boundary conditions of "the plot", can you create matter out of just energy?"
*digression on nuclear reactors*
"Yeah, you can create matter out of energy all the time. You're just also creating antimatter at the same time."
And then we digressed to ships powered by antimatter engines to small black holes and the LHC at CERN (I believe the idea for a tabletop "The Pirates of Dark Matter" came up again) and how the world might end this summer or at least we should all be ready with crowbars in case there's a dimensional breach and the headcrabs come through.
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