GateWorld Podcast: Destiny’s ‘Cosmic’ Mission

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• Awesome podcast! Can't wait for the new episodes.

• Great podcast guys!!I think you covered pretty much all significant aspects of a possible mission..keep 'em coming,you're awesome!I await the podcasts just as anxiously as the new episodes.

• "the universe is getting younger and younger as we move along"

  No it isn't! I wish you guys would stop saying this. No part of the universe is any younger or any older than any other. Space is expanding at the same rate everywhere, it's not expanding outward from a single point. There is no centre, there is no edge.

• @Jenks That is true..in fact as they move along the effect is exactly the opposite,because they're getting closer and closer to the real age,or in other words real time in that particular part of space.The younger period is recorded back on Earth where the radiation from that earlier time is only arriving.But,hey the guys are not astrophyisicists,nor is this show a Stephen Hawking documentary.It has so many plot holes,just as the rest of the stargate franchise.One being the main premise of the entire show..the possibility to just walk through a black hole event horizon and survive.

• It's a good job it's not a black hole then isn't it. It's a wormhole, there is a difference.

  Come on, even our scientists don't know everything there is to know about black holes, the fabric of space/time or any type of astrophysics - we're not that advanced yet.

  "We know what we are, but know not what we may be." William Shakespeare.

• @Osiris It is a stable wormhole created by the black hole piercing spacetime.Wormholes and blackholes are connected in theory and in the show's canon,since a wormhole cannot exist without a black hole at it's entrance,which a Stargate artificially creates.And event horizon,so many times mentioned in stargate is a part of the black hole.Many things are unknown,but this one is pretty clear.
  Anyway suspension of disbelief is the key word here.Which doesn't mean that there's no plotholes within the established show canon and it's continuity.There's a lot of that in stargate,but it mostly serves the purpose of a story device.My point was just that,that we shouldn't nit pick sg too much,because if we would start doing that,it be very hard to watch that show in any serious fashion whatsoever.

• The universe doesn't age. And we don't actually move through it since it's dimensions and relative perspective is undefined. So we move relative to other things in the universe, but not the universe itself. And a black hole isn't necessary for a wormhole, though it would seem the likely easiest method to intentionally create one. Black holes are the the best way we presently know of to control gravity but we don't even really understand how that works, yet alone whether it's the best way. We also don't know for certain if the relationship between gravity and space-time works the way that it seems to so it is likely that there are far more efficient and easier ways to bend space-time to create a wormhole that have nothing to do with black holes at all. It's likely there are more direct ways to affect gravity and there may even be more direct ways to affect space-time.

• @mythos But that's the way it was established and explained in the show.It's the show's canon.Sam explained the way stargate works on numerous occasions.
  Universe does age,since when it was created,both space and TIME have been created.So the universe few moments after the big bang was much younger than it is now.Time exists and it passes.
  We move relative to other things in the universe,but not the universe itself..WTF!?So what are we moving through then?If you say we move relative to other things IN THE UNIVERSE,that can only mean that we move through the universe.How else could we be moving relative to those things IN THE UNIVERSE,if we were moving through something else.And the fact that I move through the forest,for example and the forest covers a mountain..the fact that terrain's dimension and relative perspective is undefined,uncharted and unknown to me,doesn't mean that I don't move through that mountainous terrain.
  And a claim that there are likely far more efficient and easier ways to bend spacetime and create a stable wormhole,than by artificially creating black hole is simply hilarious.Not because it is scientifically unfounded,but because of the way you fraze it.Like you were talking about the difference between an iphone and a windows phone.
  There is a very good reason this show is defined as science-FICTION.

• Let's try a little experiment.
  Sky is blue. Now I'm gonna wait how long will it take mythos to start explaining how in fact it is not,that is just an optical illusion,interpretation of our brain,or whatever...LOL!!

• @Jim - I don't recall Sam saying that stargates work based on black holes, though I do remember her talking about how the wormhole wasn't like a black hole and I remember several references to the effects of black holes on wormholes. And the universe doesn't age. It technically doesn't even change. What's inside of it changes a lot and often but it doesn't. It's simply a layer between what is and what isn't part of it. Our perception of it ages, it does not itself age. And time has been proven to be relative, so to say it 'passes' is incorrect because under the right circumstances, it wouldn't 'pass', if using such semantics.

  In physics, all things are measured from the perspective of an observer. Since the universe itself doesn't have a point of state, it can't be an observer.

  And the sky is actually violet. Anyone with google can prove it. Just because you like to believe something doesn't mean it has to be the truth. ;)