Gates - all in contact?

[Ko'or Oragahn]

Right, four points, two locations. But the system used for the network, as described by Danny, seemed to be intended to locate a gate within the square made of four points and almost within the cube made of six vertexes.

So yes, in fact, they truely needed six glyphs at least, if the system is correct.




I'm sorry for using the word references. In fact I meant letters.

All the things about stellar drifts and other things like that are in fact irrelevant.

Why ? Well, how could a race able to built stargates and travel through space couldn't even have concepts about stellar drift ?

There are great chances that for the Ancients, stellar drift wasn't a problem at all.

To me, the glyphs are just vestiges of what the Ancients used to approximatively locate each gate when they were spread over the galaxy (and farther later) and they kept these "descriptions" as names, names made of glyphs which can't be taken as coordinates for most of them. And the seventh glyph is now some sort of key. ANd the more keys you have to complete a name, the farther you go, but I think we all agree about that.

It's just a code. For example, I guess that the code that protects yout account on these forums isn't made of one only letter or number, even if it could have.

Now, the problem is to know how a gate manages to detect another one in the network.

 

[PTeppic]

a) my whole point previously is you don't NEED six points around the vertxes of a cube to locate a single point in space. You only need the four vertxes of a (four-sided object) to mathematically locate a single object, This is plain maths, not physics. It is just much eaiser to show on a film/TV with a cube and six s vertices.

b) the glyph addresses. This has been discussed in other threads. The conclusion was extensively reached and agreed that they represent constellatins in space, and the intersections were really used for locating gates. When the universe expanded, the points moived, and so did the reference constellations, so a new series of glyphs could be identified. It is all perfectly sensible. And the seventh glyph is NOT needed, but is used anyway.

 

[shazstar]

Add on:

possibly the point of origin is the proverbial "enter key", a confirmation and lock of a wormhole.

BTW, Ko'or, although not as much here as in other threads, you seem to be very confused about the tech for the movie and the tech for the series. I think you'll find comparing both often results in contrast, and sometimes the only reason for this is poetic license. I have found that the best thing to do is to seperate the two, and ask questions specific to either one or the other, and then the following debate is much clearer.

:wave:

 

[PTeppic]

POO - Despite my earlier strong feelings/arguments, I just had a thought in the bath and have started a new thread. Although I didn't think it was needed, like Shazstar I think it IS needed, but not for DHD dialling, only for manual or hand-device dialling.

I suggest this part of debate moves to that other thread.