Star Gates: the Theory and Practice

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StarGates:
Theory & Practice
John Ashmead

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• Wormhole

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• Wormhole
• Occasional
real physics,
i.e. time
dilation
effects

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• Wormhole
• Occasional
real physics,
i.e. time
dilation
effects
• What’s
behind the
curtain?

The Fall of Hyperion

Beware of
unexpected doors!

Steampunk Portal

Making contact with
the science

What do we mean by a
StarGate

StarGate
• Any instantaneous transport

StarGate
• Usually associated with a gate
or a tube (slime trails in space)

StarGate
• View from the backside?
stargates & the continuum

StarGate
• StarGates & Faster-than-light
travel (i.e. Instant!)

StarGate
• StarGates & Faster-than-light
travel (i.e. Instant!)
• StarGates & Parallel universes
(don’t go there)

FTL = Time Travel

FTL = Time Travel
• Instant from A to B
(from A’s perspective)

FTL = Time Travel
• Instant from B to A
(from B’s perspective)

FTL = Time Travel
• Backwards in time to A

FTL = Time Travel
• Backwards in time to A
• Watch out for paradox
noise

StarGates in Science
• Quantum Teleportation (EPR)
• ER Wormholes: Einstein-Rosen
Bridges (ER)
• Quantum entangled
wormholes (ER = EPR)

Spooky action at a
distance

Spooky action at a
distance
• Mysterious
connection

Spooky action at a
distance
• Mysterious
connection
• Newton
disapproves

Spooky action at a
distance
• Mysterious
connection
• Newton
disapproves
• Einstein
disapproves

Spooky action at a
distance
• Mysterious
connection
• Newton
disapproves
• Einstein
disapproves
• Bell conﬁrms

FLASH

FLASH
• Use EPR to
send
information
faster than
light

FLASH
• Use EPR to
send
information
faster than
light
• Nick Herbert

FLASH
• Use EPR to
send
information
faster than
light
• Nick Herbert
• 1982!

No cloning

No cloning
• No-cloning
discovered
by from
FLASH!

No cloning
• No-cloning
discovered
by from
FLASH!
• Information
conserved

No cloning
• No-cloning
discovered
by from
FLASH!
• Information
conserved
• Deep &
imperfectly
understood

Quantum
teleportation

Quantum
teleportation
• Moving quantum
information

Quantum
teleportation
• Moving quantum
information
• Like transferring
pod people

Quantum
teleportation
• Moving quantum
information
• Like transferring
pod people
• Except that the
original is lost!

Wormholes

Wormholes
• Embedding

Wormholes
• Embedding
• Vortices

Wormholes
• Embedding
• Vortices
• Negative energy

Wormholes
• Embedding
• Vortices
• Negative energy
• Quantum Banking

Wormholes
• Embedding
• Vortices
• Negative energy
• Quantum Banking
• Seeing the invisible

Wormholes
• Embedding
• Vortices
• Negative energy
• Quantum Banking
• Seeing the invisible
• Spaghettiﬁcation

Embedding

Embedding
• Like pages of a
book

Embedding
• Like pages of a
book
• Black hole glue

Embedding
• Like pages of a
book
• Black hole glue
• Then large
rollers to ﬂatten
out on each
side

Negative Energy

Negative Energy
• Lots of
positive
energy
required

Negative Energy
• Lots of
positive
energy
required
• Also, negative
energy

Negative Energy
• Lots of
positive
energy
required
• Also, negative
energy
• Constant
feature of all
wormholes

Quantum Banking

Quantum Banking
• Longer the
pulse, the
weaker

Quantum Banking
• Longer the
pulse, the
weaker
• Pay-back
ensues

Quantum Banking
• Longer the
pulse, the
weaker
• Pay-back
ensues
• And interest

vortices

vortices
• Strong association
between vortices
& stargates

vortices
between vortices
& stargates
• Framedragging

vortices
between vortices
& stargates
• Framedragging
• May be hard to
keep the wormhole
mouth open
without something
spinning.

Seeing the invisible

Spaghettification

Spaghettification
• Tendex lines

Spaghettification
• Tendex lines
• Blue is
squeeze

Spaghettification
• Tendex lines
• Blue is
squeeze
• Red is
stretch

Spaghettification
• Tendex lines
• Blue is
squeeze
• Red is
stretch
• Oil is found

Creating a Bridge between
Quantum Mechanics & General
Relativity

Relativity
• Maldacena &
Susskind (2014)

Relativity
• Maldacena &
Susskind (2014)
• Einstein
thought of
earlier

Relativity
• Maldacena &
Susskind (2014)
• Einstein
thought of
earlier
• Solves some
problems with
black holes

Information paradox

But Black Holes “eat”
information

Hawking Radiation

Hawking Radiation
• Virtual pairs
form all the time

Hawking Radiation
• Virtual pairs
form all the time
• Sometimes one
captured, other
escapes

Hawking Radiation
• Virtual pairs
form all the time
• Sometimes one
captured, other
escapes
• Carrying energy
with it

Hey dude, where’s my
Qbits?

ER = EPR

ER = EPR
• Catchy name: Einstein-
Rosen = Einstein-
Podolski-Rosen

ER = EPR
Rosen = Einstein-
Podolski-Rosen
• Wormholes & entangled
particles: opposite ends
of size spectrum

ER = EPR
Rosen = Einstein-
Podolski-Rosen
• Wormholes & entangled
particles: opposite ends
of size spectrum
• Solves some technical
problems

Lots of tub-y things

• Stuff falls into
Black Hole

Black Hole
• Hawking
radiation escapes

Black Hole
• Hawking
radiation escapes
• But mysterious
connection causes
information to be
preserved

Quantum Monogamy

Quantum Monogamy
• Except now
the stuff
falling in is
connected to
lots of stuff
escaping out,
violating
monogamy!

But is it Crazy
enough to be True?

But is it Crazy
enough to be True?
• Negative energy

But is it Crazy
enough to be True?
• Negative energy
• Entropy and the direction
of time

But is it Crazy
enough to be True?
• Negative energy
• Entropy and the direction
of time
• Meaning of space time

Are we positive about
energy?

energy?
• Average Weak Energy
condition: energy
mostly positive

energy?
condition: energy
mostly positive
• Requirement from
quantum ﬁeld theory

energy?
condition: energy
mostly positive
• Requirement from
quantum ﬁeld theory
• But may not be
fundamental

Entropy & the
direction of time

Entropy & the
direction of time
• “Deepest
humiliation”

Entropy & the
direction of time
• “Deepest
humiliation”
• Entropy or bust

Entropy & the
direction of time
• “Deepest
humiliation”
• Entropy or bust
• But …

Fabric of spacetime

Fabric of spacetime
• Discontinuity
in space & time

Fabric of spacetime
• Discontinuity
in space & time
• Thru space?

Fabric of spacetime
• Discontinuity
in space & time
• Thru space?
• Around in the
bulk?

Fabric of spacetime
• Discontinuity
in space & time
• Thru space?
• Around in the
bulk?
• Shared via
quantum
interference?

Uses of StarGates

Uses of StarGates
• Fill in plot holes,

Uses of StarGates
• Give us deeper
understanding of our
theories & our universe,

Uses of StarGates
• Give us deeper
• Maybe, even, help get
the human race a bit of
badly needed breathing
room,

Uses of StarGates
• Give us deeper
• Maybe, even, help get
the human race a bit of
badly needed breathing
room,
• And lots of fun!

references
• Lorentzian Wormholes- Visser
• Physics of Stargates - Rodrigo
• From Eternity to Here - Carroll
• Science of Interstellar - Thorne
• Time Travel & Warp Drives -
Everett & Roman
• The Physics of Time - Muller

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