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[alxian]

indeed time is something we create to understand a universe that never had a like concept. so much of our understand comes from such fudgings but where would we be without them?


of course we would

FTL in fiction is divided into two groups, commmunication of information and communication of matters streams

as long as FTL is only capable of transferring data as in the now defunct theory of quantum entanglement you will be stuck with moving matter around in accordance to a universe and its physical laws.

if you can however use FTL to travel, turning matter into energy and syphoning that energy "somehow" from here to there and then reconstitute that energy stream, you'll still need to be mindful of where you end up.

if the gravity is several times stronger than your origin you'll be soup on the recieving alter.

if the gravity is far less you'll crack your skull on the ceiling trying to walk off the recieving alter.

i was just thinking about stargate and why the event horizon wasn't just a clear film showing there, but figured they just didn't have the budget or thought it would be more dramatic for the event horizon to be flowmetal-like (water like in the movie).

your body has its own internal clock, if you jumped through the gates event horizon and ended up in a place highly accelerated (which slows time) by gravity and you did survive (having trained for weeks or months before, or having modified your physiology to compensate for the change in gravity) your body would still feel the subtle effects of the timeshift. everything would be subtly slower or faster, you'd suffer timelag.

even if you travelled back and forth constantly, commuting, passing between several similar gravity fields you wouldn't notice any difference at all.. however i think subtle sideeffects would eventually surface.

i think amoung some of the fundamental flaws of the show that has to be a big one. gravity is not the same everywhere, regardless of how meticulous the ancients were there must have been planets that warranted exploration and exploitation that weren't earth normal, this greatly expands their realm as so many planets must have been ignored (nevermind how they even got to those thousand of other near earthlike planets in the first place, or how our decendants will).