The Actress Amanda Tapping would probably love to hear from you. As the scientist character she read popular science books and demanded lines explaining something wasn't working according to the known laws of physics so she wouldn't look stupid. The production gives her lots of credit for keeping the science in the science fiction, as much as it ever is in these shows.

The explosion moving the wormhole isn't really supposed to work with the known science of wormholes, but is actually specific to the Stargate technology that is creating them. A previous episode established that a large energy discharge directed toward the gate would cause the wormhole to jump to another gate within the Stargate system.

The bomb idea is actually pretty good, because in previous episodes they have already discovered that if you discharge "energy" to a gate, it switches the wormhole to a different gate. Of course pure fiction, but it's internally consistent they even used it in later episodes too.

What an amazing series SG-1 was 👏👏👏 easily one of the greatest sci-fi shows of time...

THANK YOU FOR THIS. Stargate doesn’t get nearly enough attention. It’s one of the best sprawling scifi franchises on screen, but it’s been weirdly unacknowledged by the world lately

They actually established in older episodes that an explosion or large release of energy will affect the Stargate (which is made of fictional material) and disrupt its connection to another gate. So more a gate thing than trying to "blow up" the wormhole ;)

22:25 This is actually based off of a previous episode where they learned a little more about how the Stargate works and found out that in case of a sudden surge in energy, the stargate redirects its wormhole to another stargate, like a breaker essentially. That's what they're trying to achieve with a focused blast of a bomb.

I'm pretty sure the smaller star was a neutron star which drifted into the star system long ago, not massive or dense enough to collapse into a black hole. It was the reason the planets inhabitants abandoned the star system. Once it had accumulated enough mass from the larger star, it collapsed. Neutron stars get smaller as they gain mass increasing in density, so if enough matter is nearby, they'll eventually become black holes.

19:10 - To be fair, O'Neill isn't exactly a particularly "sciency" person, so it's entirely likely that he'd think a black hole is like a hoover.

There was an incident where SG1 were being attacked as they were escaping back to earth through the wormhole before this episode. The stargate on the other end took a hit from a ship weapon just as the last 2 went through the gate. This in turn forced the gate to jump to another gate and spat them out. It's why they suggest the bomb to get the wormhole to jump so they can close it. This tactic actually comes into play a few times through the series. Again, very much worth watching. It's REALLY good.

Please remember that this episode of Stargate aired on January 29, 1999. This is relevant both for the science referenced, and the way it was portrayed to the public. We've made lots of progress on both fronts in the last 25 years

About the Molecular Deconstruction, it was determined earlier in the series that even though it seems that you go through in one piece your body is actually turned into energy and then rematerialized by the receiving gate. Watch The Torment of Tantalus (Season 1, Episode 10) where they discover this information. Also to further explain how it works is in the Stargate Atlantis episode Thirty Eight Minutes (Season 1, Episode 4) where a puddle jumper gets stuck in the gate. The thing to remember is that these wormholes are artificially created instead of natural.

I’m a diehard SG-1 fan, one of the people who recommended this episode and I loved every second of this video. Thank you for making it.

Sam Carter is SO AWESOME. One of the best characters in any SF show.

"you're gonna need a bigger black board love" absolutely killed me

I'm genuinely amazed that you actually enjoyed this. As a fan of the show, I'm well aware that a lot of the physics took a secondary role to the story, but I honestly never noticed that they did a lot of those little nods to tell you "Yeah, we know this isn't how it works as far as we know right now, but we're doing this."

The molecular deconstruction actually has an in-universe explanation: The wormholes created by stargates are Einstein-Rosen bridges with a bottleneck only large enough for a single atom. Because of that, they need to break things down to and turn them into a stream of single atoms to fit them through, and that process, as well as reconstruction on the other end, are handled by the stargates.

In terms of the bomb, they establish in an earlier episode that sudden large energy spikes interfere with the Stargate and cause the mechanism within to switch connections to another functional gate.

To answer your blooper question, the SGC (Star Gate Command) is located inside of a US Air Force Base that is inside of a mountain and that is why there are so many military personal. Infact the footage they took of the entrance for Chyanne Mountain Complex is of a real Air Force Base. I think they got permission to film the entrance for a few days and had to recycle all the footage they got anytime they wanted to show it. Otherwise, the show was mostly filmed in British Columbia, Canada.

In fact, in the teleportation section, in previous episodes they explain exactly this: in this case, the stargate deconstructs and reconstructs things because it only uses the wormhole as a signal carrier (whatever they use, I don't remember). I remember this explanation that crossing the wormhole is complicated due to the spatial variations within it.

I legitimately jumped up and down like an excited school boy when I got this notification! I have loved this show for as long as I can remember. I also agree with my fellow commenters that you should give SG1 and Atlantis a go!

O'Neil wasn't being a dick, his whole character is that he's a layman military guy and Carter tends to talk to him as if he's a fellow expert scientist, which only confuses him. He has to constantly remind her that he needs a very basic, non-technical summary. He meant "stop with the technobabble", not to shut up.

About the comment at 2m30s, I interpret the smaller star is a neutron star at this point to already super dense, and what we observe is it crossing the boundary from neutron star to black hole when it gets just enough extra mass.

21:30 That "disclaimer" is what I appreciate the most about the episode. Its a bit of a cop out, to be sure, but it also makes sense from a certain perspective. The premise of the show is at its heart that we have a device capable of letting us experience in real time situations and concepts that are just mathematical theories and speculation at present. I like the idea that not everything we would encounter studying and interacting with those phenomena are easily predictable and behave exactly as expected. It makes sense that our current understanding of black holes and wormholes is limited or inaccurate and needs to be updated and refined. I like this episode especially because it actively acknowledges that it isn't getting all the science right in a way that builds tension- 'this isn't behaving the way we predicted it will, therefore we don't know with certainty what will happen next or how to save ourselves from the situation'.

As a massive Stargate fan, this was lovely. Thank you. I hope you find time to watch Stargate more. It really is a fun and imaginative show.

"You're gonna need a bigger blackboard love" would make great merch

Dr Beck, I enjoy your videos very much. Please remember this is just a TV show. The characters in it developed over 10 years of interaction. This is the best Sci Fi show ever made. Please binge the series from the beginning, you will enjoy it.

The Paper Analogy you used in this video they actually use it in the show as well! Episode in question is called ”Enigma”, aired during Season Seven (officially episode 117). They even mention Shroedinger (Samantha named her cat that) in that episode :)

8:18 the wormholes in Stargate SG-1 are not the size of the gate, they're tiny and only energy is passed through. So what the Stargate actually does is it turns matter into energy on one side then reconstructs that matter on the opposite side. There's a whole episode where Teal'c gets stuck in the Gate's energy buffer due to a malfunction and they spend the entire episode trying to get him back.

The O'Neill Carter annoyance is amusing when you understand the relationship.

So with the molecular deconstruction it's a function of the stargate. It breaks you down, sends the atoms through the worm hole, then reconstructs you on the other side. The theory is that it protects you from the exotic matter holding the worm hole open. Also from what I understand in the opening scene is a rouge white dwarf entered the system and drew matter from the larger star and became massive enough to implode and collapse into a black whole.

In this episode of SG-1 the smaller star was actually a neutron star which was accretiing mass from the larger star and gains enough mass to collapse into a black hole. One of the assumption for "Gate Travel" is you step through one gate and immediately emerge on the other side. This is in contract to the original movie but eliminates the time consuming depiction of actually traveling through the wormhole. Because of this the episode assumes that some aspects of being close to a black hole are not dissipated by the wormhole, some are reduced but not eliminated, and some don't apply at all. Hey, it's TV, so sort of accurate and sorta not based on whether it serves the plot line. Part of the plot line is that they cannot close the gate which means they are continuously connected to the planet through the wormhole and that even though the wormhole is insulating them somewhat, the the effects of the black hole are slowly increasing so the "earthquake" is not from a gravitational wave but the gravity from the black hole continuing to increase through the wormhole (the same being true of the time dilation. So some pretty good scientific explanations, some harder to believe or outright wrong explanations that make the plot work. From an audience standpoint they have heard of red shift so they will expect to see things shifted to the red and therefore looking red. Not accurate but much easier to explain than "the radio frequency was red shifted so we need to compress the signal so we can accurately see the picture." As far as spagettification is concerned, I think the people would get ripped apart from gravitational tidal forces before they ever reach the event horizon, or even get incinerated as they become part of the accretion disk and heated to millions of degrees as they orbit the black hole. But sucked-in sounds so much better. I like your description of a black hole being like a Hoover vacuum cleaner though. Remember that in SG-1 the gates are at each end of a wormhole so if you destroy the gate at the other end of the worm hole you would effectively close the wormhole. Any way, I like how you explain what is mostly accurate, what isn't, and why it isn't. Thanks for the reference to Red Dwarf, I was only able to see one or two episodes so I think I will binge watch the series to see what it is like.

A lot of Star Gate episodes are pretty science-filled. Maybe a Stargate: Atlantis episode next?

As both a die hard Stargate fan and an astrophysics enthusiast I love when the two worlds come together like this. It was shows like this and Star Trek that sparked the interest in astrophysics and now I have new appreciation of the shows when I re-watch them years later. Thank you for the insight.

This is the episode that genuinely made me terrified of black holes... That image of the MALPs camera seeing the black hole in the sky is what did it as a kid. Like I love the franchise but this one episode urks me to watch.

You would probably enjoy many episodes of Stargate SG-1, Stargate Atlantis, and Stargate Universe. While it likely isn't going to fall into the jam-packed-with-physics episode list, one of the fans' all-time favorite episodes and one that would make for a great reaction video is Window of Opportunity...

One of the things I love most about the Stargate shows is the actors they hire for the scientists are often the ones pushing the hardest for as close to accurate science as an episode will allow, Amanda Tapping is notorious for this, and I think David Hewlett who plays Rodney on Stargate Atlantis was the same way

You where so fixated on the "black hole" that you missed what Jack was asking, he was asking why do they call "worm holes" worm holes , as where did the word worm come from in "worm"hole", and that's why the apple is the perfect analogy...

Loved this episode! I really enjoyed SG-1 and while of course there was a lot of Fiction in their sci-fi, they also worked hard to get some good science in there too. Amanda Tapping was a brilliant addition to this series.

Sorry if you have already been flooded with this sort of message. The bomb didn't do anything to the wormhole. The stargate is able to convert almost any sort of energy into a useable form of energy for itself. When they detonated the bomb the stargate absorbed a massive amount of energy. One of the safety protocols in the stargate is when their is an active wormhole and it receives a massive influx of energy it dissipates the energy by dialing another stargate.

Well, keep in mind that the Stargate is alien technology that they are still learning about with their limited understanding of physics. I am glad you enjoyed it. One of my favorite episodes.There is also an episode where O'Neill and Teal'c get stuck in a temporal loop. Pretty funny episode.

I could see how not knowing StarGate, but O'Neill and Carter's relationship is all about her explaining the science and him just blanking out. Its a theme. Also, I think explaining how a hypothetical worm hole would handle hypothetical gravity of a black hole near a planet was a bold choice.

There was another episode in which they explained also. The subspace wormhole is affected by blackholes. And in a previous episode the gate from where they were leaving was hit by an energy weapon and it jumped to another one

This episode was a lot of fun; I like how this episode is revisited down the line as a resolution to another problem, in part because that stargate next to the blackhole seemed to still exist, and could still work.

One thing worth bearing in mind when watching any Stargate episode is that at the core of the franchise is Arthur C. Clarke's Third Law: "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."

I always assumed that the bright star in the beginning was supposed to represent a neutron star that had just siphoned off enough mass from the companion to complete its collapse into a singularity. It's the only thing that makes any kind of sense.

It’s really quite amazing they got so much right over 20 years ago when black holes were still pretty much a glint in Steven hawking’s eyes

I am so glad that you liked it. SG-1 is a show that I watch every 2-3 years. I take a week off work and just chill in the living room with my wife and enjoy the good and bad. Like you pointed out a few times they do try and get most of the stuff right, even if they occasionally they break the rules(like when showing the red shift and explaining it). And the whole basis of the show is messing with stuff we barely understand.

O'Neill knows that Carter is probably the smartest person on the base. He puts a lot onto her because he knows for a fact that she can handle it.

Capt. Carter: Everybody is going to die soon. Dr. Becky: WRITE A PAPER RIGHT NOW!

There's something to keep in mind in Stargate- the humans don't *actually* know what it is they use to traverse the long distances. They have some ideas about wormholes and/or teleportation, but at least in the first couple seasons or so that I've seen, there are sometimes where people on the team get to ask aliens about how they work, and the aliens essentially say that they'll figure it out when they're ready. However, they do get to ask about Einstein-Rosen bridges, which are the most basic and well-theorized concept of a wormhole idea that we have, the classic spacetime-folding/bridging wormhole you use in your paper example. The aliens tell them no, it's not that. So, unless something in a later season retcons this, wormholes are not what the Stargates are. I would love to see you come at it from another angle actually, just for fun, and try to draw conclusions based on the reality that SG-1 and the other team is experiencing here. It's a very weird reality indeed, and I would love to see you try to make sense of it sometime through that lense of, "If this was non-fiction here, what could we hypothesize to be the mechanisms of how the gravity well has propagated beyond the Stargate devices." I'm not usually one of those people who takes a fiction universe on face value in order to come up with fantastical explanations for all the things going on, rather than just the obvious scientific inaccuracy, but I'll admit it can be fun and thought-provoking. For the redshift in the image data being transferred, is there some type of analog data that *could* be redshifted??? What if their transmission is something custom built to carry scientific data in a novel way? What might cause such a redshift in the data? Just food for thought. :P Good video as usual, Dr.

"You'll figure something out" is actually a recurring theme in the show, and there are sooo many bloopers of Amanda Tapping (Carter) mocking Richard Dean Anderson like: Me? You've been McGyver for a decade, here's a hairpin and a bit of chewing gum. YOU figure something out.

Carter is my favorite scifi character hands down. She gets so much depth and growth in Stargate and it's spin-off Atlantis.

~6:00 there's an episode of SG-1 where an alien explains how they can travel to Earth so fast without a Stargate. The alien does the paper folding thing and Daniel says "You're talking about folding space". The alien looks at him, disappointed, and simply says. "No."

There’s a wonderful scene in Red Dwarf where cat passes through a dimension and asks “What is it?” and Dave explains and Cat says “What is it?” and there’s another explanation and Cat says “What is it?”

The "video image was red-shifted in color" seems like a plot point that was written because a TV exec was confused about how red-shifting of a radio signal works.

Re: the redshifted image, I think they were saying the camera was further up the gravity well than the people so the light it was capturing was red shifted. Honestly not sure if the distances involved would make that any more plausible but it’s at least different than the transmission being red shifted.

It's fun hearing Dr. Becky react with the same excitement and frustration that Daniel Jackson or Sam Carter have with the military guys trying to keep them alive. It added a bit too the realism in a different way!

Just some fun Stargate lore: If I remember correctly, the "molecular deconstruction" isn't necessary for wormhole travel, but it was a safety feature installed by the Gatebuilders to protect against the unlikely event that the wormhole disconnected while a traveler was en route.

You said it, that wormholes are completely theoretical at this time. One of the big points of the show is how the actual wormhole the Stargates create defies most known physics. It's pretty hilarious, because the show often has some pompous physicist that get clearance to work in the Stargate program, acts like "the science is settled" because some smart guy made a theory with no proof to back it up, and then they have to go through the process of humility when there's the wormhole right in front of them, behaving in ways it shouldn't be, but it is, because our understanding of physics is like a toddler's understanding of nuclear fusion. This is made very clear in an episode where a race of more advanced humans can use devices that let them pass through walls, yet not fall through the floor. The one guy can't even explain it to Sam, despite her intelligence, because despite being a genius, she's a moron by their standards. He basically just tells her that any technology sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic to a less developed being. It's a brilliant way for the show writers to have creative liberty, and not worry too much about the theoretical physics at play, and instead, just enjoy the story. As for the red shift, depending on the gradient of gravitational force, perhaps the light was red-shifting prior to contacting the camera sensor on the probe. oh, and the probe DOES get deconstructed - as do people, because matter isn't sent through the gate: The matter gets converted into data by the gate, including its velocity upon entering, then stored in the gate's data buffer, sent to the other gate, then reconstructed. Again, the technology is sufficiently advanced that while not explicitly stated on the show, it is implied the scanned data goes all the way to sub-atomic, even quantum resolution, so every atom, electron, everything about you is copied and stored in the buffer at the time of entry, even possibly such resolution as to be able to scan the soul itself (as we see one of the ascended ancients in spirit form pass through the gate). This copy method is delved into quite a bit in the episode where Teal'c is trapped in the buffer during a combat induced malfunction, and they realize as a safety mechanism, the gates clear the buffer whenever an incoming or outgoing wormhole dials in/out. I think you'd really enjoy the show. It's one of the smartest sci-fi shows I've ever seen, has VERY memorable characters, and fantastic stories. There's definitely some non-sense, but for the most part, it's easy to suspend disbelief with this show, and just enjoy the ride.

When O'Neill tells Carter to "stop with that" at 17:55, he's not telling her to shut up. He's telling her to stop using technical language because he doesn't understand it. It's established throughout the show that O'Neill's brilliance is being a grunt and military knowledge, not science. One of his "things" in this show is to not understand techno-babble. He just wants a straight up average Joe layman's answer from her that he can understand.

The sci-fi explanation of the stargate is that it is creating a “artificial event horizon” and deconstructs matter and transfers it through a small wormhole as energy. Which is supposed to solve some issues around partial transmission and atmospheric differences (it buffers distinct objects based on some criteria and sends them in as a ‘unit’)

I remember the day in Astronomy class in university when the professor started talking about how ultraviolet emission lines from quasars were red shifted down into the red part of the visible spectrum, whichimplied that quasars must be really far away, thus answering the question from Rimmer's Astronavigation exam "What does the red spectrum tell us about quasars?" Probably the best Red Dwarf episode to review would be the White Hole episode. "White hole. Spewing time. Engines dead. Please advise." But there's only so much accuracy they can get into a comedy show.

5:20 I'm no expert, but one atom can affect a second atom via quantum entanglement and the spaghettification or folding action, whichever the case isn't applied on this quantum effect.

Stargate is hands down one of my favourite franchises of all time! Everything about it is top notch, so it's great to get a reaction to an episode! One of my favourite moments is when Carter ends up blowing up a star! It becomes one of my favourite running jokes in any show! (Season 4 Ep 22, if I'm not mistaken)

Ah Stargate SG-1. I remember watching the entire series a long time ago. This show was so entertaining. I find you did a great job explaining the scientific dialogue. There are many episodes like this one. By the way, you have been an inspiration for me to continue my doctorate thesis, even at my old age. Keep up the good work.

Please remember that this episode aired on January 29, 1999. This is relevant both for the science referenced and how it was communicated to the public.

A real life example of time dilation is the old video cameras with the hand crank. When the photographer would crank the film through the camera faster, the playback would appear slower, and when the film was cranked slower, the playback would appear faster.

Red Dwarf: - S 4, Ep 4 “White Hole” (plays pool with planets). - S 3, Ep 1 “Backwards” (time runs backwards). - S 6, Ep 6 “Out of Time” (meet their future selves)

I love how Sean Carroll puts it, "time always passes 1 second per second locally" Btw SG1 is what got me interested in science and space in the early 00s

For the climbing the rope part, he's using an ascender meaning he is using his legs too, not just his arms.

I love Stargate, they got a lot of things wrong (though often with the justification of making it work on camera), but they got a lot of things right as well. What really made the show was the chemistry between the main protagonists, it is really worth checking:)

For a moment I thought this was going to be about the time loop episode - Window of Opportunity. (which I love so much!!!) But this episode is clearly more relevant to the channel.

"Why the Molecular Deconstruction?" From what I understand about Stargates, the Wormholes between the Stargates are very small, so the Stargates do Teleport stuff through the wormholes because otherwise stuff is just to big to fit through the wormhole.

9:20 Just to clarify: An analog TV signal could be "red shifted" due to time dilation, depending on how the color signal is encoded and decoded. Usually you don't encode Red, Green and Blue but instead use Hue (angle on the color wheel, so to speak) and Saturation. A small error in frequency could easily shift green to red. The modulated data is just as affected as the carrier signal. An example where a frequency shift nearly disabled decoding of *digital* data (even though the reciever compensated for doppler in the baseband) was the Huygens probe. It's easy to forget that the modulated data stream ontop of the carrier also suffers from the same frequency shift - and the designers of the decoder on Cassini DID forget this. The NTSC color system in use in the U.S. at the time of filming the episode was famous for messing up colors with even the slightest error in tuning and calibrating the reciever correctly.

I do remember this episode, been watching stargate about 15 years ago when i was like 12 years old, and even then this part about the explosion seemed weird. Well, as a man and a boy back then i love looking at things blow up :))

21:50 that exact tension you're talking about is one of my favorite things about this episode! Especially for Carter's character. She's fantastic as a scientist, but not losing sight of the greater context is an important part of that, especially for someone who is also military. O'Neill says in response to her enthusiasm about that fluke of relativity that lets them see what's happening back on the planet that "We are watching good men die in slow motion, CAPTAIN," and as much as I don't like the "shut up, Data" of some of it, I like the sobering reminder that there's a human cost to the fascinating discovery of the week. By the way, did anybody else feel like the Jack and Boyd connection was a bit tacked on?

I don’t think the frequency was shifted, but the time dilation delayed the signal so much that the code didn’t register at first. As for the explosion they finally went with, that does not destroy the wormhole, a previous episode established that a blast directed at the outgoing gate, will cause the receiving end of the wormhole to jump to a different gate.

Love your reactions on the character interactions 😛 You did not watch the series, but those who have, love those conversations & interactions.

If you remember watching and enjoying Red Dwarf "back in the day" you may be interested to hear that it's still going (sort of.) The most recent installment was a TV movie in 2020, and before that season 12 in 2017. Obviously they aren't putting out a season every year like most shows, but they keep coming back to kick the can again.

She got me laughing when she was talking about Jack being mean to Sam. She doesn't realize their background relationship. lol

To give the writers their due, they did establish the "massive amounts of energy make active stargates jump" thing in the first season. Within the world of the show, it's a quirk of how the stargate creates an artificial wormhole rather than a fact about wormholes in general. They didn't conceive the rule purely to drive the plot of this one episode. The charming thing about the show is that they do try to keep things consistent with themselves. The wormholes jump thing is used in a number of episodes.

In Stargate, matter cannot actually traverse a wormhole safely. The gates digitise the atomic structure, transmit this data as an encoded energy signal, and reintegrate it again at the other end. There was even an episode where Teal'c got stuck in the receiving buffer, and emerged later having no knowledge that any time had passed.

I remember one they recently made...well last 4-5 years that is so precise, that two clocks using it on different floors will diverge.

If a Wormhole "Connects" two points in space, making them act as if they were adjacent (Paper analogy) then a Black hole near one End of the Wormhole would affect the other end of the Wormhole, as they are functionally adjacent. Or, the warping of Space-Time occurring at one end, would warp the Space-Time of the other.

"Think of something." Actually in the case of Samantha Carter, that might have been the nicest possible thing Jack could have said to her. She's a Tony Stark tier problem solver who always somehow comes through with a theoretical solution or some amazing technological breakthrough. She has invented countless gadgets and devices using reverse-engineered alien technology and improving it. As we will see, she most definitely will think of something.

I’m at the very start of this video & I just wanna say I think it’s very emotionally brave of me to watch a real deal scientist pick apart my favorite episode of stargate.

Fun fact: The team stuck on the alien planet, SG-10, is later saved in one of the SG books: SG-1 acquires a space ship which has a technology to ignore the gravity of the black hole. So they fly there and menage to grab all but one of Sg-10 and fly them home. 5 years have passed so it took them, and their families to process it, but in the end... it was happy end.

Yes the Stargate works like the transporter on Star Trek, It breaks you up, sends your information through the wormhole. The other gate reassembles you. That's the reason gate travel is one way on Stargate, but two way for radio waves.

The bomb solution comes from a previous episode where an explosion went off behind the team, and cause the wormhole to send them to the wrong location. It probably won't actually work that way, but even in-show they don't really know how the Stargate actually works.

This is so cool! I've been wanting my sister (she's a physicist) to watch this episode and tell me her thoughts about it like forever. She hasn't watched it yet so this makes me happy enough. Thanks!

At the time the episode was made, the standard was 29.97fps for most cameras.

This episode is 20+ years old. I'm sure the science has advanced since this aired.

I'd like to point out that the magnitude of the gravitational waves that have been detected on Earth is so small because of how far we are from the sources of those waves. The intensity falls off like 1/r^2 and, in this fictional scenario, the distance between the SGC and the source of the gravitational waves is more like the distance between the earth and the sun (because of the wormhole).

"Why does our science advisor keep talking about science?" - Probably Jack O'Neil

7:59 It's hypothetical but not that far off the reality.. A chinese satellite sent a quantum message back to earth at real time. We've seen the Arnold T3 character materialize in epic fashion we all remember him kneeling in a ball shape butt naked with a sphere cocoon cutting his surroundings and covering the body in a cacoon space. Notice that he was kneeling down and in one piece in a cocoon around him. Its also noticeable that in all sci fi shows villain or fo all have their own individual and unque differences in transporter technology on their biometric pattern and T3 pattern is 'whole' which is the one that sticks out of them all. It looks like T3 movie phranchise used a transporter with a biometric module which directed and required him to kneel on a platform fit enough for one naked individual and totally free from pollution from gene contamination. Harvesting quantum spooky atoms is the future and not just a pipe dream. Lol. What's the purpose of smashing atoms see.

"White Hole" - An episode of Red Dwarf that involves the crew playing pool with planets to escape the effects of the titular white hole :)

Her reaction - like from someone who has never seen SG before - to how Jack was speaking to Carter is interesting. He dare to speak with her like that because of their special and close relationship, he knew that she would get it - it was not rude, just desperate and she would forgive him. Their boundaries weren't same as among ordinary colleagues. It shows how well individual characters and relationships were build. Screenwriters played with a lot of details. That's why we all loved Jack and Sam and hoped they would become an official couple, although not much has happened directly between them.

When she talks about whether or not you would technically still be the same person after teleportation all I could think of was "it's longer than you think"

Listened to your first book, now listening to your second book. You make it all so fun and seem so simple to understand. I wish everyone could understand it the same way. As for Stargate, I am not sure how much science there is in the episode to review, however, I do recommend you see Stargate SG1 season 4 episode 22 : the one where Sam dials this blackhole via the gate, and uses it to blow up a sun. :)