stargate
Or, the Difficult Worldbuilding Compromises that Result when You Didn’t Design Everything at the Same Time. It has been (entirely correctly) pointed out over on Google+ that this is not how wormholes, as we understand them today, would work. (Because they’d work like this.) This is one of
stargate
Mark Atwood asks: Do stargates conserve kinetic and/or gravitational potential energy? If I put half a pair on a planetary surface and the other a few lightsecs away, do I get to jump into steller orbit without paying for the climb out of the gravity well? If the other
blogging from a to z
xenognosis (n.): (also “the Big Hello”) The knowledge that sophont species other than one’s own exist; also, the discovery by an individual or species that they exist. In popular mythology, this is usually conflated with first contact, or at least with the establishment of genuine communications between the species
trope-a-day
No Warping Zone: You could, in theory, put a wormhole pair anywhere you liked – high mass notwithstanding. The traditional location out on the edge of star systems has more to do with size, ease of construction and transport, accessibility and defensibility, and minimizing the consequences of their extremely explosive, if