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Does star gate actually violate "life relativity"? If so, how can that be possible?

Tom Mazanec wrote:Does star gate actually violate "life relativity"? If so, how can that be possible?

Not surprisingly, there isn't really any information traveling faster than Life's speed of light inside a star gate.

What really happens is that an incoming spaceship gets destroyed in one location, and a separate recipe creates a new spaceship in another location... but the new spaceship recipe is not quite complete, and in the absence of a certain signal, the new spaceship just falls apart and disappears.

The missing piece of the recipe is provided by the collision of the old spaceship into a dying spark. Information from that collision propagates through the spark (at sub-light-speed) and affects the separate new-spaceship construction, so that that new spaceship is completed successfully and flies off into the sunset.

Because the new spaceship is always either created or almost-created-but-it-dies, there's no possible way to use information about the spaceship's presence or absence in a way that breaks the lightspeed barrier. By the time you can find out for sure whether the spaceship is complete and functional, the average speed between old-spaceship and new-spaceship has dropped safely below c.

Tom Mazanec wrote: July 16th, 2019, 6:02 pm Does star gate actually violate "life relativity"? If so, how can that be possible?

It's more like this: Imagine a factory that makes relativistic spaceships with self-destruct switches which cause a relativistic self-destruct signal go through the ship. Now suppose a ship comes in, and collides with a self-destruct switch and destroys it. But since no information can travel faster than light, the front doesn't know yet that the self-destruct switch got destroyed. However, because the spaceship is traveling at speeds comparable to c anyways, in Star Gate the ship does look like it jumped forward faster than c. Also, Star Gate is two such factories. Also, I am using relativistic as "speed that is a significant fraction of c."