Talk:Shades of Grey

It was previously posted on this page:

''* When the Asgard ship arrives and O'Neill leaves the planet he says "I will keep the gate open so you can go nowhere else", before teleporting to the SGC. When the rogue team members appear on the other side we see O'Neill holding his hand in the event horizon. As we know from the stargate physics, an object will only re-materialize once all of the object has been downloaded into the stargates memory buffer and then re-materialize on the other side. Therefore O'Neill must have exited the gate completely. We also know that objects can only travel into one direction, and that any matter attempting to enter an incoming wormhole will cease to exist. Therefore O'Neills hand must have been destroyed.''

From what we know of the Stargate universe, this argument is unsound.

Given:


 * Something, even a radio signal, must be entering the event horizon to keep the gate open. (Stargate SG-1 season 1 et al)


 * The gate only dematerializes and sends matter through in discrete units. (Atlantis '38 Minutes' et al)

O'Neill, after exiting the gate completely, had his hand through the reverse of the gate much like a radio signal to keep it open. The gate in this episode only shut down after (in O'Neill dramatic fashion) he sweeps his hand out of the event horizon. There is plenty of evidence to show that objects not fully dematerialized can be removed from the event horizon. Therefore, this section of the article was removed. VictorTyne 15:54, 4 September 2008 (UTC)