Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-1781513-20170630173500

So, according to the measurements we are given for the time dilation field, it has a radius of 0.16 light years. I can't imagine Hala (or any other planet) could be that large, so a massive amount of space outside of Hala would have been affected by the time dilation. I did some calculating, and a field with a radius of 0.16 light years could contain 13,022,388,000,000,000,000,000 planets the size of Earth (that's over 13 sextillion Earths, or 13 trillion-billion Earths). I know the Asgard were desperate, but why subject such a huge region of space to the effects of their device?

To calculate the volume of a sphere, the formula V=(4/3)*π*r^3 (with r being the radius) is used. Earth has a radius of 3,959 miles, which I rounded to 4,000. The volume of Earth (VE) would be VE=2.68e+11, or 268,000,000,000. We can calculate that 0.16 light year is roughly 94,058,000,000 miles; the volume of dilation (VD) would be VD=3.49e+33, or 3,490,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000. So, we can simply divide VD/VE=X, or 3.49e+33/2.68e+11=1.3022388e+22. That is a large amount of space to mess with... I know the Replicators were exterminating the Asgard (and likely all other technologically-advanced species in the Ida galaxy), but the Asgard seem like they would take more caution than using such a device. Especially considering they let it fall into the hands of the Replicators... twice... Dooming your own world to be trapped in a time dilation field is one thing, but with a bubble that large, we have to assume other celestial bodies were affected. 