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• Water of Life: The liquid exhalation of a sandworm produced at the moment of its death from drowning, which is changed by a Fremen Reverend Mother to become the narcotic which increases awareness. Since it is before changing a poison, only those worthy of becoming Reverend Mothers among the Fremen survive it. [DUNE]
• wormhole arc: A power surge aimed at an outgoing stargate will cause the wormhole to jump, or "arc," to a different destination. The phenomenon first occurred when an unintentional weapons surge on P4A-771 caused an incoming wormhole to leap the default SGC gate to the beta stargate in Antarctica. [SG1]
• wormhole physics: Stargates are giant superconductors that absorb energy directly in many forms. As the inner wheel spins, the chevrons lock the address symbols in place and an artificial wormhole forms between two open gates, transferring an energized matter stream along an extra-dimensional conduit within a subspace field. The wormhole travels in only one direction, however certain kinds of energy including radiation, gravity, and radio transmissions, can be sent back through an outgoing wormhole. The kawoosh, or initial unstable vortex of gate activation, stabilizes to form the water-like effect of the event horizon. The event horizon is comprised of quantum particles. Stepping through the event horizon allows instantaneous interplanetary travel. [SG, SG1, SGA]

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