haha i wasn't the only one to notice that exchange. Didn't want to go through and cross reference, however
Just shows I probably spend too much of my time perusing various documents on this forum.
As near as I can tell, canon is not rigorous until steve sets canon, so the human player/writer has their own leeway to call it whatever they want. For instance, I play with jumpgates as the assumption that they are a stabilized, enlarged wormhole and not a mechanical construct. You can play it however you want, however.