Portal [Interesting Physics]

[JKPolk]

Re: Portal [Interesting Physics]

Phynx, if you recall during both Portal 1 and Portal 2, if you played it, any time a surface moves the portal attached to it is destroyed. The scenarios involving one portal going into another and the boards being moved together are invalidated.

[Patricoo]

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Put a Portal on a table
Put a portal on a wall
Throw the Table through the portal
What happens?

This has already been explored.

[YoshL]

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my question would be, when you create the portal, what happens to the surface you placed the portal on?

[Ickalanda]

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1. It will make an infinite line.

2. The second one doesn't work. If you were able to put the portal on the table then that means that the table is larger than the portal, meaning it wouldn't fit through another portal since they are all the same size in the game.

3. The object would still hit terminal velocity since air would be present (unless you were in a vacuum), so it wouldn't accelerate indefinitely.

[~kitty~]

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Shoot portal at girl's crotch, shoot portal at wall, stick dick in, rape?

I think you just give her a dick instead.

[Stewie7Griffin]

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These questions remind of the time my friend and I were discussing a situation from a movie. The movie "Like Mike" where Michael Jordan's shoes get struck by lightening and he gets his powers or whatever.

My friend and I were sitting there discussing how the shoes could have possibly survived a lightening strike enough to able to be worn and even look nice. Then out of no where, our other friend who was just listening to us at the time just said out of no where, "I like how you guys are arguing about the lightening striking the shoes and completely ignoring the fact that the shoes have magical powers."

[ninjaKIWI]

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2. The second one doesn't work. If you were able to put the portal on the table then that means that the table is larger than the portal, meaning it wouldn't fit through another portal since they are all the same size in the game.

This is retarded. You're talking about portals, why limit them to the properties of the video game? Clearly if portals could exist, they would be able to be different sizes.

[Oni-Paranoia]

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This is retarded. You're talking about portals, why limit them to the properties of the video game? Clearly if portals could exist, they would be able to be different sizes.

This.

And... Portals as far as we know, are only theories. But any answers that prove a question invalid because "the game" wouldn't allow it, isn't a valid answer since we don't know the the properties a portal in reality would actually have.

[Reincarnate]

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you guys are all still crazy

a portal on the table doesn't mean you still can't stick it through the same-sized portal

all that matters is that the width of the table is smaller than the height of the portal

tards

[SocoNhydro420]

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I must say, these questions bothered me a little since im a physicist. Now you got me pondering.. hahahaha. Good shit.

[ShadowX2D]

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Phynx, if you recall during both Portal 1 and Portal 2, if you played it, any time a surface moves the portal attached to it is destroyed. The scenarios involving one portal going into another and the boards being moved together are invalidated.

I am sorry to point this out, but you are mistaken.

Early in Portal 2 you fire portals on to moving walls to destroy the neurotoxin emmiter.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZMzJvGmylQ

[ninjaKIWI]

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I am sorry to point this out, but you are mistaken.

Early in Portal 2 you fire portals on to moving walls to destroy the neurotoxin emmiter.

Yeah, the game contradicts itself here. In all other cases, the portal will disappear if the platform moves.

[Phynx]

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If portals were something that could exist, why would they have to be limited to adhering to stationary objects/walls? As long as the object does not deform and mutate the portal, I would think that a moving wall or panel wouldn't destroy a portal. So based on that you could put two boards with portals on them together. Now as Reincarnate said the object would be contained in the space of the height of the boards but if the object is larger than that space, what happens to the object? Is it crushed under itself?

As Kiwi said the portals don't need to be restricted to certain sizes. So throwing a portal'd object through another portal could happen.

[JenovaSephiroth]

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This is retarded. You're talking about portals, why limit them to the properties of the video game? Clearly if portals could exist, they would be able to be different sizes.

Not quite. Cut a hole in a piece of paper and you have a portal that passes through no upper dimensions. This hole is the same size on both sides.

Though since we're talking about hypothetical cases, if the portals were different sizes, then an object going through one will be bigger/smaller than the object coming out of the other.

[~kitty~]

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After reading this a little, this reminded me a whole lot of Monsters Inc. The doors they used were like portals... am i right?