04-26-2011, 07:55 AM | #101 | |
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Re: Portal [Interesting Physics]
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However, it makes me wonder how forces work here since you're still feeling a downward force of gravity through the portal even though it's pointing up at the ceiling (meaning that the attraction between the earth and your body is somehow directly extending beyond the portal itself). |
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04-26-2011, 02:07 PM | #102 |
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Re: Portal [Interesting Physics]
Good point about gravity. It probably makes sense for gravity to extend beyond a portal; if we use the "2D rubber sheet" model the portal is a tiny cut in the sheet, and the area "behind" the portal is still affected properly, but if you think of gravity as relying on line-of-sight stuff, this breach in space would make the gravitational field beyond the portal really questionable. I wonder: if we put one portal on the ceiling, would someone be pulled towards the opposite portal? From the perspective of someone near the opposite portal, there is basically another earth beyond it, and it ought to provide its own gravitational attraction. The game seems to act like only matter and light can go through the portal (but not fields of fundamental forces), which is pretty odd from a physics standpoint.
I guess Portal physics is like a very tall cup with a hole at the bottom. If you look deep enough, you find that it doesn't hold water....
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04-26-2011, 02:19 PM | #103 | |
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EDIT: On second thought, maybe forces do transmit through each other till a certain extent; since if you had a pole through a portal and you yank at it it pulls through (the atoms of the pole are all linked together by forces afterall). Maybe gravity does pull through to a certain extent? Or overlaps slightly on each other right on the portal Last edited by LongGone; 04-26-2011 at 02:31 PM.. |
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04-27-2011, 11:51 AM | #104 |
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Re: Portal [Interesting Physics]
Two portal faces couldn't be pushed together with an object in between as the object would be pushing out of the other portal against itself, completely preventing you from pushing the portals together. Unless you can somehow defy the laws of physics by getting the object to ignore the it's own boundaries and go inside itself BEFORE you push the portals together, those portals are not going to go together.
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04-27-2011, 12:09 PM | #105 |
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The portal has no physical properties. It is completely flat and can be described as only 2 dimensional. Having two portals push together would apply the same force the object in-between as if those portals weren't there. Except the left side is now pushing from the right and the right is pushing from the left.
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04-27-2011, 01:33 PM | #106 |
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