Speculation with portals
Let's assume they all have an IQ higher than 130.. 
And by the way.
This thread is so epic...
No.
Congratulations on having a vast well of knowledge on a subject that doesn't relate to anything that will ever be of use in your lifetime.
In other words, good job learning useless crap.
Congratulations on having a vast well of knowledge on a subject that doesn't relate to anything that will ever be of use in your lifetime.
In other words, good job learning useless crap.
Good job deadpanning the irony that was already present in my original post. Are you trying to be a knob?
P.S. The expression is "a vast wealth of knowledge." Read a book.
P.P.S. Esprit de l'escalier, posted much later: Also I find your attitude disappointing and pitiable. If no one ever explored ideas for the pure joy of it, where would humanity be by now? Every worthwhile thing our race has ever created was discovered or built before anyone thought how to make money from it, especially the technology that makes Portal possible. In fact, this approach to science and discovery is called humanism. Would you care to join us?
If a portal is simply a fold in some higher dimension, wouldn't that mean that there would be some pairs of portals that would be impossible? Imagine a two dimensional universe on a sheet of paper (if you grab a sheet of paper, this is a lot easier). We create a portal from the upper-left corner to the center. Once we fold the universe that way, I can't see how you could make a portal from the lower-right corner to a point in between the upper-left corner and the center. 
In essence, folding 3d space between a pair of portals creates a cube between them (with the portals being oppisite points on the cubes) that "fold cubes" created by other portal pairs cannot cross. This still allows two portals inside the cube, and (usually) two portals outside the cube, but a portal in the cube and a portal outside the cube is a no-no. Anyone get what I mean?
Well first of all, you're the one who asked if anyone is envious. You're talking about a non-existant technology. No, I wasn't trying to be a "knob", I was answering your question.
Secondly, I read books. All the time. I've read 3 books this month.
Thirdly, I don't really care what the "expression" is. I'm using vast well of knowledge. It's a well that, instead of water, is full of knowledge.
Maybe I was a little cocky when I wrote my comment. I simple "no" would have sufficed. I do agree to that. I do apologize. Then again, you're making weak assumptions that I am "retarded", and don't read.
ON TOPIC: What would happen if you were to use a time machine (if they existed, and they don't. But then again neither does a portal gun so who gives a shit) to go into the future, place a portal, then come back to the present and create another portal?
Assume you placed 0 in the future. When you come back and place 0, 0 would be closed. as 0 has not yet been created. However, when you reach the point in time when you placed 0, 0 will open and join a link between 0 and 0
Yes, but what would happen if you went through the portals?
You would travel through them. If you're thinking about time travel, then forget it. If you place P1 in the future, it doesn't exist in the past, and thereby you can't travel from P2 to P1 until you create a P1 in the present, or wait until you reach the point in time where you placed P1 so that it spawns.
but if you place p1, then wait, and place p2 and walk through p2 you would end up in the past and watching yourself placing p2 and walking into it and the moment the 'behind' you walked through p2 you would have 'caught up'