Speculation with portals
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All nice and everything, but we're getting off-topic here. Back to portal speculation!
"Duct Tape is the answer."
If you were to stand inside the portal, with your feet on the bottom of the portal itself, surely the wall you are standing on is infinitesimally small and if the gravity is down on both sides surely the downward force would just cut you in half like a highly efective piece of cheese wire?
Essentially rendering portal-tunneling useless because as soon as you attempted it you'd be come two rather seperate halves of mush
Essentially rendering portal-tunneling useless because as soon as you attempted it you'd be come two rather seperate halves of mush
interesting point. when they first came out with linoleum its strength was calculated to be several hundred pounds per square inch (can't remember the actual strength) and it was considered strong. but they noticed that there were small divots appearing in them, and people were like "WTF?".... short answer, High-Heels.... cuz when you put ALOT of weight on a SMALL surface... damage happens.... try putting 220lbs (me) on an infinitesimally small surface... CHEESED! but.. maybe... her heel springs help? i know. it really wouldn't matter WHAT you put there. anyweight or matterial at that small of a surface area would be sliced. but i just want to try to make up a bullshit excuse to make portal make sense.
well I did kinda already mention this point when we were discussing tunneling, but I think I decided that standing in a portal would be fine then because you could kinda curl your feet around what would be a thin edge, but not thin enough to cheesewire you.
Perhaps the portal edge has somekind of nuclear repulsion that repells everything regardless of its charge. This might explain the strange fire like effect seen at the edges