Speculation with portals
User has been banned for this post. --msleeper
Who used the banhammer on kinky?
Msleeper's the only one who wields the perma-banhammer.
Anyways, lets get back on topic, anyone else got a question?
well, lets think of this:
in portal, you can stand between 2 portals, placed on a wall.
the problem with that is, the gap between the portals is about 0.000001 mm thick, therefore wouldnt you be sliced in half?
You'd probably run into yourself, resulting in you not passing through the wormhole between the portals as you cannot enter the portals. You're blocking yourself at the exact point where one portals morphs into the other. You can only enter one portal at a time, as well, but since portals can only be entered from 1 side (try it with noclip, you can't enter a portal from the backside), you would exit the other portal, and run into yourself.
"Duct Tape is the answer."
in portal, you can stand between 2 portals, placed on a wall.
the problem with that is, the gap between the portals is about 0.000001 mm thick, therefore wouldnt you be sliced in half?
I thought we already solved this one earlier?
@Coop: I don't even understand the problem as stated, but you're probably right. Someone should write up a tl;dr version of this thread on the wiki with answers to some of the simpler questions.
I have this new speculation that I just thought of.
We all know how if you were to spawn a portal above you and then one directly below you, you would fall endlessly till you decided to stop.
Well what if you were to simply turn on a laser and have its light facing down the portal, logically the light would go through the bottom portal and out the portal above it and so on and so fourth just like you were when you were falling.
Now remove the laser, what happens to the previous beams? They must still be there right or no? I mean would the beam of light continue going through from the previous beams you shined or what?
What I'm trying to say is, shouldn't the beam continue endlessly like you even without the laser feeding the beam?
At first I was like if you remove the source then it will just disappear, but thinking heavily on it. If the beam were strong enough, it should keep on going till it hit something to stop it.
If I'm not explaining it well enough just ask questions.
Well, first off, the beam would not continue forever with the source on because the source of the beam would be blocking its path.
For instance, if the source was a laser pointer, the laser beam would enter one portal, exit the other, and stop on the back of the pointer.
Secondly, considering the speed of light and the physics of the portals, I believe the beam of light would simply end once the source would turn off.
If you could have a beam without the source, then maybe you might get some interesting infinite multiplication effect with the beam when its on, because the beam would follow the same path, become two beams, then four, then eight, etc, ad infinitum.