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Portal Paradox (lemmy.world)
submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] -1 points 9 months ago

THIS is what happens when you succeed in making an AI ( or Hoomin ) that can create MODERN KOANS.

You Bastard!!

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Can't move portals.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 9 months ago

Of course you can. They're on moon rock. There are a few puzzles with moving platforms with portals.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Heres an answer from minutephysics

https://youtu.be/jSMZoLjB9JE

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I guess the question becomes if one portal is in a box, what happens to the box? Does the whole process just get blocked after the first few inches as the outside of the box collides with the inside; does it push itself open; do the portals just slice though and turn the pieces of box in the way into confetti?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

Just came here to check whether someone already posted the minutephysics video.

I think their explanation is rather good for passing portals through themselves. The box doesn't add much to the equation: it is just physical objects smashed into eachother...

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Isn't that how Stargates work?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The real question is what would happen if you tossed a normal size gate into an Ori supergate that were connected.

We know they CAN connect, since that's how they block the supergate from this side. And they never established whether a connected gate can move through space without losing a connection, just that you have to know where you are in space to dial out, and two gates can't activate when close together.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 9 months ago

Didn't they establish that a ship has to stop to connect? Wasn't that a thing with Universe and the gate being ON the ship? So a gate can't be actively moving while connected, I think. My memory is a bit fuzzy. And I feel like there's still one time an exception is made, but it involves some one time use trickery.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

I think you'd be able to get it in a little ways before top of the box pushes against its own lid, preventing it from going in any further. If the lid pops back open, then the top of the box will begin sticking out of the box which will likely make it too wide to fit all the way through the wall portal.

But the rules of Portal is that the portals themselves break when moved by any substantial extent anyways so in the game it would just disable the portal altogether.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

But the rules of Portal is that the portals themselves break when moved by any substantial extent anyways

Except when the rules don't apply