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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.
But the rules of Portal is that the portals themselves break when moved by any substantial extent anyways
It's the scene with the lasers innit? So many "paradoxes" are solved with the answer of "portals cannot move relative to one another," and then they do the bit with the laser. -_-
The thing is, movement is relative. Everything on earth is constantly in motion if you're observing from any other celestial body, so motion itself can't be what breaks portals. What it might be, though, is acceleration. Those panels in the video seem to be moving at a constant speed, so aren't experiencing any substantial acceleration, making a portal on them possible
you can say they cant move 'relative to each other', but what about the universe supposedly expanding?
The same reason the Earth or your body isn't expanding along with the universe - gravity is stronger than the expansion rate
They can move at a constant speed in a constant direction, but the acceleration would break them.
Heres an answer from minutephysics
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?
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...
I love that video.
So how do you find a box that can fit a blue portal inside, but also itself fits through the orange portal; given that both portals are equal in size?
Turn it
Duh, that makes sense
Pivot
Is their anything that can escape the "self referential" paradox?
Gödel and Russell would be very pleased. Or maybe dismayed. I'm not sure how they felt about their discoveries.
It would repel or bounce the box as each portal acts as opposite like magnets.
it just turns the cosmos inside out like a sock . Don't do it.
I just assume as soon as one touches the other they fizzle out. I guess the top of the box gets cut a bit.
It's like folding space. They basically occupy the same location. Its just two "sides" of a 2D plane. The portal can't go into itself.
Worst case if it can it's like bottle so they just flip positions and the whole thing reverses and the box just comes right out and the colors swap.
Nothing crazy.
you open a rift to the astral plane.
Portals can only move within planes parallel to each other.
The result is a box with a portal in it, in a box with an portal in it, in a box with an portal in it, in a box with an portal in it........∞
Explosion :P
Portals cannot be moved. Try putting a portal on a moving surface in the game, it disappears.
Should have used circles, like a manhole cover
You cant move surfaces with Portals on them
Isn't that how Stargates work?
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.
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.
Gates can be moving, but not at faster than light. SG1 had the bit where they tossed an active gate into a sun to blow it up, and Atlantis had straight up orbital space gates with stabilizer rockets on them
There was some explanation about how the gates had to be calibrated to a general part of space in order to participate in the gate network which is why they couldn't use it in hyperspace. That, and probably some physics mumbo jumbo about why wormholes can't connect from within subspace or whatever
I think the box will pass thru
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