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Old 08-04-2022, 03:39 PM
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MinutePhysics tackles Portal physics.


Usually I like his videos, but in this case he's completely wrong. He's somehow implying that portals affect the trajectory of objects moving towards them, but they don't.



Portal portals are transparent, you can see what's on the other side. Therefore we're not dealing with wormholes or other tunnels through space that connect A and B. Instead space is actually being pinched so that A and B are occupying the same point. No speed is being imparted, velocity vectors are just being redirected.



I think he's operating on a premise where it actually is a wormhole that has a certain suction force that expels the object. In other words, the object is being dissolved and reconstructed like a Stargate portal. But Stargate portals are not Portal portals!
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