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 Posted: Wed Jul 28, 2010 6:27 pm Post subject: [odd/stupid question] Portal and physics. |
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This is a really stupid question that I got here but... what the heck.
if you shoot one portal onto the floor and another directly on top of it, wouldn't the area between both portals be zero gravity and thus you would just float rather than fall through the floor and come out the ceiling? Technically, there's no Earth or any matter underneath you that's creating gravity.
like i said, it's a stupid question :0 |
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| Posted: Wed Jul 28, 2010 6:31 pm Post subject: |
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Just blew my mind. What the fuck man.
What the fuck. |
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| Posted: Wed Jul 28, 2010 6:41 pm Post subject: |
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but isnt there gravity between any 2 objects, like you and the walls to your side?
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| Posted: Wed Jul 28, 2010 6:59 pm Post subject: |
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| Rin wrote: | | but isnt there gravity between any 2 objects, like you and the walls to your side? |
It would likely only affect things in its wake, i.e. pushing down. It may exist, but it wouldn't interact with you. |
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| Posted: Wed Jul 28, 2010 7:21 pm Post subject: |
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Another oddly stupid question.
Lets assume you shoot one portal on the roof and then stand directly underneath it. The next portal is opened on a wall directly in front of you. Wouldn't you be sucked or at least pulled towards the portal in the wall since there's gravity taking effect through the wall portal because it's tied to a portal facing the earth( the portal on the roof)?
Like.... the portal on the wall technically leads to you coming out of the portal on the roof which is facing the earth. So in a way, you got two relatively equal forces of gravity working from two directions. o.o
One is natural(unportal'ed floor), the other is from the side (Portal on wall that's leading to a downward fall to the earth from the roof)
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| Posted: Wed Jul 28, 2010 7:25 pm Post subject: |
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| Dalton. wrote: | | Rin wrote: | | but isnt there gravity between any 2 objects, like you and the walls to your side? |
It would likely only affect things in its wake, i.e. pushing down. It may exist, but it wouldn't interact with you. |
But because it's on your side and ground, would it pull you towards the wall and ground, and because there are 2 walls you stay in the same place. (By same place i mean in like a straight line because you are "falling" and wont really be staying in the exact same place)
Also the initial momentum of your "fall" through the portal is probably strong enough to keep make you moving?
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Well in the game that happens but I'm not sure of the properties of the portals. Momentum has to be taken into account along with your weight and how close the walls are.
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| Posted: Wed Jul 28, 2010 7:44 pm Post subject: |
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| redslothx wrote: | Another oddly stupid question.
Lets assume you shoot one portal on the roof and then stand directly underneath it. The next portal is opened on a wall directly in front of you. Wouldn't you be sucked or at least pulled towards the portal in the wall since there's gravity taking effect through the wall portal because it's tied to a portal facing the earth( the portal on the roof)?
Like.... the portal on the wall technically leads to you coming out of the portal on the roof which is facing the earth. So in a way, you got two relatively equal forces of gravity working from two directions. o.o
One is natural(unportal'ed floor), the other is from the side (Portal on wall that's leading to a downward fall to the earth from the roof)
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No. no matterwhat, gravity only pulls towards the earth. Gravity cannot effect the portal on the wall because it pushes down no matter where it is.
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| Sephiron wrote: | | redslothx wrote: | Another oddly stupid question.
Lets assume you shoot one portal on the roof and then stand directly underneath it. The next portal is opened on a wall directly in front of you. Wouldn't you be sucked or at least pulled towards the portal in the wall since there's gravity taking effect through the wall portal because it's tied to a portal facing the earth( the portal on the roof)?
Like.... the portal on the wall technically leads to you coming out of the portal on the roof which is facing the earth. So in a way, you got two relatively equal forces of gravity working from two directions. o.o
One is natural(unportal'ed floor), the other is from the side (Portal on wall that's leading to a downward fall to the earth from the roof)
o.o |
No. no matterwhat, gravity only pulls towards the earth. Gravity cannot effect the portal on the wall because it pushes down no matter where it is. |
This statement is incorrect gravity exists between any 2 objects
but yeah earth's gravitational force is probably the strongest one pulling us down
but due to momentum and how fast you run you'll be sucked in a finite amount of times.
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| Posted: Wed Jul 28, 2010 8:30 pm Post subject: |
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A gun that is able to create and launch portals onto surfaces... why the fuck would physics be questioned?
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| Posted: Wed Jul 28, 2010 9:20 pm Post subject: |
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| Rin wrote: | | Sephiron wrote: | | redslothx wrote: | Another oddly stupid question.
Lets assume you shoot one portal on the roof and then stand directly underneath it. The next portal is opened on a wall directly in front of you. Wouldn't you be sucked or at least pulled towards the portal in the wall since there's gravity taking effect through the wall portal because it's tied to a portal facing the earth( the portal on the roof)?
Like.... the portal on the wall technically leads to you coming out of the portal on the roof which is facing the earth. So in a way, you got two relatively equal forces of gravity working from two directions. o.o
One is natural(unportal'ed floor), the other is from the side (Portal on wall that's leading to a downward fall to the earth from the roof)
o.o |
No. no matterwhat, gravity only pulls towards the earth. Gravity cannot effect the portal on the wall because it pushes down no matter where it is. |
This statement is incorrect gravity exists between any 2 objects
but yeah earth's gravitational force is probably the strongest one pulling us down
but due to momentum and how fast you run you'll be sucked in a finite amount of times. |
Applying this statement to what I was trying to say, you would have two equal objects of the same size exerting force on you.
One is the Earth where you are standing, the other is the earth through the portal right in front of you.
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portals are weird ._. |
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| Posted: Wed Jul 28, 2010 10:05 pm Post subject: |
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| Posted: Wed Jul 28, 2010 10:17 pm Post subject: |
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| You would come out the other portal, probably breaking your own body parts as doing so (no space to do so) so foot into foot, and so forth. |
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| Posted: Thu Jul 29, 2010 1:53 am Post subject: |
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There is no area between the portals, OP.
You clearly don't understand this.
As soon as your foot goes through the floor portal you're already being dragged down from above. |
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