well anon?

It can't be either of them because Portals can't exist in the universe without breaking things such as conservation of momentum or conservation of energy as we know it. The answer depends on the physical properties of an object that violates the laws of physics.

Asking something like this is like asking what is at the north of the north pole or what was there before the creation of the universe. The question itself is logically inconsistent from the premise and so any answer derived from it is necessarily nonsense.

Anti-Wittgensteincels keep losing

Good bait tho, 400+ comments and counting lmao

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Is this vidya nonsense?

oh boy my favourite topic to dunk on mental midgets

Very obviously A

Obviously B- the portal is non-euclidean, but as best can tell momentum of an object entering the portal is retained upon exiting the portal and is relative to the objects relationship to the portal it entered. To be consistent with portal logic, you'd have to shoot out the portal at high speed

I have no idea because I only played the first game and I think they changed the physics and stuff for the second one.

Can someone recreate this in game already and just end this r-slurred armchair physics debate?

B is the cooler option. I want B to be true, so it is.

Option A is correct because in both cases the cube has no momentum relative to the frame of reference. Imagine the shortest straight line between the starting position of the cube X and the position at the edge of the blue portal Y. This line passes through the orange portal. When the portal "moves" the line is contracting rather than the cube traveling along it. The space cannot contract more when X=Y, which creates the illusion of motion and stopping that has people confused.

Consider a different thought experiment entirely possible in the game. The orange portal begins on the piston, but instead of the piston moving down, the portal is reopened at the location of the cube. If you treat portals as moving objects, it should be the same distance traveled. But in this situation does the cube get launched out of the portal? No, it maintains its lack of momentum.

People picking B has to be trolling.

A voters are mentally r-slurred.

Lets say you're looking into the blue portal as the orange portal goes down, from your perspective you would see the cube accelerating towards you. This momentum doesn't go away, its impossible the cube to just suddenly lose all of its momentum instantly without hitting something

A.

Everyone is overthinking it. The portal operates essentially like a door frame does if it came at you very fast and passed over you without ever touching you, then you would experience any force at all.

that's why portals like that are physically impossible

A voters are r-slurred

I wish it were B

Idk. I took engineering physics 1 + 2 and then forgot everything

A. The box has no inertia and the portal exerts no forces. The game makes a point of the fact that speed and inertia is retained through the portal

I thought it was B but now I'm thinking the portal is just a window and it's A. In conclusion and

I just thought of a related thought experiment to help those who don't seem to get it. What's happening to the air between the orange portal and the box? Is it going through the portal? If it is then what's the airflow like on the other end? It can't be still because every second more air is coming through the portal. This column of air cannot be still despite the fact that it was just a second prior.

66% of drama users don't know it's B. Very sad.

a it’s a hula hoop

Think outside the box

Anyone have the big black column image i feel like thats the best way to explain it to astrags

How does the cube get velocity bcels?