A first-person puzzle game developed by Valve and graduates of DigiPen, Portal forces a human test subject to run a gauntlet of grueling spatial experiments administered by a malfunctioning, psychotic artificial intelligence named GLaDOS.
" I believe what you would create is called a paradox. "
Your paradox is explained in above picture. It would create a portal inside a portal that would be inside another portals inside portals that are in portals residing inside portals in portals
"Well, that scenario is impossible given that the portals are exactly the same size which means neither portal could ever enter into the other "
I disagree. Seeing as how portals are a distortion of time and space, then they might not actually be the same size. They might actually occupy all sizes across all time and therefore could conceivably be placed one within the other....
If they include the portal gun in the next half life, I hope they include the answer to this question.
" I believe what you would create is called a paradox. "
Your paradox is explained in above picture. It would create a portal inside a portal that would be inside another portals inside portals that are in portals residing inside portals in portals "
Wait so if the player was to enter one of the portals...they would be in a portal...for all of eternity. Wow this is worse than the infinite loop portal.
They would cancel each other out. Since each plane of existence between the two would get infinitely smaller the closer they came to each other, they would approach zero as they crossed paths, and become the same as normal reality, or no change to the plane they are interacting with to change the physical space that passes through them. All the portal is doing is folding space without distorting the z plane, so by overlapping both portions, you're removing the "fold" and resetting the back to 0 change, or its original state. It's really not a three dimensional problem like your diagram is making it out to be, since the portal doesn't occupy a 3d space. Just because you can draw it doesn't mean it's possible. Break it down outside of your diagram, what you're asking, and you'll see it's pretty simple. Like someone said, it's like dividing by zero. It sounds impossible, but that's because you're originally going to look at zero like it's a real number, when you can easily approach it by dividing by what's approaching the non-number zero represents.
" They would cancel each other out. Since each plane of existence between the two would get infinitely smaller the closer they came to each other, they would approach zero as they crossed paths, and become the same as normal reality, or no change to the plane they are interacting with to change the physical space that passes through them. All the portal is doing is folding space without distorting the z plane, so by overlapping both portions, you're removing the "fold" and resetting the back to 0 change, or its original state. It's really not a three dimensional problem like your diagram is making it out to be, since the portal doesn't occupy a 3d space. Just because you can draw it doesn't mean it's possible. Break it down outside of your diagram, what you're asking, and you'll see it's pretty simple. Like someone said, it's like dividing by zero. It sounds impossible, but that's because you're originally going to look at zero like it's a real number, when you can easily approach it by dividing by what's approaching the non-number zero represents. "
" They would cancel each other out. Since each plane of existence between the two would get infinitely smaller the closer they came to each other, they would approach zero as they crossed paths, and become the same as normal reality, or no change to the plane they are interacting with to change the physical space that passes through them. All the portal is doing is folding space without distorting the z plane, so by overlapping both portions, you're removing the "fold" and resetting the back to 0 change, or its original state. It's really not a three dimensional problem like your diagram is making it out to be, since the portal doesn't occupy a 3d space. Just because you can draw it doesn't mean it's possible. Break it down outside of your diagram, what you're asking, and you'll see it's pretty simple. Like someone said, it's like dividing by zero. It sounds impossible, but that's because you're originally going to look at zero like it's a real number, when you can easily approach it by dividing by what's approaching the non-number zero represents. "
" Portals cannot be placed on moving surfaces, so panel 2 could never happen. "
Any surface can become a moving surface with enough encouragement. Fire portals onto walls, and then remove the walls using a Jackhammer and then attempt panel 2.
Either way, Glados says it's against the laws of physics for them to intersect, so I suspect they'll just repel each other.
@MattyFTM: I don't think the portals work by accessing potential energy or anything like that. I was always under the impression that if an object was mobile, the portal would simply cease to exist.
Of course, we're never really given a chance to examine this in-game, so I have no idea.
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