/sci/ - Science & Math

>>12598578
>>12598622
explain this then, B-babs

>>10763245
>>10764462
>But if one is moving with respect to another
well we do not know how portals work so they might just be rifts that dynamically redefine which points in space get stitched together as they move around
(with respect to the reference frame of the machine that powers the portals, which I am going to assume is stationed on earth).

>>10521331

>>10478579
>speedy thing goes in, speedy thing comes out
yes but slapping a window frame down on a cube causes it to appear very fast on the other side
it does not necessarily cause it to suddenly fly upwards?

if the cube was on a pedestal that the portal would it (and the pedestal) get tugged on upwards into the air as if it was falling if the orange portal was dropped on it?

as you say it depends on how you define it.
I personally just think of portals as a windowframe that stitches two points in space relative to say the earth (or earth + moon?) and moving the portalframe around continuously redefines the points that get stitched together.
makes kind of sense if the portal gun is imagined to be a remote interface to a larger machine stationary on earth that does all the calculations.