/sci/ - Science & Math

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What A fags can never explain is how the cube can pass through the portal in the first place. If the cube stops when it gets through to conserve momentum then how come individual particles within the cube don't follow the same rule?

Every single atom should stop the moment it passed through the portal, creating an extremely dense, atom thick sheet over the portal. But for some reason the atoms can pass through until the universe decides to stop them at some arbitrary point after they passed through the portal.

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The consensus seems to be that Scenario A here is correct. How is Newton's first law maintained through the perspective of the orange portal? If you were peering into it, you'd see the cube coming up to you at an incredible speed. Why does it suddenly stop at the end?

>>8974537
Okay, so where does the momentum come from?

I mean, a rule with portals is that they don't respect conservation of energy in such a way that if you send it back, the opposite effect occurs (i.e., gain potential energy going to a higher elevation and negate potential energy going to a lower elevation). If you were to push the object back through the portal, what would happen? Surely, the piston wouldn't start to lift back upward as you pushed the object against the floor on the other side. You would just be pushing the object against the floor.

Have you guys argued about this yet?
I'm pretty sure scenario A is correct.

hey /sci/, I know this contains a video game reference but /v/ is in a tizzy over which scenario is correct, what do you think?