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1705971 No.1705971 [Reply] [Original]

See picture, I am actually kind of curious as to the answer.

>> No.1705978

How is that a circle?

>> No.1705979

I think you've made a "picture".

>> No.1705981

It would obviously be a straight line.

>> No.1705980

>>1705978

The two holes are based on the video game portal, you go in one end and come out the other. But a line is... linear and therefor i cant go to the end of it and end of up the other side, and yet this is exactly what would happen here.

>> No.1705985

OP is too retarded to even troll properly.

>> No.1705986

No that's just a rope

>> No.1705989

Think about how your life would be affected by each of the two possible answers, then reconsider asking the question.

>> No.1705991

Circle.
All portals are routed through...wait.
Xen, that's it.

>> No.1705994

Does god prefer coke or pepsi?

>> No.1705997

OP - THAT ROPE IS GOING THROUGH ANOTHER DIMENION. WHEN YOU FIGURE UP THE NUMBER OF THE DIMENSION, YOU WILL FIND IT S GOING IN A CIRCLE.

>> No.1706002

who cares

>> No.1706007

The rope is a straight line; space is what has been curved.

>> No.1706008

>>1705997
Your mom is so fat, her mass can be detected in the hyperspace dimension.

>> No.1706009

>>1705971
So how would this rope go about floating in mid-air OP? There is such thing as gravity so I doubt that it would form a straight line OR a circle.

>> No.1706010

>>1705997

i'd suppose so since both ends are tied together, but something still makes me want to say its a line.

To all the people that screwed around and said i'm trollin, I am actually curious about this answer, and apologize its not something of great importance to you.

>> No.1706016

>>1706007

Wait.. if it's tied to itself it has to be a circle... right?

>> No.1706021

>>1706016
No, it's just two ends of a rope tied through a dimension. The curvature of space has been manipulated to allow for this.

>> No.1706029

>>1705971
what would happen if you tried to pull that rope?

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1706033

>>1706008

Your mom is so fat, time moves twice as slow when I'm near her.

>> No.1706035

>>1706021

but even though space has been warped, passing the same spot over and over would be considered going in a circle right?

>> No.1706041

>>1706029
Guess you'd find the same knot going past you over and over, eternally.

>> No.1706042

God help the human race if we ever invent portal technology.

>> No.1706045

It can be either. Your geometry is non-euclidean at this point.

>> No.1706050

>>1706035
Only in the philosophical sense; traveling in a straight line only to arrive at your place of departure is one of the more interesting notions of curved space.

>> No.1706057

>>1706050
You should see the thought experiment in my mind right now. Walking in a straight line to get to where you started...it's just beyond me. Any quick math references you can post to back this up? I'm interested.

>> No.1706055

NOW YOU'RE THINKING IN PORTALS

>> No.1706066

>>1706057
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGLPbSMxSUM

>> No.1706070

Well I can see how it is linear now due to the alteration of space. But the rope floating and supporting itself is now beyond me. Its like they say, fix one hole and three more show up...

>> No.1706074

>>1706066
Looks good. Thanks man.

>> No.1706077
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1706077

>>1706057

>> No.1706080

>>1706070
I think that's just for illustration purposes. Wouldn't it just rest on the ground?

>> No.1706086

How is that rope even being held up?

>> No.1706093

>>1706086
magnets

>> No.1706094
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1706094

Fixed the picture for the pedantic retards.

>> No.1706098

>>1706086

I agree with the post above you, its probably for illustration purposes.

>> No.1706104

I have a better question.

Why is that rope floating in the middle of the portal?

>> No.1706107

It's neither a straight line nor a circle. It has no curvature, so it can't be a circle, and it's not infinite, so it can't be a straight line.

It's a line segment at best - its length is the length between two portals - assuming they are perfectly facing each other.

>> No.1706108

>>1706070
Just because two ends of a rope are tied together doesn't mean that it can support itself. Just picture tying the two ends of a rope together in real life to make a circle - obviously it would fall. Altough the concept of curved space might complicate things a bit...

>> No.1706114

>>1706066
Seems like the portal removes a point, creating what appears to be a perfectly straight piece of rope tied to itself!

>> No.1706138

>>1706066

Quite an interesting watch, and makes a lot of sense.

>> No.1706144

>>1706066
>Part 2
Oh this is pretty coo-
>"Welcome to hyperbolic space!"
MY MIND IS FULL OF FUCK AND FOREVER!

>> No.1706177

Picture this:

You're looking through a magnifying viewfinder. Perhaps that of a camera, or a binoculars, or one of those telescopes you see on observation decks. Your vision is shunted straight ahead, into a narrow cone five to fifteen degrees, at maximum. Peripheral vision is nonexistent. The rest of the world exists around you, but because of the focus, you can't see anything outside it, only the part in in front of you. You can turn in any direction, and you can view things it would normally be impossible for you to view, in detail you never would be able to see otherwise, but you're still looking through what is essentially tube vision, and as soon as your eyes try to reach the edge of the tube, you run into a barrier of non-information.

Now invert part of that image, as you would an image channel in Photoshop. All around you, you can see the entire world, but blurry, out of focus, and the only thing you view clearly is straight ahead of you. It is as if your visual tube has been reversed, and instead of seeing through the tube, you see the tube itself. What is that tube made of? A boundary of emptiness, around which you can see the lack of any visual information at all in vivid detail.

That tube is where your rope forms a circle.

>> No.1706198

>>1706177
...Burma Shave

>> No.1706202

Nigger this isn't half life

>> No.1706277

toroidal [img-trollface.jpg]

>> No.1706306

>>1706094

God damn! You made free energy. The knot will start to drop due to gravity. This can run a generator. When the knot enters the portal, it will gain potential energy. Rins and repeat.

>> No.1706380

>>1706306
>not including energy required to sustain wormhole