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Would the edges of a portal act as a perfect knife, able to cut anything? If an atom was lined up properly, could you cut that as well. This is assuming that portals are 2 dimensional by the way, having a length and width but no height.

>> No.6088297

we can splice atoms without portals, man

>> No.6088310

Aren't wormholes just stretched out black holes? in which case, anything that touched the "walls" would be destroyed, not cut.

>> No.6088319

>>6088297
If a portal is truly a two dimensional object, then you could cut ANY object that is three dimensional. And I don't mean splitting an atom, I mean actually cutting it, even cutting the individual protons and neutrons.

>> No.6088333

>>6088319
what is: an atomic bomb

>> No.6088362

Wouldn't it still take the same amount of force to break a bond, whether you use a perfect knife or not?

And if we're going by Portal's rules, the endpoints are placed on a solid surface, which means particles making up the surface could interact with stuff right around the edge, making the knife less perfect.

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>>6088333
See how the protons and neutrons are still whole? I'm talking about splitting an atom, including splitting both the protons and neutrons as well. Think about it like drawing a straight line through an atom, and separating the two parts.

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>> No.6088447

Is it thin as whatever particles comprise the blue and orange or the atoms of whatever material it put a hole in?

>> No.6088454

>>6088447
since, by definition, a portal instantaneously moves an object from point a to point b, the portal would have to be 2 dimensional and therefore have no thickness. If it did have a thickness, then there would be a time delay when the object moved from point a to point b, since it would have to also move through an amount of space that is the size of the portals thickness.

>> No.6088463

You'd have to decide how the portals interact with electromagnetic fields etc. Then you can figure out how the portal affects the forces between the molecules.

>> No.6088465

The ends of portals emit a field that pushes things away, and the field increases in strength as the portal shrinks. That's why Chell can't die from having a portal moved while she's halfway through or from standing in the middle of one.

>> No.6088468

>>6088373
The more interesting question is what happens to the electrons and the other particles who're probability distributions.

>> No.6088469

Would depend on the portal type most likely.

Taking the Slider's portal, the phenomena that makes up the separation in space seems to be more toroid, and likely couldn't cut.

Taking Star Trek portals.. you dead man. Real dead. Probably are part of new atomic structures that can't really exist in our universe. Alot of them require trajectories and some other odds and bits that let you stay cohesive.

Most of the other ones.... maybe a knife.

>> No.6089197

Portal and Portal 2 are NOT science.