• lauthals
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    11 months ago

    To make it clear from the start: I agree 100% with B - there has to be movement, because without it, people wouldn’t come out of the portal at all. And if there is a movement, then the only reasonable speed would be that of the train.

    But: Your question about the energy is still interesting. It must come from somewhere. And I think, the only source, from which it can come, is the train. That is, the train would lose energy and therefore slow down.

    • @Shiki@lemmy.world
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      411 months ago

      The portal moves towards the people. It’s a hole. Momentum won’t transfer from nothing as the hole is the one moving.

      • lauthals
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        311 months ago

        So, how would the people come out of the portal without movement?

        • @Shiki@lemmy.world
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          311 months ago

          Because the portal is moving them through it

          Like how you would move through a hoop if it passed through you, it’s just a door through space

          • lauthals
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            311 months ago

            Do we agree that the massive block with the blue portal is not moving? So, imagine we are standing right in front of it when it happens - what happens exactly? How do the people appear?

            • @Shiki@lemmy.world
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              111 months ago

              Yes the blue portal isn’t moving

              The people appear because the orange portal is moving towards them, the people then, like through a moving door, just pop out the other side.

              It’s a door way through space, not a momentum giving portal.

              Can you not see the orange portal moving? They don’t jump through it, this carrying their own momentum through. They are stationary through it so coming out they will also be stationary

              • lauthals
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                111 months ago

                Of course I see the orange portal moving. So we agree the orange portal is moving, the blue is stationary.

                So, when you’re saying “the people just pop out the other side”. What does that mean? Do they pop out one by one? So one moment, no one is there, the next moment one person spawns and after that the third person spawns? Or do they spawn altogether? Or does each person come from the portal centimeter by centimeter, atom by atom - pushing through the portal?

                  • lauthals
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                    111 months ago

                    That’s not what I mean. Let’s just look at one person: the person will not just appear as a whole at the blue portal, right? First there will be, I don’t know, the left arm, then the left side of the torso, the middle part… and so on. That’s what I meant with centimeter by centimeter, atom by atom - pushing through the portal. Would you agree?

                    At least that’s how it’s in the game. It’s not that you are touching one portal, despawn and appear at the other portal, right?