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  • Honytawk@discuss.tchncs.de
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    4 days ago

    Movement is relative.

    You need a second reference point for movement to exist.

    To the (for us) moving portal, the cube was moving. And it would keep that momentum.

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      4 days ago

      Get a hula hoop attach a camera to it. Drop hula hoop over something with it being in the middle. Did thing in hula hoop take off? No. Thing had no momentum. It’s velocity versus relative velocity.

      • Honytawk@discuss.tchncs.de
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        3 days ago

        If the universe on the other side of the hula hoop moved with it, the thing did take off in reference to that universe.

        A person in that universe would see a thing rapidly approaching the hula hoop from the other side, before it getting launched through.

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        4 days ago

        You need to cut the hula hoop in half. The bottom moves and the top is stationary off to the side. The cube pops out at the same speed the bottom half is falling, but because the top half of the hula is stationary, the cube seems like it’s moving upwards.

        I hope that makes sense

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      4 days ago

      Yeah if this existed IRL B is the correct answer. If you tried this in portal the video game A is the answer.

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          4 days ago

          This has been really heavily debated before and the unanimous answer is B IRL and A for portal.

          How does the cube move out of the blue portal? If you ignore the orangep portal entirely and consider just looking from the side as the cube emerges from the blue portal, the top has to be moving extremely fast. The cube needs to be moving relative to the blue portal at the same speed as the orange portal is descending or it doesn’t work.

          You can also draw a force balance diagram and you get the same result…

          But you’re welcome to disagree with me! That’s part of the wonder of the internet.