Portal Paradox

[jar jar binks]

Alright, at school today a couple of friends and I came up with a paradox, and its driving me nuts.

What would happen if you put a portal on a object, and threw it in to another portal on the wall?

[jesse stinkman]

Well that's why portals aren't possible they would cause paradoxes like that and the universe would explode

[Supreme Toaster]

It would most likely stay in place, if the portal is on the far side of the object, the object will most likely go through the portal and appear on the other side of the object.

1. (Wall + portal) (Object + portal)
Object goes into portal
2. (Wall + Portal) (portal + object)

At this point the portals will collide and try to go through eachother, but because the portals most likely can't go though eachother because of the never ending loop of them trying to go past eachother at the same time. It will appear like it's stationary but on moleculary level it will be an massive force between the portals. Both portals trying to force the other one through itself but that isn't possible when the portals are stationed at the same location.

Chanses are that they would implode on it self, similair to the game when you try placing a portal too close to the other. ^^

[INDY]

2 portals must be the same size, so anything that the portal was on could not fit into the other portal.

[Supreme Toaster]

The object can be shaped as a cone, one side is shaped like the portal and the other side is pointy.

[Gemarakup]

Real life quantum tunneling is currently only expiremented on photons.

[TeamSpen210]

Portals can't move ingame unless a cheat is enabled (which valve does for the neurotoxin level). If you did throw that object, it'd come out of itself and hit the portal edge and stop.

[Blurinth]

What would happen is the object would come out of itself. But you wouldn't be able to get the portal on an object because a portal would not fit and must be on a flat surface. It's just not possible.

[partno5679]

what about the white goo that makes portals go on anything

[Gemarakup]

Originally posted by partno5679:

what about the white goo that makes portals go on anything

Only on room surfaces to be exact. Besides, a cube is too small.

[The Potato]

Well actualy, in-game, portals disapear when the obgect they are on moves, so the portal would vanish when you tried to move the item.