what the f'uck happens when:

More importantly, what happens when you look into the portal to see where the rest of the pole goes?

More importantly, what happens when you look into the portal to see where the rest of the pole goes?

mirror effect.

actually, now that i think about it... if you did that... never-ending fireman pole, SOMEONE FUND IT!

mirror effect.

actually, now that i think about it... if you did that... never-ending fireman pole, SOMEONE FUND IT!

Oh god. You could climb on it while upside-down and it'd be like "AAAAAA"

Tom Sellick mustache. They call me Magnum.

Also anyone with any technical knowledge knows that soldering is only used for light seals.

Yup, hence why it would snap there. I've only ever used soldering when working on small electronics. Now arc welding... THAT was fun as hell right Sarah?

mirror effect.

actually, now that i think about it... if you did that... never-ending fireman pole, SOMEONE FUND IT!

Seemed fun at first look but then you realize that the pole isn't really a pole, and if you hop on it you would fall with it, not slide, and probably make it lose its center and crash with the sides of the portal.

Yup, hence why it would snap there. I've only ever used soldering when working on small electronics. Now arc welding... THAT was fun as hell right Sarah?

Nothing more fun than watching a dozen teenage boys with smoldering metal shouting "HOT STUFF COMIN' THROUGH"

Nothing more fun than watching a dozen teenage boys with smoldering metal shouting "HOT STUFF COMIN' THROUGH"

lols. My arc welding time was when I went to an all guys school... so obviously.... obviously... there were tons of arc welded(?) penises.

Seemed fun at first look but then you realize that the pole isn't really a pole, and if you hop on it you would fall with it, not slide, and probably make it lose its center and crash with the sides of the portal.

you fix the small details.

You know what happens? You divide by zero and enjoy the ride.

The place explodes.

The real mystery is why anyone would solder heavy metal rather than welding it. Clearly they want this experiment to fall apart and end up destroying some faces.

+1

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that is all

I won't sleep today

A) In a perfect arrangement, assuming that the two parallel plates are exactly orthogonal to the Earth's gravity field, the metal bar will accelerate until it reaches the speed of light, after which it will move with the constant velocity c. As the metal accelerates, its color will change.

Think of pulling on a string in a game of tug-of-war. Regardless of how long the string is, it's still going to move if a force is exerted (that overcomes friction). It's no different with an infinite length bar (made infinite by gluing the ends together). Of course, if there are any imperfections, the bar will eventually hit the edge of portal and break, or it will rotate after a few falls and come out of the portal.

In a real situation, a moving object will cause a decrease in pressure of the air molecules around it, causing the air molecules around it to be absorbed toward it and enter into a free-fall cycle with the rod. This means that this apparatus will produce some kind of sink, and depending on the distribution of objects around it, something will knock it out of place, and the rod will break. If not, the air molecules striking the rod will heat the rod up and cause it to melt.

B) In a perfect situation, if the portals remained perfectly parallel after release, it won't move anywhere because mass must be conserved without deformation (see below).

In a real situation, the top plate should be under the effect of air pressure. Since there is air pressure, the top plate will shift and no longer be completely parallel to the bottom plate, and the metal rod will fall out of the two portals or break after a number of cycles.

C) The picture is misleading because it leads to a violation of the conservation of matter. These aren't parallel-plate mirrors. In a parallel-plate mirror, light is conserved by infinite reflection, not by traveling through the mirror itself to produce two light rays of equal intensity from a single light ray.

Duplication of matter should not happen in any situation, especially not infinitely. Based on the conservation of matter and energy, one portal should not be able to "see" through another portal. Suppose you have two portals: Portal 1 is a sink, and Portal 2 is a source. The only thing these set of portals should be able to do without violating any known physical laws is to transport things from one location to another.

Mathematically, it is possible that the portals can also deform objects. However, realistically, since atoms have quantized masses and definite arrangements in a metal, an instantaneous deformation will cause a change in potential energy in the metal rod and therefore violate the conservation of energy. As a consequence, Portal 1 must be exactly equal in to Portal 2 in both area and shape, so the two portals cannot deform objects.

Therefore, in situation C, the only possibility is for the metal to break. It's likely to break by rotating and hitting the edge of the portal before a complete cycle. This is because by changing the angle of the two portals, force can now act perpendicular to the rod, causing a torque.

You can sleep well now. Conservation laws are wonderful. This image is merely a consequence of uneducated people attempting math/physics.

I think the real mystery is why so few people know how to spell solder.

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