Portals...and trolls. Question. Has any one ever answered this kind of question. It makes me a bit mad that people don't like to think this though. Asking because i have my own answer so i would like to compare it.

leaflard · 18 days

You would crush yourself.

you would literally be being crushed by you

Hamakua · 18 days

You would squish yourself is the real answer.

GIJew392 · 18 days

You would literally collapse into yourself until you're what's stopping the portals from touching each other. If you think about it, the first thing your head would hit is your feet, if you're prone or supine. From there, you would end up getting crushed from infinite "you's" being pushed against yourself with the force of the pistons pushing the portals.

TLDR; You're gonna have a bad time.

ductaperecorder · 18 days

I'm pretty sure you would just be compressed into infinity...

galaxies · 18 days

Portals disappear when the wall they are on moves, so you would be crushed without portals having anything to do with it.

Jayalexyoung · 18 days

Portals Can't be placed on moving surfaces. sorry.

FirmerFilly · 18 days

You wouldn't survive. You're just switching which wall is on the left and right, so you're still going to get crushed.

XeroG · 18 days

You would die.

Think about it like this. If you were in a narrow corridor with a portal on each side of you, what happens when you half of your body in one? Well you stop taking up x amount of room on one side of the hallway and begin to take it up on the other. When the portals get so close that putting your hand in one makes it come out the other and consequently back into the other one, you increase the amount of portals you travel through just to put your hand in the hallway. As the distance between portals approaches zero, you have to go through infinitely more portals just for putting your hand in one of them. My mind doesn't one to think about what would happen when the distance does equal zero, but it could be one of two possibilities:

1, you body heat up so much from the energy required to exist in som many places at once that it evaporates. 2, one portal closes upon touching the other, which resembles the game's mechanics more than option one.

niro88 · 18 days

The portals would dissapear when the walls are moving

Nejustinas · 18 days

I am not sure where i should be posting this question...

Bugsi · 18 days

The only way I can get my head round it is by knowing that I can't put portals on moving surfaces. My brain explodes otherwise and I can't go through that again.

Knomez · 18 days

I am pretty sure you would be crushed by yourself.

Lets take a person out of this and make it a 1 meter cube because it makes it more regular. If a 1 meter cube is place in a 1 meter hallway with portals on either side it takes up the entire hallway (by width) If you move the cube .5 meters in either direction you now have .5m of the cube taking up one side and .5m of the cube taking up the other. The width of the hall is still taken up.

When you move a portal you are essentially shrinking the hallway. Unlike in the real world where the walls would be exerting the force it would be the left side pressing on the right side. The result would however be the same.

The more interesting question to me is would the two walls moving the portals register the resistance of the cube to being compacted? Or to take it to an extreme, Would the portals (and the walls holding them) be able to come together if an un-compressible cube were placed between them?

Cyphafrost · 18 days

Well, when you shoot a blue portal onto an already placed orange, it fizzles out. I would think when they touch, they both fizzle, and you are crushed.

laur7620 · 18 days

Think about it like this... If you have a portal at one side of the room and another at the exact same spot on the opposite side of the room, the amount of space between the two is ample enough and you don't get crushed. When you move them that close together the space isn't large enough to allow room for your body. It seems more paradoxical than it is. The problem is that we are focusing on the fact that the portals are moving us back and forth so we think that there is some kind of philosophical answer, which is understandable, and there would be a philosophical answer to what would be crushing the body. Because the portal itself is unable to crush you because the surface of it transports you what would be crushing you would be the small space in between the two. There is too little room for all the matter your body is made of. Your body wouldn't be able to crush you either because it would just push it against the portal which then transports you. It is not something pushing on you and crushing you but instead the amount of space not being adequate.

PREDATORA · 18 days

A chiropractor.

kostiak · 18 days

One example of the very many that demonstrate that the portal gun can't exist in real life because it breaks the laws of physics.

isah18 · 18 days

you'll split in half

HTRK74JR · 18 days

Mind. Blown. nsfw

PwndYooSucka · 18 days

SIMPLE: You wouldn't even die, because portals do not stay on moving objects. Therefore, you couldn't push them together.

Church1092 · 18 days

Portals dissipate on moving structures. This has been proven in both games.

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Church1092, Aperture Laboratories

BaronLaladedo · 18 days

The troll face dosen't really belong there anymore.

black4ugust · 18 days

I think a lot of people are disregarding what would happen if two portals even touched face to face. My guess is what happens with you put a portable hole into a bag of holding.

XxCrazypoi5xX · 18 days

The portals would disappear thanks to the game mechanics in which if placed on a moving surface they vanish.

RhinoK43 · 18 days

It would be a never ending tunnel.

wick3Dwick · 18 days

its easy... you'll implode

Tend_to_agree · 18 days

Pretty sure it's been answered.

crymsonnite · 18 days

It depends on if they both move or not, portals can't be on moving surfaces

crhone · 18 days

considering the neurotoxin chamber's portal physics, you would die by being crushed by yourself. sounds fun, doesn't it?

GreenSpleen6 · 17 days

Dead, the only difference between this and being crushed between two normal pistons is that the walls will be made of you instead of metal.

itsme0 · 17 days

No mater how many ties I look, I don't see you standing on a floor, therefor you keep falling and the walls close. The portals probably disappear at that point, or at least might as well have.

Goodrita · 17 days

It's 6 am in the morning, you're making my fucking brain hurt.

HawkyGaming · 17 days

Either you would crush yourself or you meet Gaben in the Vacuum of time and space while he spins around with a copy of Half Life 3 in his hands.

Dangerous_Theory · 17 days

This just made me think: what if you were standing in a narrow corridor with portals either side of you and you stretched your left and right arms out through the portal until they were reaching each other and held them together. Is that even possible? The sensation would be fucking weird, right?

JeeWillakers · 17 days

I came to the conclusion that if both panels are moving together, and are unstoppable, you would essentially be crushed to death, and whatever atoms are in between the portals reach some sort of singularity.

gu3sswhoiam121 · 17 days

You would die cause the portals vanish if the surface they are on moves.

Asiansensationz · 17 days

Well, I always wanted experience singularity

ItzMcShagNasty · 17 days

You would crush yourself.

ferjero989 · 17 days

first. there is no space/time in the portal, only whatever is in the other end of the portal. by that logic, there isnt any real space inside. so you will be crushed by yourself.

darklord94 · 17 days

You will still die because it will the same way without the portals just you get some more finger space

tier22 · 17 days

you would be in an infinite tube made of the inside of the concrete.

Godzilla2y · 17 days

No, you would not. Portals can only exist on stationary objects. As soon as the two pillars begin moving towards each other, they would disappear.

BladedDingo · 17 days

Assuming we're talking about suspending the rules of the game and allow the portals to move with the platform forward, I assume the result would be not unlike what happens when someone comes through a Stargate. If something is blocking the event horizon of the portal by a fraction of a nanometer the object traveling through would be destroyed because it does not have the space to reappear.

if one portal blocks the other portal, it would destroy what ever was inbetween because there is no place for it to re-appear. If the pistons retracted, your have two shiney portals and a bunch of used to be you atoms floating around.

ZellnuuEon · 17 days

Movement breaks portals. You are crushed by the metal.

ScorchedPanda · 18 days

Portals cannot move through physical space. you would be crushed between the two surfaces.

coltalain · 18 days

You would survive I think but you wouldn't go anywhere it would simultaneously be in both portals till the wall things were moved just a thought of course

Nejustinas · 17 days

Seems like every one here (well almost i think) has the right answers.

Here is mine to clarify: You would get crushed by yourself yes. It is like there were no portals on the pistons. Except that something interesting happens. Since portals have no gap between each other meaning if you put one inside of each other (that is another mindfuck) it would just reflect back what is being put in it. Or depending which way it is pointed the thing you put in will go through like nothing is there. Lets just say there is no space between them like other portals show if you turn them off while traveling you get stuck in some "space time of traveling". They just make it like a tunnel.

So if thinking how the can you squish yourself? Well if you tie a rope and one end is from one portal and the other one is from the other, they have equal force and they cancel each other out by pulling on each other (if you don't get it just search "portal rope" in google in images) There are portals A and B and so A portal is say your feet coming IN the portal A and the feet are now coming OUT of portal B so you are pushing yourself in the back, but with the equal forces, meaning you don't go anywhere, you just feel something pushing your back. So when the gap between the portals A and B is very small like 1millimeter then your body is not squishing you because there is only that much space to fit in. It would be the same as pistons squishing you except that you are actually killing yourself by your own mass.

When there is NO gap between the portals then there is no space but there is mass. You become a black hole possibly but there is no space sooooo.... you kind of um... don't exist? I mean there is no space for you but you have the mass and force? As some guy stated that your density is now infinity. Image your own atoms are being squished by their own mass.

TL;DR: You get squished by yourself and you become a black hole or you are stuck in some dimension where you have mass and force but have no space for it.

Hope people don't get mad about my bad grammar :). Ask if you don't get one part. This really can twist your mind. IT REALLY CAN.

And thank you for your feedback.

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