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[-] KoofNoof@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

A, because the portal has the momentum not the people on the tracks?

[-] conneru64@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 1 year ago

The people have to exit the portal at the same speed they enter, otherwise they'd have to be squished or something weird.

If 1cm of person enters in 1 second, 1cm of person needs to leave in that second, the only other options are that part of the person disappears or gets compressed to less than 1cm.

[-] gerryflap@feddit.nl 9 points 1 year ago

Motion is relative though. Both the portal and the people are presumably on earth (or any other planet) and will thus be moving around in space at a fast pace. So the people have momentum, just not relative to the earth (or I guess more specifically not relative to the specific patch of earth they're on).

So there's 2 options:

  • Portals do not respect the laws of relative motion -> the people will get yeeted in some direction because the earth they're on goes very fast through space and the portals are not pointing in the same direction
  • Portals do respect the laws of relative motion, in which case the people will get yeeted with the speed of the train
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