If you could put two portals anywhere?

[Chamale]

My yard to a spot in Japan. I'd charge people $1000 for a quick portal to the other side of the world - much faster than air travel. Plus I'd get to visit my friend who moved to Tokyo a few years ago.

 

[The_ModeRazor]

One on earth, one in the center of the sun.
END IT! END IT ALL!!! GRWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAA!!!! BURN IN THE FIRES OF ANNIHILATION!!!

But that would be just bad.
So I guess I wouldn't put them anywhere.

 

[randomrob]

Blue one underneath Justin Beiber's feet, Orange one in a furnace. Problem solved.

 

[noobium]

I have no idea where I would put mine. Probably one on the floor and one on the ceiling as a trap for burglars.[/quote]

No one deserves that kind of torture

 

[loc978]

I'd want one from a mineshaft that I'll dig under a mountain to a bank vault in Shanghai. After I've stolen all I can, I'd collapse the mine with dynamite.
...unless we're allowed to close the portal when we're through with it.

 

[bad rider]

My house to the Playboy Mansion.

I was thinking my house to Jessica Alba's or something, but then I realized just how creepy that is.

Taking this into consideration, my house and Jessica Alba's

 

[TheAceTheOne]

My room <-> Girlfriend's

My room and my girlfriend's: Also my choice, since me and my gal are distance.

 

[mikev7.0]

One right here in my room, and one in the offices of XBL customer support. Then I could see why recovering my profile is taking over a week!!

 

[New York Patrick]

Nebraska and Saturn.

For Science...

 

[TipsyPeaches]

my house and my ex-fiance's. 'cos right now, after 3 glasses of wine, I miss him.

seriously though, my house and uni, it would save an hour's drive and half an hour's bus ride to uni.

my house to the paintball range, then i could take my anger out on the unprepared numpties opn the range.

 

[Daveman]

Michael Shanks has already answered that little question...


But honestly I would put one at home and one at uni. It'd save me a fuckload of money.

 

[Plazmatic]

Yeah something like that.

I was about to make a million statements from the core of my physics-major heart, but then I realized it's troll-face so I won't even bother. XD

OT: I would place a portal between my workplace at the physics research labs and the dining center.

Ligitamate question, besides the fact that it is not currently possible to make portals in the way depicted in the photo, I see no reason why that is not possible,

and don't give me any bull crap like "IT WOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE TO MAKE DEVELOP PORTAL TECHNOLOGY LIKE THAT ANY WAY SO IT WOULDN'T MATTER"

Physicist once said that the space between transistors of the 80s was the closest we'd ever get them, we proved them wrong, then again in the 90's, we proved them wrong again, then again in the 21st century, and we proved them wrong once more.

 

[angry_flashlight]

One portal here, one right next to it in the future. Create time paradox by bringing future items back to the past.

I have honestly no idea where'd I put them. I'd probably want the portal gun so I can change locations on a whim. If I had a portal in my house, it'd be right behind a nice solid airtight door in case of intruders/natural disasters.

 

[Harry Mason]

One in my house and another in Helena Bonham Carter's shower.

that probably also equals Tim Burton's shower.

so. eww.

That's OK with me. 0_0

 

[Mike-E]

One in a candy floss machine and the other in my mouth.

 

[Jabberwock xeno]

Just to see what happens.

 

[Slenn]

snip

That's not exactly what I was going to point out but oh well. In addition, I wasn't going to say anything along the lines of "portal technology is impossible."

I would say portal technology isn't "impossible" more likely "really really really hard to construct." For one, transmitting matter or light through a portal requires for its information to travel instantaneously across a distance. However, there are postulates centering around "quantum entanglement" that deal with simultaneous events, with one causing the other. For two, if you place two portals on the ceiling and the floor, the gravitational field lines coming from mass no longer have another mass to terminate at, which currently disobeys our understanding of the divergence of gravitational fields. However, we don't know everything about mass and gravity. I once read a good quote that said "if an apple were to fall up at least once, then we would have to completely rewrite our understanding of gravity."

 

[NightlyNews]

Well, being pragmatic, I'd put one extremely high up, then one directly beneath it at ground level. Now, by breaking the laws of energy conservation, we have infinite potential energy, and shall build generators around it.

[sub]Problem, entropy?[/sub]

Entropy wouldn't be a problem with the perpetual motion device itself. But, if you keep adding more and more energy to the universe it will increase the speed at which we reach heat death.

See portals bring Armageddon I knew valve was evil.

But entropy increases for all closed systems, and in this system where gravitational potential is a constant, useable kinetic energy is just coming out of nowhere, decreasing entropy for that system. So I very much think entropy would have a problem with it.

Because it's more than just perpetual motion, it's increasing motion, and the energy that goes with it.

Meh what I said was technically wrong (depending on the amount of energy the device gives off). But, it's not defying entropy in any way. It's merely introducing new energy to the system, that once introduced spreads according to the laws of entropy. Individual cases of defying entropy exist and are normal. It's just that they are governed by statistical facts that they will never be significant enough to reverse entropy on the whole.

As long as the perpetual motion device wasn't giving off SHITTONS of energy the earth as a whole would still obey entropy. Although on the really small scale around the device it would be reverse entropic or something. I don't know I'm kinda talking out my ass, but I know for a fact there are exceptions to entropy at the micro level. If there were exceptions at the macro level as long as they weren't rampant it wouldn't effect the entropy of the universe as a whole in any significant way.

 

[THE_NAMSU]

Well, being pragmatic, I'd put one extremely high up, then one directly beneath it at ground level. Now, by breaking the laws of energy conservation, we have infinite potential energy, and shall build generators around it.

[sub]Problem, entropy?[/sub]

The thing is, portals break the laws of much more.

 

[Melon Hunter]

Well, being pragmatic, I'd put one extremely high up, then one directly beneath it at ground level. Now, by breaking the laws of energy conservation, we have infinite potential energy, and shall build generators around it.

[sub]Problem, entropy?[/sub]

Entropy wouldn't be a problem with the perpetual motion device itself. But, if you keep adding more and more energy to the universe it will increase the speed at which we reach heat death.

See portals bring Armageddon I knew valve was evil.

But entropy increases for all closed systems, and in this system where gravitational potential is a constant, useable kinetic energy is just coming out of nowhere, decreasing entropy for that system. So I very much think entropy would have a problem with it.

Because it's more than just perpetual motion, it's increasing motion, and the energy that goes with it.

Not to mention that the power output would be tiny. It may run forever, but if its only going to produce a few kilowatts, then it won't be solving the energy crisis any time soon.