• GrimSheeper@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    This still assumes that the portal is an infinite-energy machine, though, which I think is unwarranted and creates more difficulty than is necessary. I would assume that the portal itself has no properties and does not act on other objects.

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      1 year ago

      How do you suppose the portal maintains itself?

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        1 year ago

        I think that either

        a. The portal maintains itself via energy supplied remotely by the portal gun or

        b. Once created, a portal does not require energy to exist. It’s simply an anomaly in space-time. A strange loophole whereby one location is closer to another location that it’s supposed to be or

        c. The portal runs on chuckle-power generated by Cave Johnson’s witticisms

        I think the idea that the portal generates infinite energy is too complicating and problematic to be assumed.