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  • But the object doesn’t enter at speed here it’s stationary. If a hoop is thrown at an object and passes around the object the object is still stationary. The speed of the portal relative to the object does not impart movement on the object.

    The quicker the portal moves the quicker the object appears on the other side but for the object to shoot out it means energy is being transfered from the car to the object.

    If you’re right then what happens If the two portals are moving at equal and opposite speeds?


  • I think it’s A because I assume a portal stitches two points in space to each other.

    So if I have a surface A and B with a portal ‘]’ in the middle A0 A1 ] A2 A3. B0 B1 [ B2 B3

    A portal creates a new surface

    A0 A1 ][ B2 B3

    And if you move the portal the new surface changes.

    A0 A1 A2 ][ B3

    Speed is distance over time. When a portal moves the object that passed through the portal stays stationary. Let’s say I am standing on B2. When the portal advances I find myself standing on A2 , have i moved? No the environment has changed but i am still in the same relative position with respect to the portal surface. No distance travelled so no speed.




  • Both of these are terrible takes on the books.

    Spice is not a solution in dune in fact the whole 4th book and the end of the third are centered around forcing humanity to wean itself off spice so that it may evolve.

    The central concept is that humanity must not depend on machine or drugs or complicated eugenics and must instead look inwards and improve itself by facing hardship.

    In foundation (at least the start) the complicated maths is essentially there to prove that all establishments fail and survival requires constant change. Very differently from dune foundation sees technological superiority as key to this and importantly the ability for society to change in order to support the technological progress.

    Even if you don’t agree with the above neither book aims to “fight imperialist bullshit” if anything they both quite staunchly support the idea of a benevolent dictator controlling all.