Portal Definition and 23 Threads

Once decades ago I watched a movie where solar eclipse made a woman vanished standing in a tree. Then she appeared during the next solar eclipse. Anyone remember the title of the movie? I'd like to watch any solar eclipse movie where portals were opened during the eclipse. Do you have any in...

Whilst perusing a D&D forum, I stopped to answer a question someone put out which was "what would happen if we used the gate spell to open a portal to the middle of the sun?" I replied (this was a while ago) and whilst I'm reviewing it, I am troubled by the fact that this uses such high forces...

I was told that for building portal frame, the beam to column connection must be rigid , which means, it has to be fixed , while the column to foundation connection can be either fixed or pinned, am I right ? I couldn't find anything about this online . Pls help

So I have found this awesome resource called 'Teaching with Portal" For those who do not know, Portal is a puzzle game where players have to solve challenges given certain components in the environment that they are in. Somebody has created a "Teaching with Portal" lesson plans (found here)...

If you found a portal, what would you do? Who would you tell? What experiments could you think to do and what information would you try to extract? Should you be concerned? Presuming you knew yourself not to be the world's greatest authority on portals/bridges/stargates or whatever, how would...

Sorry, this might be a question you can only answer with speculation, but if anyone has any idea of how close we are to teleportation of inanimate objects or creating portals, I would love to know. I have always found teleportation and portals to be super cool. From what I've heard, in order...

Hello, Lately I've seen many different explanations to the following problem based on "Portal" and "Portal 2" videogames (which I personally played and enjoyed). Since the explanations didn't convince me, I drafted my own. Hope you find it intersting and we can discuss it :)Problem...

So I'm just really curious and this question is fictional, I'm new so i don't know if this is the right place to post this. Anyway, if there is 2 portal facing each other vertically and a person jump on to it, end up falling forever, i wonders how much could that person reach and is there anyway...

Homework Statement For the portal frame geometry and factored loading shown in the figure below, calculate the shear force, axial load and bending moment diagrams using the Portal Frame Method. You may use the principle of superposition for gravity and lateral load effects. Note: • all...

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Could there be a portal inside or near the sun? Consider the magnetic field and energy of the sun.

I did not create this little picture but it is interesting to say the least. It is a physics question or scenario, i don't know how to describe it but would love the input of the physics forum community. Which do you think would happen? A or B? Background info. This is from a game called...

Homework Statement A single story single bay building model has fixed fixed columns and a rigid beam. the total length of each aluminum column is 24 in. tall by 4 in wide and 32/1000 in thick. the plexiglas beams used for the base and top story are 12 in wide 4 in deep and .5 in thick. a...

This question comes from a doubt i had while playing the popular puzzle game Portal. 1-Lets say hypothetically that we have portals, and we can move them around freely. We have portal A & B. When you enter portal A you come out through portal B and vise versa. In the case of being placed...

Say I place a portal on the underside of a table. I place a large sheet of cardboard on top of the table and then place a portal on the sheet. I then stand in the portal so my legs are below-table and my torso is above-table. Can I lift the cardboard?

What if we performed the Twin Paradox, but with portals? Fire one portal against a wall in a station, another in a spaceship. One twin sits tight, and the other gets on board -- but they can see each other at all times through the portal itself and can walk back and forth between the ship...

Hi all, I massively appreciate any help in advance. I have an exam coming up and am completely stumped on a question regarding reinforced concrete design. The teacher has told us the question is going to be similar to the example he has given us but hasn't gone through it with us. It is a...

Is there anybody here in the GA area or that would be accessible by way of phone for consultation regarding matters of paranormal phenomena? Someone preferably who has a genuine interest in the field. I was attempting to do research on an idea that facing two mirrors together creates a...

I have setup a very cool LIVE portal to the LHC and CERN... I have have a brand new forum just for the LHC.. http://www.lhcportal.com/

Imagine someday when you're going about your daily life, a Portal suddenly appears in front of you.. HOW SHOCKING! I mean, who knows how it happened - maybe an Alien civilization 1.5 billion years more advanced than us, accidently created this portal in a wrong time/space/dimension, and you're...

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Hi all, I am very new to this forum so please let me know if I have posted this in the wrong place, and thanks in advance for any replies :) Backstory: My friends and I were playing a game called Portal in which you can place two portals (each of which leads to the other). We were...

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