@hamishtodd1 @SeeBeeWhitman BTW, just saw that the designer of my favorite puzzle likes your favorite puzzle game :)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEeifeRV7Qg&feature=gv …
@hamishtodd1 I'm not sure what you're arguing at this point. That Portal is good because it "teaches" people wrong physics because... ?
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@cmuratori Alright, look: when you, say, put one portal on a wall and one on a floor beneath an object and watch that object arc through...Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@cmuratori Them constantly, having it's gravity changed and such... do you really mean to tell me that you see nothing mathematically... -
@hamishtodd1 Different gravities is hardly something unique to portal - games have done that for years, right...
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@cmuratori interesting/cute/illuminatingly-out-of-the-ordinary about that? Nothing at all? -
@hamishtodd1 I think you're learning _about the game Portal_ and that's all. To say there's a physics lesson there is very misguided, IMO. - Show replies
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@cmuratori A little case study: Marcus desautoy, oxford mathematician, who's won awards for promoting the public understanding of maths...Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@cmuratori ..when he wanted to describe the suggestion of a toroidal universe he brought up Asteroids. Imperfect, messy, but useful analogy! -
@hamishtodd1 But that's actually correct, right. That actually _is_ a 2D toroidal universe. Portal is not a reduced-dimension anything. - Show replies
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