My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic Part 8: Mmmcake

[Temp name]

Well, my power might go shortly, so.. Have fun untill i come back.

[Freyera]

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Hello Inner

[BloodyAngel12]

Not exactly. The universe is modeled mathematically as an object called a manifold - more or less, something that "looks like" a plane, or regular 3-D space, or their higher-dimensional analogs on a small scale, but when you zoom out looks quite different. A simple example would be the surface of a sphere - when you're standing on the ground the earth looks flat and normal plane geometry works pretty well, but if you're sailing across an ocean errors add up. Anyway, it's perfectly valid to "connect" points of such a manifold together, and that's more-or-less what a wormhole is mathematically. The problem with Portal portals is that I don't think that's how forces would behave through them - I think gravity would "bleed over" through the portal in some sense. I'll sit down with some math and see if it still makes sense, I'm curious now.

Is it bad that i understood all that Cran.

[Chrysia]

Is it bad that i understood all that Cran.

No, it's awesome, because Math, especially large scale Physics is awesome! (Conversely, so is small scale physics! It's the boring stuff in the middle that sucks.)

[Coffer]

Is it bad that i understood all that Cran.

Not at all. I understood everything too, and I don't even like Physics all that much.

[Cranica]

Is it bad that i understood all that Cran.

I hope not, since it was written to be understood. I glossed over a lot of the ugly details, but intuitively that's all it is.

(Conversely, so is small scale physics! It's the boring stuff in the middle that sucks.)

Really? I always thought the proof that a spherically symmetric mass is identical to a point mass for gravitational purposes was pretty awesome.

[Drafo]

[raveger]

I'm curious if anyone here is actually a scientist.

[Dontrike]

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Is there stuff everywhere? I haven't kept up on that type of stuff lately?

I'm curious if anyone here is actually a scientist.

Only mad scientist, but I haven't gotten my degree in that stuff yet.

[BloodyAngel12]

I'm curious if anyone here is actually a scientist.

Nope just an interest in science and physics.

[Cranica]

I'm curious if anyone here is actually a scientist.

I'm a mathematician, but that's about 3/4 of physics anyway.

[Drafo]

Is there stuff everywhere? I haven't kept up on that type of stuff lately?



Only mad scientist, but I haven't gotten my degree in that stuff yet.

there are many spoilers. jup

[Sofii]

I'm a mathematician, but that's about 3/4 of physics anyway.

Yeah. I plan on becoming a full mathematician some day... It's such an interesting and fun and easy field.

[isi]

I'm curious if anyone here is actually a scientist.

depends on your definition of scientist

[raveger]

Is there stuff everywhere? I haven't kept up on that type of stuff lately?

Only mad scientist, but I haven't gotten my degree in that stuff yet.

Nope just an interest in science and physics.

I'm a mathematician, but that's about 3/4 of physics anyway.

Ah okay, I was just curious since I usually show up mid conversation when you ponies are talking about the universe and its makeup/nuclear physics. So, like I said, just curious =p

[Delphince]

I've always wondered, say you went into a portal that was 2m across, and came out one that was 4m across. Would your size be doubled?

Yes, but not because of the portal, but the warped space between the two points that caused the difference in relative portal size considering they share a single point; your perspective is that there is a separate entrance and exit.

So your bigger concern would be inventing a device that causes spatial compression, not the portal.

[Cranica]

Yeah. I plan on becoming a full mathematician some day... It's such an interesting and fun and easy field.

Indeed it is. And the depth and interconnection only gets richer as you go further up the tree.

[raveger]

depends on your definition of scientist

chemists, physicists, aeronautics, biologists, geologists, paleontologists, etc.

even forms of engineering i would consider

[Sofii]

Yes, but not because of the portal, but the warped space between the two points that caused the difference in relative portal size considering they share a single point; your perspective is that there is a separate entrance and exit.

So your bigger concern would be inventing a device that causes spatial compression, not the portal.

Okay, that explanation is essentially the idea that made me think that it would. Thanks for confirming. By the way, what the hell do you do for a living, and what do you have qualifications in?

[Sausage Zeldas]

I think he's mad.