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    Portal 2

    Game » consists of 20 releases. Released Apr 19, 2011

    Portal 2 is the sequel to the acclaimed first-person puzzle game, carrying forward its love of mind-bending problems and its reckless disregard for the space-time continuum.

    Physicists talk Portal 2

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    #1  Edited By frythefly

    The guys form the physics department of the University of Nottingham talk about Portal 2 and, wormholes and the physics behind all this:





    EDIT:  They released a bonus video with extra content in which Prof Moriarty discusses conservation of momentum and differantial equations.
      
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    #2  Edited By IBurningStar

    Very interesting video. Thanks for sharing this.

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    #3  Edited By Vestigial_Man

    A block of pure solid geek gold! It's pretty interesting to watch. 


    Also reassuring to see the game running on a laptop.
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    #4  Edited By marvin_martian

    haha dude is PUMPED

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    #5  Edited By Venatio

    Being a physics student I find this kinda stuff fascinating and I've thought alot about the science aspect of Portal 2, pretty good video

    Also I want that whiteboard that the guy has behind him :D
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    #6  Edited By Sarkhan

    :) that was very interesting. Cheers for sharing.
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    #7  Edited By Scrubiii

    Was he playing Portal 2 with the touchpad on that laptop? Oh dear.

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    #8  Edited By ryanwho

    So what I get from this is the portal gun harnesses the power of a billion stars. Yay science!

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    #9  Edited By PizzaSauce

    Wow, inteesting shit. Tried to study physics up until university but was pretty hopeless at it!

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    #10  Edited By chadster

    Poor guy, he can only play the game at like 10 frames per second.

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    #11  Edited By ryanwho
    @Chadster said:
    " Poor guy, he can only play the game at like 10 frames per second. "
    But look how much fun he's having! He even talked about moving forward and backward. Can you imagine not playing a game since Pong then following it up 30 years later with Portal 2?
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    #12  Edited By Blackout62

    So they aren't making repulsion gel?

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    #13  Edited By HitmanAgent47

    Well as they say, if there are time paradoxs to time travel, it's simple, there are two of you there, doubles. Also since you can change things, creating a time paradox, that means there are alternate universes at the same time with different scenarios like the t.v show sliders. So in a way, it might be possible and we should disregard the term time paradox and use alternate universe. They are only limited to 4th dimensional thinking of our known universe. But still cool video.

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    #14  Edited By ryanwho
    @HitmanAgent47: You suppose the new world order is working on a time machine?
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    nice video. thanks for sharing.

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    #16  Edited By Hiashi

    Very interesting, I'll have to finish watching this when i get home from work.
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    #17  Edited By Jimbo

    Dude is super stoked about the recoil on the portal gun.  It would probably break his heart if you explained the concept of animations to him.

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    #18  Edited By Geno

    From a gamer's perspective I'm cringing at how he's playing with a touchpad at what looks like 10fps. 

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    #19  Edited By wonderhare

    Amazing! Thanks for sharing, duder!

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    #20  Edited By foggel

    Whoah the fps was LOW on that laptop.

    But a very interesting video indeed.

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    #21  Edited By supercubedude

    The way he got excited about movement of your character or the recoil of your gun kinda freaked me out at the end.

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    #22  Edited By EVO

    I'd love to see these guys talk Noby Noby Boy.

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    #23  Edited By jmrwacko
    @EVO said:
    " I'd love to see these guys talk Noby Noby Boy. "
    Dude. Yes.
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    #24  Edited By Green_Incarnate

    Why they skip maths?

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    #25  Edited By tearhead

    This may be the copious amout of alcohol I've drank tonught, but this video blew my FUCKING MINF!!!!!

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    #26  Edited By frythefly
    @Green_Incarnate:

    They released a bonus video with extra content in which Prof Moriarty discusses conservation of momentum and differantial equations. I put it here and in the first post:

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