do portals really exist? SERIOUS ANSWER PLEASE ANSWER!!!!!!?

Question

After I played this game called portal my friend told me that portals really exist! I didnt beleve him but he showed me steven haking's page on facebook or wikipedia, idk which but anyways, it proves that they exist!

So does there a company like apeture really exist? I want to design a portal for the indian restaraunt i work at, im sure i will get a promotion then...

i am pretty sure i have seen portals before btw so i no they're real.

Answer 1

Oh yes, they are real alright.



But do you have the special abilities required to create one?

Answer 2

Are Portals Real

Answer 3

I don't think that there is an answer to your question because Portals can't be proven one way or another.

You are designing A portal for a restaruant? And you were asking if they really exist?

I am not sure what you are asking.



I believe there are portals but they are so spiritual that no human can really know or understand what they are. I also believe that there are evil portals so personally I wouldn't get too into this stuff unless you are very spiritually grounded and able to face something evil if that is what a portal has in store for you.

Answer 4

hypothetically speaking, yeah, there are plenty of scientists who have been trying to figure this one out,... though i personally don't think it would be another universe... all together. probably more like an alternate reality. if you know what i mean. imagine our world exactly like it is, except for example, the holocaust never happened, it would be completely different, and have a totally different history. Science tells us that the same particle can exist in two places at one time, to me this is a fascinating discovery. the idea of Parallel realities is the same thing; If a particle can exist in two places at the same time which allows us to imagine that almost any particle can exist in two places at the same time meaning almost ANYTHING can exist in two places at the same time. if you have two time lines, each one from a different reality, it would theoretically overlap in certain places, since nothing is completely straight and regular. with that theory in mind it's hypothetically possible that you could jump from one reality to another, but we are VERY far away from going anywhere near that kind of science, it's way beyond our reach. Despite the fact that many renowned scientists spent a great deal of their lives investigating these theories, we're still not much closer to even proving there's such a thing as Parallel universes/realities.

Answer 5

Aperture Science and all their technology is fictional. Sorry to disappoint. Yes, even the turrets and the Companion Cube.



What you saw on Stephen Hawking's page is more likely to be a diagram of a wormhole. They are also imaginary, but the mathematics behind them is based on General Relativity so we at least know how they could work.

They are similar to portals BUT (a) you need a ball of negative matter the weight of Jupiter to make one, and we don't think any negative matter actually exists, and (b) making one big enough to walk through would definitely destroy the Earth and if it's a small one the Moon might still be in one piece at the end.



Basically, portals are purely imaginary and wormholes may exist but if there were any on Earth, we'd know for sure. (You can tell from the way the atmosphere is blasted into space.)



EDIT: Sorry for going into Thread Mode here, but wormholes are still only imaginary. We know how you would go about making one if you had the raw materials, but it requires Negative Matter. Negative Matter is matter that has a negative mass (e.g. you could have a lump of it that weighs -1 kg). It is entirely different from antimatter, which is real and very useful but has a positive mass. No physical model that I know of predicts the existence of Negative Matter.

Answer 6

I noticed some erroneous answers. Worm holes are not imaginary. They are mathematically proven. As for the negative matter, I assume you mean anti-matter. Anti-matter is not only not imaginary, we use anti-matter in medicine, a PET scanner is Positron Emission Tomography. Positrons are anti electrons , which is anti-matter. Next, I don't believe you can create a portal by playing a game.

Answer 7

They real alright, But the big question is not if they real....but do we have the technology to actually use this portals. All I know is that everything has ripples and wrinkles in the 3rd dimension, this is true in the 4th dimension. Now Stephen Hawking said that if you go small enough to a place called the Quantum Foam you see wrinkles in time, were tiny shortcuts exist in space and time. But he said to stabilize such energy seems impossible with the technology we have. He also said something about paradoxes.....here check it out http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOezD5zguQo

Answer 8

dear best answer , you do not need special abilities to create a portal , u need strong belief most humans believe its not possible since u were grown with that watch divergent and try to understand.

Answer 9

June 29, 2012: A favorite theme of science fiction is "the portal"--an extraordinary opening in space or time that connects travelers to distant realms. A good portal is a shortcut, a guide, a door into the unknown. If only they actually existed....



It turns out that they do, sort of, and a NASA-funded researcher at the University of Iowa has figured out how to find them.



"We call them X-points or electron diffusion regions," explains plasma physicist Jack Scudder of the University of Iowa. "They're places where the magnetic field of Earth connects to the magnetic field of the Sun, creating an uninterrupted path leading from our own planet to the sun's atmosphere 93 million miles away."

Hidden Portals (splash)

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Observations by NASA's THEMIS spacecraft and Europe's Cluster probes suggest that these magnetic portals open and close dozens of times each day. They're typically located a few tens of thousands of kilometers from Earth where the geomagnetic field meets the onrushing solar wind. Most portals are small and short-lived; others are yawning, vast, and sustained. Tons of energetic particles can flow through the openings, heating Earth's upper atmosphere, sparking geomagnetic storms, and igniting bright polar auroras.



NASA is planning a mission called "MMS," short for Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission, due to launch in 2014, to study the phenomenon. Bristling with energetic particle detectors and magnetic sensors, the four spacecraft of MMS will spread out in Earth's magnetosphere and surround the portals to observe how they work.



Just one problem: Finding them. Magnetic portals are invisible, unstable, and elusive. They open and close without warning "and there are no signposts to guide us in," notes Scudder.

Hidden Portals (Polar data, 200px)

Computer models based on data from NASA's Polar spacecraft, circa 1998, provided crucial clues to finding magnetic X-points.

Actually, there are signposts, and Scudder has found them.



Portals form via the process of magnetic reconnection. Mingling lines of magnetic force from the sun and Earth criss-cross and join to create the openings. "X-points" are where the criss-cross takes place. The sudden joining of magnetic fields can propel jets of charged particles from the X-point, creating an "electron diffusion region."

To learn how to pinpoint these events, Scudder looked at data from a space probe that orbited Earth more than 10 years ago.



"In the late 1990s, NASA's Polar spacecraft spent years in Earth's magnetosphere," explains Scudder, "and it encountered many X-points during its mission."



Because Polar carried sensors similar to those of MMS, Scudder decided to see how an X-point looked to Polar. "Using Polar data, we have found five simple combinations of magnetic field and energetic particle measurements that tell us when we've come across an X-point or an electron diffusion region. A single spacecraft, properly instrumented, can make these measurements."



This means that single member of the MMS constellation using the diagnostics can find a portal and alert other members of the constellation. Mission planners long thought that MMS might have to spend a year or so learning to find portals before it could study them. Scudder's work short cuts the process, allowing MMS to get to work without delay.



It's a shortcut worthy of the best portals of fiction, only this time the portals are real. And with the new "signposts" we know how to find them.



The work of Scudder and colleagues is described in complete detail in the June 1 issue of the Physical Review Letters.