On Mon, 07 Feb 2000 16:42:38 -0500, Chris Huff
<chr### [at] yahoocom> wrote:

>In article <389e7642@news.povray.org>, "Mick Hazelgrove" 
><mha### [at] mindaswinternetcouk> wrote:
>
>> The other version I mention in my last post - the other side.
>
>Great image! Especially the grass and the flower-things...the footpath 
>to the portal was also done well.
>Only one thing...the portal appears to open into empty space. Shouldn't 
>the atmosphere be rushing through the portal, creating a small tornado 
>and sucking everything in the area along with it? Or does the physics of 
>the portal prevent that?(a gravitational field surrounding the other 
>"end" of the portal, strong enough to hold a spherical cloud of 
>atmosphere with enough pressure to keep the air from passing through?)
>Or am I just over-analyzing?

Perhaps the physics of this portal only allows fast-moving things like
light to get through, and not large slowly moving objects such as
molecules of air? In this case, the portal is not something that one
could travel through, but only an "observation window."

later,
Glen Berry

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