Comment on How long would it take for a ball rolling across the room to bounce off the wall and get back to you - but the room has a time traveling portal halfway through?

Deestan@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

Assuming it comes back through the portal, and it took 4 seconds with no portal.

Your stopwatch will measure 4 seconds when the portal is there.

A stopwatch in the ball will measure 4 seconds when the portal is there.

If you want to take stepwise measurements based on your clock, the ball will be at time 1 sec before going through the portal, time negative 1,767,225,598 when it hits the wall, 3 sec after it exits the portal second time, 4 sec when it reaches you.

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