Re: (TFT) eternal gates?

[Michael Taylor <MichaelTaylor1@compuserve.com>]

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The coin starts at zero speed, and is dropped and falls through the
bottom gate.  The bottom gate sends it to the top gate, and it falls
again...  It's accelerating because it's falling, and it keeps falling,
and accelerating, forever, because the gate in question is eternal
because (it was stated) a Gate set to 'always on' only activates _once_,
when being created, and so does not ever check again for failure.

If the coin accelerates forever, it will reach C, and have infinite
mass.  Sometime well before that, relativistic effects will destroy the
planet these gates were put on.  Or perhaps something will get in front
of that coin, and produce a bang big enough to destroy one of the gates.
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Hmmm....okay. That makes more sense. But if we make the assumption that the
rest of the world outside the gate affects the travel of the coin normally
then wont a big gust of wind eventually blow the coin out of the gates
diamter (3x3 meters)?

Or at least when the coin gets going to the speed of sound (750 mph) it's
own breaking of the sound barrier  will probably knock itself out of the
gate?

It seems to me that one of the *nice* limitations on magical spells is that
the ideas it would take to make this experiement work (a "Create Vacuum
Tunnel" spell) are usually beyond the imagination of TL3 wizards.

Of course, for those playing Babylon 5's Techno Mages thats another
problem, but you see my point...

Michael


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