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Comment author: gwern 28 July 2014 06:21:12PM 1 point [-]

(It's A, right?)

investigate people's different intuitions of physics.

To some extent, 'folk physics' has already been studied a fair bit. For example, see the links at the end of http://lesswrong.com/lw/khd/confound_it_correlation_is_usually_not_causation/ about a quiz designed to measure how well people understand Newtonian mechanics and to what extent they succumb to incorrect folk physics beliefs.

Comment author: [deleted] 28 July 2014 06:27:16PM 0 points [-]

Yes, assuming portals conserve momentum (which I believe they do in the Portal canon).

Comment author: Lumifer 28 July 2014 06:43:49PM 1 point [-]

Speedy thing goes in, speedy thing comes out :-D