ok so every so often this fucking image pops up on one of my timelines and i have to write another paragraph stating the extremely obvious, so i wanna just write out all the reasons it's B so i can just link here and not have to think about ot again. here we go, a thread

before anything else, people have modified the game engine to allow for movable portals, and in the game, A happens. however, what matters is what would happen if portals were real, and as I'll show they'd do B.

so, we know that for static portals, the speed at which an object comes out of a portal equals the speed at which it entered: velocity in = velocity out. speedy thing goes in, speedy thing goes out, and all that.

but what happens when portals move?

it works the same way, except we need the object's velocity relative to the portal. velocity out = object velocity - entrance portal velocity + exit portal velocity, assuming the portals are facing opposite directions

if you put portals on both sides of a wall or something, and you throw that wall on top of an object, the object wont move and the wall will just fall around it like a hula hoop. this is because the velocity of the object relative to the entrance portal is conserved, but it's cancelled out because the exit portal is moving in the same way.

however, if the exit portal is static to an outside observer, the relative velocity of the object to the entrance will still be conserved, except it won't be cancelled out by the movement of the exit portal, so the object will shoot out the exit at the same speed as the entrance was moving

in the first scenario:

entrance portal velocity = exit portal velocity
object velocity = 0
velocity out = object velocity - entrance portal velocity + exit portal velocity
velocity out = object velocity = 0
the object doesn't move

in the second scenario:

exit portal velocity = 0
entrance portal velocity < exit portal velocity
object velocity = 0
velocity out = object velocity - entrance portal velocity + exit portal velocity
= 0 - entrance portal velocity + 0
and since the entrance velocity is negative, the object will shoot out the static exit portal at the same speed the entrance was moving towards it.

and just so i come off extra-clearly, here are some helpful illustrations
@nddragoon these are all helpful, especially this one.