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Kasz216 on 23 June 2013
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Jumpin said:
deskpro2k3 said:

Superman. His sneeze can blow away solar systems, and can survive super nova explosions. Can reach speeds 8x faster than light. Spoiler: can fly away and withstand a singularity black hole. See movie: Man of Steel.


Saying anything can reach 8X the speed of light is logically absurd considering what we have known about light speed travel for about 100 years now. That's like saying Superman can travel 8 times the speed of infinite because, relative to a photon traveling between two points, the space time distance to travel between is 0 and therefore instant, or at infinite speed between any two points no matter what their distance.

If you were accelerating at any rate towards a destination, the dilation of space time would cause you to reach the destination object before light speed could be reached. For example, if you were traveling from earth to an object 10 light years away, and accelerated so that you could hit it in 10 minutes, relative to you, light still travels at your speed + C, but the universe for you has shrunk in size relative to you due to time dilation. When you speed back to earth in 10 minutes; 20 minutes will have passed for you, but ~19 years, 364 days, 23 hours, and 40 minutes, would have passed for everyone else. Relative to them, you were traveling close to the speed of C for nearly 20 years. Relative to you, the journey was much shorter.


In the real world sure.  However in the DC Universe things are a bit different.  There is an additional force in the universe called the speed force.  Beings who tap into it can in fact travel faster then the speed of light.   This is because the Speed force essentially reverses the basic forces of speed as we understand them.

 

When a character like Superman or Flash speeds up, instead of time speeding up looking like you watching the universe in fast foward, the opposite happens.  Time around you slows down.  (Oddly enough it doesn't age you faster like you'd expect either, but hey, different universal force.)


It's something that wasn't really worth mentioning because of how one sideded the fight was anway, but that was something else the Deathbattle guys got wrong.

He breaks the speed of light on panel so often it's really "standard".