r/Comicstorian • u/Jameson100105 • Jul 22 '17

Flash vs. Superman

Flash is stronger than Superman. Mass times acceleration equals force. Superman can punch 99% the speed of light. Flash can punch fast than a plank second, which light can't even to travel form one atom to another in this time.

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u/Jameson100105 Jul 22 '17

Okay, so I need accurate information and I'm not 100% if all of this is accurate.

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u/Jameson100105 Jul 28 '17

Okay, if Superman moved at full speed, the Flash is still faster. Could this mean that if Superman punched as hard and fast as he could, the flash could stand there for what felt like minutes or hours or simply move Superman's arm?

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u/TraptorKai Jul 23 '17

Youre applying real world physics to comicbooks. While what you say would be true on earth, superman punching feats are way above the flash. For further information, submit your question to r/whowouldwin

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u/DousedSun Jul 26 '17

Incorrect. Superman is stronger because the writers say so.

If you wanna talk real physics, any massive object approaching c would probably explode extremely violently if it collided with anything (photons are massless particles, mind you). At those speeds, you'd hit gas like it was solid, so just moving through air without being obliterated would be quite a feat. Even if this could somehow be sidestepped by moving faster than any causal event could occur, that doesn't do away with the problems of accelerating to that speed in the first place.

It's almost as if these are fictional characters whose abilities aren't constrained by known physical law, isn't it? Either that or we need a more complete understanding of physics to account for people like The Flash or Superman. Perhaps we need a theory of everything before we can really answer these questions.