Comments on: Superman Series: Kal-El Vs. Temporal Mechanics

By: Top Super Heroe Movies « Bringing the Fun

Top Super Heroe Movies « Bringing the Fun — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 06:58:47 +0000

[...] 9. Superman: The Movie The first of the modern day superhero movies. 1978. This was an event. It was Superman–the way he was meant to be. Larger than Life! Why: Christopher Reeve was a brilliant choice and understood the character. Why Not: This movie was almost on the top of my list. Almost. I’ve said it before, so it should come as no surprise– EVEN AS A CHILD, I KNEW THAT SUPERMAN COULDN’T SPIN OUR WORLD IN REVERSE; AND EVEN IF HE COULD, IT WOULDN’T MAKE US GO BACKWARDS IN TIME. Were these people stoned? Brain damaged? Insane? People assume sometimes that comic book movies don’t have rules– they do and when you don’t follow them, you end up with young children saying “WTF!” [...]

By: Bringing the Fun

Bringing the Fun — Sat, 22 Jul 2006 02:50:14 +0000

[...] Even back then, at that tender pre-teen age, I was an Uber Super Hero Geek. I was enjoying the movie, eyes wide open, mouth agape… right up to the point where the movie careened off the tracks and went screaming into a bottomless pit of movie hell. Fortunately, it was Christmas and there were presents from Mr. Clause when I got home. This helped take my mind off of this movie fiasco. (But the scars… the deep, deep scars and questions remained.) [...]

By: Empress Eve » Blog Archive » The Problem With Superman’s Method of Time Travel

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By: stu7004

stu7004 — Fri, 28 Apr 2006 23:50:50 +0000

If Superman were to fly at light speed in the Earth’s atmosphere, it would cause a continuous explosion bigger than all the atomic bombs blowing up at the same time. Most metors are about as big as a grain of sand, and look what they do..and they are only traveling approx 60-120,000 mph, not even 1% the speed of light. I think he flew in space, which no matter how fast he flew would put him in the future instead of the past…

By: Dave3

Dave3 — Sat, 22 Apr 2006 18:08:56 +0000

Yes, and in an effort please my editors and keep my article less science-y, I left out certain other real-world consequences of Kal-El’s actions like:

The kinetic energy alone produced by his flight would probably be enough to boil the seas, and possibly even the earth’s crust.

And molecularly speaking, no matter how fast he flew, and what direction the earth was rotation, the nano-particles (electrons, positrons, quarks…) would still be rotating in the proper directions, so ‘time’ would continue to march to their tune.

By: Kevin of Nine

Kevin of Nine — Sat, 22 Apr 2006 08:09:47 +0000

He probably can’t fly that fast within Earth’s atmosphere without consequenses, and he was schooled in the Kryptonian sciences so he was probably well aware of this….thats why he had to go outside of the atmosphere to travel faster than light speeds….thats like on Star Trek they cannot go into warp when within a planet’s atmosphere.

By: Kevin of Nine

Kevin of Nine — Sat, 22 Apr 2006 07:57:37 +0000

First of all, I would think he’d be creating massive cataclysms by reversing the Earth’s rotation, inadvertantly changing weather patterns, causing earthquakes, tsunamis, drought, volcanic eruptions, etc., which in turn would lead to pestilence, famine, diseases, etc.
I think that it was a visual representation of him travelling back in time, even when he reverts it back, it was just him returning to the proper moment in time, and you’re right, there would be 2 Supermen flying around creating a paradox, but the thing is, all he did was reverse it. It didn’t actually show him stopping the second missile from crashing, so wouldn’t the events have played out the same? And lets say he did stop the second missile, why would Lois have any memory of what happened. And what about the Superman from the correct time, didn’t he fly into the fault line to stop it? If it never happened, he wouldn’t have had any reason to go back in time, thus resulting second alternate timeline from which would result in two Supermen. It would have caused probably a hole in the fabric of the time/space continuum that would have inadvertantly destoyed the universe.
Personally I’d never do that for Margot Kidder.

By: Gilgongo

Gilgongo — Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:56:18 +0000

This has always bothered me too. Not so much the time-travel aspect but, if he can fly THAT FAST… around the world 10 or 20 times (or more) in 1 second… then he SHOULD be able to save people in China and get back in time to Metropolis to save Lois in a fraction of a second. How come it took him so long to fly down to save Lois when she fell from the helocopter? It should have been instantanious.

By: Frank

Frank — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 17:12:44 +0000

More important than this. Can I still jack into the Matrix if I have a VoIP phone?

By: GROOVESPOOK

GROOVESPOOK — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 13:35:12 +0000

Listen, this time theory issue is huge, I say we meet to discuss this last Tuesday. ps…
And can anyone give me directions to Otisville?