I get that just running straight is usually faster and he can run on water, but if he wanted to, could he leap via momentum? Has he ever used a Flash Glider?
I get that just running straight is usually faster and he can run on water, but if he wanted to, could he leap via momentum? Has he ever used a Flash Glider?
It really, REALLY depends on which Flash we’re talking about. Even then it’s super inconsistent.
I’m Snyderverse, he’s faster than light and rewinds time. I think on the TV show he does this too. But then sometimes other people can react to him? Idk it’s pretty dumb. If we’re applying physics to Flash, if he’s even running at 25% the speed of light, and the air he’s hitting isn’t causing a wave of fusion reactions akin to a supersonic shock wave from a fighter jet, colliding with something solid isn’t going to be much different.
Somehow as he’s breaking through the light speed barrier gravity still affects him. But at those speeds he’s got enough momentum to leave the solar system if he runs off an incline and does a little hop I guess. He seems really stuck to the ground otherwise.
Meanwhile I’m still hung up on the idea that there’s more than one Flash. I am not a comics person at all, I am a physics person.
Lol there are 10 flash or flash adjacent characters that I can think of off the top of my head.
And every time one runs into a wall at fatal speeds, two slower ones appear.
Comics are weird. Asking questions like, could the Flash run so fast he exits the universe can almost always be answered with “if the plot calls for it.”
He has the power of fast. He goes exactly as fast as he needs to. It’s magic, not science. They make it sound like science but it’s magic.
Kinda like how Tony Stark invents time travel in an afternoon, or Peter Parker affords an apartment in NYC of even only barely.
Which is a big part of why I never got into comics. I didn’t read them as a kid, and as an adult it seems like I’d have to sift through too much reality- (or at least immersion-) breaking nonsense.