Um, special relatively just means that the few microseconds it would take for the flash to get to the sandwich shop would be fewer microseconds to The Flash. He would have to be out for an awfully long (distance) run before you would see a difference in the person he left. (One light-nanosecond is about 30 cm, aka 1 foot, so a sandwich shop within a mile would be less than 6,000 feet or 6 microseconds at the speed of light for the person in the at rest frame. If we assume some discernable fraction of c, then we are talking .01c or faster, so max of 600 microseconds, still faster than one frame at 120hz in the ’observer’s’ frame.
That’s assuming he actually travelled at some significant fraction of c, which he does not, at least in the show. All the weird stuff, like time travel, is because of the ‘speed force’, not because of anything Einstein figured out.
What’s that? This is a joke about a rediculous comic book on a sometimes rediculous comic strip and I just took it waaaaay to seriously? Oh, darn, guess I did it again.
Ida No about 6 years ago
So, who got framed here?
Say What Now‽ Premium Member about 6 years ago
If he goes faster than the speed of light maybe he could go back in time.
pumaman about 6 years ago
At least it was a bad guy.
drycurt about 6 years ago
How far did you have to go just to get a sandwich? There must be a Subway within normal walking distance.
Kip W about 6 years ago
“But I was only gone a second!”
Daeder about 6 years ago
Wouldn’t the Flash’s speed have the opposite effect?
CharlesBosse about 6 years ago
Um, special relatively just means that the few microseconds it would take for the flash to get to the sandwich shop would be fewer microseconds to The Flash. He would have to be out for an awfully long (distance) run before you would see a difference in the person he left. (One light-nanosecond is about 30 cm, aka 1 foot, so a sandwich shop within a mile would be less than 6,000 feet or 6 microseconds at the speed of light for the person in the at rest frame. If we assume some discernable fraction of c, then we are talking .01c or faster, so max of 600 microseconds, still faster than one frame at 120hz in the ’observer’s’ frame.
That’s assuming he actually travelled at some significant fraction of c, which he does not, at least in the show. All the weird stuff, like time travel, is because of the ‘speed force’, not because of anything Einstein figured out.
What’s that? This is a joke about a rediculous comic book on a sometimes rediculous comic strip and I just took it waaaaay to seriously? Oh, darn, guess I did it again.
sougieboss almost 6 years ago
well that got awkward