How exactly does Superman fly? I know he is a highly evolved specimen from Krypton, and in his description at the beginning of the first Superman comic, it is said that Kal-El would be able to accomplish great feats such as super strength, invulnerability, so on and so forth. How, though, is he able to fly? If anything, being highly evolved would entail his jumping super high, right? He'd be more comparable to the Juggernaut. He has no aerodynamic body as birds do...it's just like a human's aside from the perks. What gives?
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The mechanism by which he flies is unknown, but some suggestions have been a field of energy allowing unconscious manipulation of gravity or defract/reflect of gravity due to unidentified Kryptonian organs affected by a yellow sun, or psionic manipulation of a personal anti-gravitational aura, which is also caused by his Kryptonian cells and a yellow sun. Superman has been able to fly to the moon in under two minutes. During the Silver Age of comics, Superman could fly at superluminal speeds, allowing him to traverse intergalactic space and to break the time barrier.
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His body creates gravitons which create waves, he is able to ride off these waves and fly. This was a theory thought by scientists studying Superman and coming up with plausible explanations for his powers.
Perhaps it has something to do with magnitism. He can draw himself towards or push himself away from the Earth.
Defying gravity makes him float, and his super-strength thus compels him forward enabling him to fly.
Superman used to jump from one building to the other though. He didn't originally fly. So really, he flies because the creators made him. End of story.
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The real question is, is how can he fly and lift multi-ton objects at the same time while in the air and, sometimes, while at high speeds. That right there just doubly defies his flight.
But anyway. I think he just uses sheer will to fly. Sheer Kryptonian will, which i'm assuming is way more stronger than ours is. As humans.
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I propose that Superman flies via the same mechanism which makes him invulnerable: his bioelectric aura.
For invulnerability, his aura is scalar: it's a magnitude of energy with no direction. By willpower, affecting the cells of his body and thus the aura, he can turn it into a vector: magnitude with direction.
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In birth right we find out that his costume is indestructible, when he attains it from his space ship. This cancel the need for his bio electrical aura.
Sorry i wasn't very clear, his molecular density provides him with his invulnerability. The bio electrical aura was invented by Bryne to provide a suitable explanation for why his clothes where rarely ever destroyed, as the bio aura could encompass his skin tight costume as well as his body. Since Birthright, and the use of the indestructible clothing again there is no need for his bio electrical aura.
Personally, I always liked the pre-crisis idea that anything which came from Krypton became indestructible under a yellow sun...a nice consistency. Plus, the bioelectric aura raised other questions.
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