Nah he's wrong, this is why lawyers bring in the experts outside of their area.
Literally looked up which is faster, got this:
"Used in this way, the picosecond laser is comparable to a strobe, which can freeze the motion of a sprinter's stride in time-lapse photography. One femtosecond — a quadrillionth, or million billionth, of a second — is a thousand times shorter than the picosecond snippets of time in which molecules react."
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And how's it remotely comparable? Imagine if I started saying all of Flash's feats are purple prose because he gets hit by normal humans all the time, that's basically what dumbo is saying.
If you boil down the posts you quoted on the last page, they're just saying statements on their own =/= feats
"Purple prose" is just a phrase. The problem is that prose means dick all if the prose is unrelated to something that actually happened
It's the same trap you stumbled into in the post I quoted. You claimed "picosecond feat" and then we want back and forth for a few pages and then everybody (but you) agreed that it was actually just a statement about something that didn't take place. You just got stoked about the word picosecond appearing.
That said, feat or not, if Flash or Supes or another high end speedster say they can observe or react in attosecond or microsecond or picosecond, do you believe them?
I would tend to believe as much with characters with such high end demonstrated feats.
It can be hard to balance prose and hyperbole sometimes though.
Like one recently was someone saying Hulk could grab a handful of sun.
Like no there was no feat involved, but I really don’t think it’s outside of the realm of possibility for him to lift something with that weight/mass, given what we’ve seen before.
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Sure, statements are more credible if they have the feats to back it up. But all that does is distinguish credible from non-credible statements. Ultimately everything turns on the actual feats and a statement (taken on its own, disconnected from any actual event) is not that.
In other words: a femtosecond feat makes a statement about picosecond potential seem more credible. But you couldn't hold up that statement on its own as proof of anything.
That's what dumbo is arguing and you're supporting, Superman's statement of nanosecond or femtosecond are invalid because Felix Faust hit him or Sensor Girl did something after auto shields of Brainiac 5 stopped Superman from reaching her.
I can invalidate pretty much any feat by this logic.
There's no picosecond feat in comics in general then, because all of those are simply statements and as we know, statements are weightless.
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I'd believe Superman as much as I'd believe Quicksilver. Depends on their personality and history of statements. Superman doesn't overtly lie but you don't have to cherrypick certain statements to know he sometimes overstates sh1t, e.g., most afraid of J'onn J'onnz in the universe, etc. Pietro in the mean time is one arrogant sumb1tch. But he is solely a speedster. So it kinda balances out. Boyscout who overstates the situation vs jerk whose entire career is about superspeed.
Agreed. But if the the slightest scrutinization reveals the prose as self-contradictory, leave it as hyperbole. Comics are inconsistent enough as they are with so many different writers. Trying to elevate a single questionable feat as if it ought to define a decades-old character (whose been interpreted by hundreds of writers) is unreliable apologetics at best, feat-fishing propaganda at worst.
Once again, agreed. Quicksilver operating on a scale well beyond light speed? Acting like three picoseconds are an eternity? Despite having little to no light superspeed feats? Maybe, just maybe chalk it up to self-aggrandization. Point of posting it is to see who is being consistent with their own standards much less wider KMC standards. Stirring the pot, as it were.
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