Creshok, not sure what your prob is, but thought we were having a nice little debate here. NO need for the hostility I'm sensing.
Now, do I have trouble understanding simple concepts? I don't think so. The fact is that YOU were the one who originally wrote this:
" Vader deflects laser bolts. Those move at the speed of light."
MOVE AT THE SPEED OF LIGHT...just because now that statement has been shown to be idiotic don't try and turn the tables and say that you meant something else, and that I am slow for not seeing it.
Moving on: Now that you admit that laser bolts move nowhere near as fast as light, lets take a look at your cover up argument:
laser bolts move at 1/8 the speed of light...hmmm...where exactly did you pull that number from? You know that the speed of light in air is only slightly slower than the speed of light in a vacuum which is just about 300,000,000 m/s . So 1/8th of that is 37.5 million m/s!!! With that velocity the laser bolt could just about circle the Earth in 1 second! Again you are vastly overestimating the speed of laser bolts.
And based on your math "knowledge", if a bolt moves at 1/8th speed of light then Vader must move at 1/8th the speed of light to block it. If 3 bolts were fired then Vader must move at 3/8th speed of light and on and on. By YOUR logic if 8 bolts were fired Vader would have to move at the SPEED of LIGHT to block them!
Heaven forbid if there were more than 8 bolts fired...again by YOUR logic if there were, say, 16 bolts fired Vader would have to move at 2x the speed of light to block them!!!!
Now, of course you logic is messed so don't worry Vader won't have to move that fast, but unfortunately if 8 bolts were fired at him from 8 different directions, and the bolts were fired from the same distance and fired at the same time...guess what? Vader would have to move at INFINITE speed to block them!!! They would all arrive at the EXACT same time. The number of bolts fired has NOTHING to do with the equation.
distance / velocity = time ... since each bolt travels at the same speed, as long as they are fired from the same distance, the time is the same for all of them. this is true if there is 1 bolt fired or 50.