Originally posted by D_Dude1210
You are not the authority in comic book physics (no such authority exists), as such, everything you wrote above are simply conjectures, assumptions and downright fabrications.
Common sense is the authority friend. Not me nor you nor the writers. It is clear that the writer portrayed that Superman was pulling a whole planet. These characters never existed so it is not possible nor is it sensible to examine whether magic was negating the gravitational force. Because the feat never happened. All that matters is what the writer tries to portray, that doesn't go against common sense or isn't contradictory.
Yes, moving an object that has mass takes force. But only a minuscule amount of force is needed to move an object that has no acceleration (usually gravity) applied to it.
This is where you are clearly wrong. IF it was no Sun and the Earth was at standstill then it would take a force the magnitude of the weight of the Earth itself to accelerated it at 9.8m/s^2.
The math: Force = mass times acceleration. As long as Acceleration is zero (negated by magic) means that the planet with mass: 5.9736 × 1024 kg with it's acceleration of 0 (negated by magic) will still come up with an opposing force of 0 kgm/s2 and any force higher than zero will move it. W/c means the feat isn't all that impressive.
I explained your flaw above. You don't quite understand Newton's 1st and 2nd laws.
W/c brings us back to how moronic real world physics is when applied to comics. The fact of the matter is, with the variable of magic/GL ring applied to the equation, the use of real world physics and math becomes pointless.Post scans of this so everyone can see it to determine context.
Only basic physics can be applied to comics (Newton's Laws). Otherwise we couldn't debate on who is stronger, faster, etc.
But here are a few of the scans. The first one (the weakest one) is where my calculations come from. The second one is far greater since Superman is pulling solo against the mass of the Earth, the Sun's gravity (which can be negated), and against Starbreaker's own force (which is in the multitude of stars and was moving the Earth towards the Sun at incredible speed).
http://img690.imageshack.us/img690/7512/wwpullstheearth.jpg
http://img121.imageshack.us/img121/3946/supermanpullsplanetsolo.jpg
And let us not forget about Mageddon which dwarfs the entire Earth moon system all together.