Metro man vs All-Star Superman

Originally posted by ares834
Nah. He has it backwards. If a single second for me is a minute for you then you would seem to be moving 60 times faster than normal.

You're basically saying the same thing I said, just in different lingo. I said "time standing still"; you said "instantaneous travel".

To an outsider affected normally by the flow of time it would appear as Superman instantly traveled.

No other way. To Superman it would feel like he instantly traveled, to a person in normal time it would feel like he was simply going light speed. Afterall, light for us doesn't seem like it instantly traveled.

LoL, same thing. We're talking about faster than light-speed.

But are you telling me when you turn on a flashlight and it hits the wall it doesn't feel like it's instant? You can perceive the flow of the light leaving the bulb, as it leaves the bulb? I don't think so, buddy, not even if you're Australian.

How is it the same thing? You are saying in Superman's perceptions everything would be slowed down right? I'm saying everything would be sped up in his perceptions. Complete opposite.

In the case of a flashflight the distances are to small to notice. But I certainly notice it with the sun.

What? Why would everything be sped up? He's moving faster in relation to the world, not the other way around.

Because a second for him would be more than a second for us. So, shouldn't we seem sped up to him?

Addmitedly, I could be thinking about it in the wrong way.

you are.

No, a second would go by faster for him than it would for us. He experiences a full minute while we just get a few seconds.

Look at the scene with MetroMan's speed. He's moving so fast that people seem like statues to him. His perception of time has been greatly sped up.

Originally posted by Nephthys
No, a second would go by faster for him than it would for us. He experiences a full minute while we just get a few seconds.

Hmm... You sure? I looked for the equation online but got a bunch of conflicting results. However, the common example of time dilation would seem to imply otherwise. Lets say I go on a speeding rocket for ten years. When I return I have only aged one year and only expirenced one year, yet everyone sle on the world would have expirenced and aged ten years.

Edit: My bad on the equation. It appears in some T0 is the statinary object's time reference and in others the moving.

T0/T= [1-(v^2)/(c^2)]^(1/2)

T= stationary object's time
T0= Moving object's time
v=velocity
c as usual is speed of light

Originally posted by ares834
How is it the same thing? You are saying in Superman's perceptions everything would be slowed down right? I'm saying everything would be sped up in his perceptions. Complete opposite.

In the case of a flashflight the distances are to small to notice. But I certainly notice it with the sun.

In that case, you're wrong and have it backwards.

You notice sunlight traveling? Come on, dude.

Originally posted by Robtard
In that case, you're wrong and have it backwards.

It's what the equation says. The moving object expirences less time than a stationary one.

Originally posted by Robtard
You notice sunlight traveling? Come on, dude.

😬 It takes over 8 minutes for light to traverse from the Sun to Earth. That's very noticable. Plus the fact that light has a measurable velocity in reference to us shows it's not instantaneous.

Edit: Thinking about it some more for Superman it shoudln't appear sped up like I claimed but slowed down. As when he flies past the earth in his frame of reference he is stationary and the Earth is flying past him. However, for an observer on Earth Superman should also appear slowed down (not his flight speed but his breathing, heart beat, etc..) as Supes is flying past him in his FoR.