Originally posted by Naija boy
Hmm well, upon seeing the feat, the closest real life parallel I can think of is the significant amount of energy needed to warp space or create curvature in spacetime ala (Blackhole). The most recent of which Afaik can was done by a NASA scientist, Harold Sonny white, who came up with a warp drive design that required 6.5x10^19 joules. There have also been other estimations some of which suggest that it would require more energy than exists within the entire universe. None of these estimates though are based off of very concrete science and are all largely speculative.
You're confusing producing a controlled warp of space-time(intended for possible ftl travel) with breaking it down with brute strength. Superficially they might be the same thing, but for the intents and purposes of this discussion, making warp bubbles(which is what Harold White's theories are primarily involved in) for ftl space flight isn't relevant to the discussion about how much power Trion Juggs could output when he performed that feat.
Plus, all those estimates are actually dependent upon the size of the warp field being discussed in the said problem, along with other things like geometry of the exotic matter being used, and the oscillations involved with the intensity of the space warp etc. The math involved rarely changes from what I am aware of. It's basically intelligently manipulating various other factors in order to reduce the overall power required to accomplish such feat, with said power being gargantuan to begin with when performed in a crudely simplistic fashion. Which is somewhat similar to what Trion Juggs did: crudely tearing a hole in the fabric of space-time with his fists alone.
On that same note though, we can also argue that it's unknown what exactly is required for blowing up such astronomically huge objects like planets, moons, suns and galaxies. You mentioned a while back that we can make rough estimates based on real-life examples about how much energy/force is required to accomplish such an enormous task. IRL, nobody has witnessed first-hand the destruction of a planet, or a moon, or a galaxy. Again the bast we have are estimates based upon the peer-reviewed scientific knowledge that is most widely accepted in various elite academia at the time. Not really that different from the practice of utilizing what we know about what it takes to rip/break/tear/bend the space-time fabric, in order to gauge Trion Juggs' feat.
Originally posted by Naija boy
Our understanding of general relativity precludes space from actually ripping in the comic sense. Some string theorists posit that it can but I'm unaware of any quantication of the energy or conditions it would take to do that. But i def could have missed something.
That would in the RL sense, not the comic sense imo. Comic writers will interpret it as "he broke the very fabric of space-time!" in order to convey the gravity of such a feat to a layperson.