Superman's Punch There are a lot of characters in comics, games and TV shows that if they actually did all that they say that they’ll do in real life; they’d probably bring down towns! Two of the perfect examples of this are the famous Superman, the first ever super hero from the DC Comic Series and Sonic The Hedgehog who was a Super Speed Hedgehog made into a game by SEGA. So Superman can do a lot of things, including punching someone all the way into space, flying up to them and then punching them back down to the ground in seconds. So what if a man who could punch you into space, power the sun, and punch dimensions apart was to punch you?
First off there’s an important factor to remember, any superhero’s powers are determined based on who wrote the comic so throughout the years superman’s powers have changed drastically, he went from “being able to leap building in a single bound” to having the power to fly in space. For the purposes of making this easier on the brain let’s just choose the theory that states that Superman can fly at the speed of light. However since anything with mass can’t go the speed of light he can’t go 2,99,792,458m/s he’ll have to be downgraded to going 99% the speed of light or, 294,794,533m/s, that’s 973,735,000 ft/s! So if the Man of Steel is coming at you at this speed and not holding back what kind of trouble are you in for really? A lot. Let’s assume that his hand is 300g and moving at 99% the speed of light then he’d be coming at you with 190 quadrillion joules of energy which is 250 billion times more powerful then the bomb dropped on Hiroshima.
So the largest bomb ever created is now condensed into a fist and is aimed right at your face, Superman is going too fast for you to duck or move so what will happen when that punch, inevitably, hits your face? Since that amount of energy being released creates a huge amount of heat that’s five million times the amount of the heat of our sun and since light takes about one centa-second to go from your eye to your brain you literally would never see the punch coming. Everything around you would be going to slow that time would appear to be frozen, everything would be suspended in time and since all the oxygen and hydrogen is suspended and Superman’s fist is hitting them so quickly that when he’s even coming to hit you he’d be creating nuclear fusion all around him while coming towards you. Like a nuclear bomb there’d be a giant fireball and plume of smoke as well as a blast wave that would rip everything in a radius of 100m out of the ground.
When it comes to you existing after this punch, forget it. Superman’s punch has now become a particle beam that’s stronger than the US’s Particle Accelerator in Virginia. Superman would’ve turned you back into your most absolute state, your atoms would be torn apart at the molecular level and you’d turn back into the fundamental particles that the original Big Bang created.
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