Like, the way it is shown to be able to run through the whole city or even to the next city. What i mean is, its unreal for one to have the Mental Fortitude to cross long distances like that, especially filled with obstacles, objects, turns, people to be wary of.If you have Super-Speed, even if you run through all those miles/kilometers for 5 minutes, your brain still has to process all the way you have run through. It won't feel like 5 minutes for you, but for MUCH more, and even if you are not physically exhausted, you will feel mental exhaustion. Now imagine its about a city. You have to consider every obstacle or object. To calculate every turn. To keep every person safe, from your speed. To process the sounds from every car, mind traffic-lights, all the decision-makings, etc.How would/could Super-Speed work then? I honestly see it working if its about short spurts , sprint a short distanceOr if you are to dodge a bullet -What you guys/gals think?
Have you ever thought, how unreal the Super-Speed power is?
That makes sense yeah. But most people with that power perceive things differently when they use their speed ability (I'm talking about the Flash but im sure other speed characters have this too). Like if a normal person were to sprint, his eyes and brain would have to keep up with everything thats happening under the affect of his speed.
Time works differently for speedsters. It's like they have their own aspect of time. The Flash while using his ability can simply jog through a city as if time is immensely slow for him, while we feel like he's speeding through the city. So from his perspective things are very slow or even frozen which makes it easy for him to avoid obstacles and process his traveling. But if they were to move in a speed that's fast even for their perspective (they rarely do that) they would have trouble processing what they're seeing or where they were headed.
True but I don't blame them. The whole speed super power thing itself is kinda complicated. I don't think any show would include internal struggles like that when there are simpler plots and storylines lol. Although it'd be nice to have a comic or show where its depicted realistically
I don't consider it that "unreal". Many existing species of animals actually process time at rates vastly different from ours. It's just unthinkable for us, because we are incapable of perceiving events that way.
I always imagined it as being super drunk or high, it's a different cognitive state that wouldn't seem quite right to a sober mind.
I think of it like that one guy, on the X-men movies, Quicksilver (I think his name is) where time seems to slow down for him, cause he is moving so fast. So he has time to think, adjust, adapt and I suppose in theory if you are moving so fast, it would seem like everything else has slowed down and that time is not moving at its normal speed.
Not to mention the air friction. Like if a human body just goes from zero to 1000, that’s going to cause some kind of explosion, go fast enough and you’ll become a human sized hadron collider nuclear beam of energy
I think the only thing I can't understand is if you are travelling at Mach 3 nd you have to take a 90 degree corner the centrifugal force would knock you off your feet.
I think that somewhere, there's an autist laughing at the notion that "your brain has to process all the way you have run through". You and I simply mentally glide through oceans of sensory data our brains choose to ignore; the idea that that would somehow stop above a certain threshold is just silly.
You know what's not silly? Friction. Beyond a certain point, you'd get serious Indian burns just from moving, and running would probably make your skin burst into flames.
No, because my brain ignores the constant barrage of sensory input that it causes. So, evidently, does yours. At any given moment, the brain of an autist is, for the same experience, processing between two and twenty times as much sensory data as an allistic's. Our brains screen out unnecessary stuff; they'd do the same for moving at high speeds.
I DID read your other comments; that's why I responded to them. And you can indeed parrot yourself; the point is that you SHOULDN'T- you should explain why processing less data doesn't reduce the amount of time and effort needed to process all the data.
Processing more, means more effort, more energy used up, and perhaps more time needed. All of this at the behalf of mental fortitude. I already mentioned, our brains use up 20% of our energy. now imagine you have Super-Speed and you have to run up 500 meters - a walk in the park. But then, someone from the nearby city calls for you. You will get in there in 5 minutes real time,... But for you it might be like 2 hours as time percepted. While considering directions, turns, watching for obstacles.
Guess you won't understand, if you don't try. or if you don't want in the first place
I've never really thought about how unreal this or any other super power is. In addition to super speed, a super hero with this power must have the ability to increase their brain function.
The speed their brain process it increase. It happens a bit with us too, when we run our fastest. Now imagine it in a much higher level, for those SuperHeroes, and for much longer time. The energy that will be needed. Our brain already consumes 20% of our energy, everyday
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