Superman? time travel?

Question

I remember in one of the superman films he tries to stop Lois Lane from dying by flying round the Earth causing it to spin the other direction and causing time to reverse, were they all stoned in the seventies because that`s just mental in my opinion, any intellectual views on this? would Earth`s rotation affect time?

Answer 1

if we spun at the speed of light, everything around us would seem to slow down time wise.

turning the planet in the opposite direction would make it look like the sun was moving backwards, but it truely wouldn't effect time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHC8z6ULs18

leviathan, yes you can move at the speed of light, as long as your made of light, or find a way to remove your "mass"

Answer 2

The only way I can possibly justify that scene is that maybe he had the ability to turn time backwards in a certain area by going a certain speed and the earth's retrograde rotation was simply a by-product of that time reversal, NOT the cause of the time reversal.

If you turned back time for the whole earth, wouldn't it start to rotate the opposite direction as it moved back to the time you wanted?

Answer 3

You can't fly faster than the speed of light - doesn't matter how 'super' you are.

The reason for this is that approaching lightspeed your mass increases (requiring an infinite amount of energy to actually accelerate up to c, which doesn't exist) without limit and time slows down. Some people have inferred that faster than light time goes backwards but this isn't really reasonable. Any hypothesis that starts 'if you could do this impossible thing, then -' isn't really worth listening to.

Another problem with this childish misunderstanding of Einstein's relativity, assuming it WAS possible to fly faster than t he speed of light, ok so time would go backwards, but only for you - not the whole universe, the idea of unspinning the earth to turn back time? Utter rubbish. If he could stop the rotation of the Earth he'd probably caused more earthquakes than he fixed!

For some humorous understandings of these kind of mistakes check our a book by Lawrence Krauss, 'the physics of star trek'

You might find this of value, too.

http://science.howstuffworks.com/framed.htm?parent=sci-fi.htm&url=http://www.intuitor.com/moviephysics/

Mercury, I said you can't fly FASTER.

Answer 4

it relies upon on which time's Superman Your speaking approximately, as a results of fact for a stretch between 1960- 80 5? He became given the potential in actuality play a one guy baseball interest w/ planets, consequently explaining the 'rewind earth' ending interior the 1978 action picture maximum cutting-side Superman thoughts have him desiring an Oxygen tank or area deliver for significant return and forth, and getting by employing w protecting/controlling his respiratory for close to orbital flights.

Answer 5

No it wouldn't. That's why I hate Superman as a super-hero because he does ridiculous god-like things like that. If the portrayal of him were more "realistic" he'd be worshipped as a deity and people would be killing each other in his name.

Venus spins in the opposite direction to Earth and we know that time doesn't go backwards there, as we have sent probes to the surface.

It's complete tosh.

Answer 6

This is a ridiculous discussion. The rotational direction of a celestial body has no correlation to the measurment of time.

Answer 7

flying around the earth the way superman did, will only cause catastrophic air turbulance resulting in massive hurricanes, tornadoes, cyclones all over the planet. he will be destroying everything in the proces.

Answer 8

Of course it wouldn't...but dude...its superman...its fiction. I've seen quite a bit of stuff in movies and books that wont ever happen. Are we stoned now because we watch and read harry potter? Most of them probably are, but you know what i mean

Answer 9

Get a grip on reality, the very concept of Superman is ludicrous.