Comments on: A Scientific Paper Explaining Superman’s Powers

By: TommyO

TommyO — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 17:19:46 +0000

I’m Not Convinced!
Haven’t read the whole thing, just the intro/conclusion and it would appear that Superman would be a Telekinetic due to the following: “…alter the inertial mass of objects in His immediate vicinity…” Not buying it, no sir, try again.

By: SupermanActionFigures

SupermanActionFigures — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 12:56:20 +0000

As it says – the mechanism is unknown… – I don;t quite know who is bored enough to explore the physics of Superman’s superpowers but well, we all need to do something. Anyways, I think the analysis of the Superman’s superpowers would be really interesting from the point of view of psychological projection of human desires and values into a Superbeing. That would be amazing! Would anyone here be interested?

By: Bruce

Bruce — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 17:03:04 +0000

Many years ago I came across a book called “A Stress Analysis of a Strapless Evening Gown” which is full of this sort of thing. Just checked over at Amazon and it is back in print…

By: brett maxwell

brett maxwell — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 06:24:58 +0000

it’s funny how overthinking something isn’t funny until you waaaaay overthink it!

By: edc2

edc2 — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 05:49:53 +0000

flight = telekineses.
bulletproof = dense sub protonic structure which also makes him quite heavy.

By: Staggerwing

Staggerwing — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 13:29:10 +0000

This has been done. Read Larry Niven’s “Man of steel, woman of Kleenex.”

By: dinvaren

dinvaren — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 13:05:07 +0000

well duh, superman is a plant!!!!!! see photosynthesis

By: ted

ted — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 12:57:57 +0000

Dumb. Reminds me of the old Man of Steel vs Woman of Kleenex story written by Larry Niven in the 70′s. In other words, done before.

By: Joseph Francis

Joseph Francis — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 09:11:07 +0000

John Byrne put it best. The source of Superman’s power of flight (and everything else) -

Force of will.

By: FishBottleIsDumb

FishBottleIsDumb — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 04:22:09 +0000

Superman is REAL, gawd. How do you explain other superheros not destroying the world? Duh!

By: FishBottleT

FishBottleT — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 02:25:13 +0000

Let me rephrase my earlier comment of, “Ummm”. But how can a paper be scientific if there is no way to prove the information fact or fiction. The fact that this dude has taken the mental ability to try to come up with numbers and data about a character is cool but pointless since nothing will come from it other than fighting over differing beliefs about certain super heros.

By: FishBottleT

FishBottleT — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 23:55:26 +0000

ummm

By: willie

willie — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 23:31:28 +0000

My cousin co-wrote an article in 2006 for the Daily Texas at the University of Texas about physicists against Superman’s powers.
http://www.dailytexanonline.com/life-arts/mad-league-upset-with-hero-f or-defying-laws-of-physics-1.968046