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Fanboy Science: A Unied Theory of Superman’s Powers

Filed by mysteryGuy  |  September 30, 2009

This is a great day for fanboy science. Finally, a simple explanation for all of Superman’s powers has been written, all scienticific-like. From today’s Dinosaur Comics:

My friend Ben Tippett has been thinking about Superman’s powers from a physics perspective, and came up with a theory that all of his myriad powers: flight, x-ray vision, super hearing, cold breath, heat vision, lifting buildings over his head, catching Lois without breaking all her bones, etc, can be explained as manifestations of one power: the ability to manipulate the inertia of matter, both his own and matter that he comes in contact with. I’ve never heard such a simple Grand Unifying Theory of Superman’s powers before, so I convinced him to whip it up into a quick Scientific Paper Format, and here it is! AWESOME. Thanks Ben!

It’s genius. There’s even hand-drawn diagams!