Physical abilities like jumping height are directly influenced by gravitational forces; using the physics formula v² = u² + 2as, a person who can jump 2.45 meters on Earth (9.81 m/s² gravity) could jump approximately 14.78 meters on the Moon (1.62 m/s² gravity), demonstrating that Superman's superhuman abilities could be scientifically explained by the different gravity conditions on his home planet Krypton.
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Is it real? Is he real? Yes. Most of the DC Marvel movies, they are real. Why not? Let's go for the go to the board and do maths. Now, think about the world record 1993 short.
I mean slightly spellings and not Javier. Uh we call him Javier because Cubans and some pronunciations J is not pronounced as J. Right? We were talking about this right? So I was sending this message to you. Superman.
Is it real? Is he real? Yes. Most of the DC Marvel movies they are real. Why not?
The real means like scientifically real.
I mean I'm not telling that it happened in real real world. I'm telling you it is practically possible and even you are a superman or a superwoman. That's what I'm trying to tell you how what's the pro what's the reason to consider you are a superman. Now just think about uh the story and if you have watched the movies I have watched like a very old movie because when we were kids we were watching the old movies Superman uh that you know the early stage of Superman.
Now after that um there were like a couple of similar type movies came later.
uh different uh production uh organizations, production companies had made it separately. So Superman come from a different planet called Krypton.
Right? So then this Superman's genetic superman's body conditions are not the same for us.
And we all know that if this uh universe in in if if we consider the universe entire universe we all should understand that is uh kind of unlimited.
So our solar system is just a small dot in this universe. So definitely it's not us living in this universe for sure and I don't know like you know the even the word living is correct right for the other other planets other uh aliens what we call as aliens and I don't know whether they can come to us or not I'm not talking about that part I'm talking about uh there's a possibility and now now sometimes I have read some books completely misconcepting telling uh uh sometimes earth's uh atmospheric conditions and the temperatures are there in some other worlds and all so the humans can be there. No humans I'm not talking about humans why are we talking about human because we think that we are superior and we are the people who are ruling the entire universe. So there may be like different shape, different appearance, different systems inside the body.
Sometimes they may may not be bodies. I don't know. Some people talk about robots, some people talk about aliens with that, you know, the weird faces.
No, I'm not talking about it.
And but human need is this you know the entire body structure as well as the internal organ systems the functions the way it works.
Now say for an example similar appearance they are for the superman in krypton under completely different gravity levels because this universe is fully controlled by gravity fully controlled by gravity. So this grav the gravity conditions are different the abilities will be different. So what is the world record of the high jump?
What we we do the math we do the math we do the physics and we try to understand why superman is here. What is the world high jump record? 1993 still not broken after 30 plus years. after 30 33 years still it is the same of a Cuban anyone knows 2.45 2.45 45 in Spain if I'm not mistaken. So we'll try to do the maths for this Cuban and see how it works for us. Let's go for the go to the board and do maths. Now think about the world record 1993.
I mean slightly spellings and not Javier. Uh we call him heavier because Cubans and some pronunciations J is not pronounced as J right.
U spellings may be slightly different.
Stomaya 1983 a Cuban in Spain he jumped 2.45 4 5 m high jump. Assume that high jump is merely a vertical one. Merely a vertical one, right?
Completely up.
So this is moments, right? So and we try to find his projection speed up, right?
rejection speed up.
So we know that the height reached is 2.45 m.
Height reach is 2.45 m and the gravity the absolute gravity conditions 9.81.
Okay. And we do the maths for his initial velocity.
Um his initial velocity v 2 = u ^ 2 + 2 a s and he reached to the topmost position and no velocity further and u ² to 9.81 81 into we had like a little bit of less space.
H is like 2.45 and you can find you.
So how do you find you? 2 into 9.81 2.45.
We'll do the math. You do the math and tell me what is its initial speed up?
What is its initial upward speed? So what's the value? 6.90 m per second.
Now since we did some questions from Since we did some questions from moon, you go to the moon.
You go to the moon.
When you go to the moon, what is moon's gravity? What is moon's gravity? Lunar gravity. Now we know that lunar gravity 1.62.
This is lunar gravity. Okay.
So, lunar gravity. Now we'll do this math to find out how much you can jump in on the surface of moon. You not a superman heavier is a superman for us.
Heavier right? So we take him to moon and ask him to do the high jump again.
So we do the method again. V ² = U² + 2 A S and final velocity is zero. Initially we assume that his speed is not affected by the gravity conditions. His body structure his uh effort and everything remains the same in on the moon.
Assuming that 6.93 Right. And min - 26 2 into the height.
Now do the maths.
Do the maths 1 x2 into and tell me the value.
You can say that 14.78 m right now you understand now he's going to be a superman on moon heavier is not just a human on the moon why so he jumps 14.78 eight bigger than fourstory building almost 405 story building and he just jumped he goes above 405 story building with that small effort on moon sometimes on moon's gravity condition will support his body structure more and he may be able to get a higher speed we don't know we haven't done Olympics act on on the moon surface right so now we go back to Superman's story comes from where comes from krypton so assume krypton's gravity is 10 or 15 times 100 times is it possible yes because it's a completely a different world right so in is the the gravity is 10 times. Now this is 1 / six times.
So 1 / 10 times. So this value will go like another couple of times bigger. So you come to the ground and you jump up.
So you goes at a very high speed what we cannot even assume.
Right? And then simple terms you are a superman or a superwoman unfortunately you are in the wrong planet find your planet when you go to a proper planet they will consider you as a superman or superwoman. So this is all about the gravity explanation. So always Marvel DC and the modern movies are not just made randomly. They have done this m little bit and some drama. Yes. And cinematic and fiction parties of course they are but they are not impossible as sometimes scientific people think they are stupid.
No they are very much possible scenarios.
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