I get that just running straight is usually faster and he can run on water, but if he wanted to, could he leap via momentum? Has he ever used a Flash Glider?
I get that just running straight is usually faster and he can run on water, but if he wanted to, could he leap via momentum? Has he ever used a Flash Glider?
Jumping consists of traveling off of something with enough momentum that it carries you through the air faster than the rate at which gravity pulls you down. I know nothing about the comics but it seems like the Flash is just running crazy fast rather than slowing down time or whatever. This means he would be affected by gravity at the normal rate, so at his speed he should be able to jump considerable distances. I dunno how fast he actually runs, but if it’s in the neighborhood of 25,000 mph the curvature of the earth would act like a ramp - it would curve away faster than he was pulled down to it by gravity - allowing him to run himself into space (not orbit, orbit requires circularizing once you’re in space near the apogee of your trajectory.)
Flash can easily run fast enough to observe the movement of lightning(he can technically go FTL and time travel)
He has some comic-type dimension he taps into, to avoid pesky things like physics. So he could probably launch himself out into space. Although most versions can’t run if he can’t step on something. So he’d be screwed.
That sounds like some time-dilation bullshit that would probably ruin the physics I was talking about.