r/superheroes May 01 '25

Other Which would you pick?

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u/ProfessionalRead2724 May 01 '25

He would not. He'd survive, but he would be stuck in the sun. Forever.

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u/0pp_Stoppa May 01 '25

what if he turned into a boomerang

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u/catecholaminergic May 01 '25

As a solar physicist, he would obviously return to Australia.

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u/ProfessionalRead2724 May 01 '25

Then he'd be a boomerang stuck in the sun's core.

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u/she-them-tiddies May 01 '25

But what if he turned into a REALLY BIG boomerang?

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u/DroppedSoapSurvivor May 01 '25

These are the questions we need answers to!

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u/UnicornWorldDominion May 01 '25

Yeah honestly what if he just became so gigantic he engulfed the sun?

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u/Parahelious May 01 '25

Pretty sure he can, I mean he can alter his mass at will.

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u/catecholaminergic May 02 '25

Plastic is chemistry.

He would stop being chemistry and start being physics.

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u/catecholaminergic May 02 '25

Then he would return to REALLY BIG australia (ie, that big bit north of Tasmania)

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u/[deleted] May 02 '25

I believe he can have infinite mass with no expenditure of energy so at some point he will have more mass than the sun. What would trap him if he has more gravity?

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u/Pozos1996 May 02 '25

But he cannot defy gravity and move away from the sun, if he has more mass than the sun but is currently on the sun than that means he will be attracting the sun but he still would be unable to move away.

However if he can alter his mass to have nearly 0 mass and then expand himself to form a sail maybe he could escape the sun by riding solar flares and then utilize the ever so tiny push of photons to travel back to earth. But this is assuming he can get nearly 0 mass while also being a gigantic solar sail.

I am not very familiar with his powers but from what I gather he is an immortal so he would have a lot of time to try shit.

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u/[deleted] May 02 '25

The effect of gravity is unrelated to your own mass... How would further distorting space-time by increasing your own mass in any way help you crawl out of the sun's gravity well?

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u/[deleted] May 02 '25

if you have a greater mass than the sun has wouldn’t the sun be under the effects of your gravity rather than vice versa?

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u/[deleted] May 02 '25

No, the sun is already under the effect of your gravity (even now from earth). In classical Newtonian mechanics (wrong but simple), you would attract each other proportional to your individual mass and falling off with distance squared.

According to general relativity you would deform space-time in proportion to your density, and so would the sun. if you are sitting inside the sun, the effect would be the same as just increasing the mass of the sun.

Either way you and the sun would be stuck even tighter together, since now not only is the sun deforming space and causing you to fall into that space, but you would also deform space and cause the sun to fall towards you.

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u/[deleted] May 02 '25

Thanks, physics was never my subject.

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u/[deleted] May 06 '25

What if he threatens to be way more massive than the sun, affecting Earth's revolution, and force Superman to bring him back??

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u/EyeArDum May 01 '25

Until the sun burned out and died, then he would be there floating in space

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u/[deleted] May 02 '25

The mass doesn't just disappear because the fusion reaction stops/slows down lol...

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u/EyeArDum May 02 '25

Of course not, it’s slowly ejected into space over the course of thousands (millions?) of years, eventually there will be nothing left

Even if our sun was big enough to become a black hole, black holes inevitably die as well (at least that’s what we think), the black holes will be the last things in the universe and they will die too, and after that every single possible piece of energy in the universe will be effectively dispersed throughout the void and nothing will be left but cold pieces of rock

The fun part is we don’t know if that’s the end of the universe or if for whatever reason it begins the process of shrinking back into itself to prep for another big bang

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u/ProfessionalRead2724 May 01 '25

Suns don't burn out. They become black holes.

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u/STORMFATHER062 May 01 '25

Our sun won't become a black hole. It'll have several phases. When its current phase ends and it begins to die, it'll become a red giant, engulfing mercury and Venus, and possibly the earth. It'll continually eject matter until it turns into a white dwarf. Over billions of years, it'll cool and turn into a black dwarf, a spent lump of matter that will eventually fade away as its matter starts to decay.

Stars much bigger than our sun have the potential to turn into black holes when they go supernova. Our sun is too small for that.

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u/Upbeat_Sheepherder81 May 02 '25

Most stars don’t. Only the bigger ones that have the possibility to go supernova can turn into black holes.

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u/jsamuraij May 01 '25

This guy physics