by @ulaulaman http://t.co/WGbVdfv0nk about #Superman #physics and #solar #energy
In the last saga of the
JLA by
Grant Morrison,
World War III,
Superman, leaping against the bomb inside Mageddon says:
The way in which Superman gets the powers, or the way in which them is explained, however, is changed over time. Following
Action Comics #1, the debut of the character,
Jerry Siegel, combining genetics and evolution, says that on his planet of origin
the physical structure of the inhabitants had advanced millions of years compared to ours. Reaching maturity, people of that race earned a titanic force!
In
Superman #1, however, Siegel focuses attention on the different gravity between
Earth and
Krypton, with the latter with a greater radius than aour planet and therefore with a greater severity. Such a claim is also in
Ports of Call by
Jack Vance. In order to verify it, we must start from the definition of the density:
\[\rho = \frac{M}{V}\]
where $M$ is the mass, $V$ the volume of the object, or, in our case, of the planet.