Don't be stupid

((did some sketches of cedric and wallace. i also decided to see what wallace would look like if he weren’t albino

Bah- whatever. 

 “I don’t ‘want’ anything, actually. I’ll just be… sort of stuck here for a while because I missed the train, and it’s not like there’s anything to do… so… uh… that’s it..??????” Bloody hell that train couldn’t come fast enough

I decided to find the answer to a question that’s been bugging me. Can Saitama literally punch someone into next week? Meaning, can he punch someone hard enough that they accelerate close to the speed of light and experience time dilation, so they travel 1 week over the span of, say, 1 second in their reference frame?

First, we need to know how fast you need to go to experience time dilation that strong. We use this equation from special relativity:

γ is the Lorentz factor, which is defined as:

where v is our speed, and c is the speed of light. There are 604800 seconds in one week, so we simply plug in these numbers and do the math:

In order for time to go 1 week over the span of 1 second in your reference frame, you have to be moving very, very close to the speed of light. It takes a lot of energy to get going that fast, more than humans can ever hope to produce. But can Saitama do it? Let’s figure out how much energy it takes to accelerate to this speed from rest.

To calculate the kinetic energy of a person moving that fast, we need to use another equation from special relativity:

We’ll assume the person is 65 kilograms, an average human weight. Plugging in the numbers gives us this kinetic energy:

That’s a ridiculous amount of energy. That’s a trillion trillion joules. Wolfram Alpha helpfully tells us that this much energy is about 2.2 times the estimated energy of the Chicxulub meteor impact. Saitama’s punch would have to be more than twice as powerful as the meteor that killed the dinosaurs. And that’s just a bare minimum, assuming all the energy from the punch went toward accelerating the person; a lot of energy would likely be lost to heat, light, and sound. The person receiving the punch would probably be vaporized before they could even start moving that fast, but it’s nice to imagine anyway.

What do you think? Can Saitama punch hard enough to literally send someone into next week? Is he more powerful than the Chicxulub meteor? It’s up to you to decide.

Nah, don’t worry about it, it’s no problem I assure you- *it occurred to him that it perhaps wasn’t the best idea to have been standing right behind her, especially since Wallace himself hated it when people did that. It freaked him out; so he took a step back to give her a little room. Whoops* Uuuh… sorry about that. I can still get that for you though- whatever sort of… thing… you were looking for. *the fact that the shelf was taller than he was seemed like shit design. seriously, what the hell???*

-  watches him take a step back and nods along with them in agreement. and points to the the pumpkins  that were placed on the high shelf. This person didn’t seem so scary. Surprisingly chatty yes, but they didn’t seem so bad-

U-um I wanted… to get a closer look at those pumpkins but I’m not to sure what they are….or if I even want them

*as per request, Wallace took a pumpkin from the shelf and stiffly offered it to the woman* This was the one right?

….now if only i could reach it, umm, why would they place this so high

*To help or not to help… would it be weird just walking up to a complete stranger? Whatever. There was no reason not to, since she looked like she could at least use some help; he figured it wouldn’t hurt anyone to ask*

… ah- *ahem* Hi. D’you need any help with… Halloween decorations??? *Wallace was tempted to ask why she seemed so interested in the Halloween section already, but he’d decided against it. It was none of his business what people did over the holidays*

As a matter of fact I do

-still keeping her back to the stranger she continued to stare at the items that seemed to be placed higher than usual almost on purpose. Normally she  would be on her tiptoes and be on her way but the way these items were placed required more than some tiptoeing-

well…. I’m actually more interested in  getting a closer look at the item and I w-would….would really hate to waste your tim- 

-  she turned to face the stranger and nearly choked seeing just how tall they were- 

It’s not October  they’re already putting out the pumpkins and candy corn

…..

*To help or not to help... would it be weird just walking up to a complete stranger? Whatever. There was no reason not to, since she looked like she could at least use some help; he figured it wouldn’t hurt anyone to ask*