@hadrian29 said:
@heavenlydarkdragon:
No that isn't what I'm refering too, and I know what you're talking about by the way. What I am referring to is that fact that bkack body radiators with a temp of approximately 6000 degrees Kelvin emit EM radiation across a range of wavelengths but peak their output in the blue-green area of the visible spectrum. Please try not to be so condescending if you bother replying to this. Thank you.
I wasn't being condescending. Just giving you some info to look at. I don't bother being condescending, if I read total nonsense most of the times I don't even reply. It's a waste of time.
And it's true they peak at blue-green area of the visible spectrum but there aren't green stars. The green part is barely visible given blue part.
@hadrian29 said:
@heavenlydarkdragon:
G class stars range in color from slightly yellow to white. The more luminous ones like our sun are essentially white in appearance. And yeah, they're called yellow-dwarf stars, but that's a misnomer. Also, what do you mean "weaker" stars? Define that please. That sounds more like Comic Book Science 101 to me. If you're taling about surface temperature, did you know that a star with a cooler surface tempurature than our sun can have a higher luminosity, and this a higher total radiant output?
Weaker. As in much less power output. Something I believe you already knew what I was referring to.
Our sun is actually yellow-white. Pushing more to the white than yellow, but still yellow. If not then it would be a F class star, as you very well know.
Either way none of that explains kryptonian powers as DC tries to explain it. I've read every type of nonsense theory "Superman hypermetabolizes sunlight" completely disregarding something as basic as the very law of conservation of energy, "Superman stores sunlight much more efficiently than humans" despite the simple fact that even if Superman was able to store every bit of sunlight that arrives on Earth each day, that still wouldn't be enough for him to have those power levels. And then there was that photonucleic effect theory thing, that defended that the same type of matter, develops under the influence of different types of stars, different properties. And that what happened to kryptonians, was that, once exposed to different type of sunlight from our G class star caused the subatomic particles inside the atoms to expand the distance between them. Making those atoms highly energetic and thus giving them the energy to fuel those powers.
Now, there's so much stuff scientifically inaccurate about this theory that I don't even understand how it was even considered in the first place. First of all it's been shown in lab tests and by the use of similations done in supercomputers that carbon (or any type of matter) develops the same way independent from the type of star. The size and mass of the planet are the main factors that could cause the development of different isotopes. Second, atoms don't become more energetic if the space between protons and electrons increase. Quite the contrary. It's when the space between them reduces that they become more energetic, and even then it can't be a slight increase, but quite a significant one. Which would require a source of energy to pull that off, energy that simply doesn't arrive on Earth. Not simply in the form of sunlight.
The main point here, going back to the OP title of this thread, is that the red sunlight weakness as it's explained makes no sense whatsover. How can a body contain huge amounts of energy but then it's exposed to red sunlight and that energy doesn't go away, it simply does nothing. It's still inside the body but at the same time it's like it wasn't there. It would be like saying, you had a small battery and then you would expose it cold. It would not need to be that much colder, just a slight difference. And the battery would stop producing energy. Which you and I know it's total nonsense. The difference in overall frequency from one type of star to others is so little that even that can't explain why things happen as they say it does.
I know we're talking comic book fiction here. But at least the Flash has the Speed Force, seeing that we don't know what it really is no one can simply dismiss the Speed Force. Laterns have the emotional spectrum, again we have no way of verifying any of that. Aquaman and Wonder Woman are kind of a byproduct of magic and genetics, and when magic is involved all else goes out the window, no use wasting time trying to explain that. And then of course we have kryptonians. Too human-like. Even on their own planet of Krypton. And then we have the sunlight stuff. What I don't get is why DC doesn't pull a move from lets say Marvel. At first Cyclops was the same, that was how his mutant power worked. He absorbed sunlight and then he would release that energy through his eyes in the form of hard light, or something like that. But the moment they started to think about that, they knew they had to come up with an explanation that didn't completely deviated from the origin most people knew but that was also new and more credible, and most of all that couldn't be simply dismissed by facts. And so they changed it a little bit, by saying that his body does indeed absorb sunlight much like we do, but that Cyclops mutation takes that sunlight and access a form of extradimensional energy. And it is that energy that was the real source of his powers. Sunlight was simply the catalyst.
That's why to me, I'd remove the red and yellow sunlight, power off power on stuff, and update it to something that could be believable but at the same time couldn't be dismissed by facts.
Even saying something like for example, kryptonians have in their bodes exotic elements, elements that were present in Krypton's geological composition. And one or more of those exotic elements allowed kryptonian physiology to quantum entangle with the stars closest to them. When near a red star, their powers would be reduced to significantely much lower levels, they'd be more physical with the energetic powers mostly gone, but still superhuman in every aspect. And when near a G type star or other stars above M class the quantum entanglement would produce energy on the level we see in the comics.
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