Jiraiyathesannin
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Dragonball z has always been a difficult anime/manga when it comes to tying down specific values. Whether its inconsistent translations, or flat out lack of detail.
A common question though is "are the warriors of dbz faster than light?" Finally, we have a concrete value to show at least certain ones who can.
For this, we need to understand one thing. The space ships in dragonball z can travel MASSIVELY faster than light. This is confirmed. Bulma was convinced traveling to namek would be impossible because of how far it is. She said it would take like, hundreds to thousands of years. But Mr Popo shows her that kami's ship can travel to jupiter in less than 5 seconds (thats being generous too). Keep in mind, it takes light 8 minutes to travel to earth, and jupiter is several SEVERAL times that distance.
Now, one COULD look at the fact that bulma could talk on her phone with her dad from earth, meaning that they can send electro magnetic waves faster than light (with no delay), although i'll chalk that up to a physics error.
Anyway, the one character that can DEFINITELY move faster than the speed of light LINEARLY (not teleportation) is Whis, trainer of Beerus the god of Destruction. In order to show this, we have to look at the distance he traveled, and the time it took.
Although we do not know how far away king kai's planet is from beerus's homeworld. However, we don't really NEED to. We know that beerus and whis traveled to king kai's planet in 26 minutes from beerus' planet. And 7 minutes from king kai's to earth. Given that it takes sunlight 240 some odd minutes to reach neptune, if whis was traveling at the speed of light, that would put beerus's homeworld somewhere in our solar system, which know it isn't. We see its near a small star.
Now this is just a tangent. its not really part of my evidence but its worth noting. If we assume the stars within the dbz universe are the same as in our universe (which there's no reason not to be), that would mean if we assumed this star near beerus's home is the closest star to the sun, its STILL over 4 light years away. so 33 minutes vs 4 years.
Now back to the main point. In the cell saga, goku was ASTOUNDED that he was able to actually teleport to king kai's world. it was in his words "really really far away". Mind you, this is the same goku who could easily teleport from his space ship to intercept frieza on earth. That same space ship that is MASSIVELY faster than light that took 3 hours to get here. Meaning that goku was able to comfortably teleport 3,237,758,546,400 meteres. So if we assume the spaceship was going the speed of light (we know it actually to be going much MUCH faster as it was at least 4 times the speed of the namekian ship which was massively faster than light) that makes goku comfortably able to teleport
I promise i'm wrapping it up. Since goku was surprised how far away king kai was and he was able to teleport there, its a fair estimate that it's significantly farther than his jump to fight frieza. Meaning that king kai's planet is at the very LEAST 0.000342238658 light years away. It would take at least 3 hours for LIGHT to cross that distance. I guess i did a bunch of unecessary math, but i just want to get the point across. It would take light likely several times MORE than 3 hours to cross a distance that whis linearly traveled in 7 minutes (likely a much LARGER distance)
In conclusion, whis is MASSIVELY faster than light in his movement.
now, i'm pretty sure many of the dbz cast are massively faster than light in short bursts and in combat scenarios. I can't prove it though.
This i can prove. Whis is massively faster than light
A common question though is "are the warriors of dbz faster than light?" Finally, we have a concrete value to show at least certain ones who can.
For this, we need to understand one thing. The space ships in dragonball z can travel MASSIVELY faster than light. This is confirmed. Bulma was convinced traveling to namek would be impossible because of how far it is. She said it would take like, hundreds to thousands of years. But Mr Popo shows her that kami's ship can travel to jupiter in less than 5 seconds (thats being generous too). Keep in mind, it takes light 8 minutes to travel to earth, and jupiter is several SEVERAL times that distance.
Now, one COULD look at the fact that bulma could talk on her phone with her dad from earth, meaning that they can send electro magnetic waves faster than light (with no delay), although i'll chalk that up to a physics error.
Anyway, the one character that can DEFINITELY move faster than the speed of light LINEARLY (not teleportation) is Whis, trainer of Beerus the god of Destruction. In order to show this, we have to look at the distance he traveled, and the time it took.
Although we do not know how far away king kai's planet is from beerus's homeworld. However, we don't really NEED to. We know that beerus and whis traveled to king kai's planet in 26 minutes from beerus' planet. And 7 minutes from king kai's to earth. Given that it takes sunlight 240 some odd minutes to reach neptune, if whis was traveling at the speed of light, that would put beerus's homeworld somewhere in our solar system, which know it isn't. We see its near a small star.
Now this is just a tangent. its not really part of my evidence but its worth noting. If we assume the stars within the dbz universe are the same as in our universe (which there's no reason not to be), that would mean if we assumed this star near beerus's home is the closest star to the sun, its STILL over 4 light years away. so 33 minutes vs 4 years.
Now back to the main point. In the cell saga, goku was ASTOUNDED that he was able to actually teleport to king kai's world. it was in his words "really really far away". Mind you, this is the same goku who could easily teleport from his space ship to intercept frieza on earth. That same space ship that is MASSIVELY faster than light that took 3 hours to get here. Meaning that goku was able to comfortably teleport 3,237,758,546,400 meteres. So if we assume the spaceship was going the speed of light (we know it actually to be going much MUCH faster as it was at least 4 times the speed of the namekian ship which was massively faster than light) that makes goku comfortably able to teleport
I promise i'm wrapping it up. Since goku was surprised how far away king kai was and he was able to teleport there, its a fair estimate that it's significantly farther than his jump to fight frieza. Meaning that king kai's planet is at the very LEAST 0.000342238658 light years away. It would take at least 3 hours for LIGHT to cross that distance. I guess i did a bunch of unecessary math, but i just want to get the point across. It would take light likely several times MORE than 3 hours to cross a distance that whis linearly traveled in 7 minutes (likely a much LARGER distance)
In conclusion, whis is MASSIVELY faster than light in his movement.
now, i'm pretty sure many of the dbz cast are massively faster than light in short bursts and in combat scenarios. I can't prove it though.
This i can prove. Whis is massively faster than light
