how fast is sonic?

naruto_chao · Post by **naruto_chao** » Wed Feb 06, 2013 7:37 pm

http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=ze_uxxFJTvE

Discuss

Edit: there are dirty and (unsuitable) dirty jokes. Including one about a 4 headed echidna p##i

Tobi · Post by **Tobi** » Wed Feb 06, 2013 8:50 pm

Velocity = Distance / Time

naruto_chao · Post by **naruto_chao** » Wed Feb 06, 2013 8:55 pm

Yes? Whats your point?

Snowy · Post by **Snowy** » Thu Feb 07, 2013 10:24 pm

Sonic is faster than the speed of light= 1200 Mph and when he goes super he goes way faster!

naruto_chao · Post by **naruto_chao** » Fri Feb 08, 2013 4:06 am

^
You're missing the point

Jeffery Mewtamer · Post by **Jeffery Mewtamer** » Fri Feb 08, 2013 9:02 am

&And even if he was not missing the point, his understanding of the speed of light is severly lacking.

SilverAndBlaze · Post by **SilverAndBlaze** » Mon Mar 25, 2013 5:28 pm

SnowyTheHedgehog wrote:Sonic is faster than the speed of light= 1200 Mph and when he goes super he goes way faster!

It's the speed of sound, which is just over 300mph

Mamkute · Post by **Mamkute** » Mon Mar 25, 2013 9:09 pm

SnowyTheHedgehog wrote:Sonic is faster than the speed of light= 1200 Mph and when he goes super he goes way faster!

As already stated, he goes (allegedly) faster than sound, not light. Faster than Light would just about screw up the whole of the universe, and is at the much higher value of about 300,000,000 meters/ second (yes, I did round), or 180,000 miles/ second (also rounded.)

Anyway, when it comes to sonic, well... It is said to be as a fast as sound. With Super Sonic being faster. And Hyper Sonic being even faster (assuming from the name, up to 5x faster.) I suppose I will accept Super and Hyper Sonic being absurdly fast, since the explanation is magic, and who am I to argue with the magic of Chaos Emeralds. But normal Sonic, I will not accept that. I must agree that a non-super-enhanced hedgehog, no matter how blue or human-like, can not reach that kind of a speed, given the many problems of something that small going that fast.

Snowy · Post by **Snowy** » Mon Mar 25, 2013 9:21 pm

SnowyTheHedgehog wrote:Sonic is faster than the speed of sound= 300 Mph and when he goes super he goes way faster!

EDIT: Okay, geez I am sorry.

Jeffery Mewtamer · Post by **Jeffery Mewtamer** » Tue Mar 26, 2013 10:51 am

@SilverandBlaze: The speed of sound in the Earth's atmosphere is approximately 700 mph. It is , however, roughly 300 meters per second.

That said, I like the convention of Sonic's normal crusing speed being around mach 1, Super Sonic's crusing spped being in the Mach 2-3 range, and Hyper Sonic's being in the Mach 5-10 range. That said, these are crusing speeds, a normal running speed which Sonic can maintain over long distances. While the names are some what misnomers, the Light Dash and Light Attack likely involve accelerating to much greater speeds for the brief duration of the ability.

Also, given that the Chaos Emeralds supposedly contain infinite energy, there is no law of physic violated by anything Chaos Emerald powered nearing, or even meeting the speed of light in a vacuum. .

420BlazeItDesu · Post by **420BlazeItDesu** » Wed Mar 27, 2013 10:36 pm

Is everyone remembering that when Tails met Sonic, Tails improved Sonic's shoes to increase his speed?

Hey, he's still the fastest blue thing around.

ZoomZike · Post by **ZoomZike** » Sat Mar 30, 2013 12:14 am

In the dictionary, [sonic], means [speed of sound]. [super sonic] means [speed of light]. Who knew that the dictionary definitions could become such good names :D

Dr. Roivas · Post by **Dr. Roivas** » Sat Mar 30, 2013 12:16 am

So then is Hyper Sonic Ludicrous Speed?

Mamkute · Post by **Mamkute** » Sat Mar 30, 2013 7:19 am

ZoomZike wrote:In the dictionary, [sonic], means [speed of sound]. [super sonic] means [speed of light]. Who knew that the dictionary definitions could become such good names :D

Super Sonic is exceeding speed of sound. Yes, light is super sonic, but by a gigantic margin. To summarize:
Sonic: Mach 1
Super Sonic: Exceeding Mach 1,
Hyper Sonic: Highly Exceeding Mach 1, usually referenced at around Mach 5
Light: Way way way faster than any of the above.
(Then Ludicrous Speed)
Although yes, Sega definitely took the modifiers to Sonic as references to those speeds.

Jeffery Mewtamer · Post by **Jeffery Mewtamer** » Sat Mar 30, 2013 11:29 am

Sonic merely means "related to sound". In the context of speed, a sonic speed would refer to to the speed of sound(though air is not specified as medium affects speed), but it can also refer to vibrations in the audible range.

Some common expressions including the word Sonic:
Trans Sonic: Having spped around the speed of sound, often quoted in the range of .8 to 1.2 times of the speed of sound.
Super Sonic: Having a speed to great to be Rans Sonic, but too low to be Hyper Sonic, or more colloqially, having a speed in excess of mach 1.
Hyper Sonic: Having a speed to great for the super sonic regime, or colloqially, speed in excess of Mach 5.
Note: the boundaries of the Trans-, Super-, and Hyper sonic regimes are not arbitrary, but rather based on the effects observed when objects travel at these speeds through the air. A upper boundary is currently undefined for the hyper sonic regime as no in-atmosphere object has reached a volocity with decidedly different effects(last I heard, the air speed record was around mach 10, and while space bound objects have achieved much greater speeds, the vaccuum of space is too thin a medium to interact with objects travelling though it).
Subsonic: Speeds slow than Mach 1 or vibrations at frequencies below the audible range.
Ultra sonic: Vibrations at frequencies above the audible range.(Which makes the Archie only Ultra Sonic transformation unusual as its name is not a fererence to a speed-related term).

The Ice Maiden · Post by **The Ice Maiden** » Wed May 01, 2013 1:50 pm

ZoomZike wrote:In the dictionary, [sonic], means [speed of sound]. [super sonic] means [speed of light]. Who knew that the dictionary definitions could become such good names :D

Ah-ha.
Sonic as himself (an epic blue hedgehog): Speed of Sound.
Sonic as 'Super Sonic' (himself with all seven chaos emeralds): Speed of Light.

Case closed.

Prince Ricard · Post by **Prince Ricard** » Thu May 02, 2013 3:24 am

Dr. Roivas · Post by **Dr. Roivas** » Thu May 02, 2013 3:54 am

ludicrous speed is plaid dude

Pic. v2.0 · Post by **Pic. v2.0** » Fri May 17, 2013 12:19 am

He's the fastest thing alive

XSonicX · Post by **XSonicX** » Wed Jul 17, 2013 8:45 pm

SilverAndBlaze wrote:
SnowyTheHedgehog wrote:Sonic is faster than the speed of light= 1200 Mph and when he goes super he goes way faster!
It's the speed of sound, which is just over 300mph

XDXDXD

Um, the speed of sound is waaay faster than that. And at times, Sonic can exceed the speed of light.

Mamkute · Post by **Mamkute** » Thu Jul 18, 2013 3:09 am

Gaaah.
Nothing (to the understanding of modern science) goes faster than light, not even fictional hedgehogs.

Speed of Sound: 340 meters/second.
Speed of Light: 299,792,458 meters/second.

The difference is big. Super big. Nearly 1,000,000 times bigger. Not even Hyper Sonic would go that fast, assuming he went at Hyper Sonic speeds.

XSonicX · Post by **XSonicX** » Sun Jul 21, 2013 9:13 pm

Guess what? It's a video game. And in video games, science can't prove anything.

Ivogoji · Post by **Ivogoji** » Sun Jul 21, 2013 11:07 pm

We don't need science.

It can be demonstrated that Sonic has never gone anywhere near the speed of light while running in any of the games by playing them. Sonic rarely even gets close to the speed of sound.

Just watch when he's being chased by something like the killer whale or the G.U.N. truck. Neither of them are going anywhere near the speed of sound and they can still get pretty close to Sonic when he's at normal top running speed (you can make him go faster, but that usually calls for things like the launching boards or spin dash abuse).

XSonicX · Post by **XSonicX** » Sun Jul 21, 2013 11:57 pm

How do you know that he can't run anywhere near the speed of light? Where's the proof?

Crash32 · Post by **Crash32** » Mon Jul 22, 2013 12:40 am

he already gave you the proof
the gun truck can keep up with him and that's clearly not going at the speed of light or sound

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