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In the OG movies he goes so fast that he goes faster than light and turns back time. At least I think that was the idea. So yeah, he could do FTL travel. Given that he accelerated to that point in about a minute, it's probably doable all within an hour.
Considering it takes around 8 minutes for the sunlight to reach us, I think even a fraction of the speed of light would be enough.
No. The inner edge of the Oort Cloud is 10 light days away. The outer edge of 100 ld away.
The math looks like:
The Oort Cloud is not only mind bogglingly far away, it's about 50x deeper than it is away from the sun.
Those are minimum estimates; some estimates have the inner cloud edge 28 AU away.
The original Superman wasn't a god, but it got hyperbolic over the years with one-upmanship until he was indistinguishable from a god. Canonically, beings regularly travel between star systems, so FTL is not uncommon in the DC universe. Heck, in Invincible (not DC), even relatively low-power beings travel FTL all over, all the time. Spacetime doesn't work the same in comics. So, Superman can travel FTL, and the Oort Cloud would be reachable. But he'd have to travel at least 20x the speed of light to get to the Cloud and back in a day, and thousands of times faster if he wants to explore it at all, or see the outer edge.
I wasn't aware the cloud was that far away. Thanks!
It's surprisingly far away! Shockingly far. It baffles me every time I stop to think about it; it's so incomprehensibly far, I am incapable of visualizing how far it is, no matter how many times I play with the scrollable solar system web page.
We are simply not meant be be able to REALLY grasp such dimensions. ๐