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Originally Posted by Hack&Lube
People always think that he's simply rotating the earth in the opposite direction to turn back time but if you watch the montage where water is flowing in the opposite direction, etc. what is really happening is that time is reversing so obviously the earth changing direction is just the process of time going in reverse from Superman's perspective, not the actual earth spinning the other way.
If you think about it that way it makes sense. Just suspend all notions about how time travel is impossible and just assume Superman somehow has the ability to travel back in time by moving fast enough. Just assume it's some kind of superpower that breaks the laws of physics and quantum mechanics as we know it.
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Obviously being in space would be the best place to attempt travel at those speeds. My next question, would it be better to try and speed up by circling a planet, and potentially gaining an advantage from being in orbit, or would it be better simply to accelerate in one line.
We really don't know anything about what gives Superman the ability to fly. Theoretically speaking, since he seems to generate some kind of forward propulsion on his own, in the vacuum of space he could reach unlimited speeds. Theoretically, once he breaks the speed of light, he then begins time travel. Although this is more disputed now, that was certainly the prevailing theory at the time Superman I was filmed.
The advantage to circling the Earth, would be that you don't have to return to Earth once you have reached your desired point in time. You would otherwise have travelled a great distance reaching and breaking the speed of light, if you were travelling in a straight line.
Either way, the ending still sucks.