Over Analyzing BFDI

How Fast is the High-Speed Train?

Thanks to everyone for the support in the last post. I honestly didn't expect this little project to get so much attention, let alone in the first episode. And I know I just made it yesterday, but this will not be a daily thing. Expect OAB 3 to come out in two days time. Every episode following that will also be every other day. Anyways, please enjoy.

Today's question comes from u/mfc314. And if you read the title, then you'll know that today's focus is the train in BFB 21: Let's Raid the Warehouse.

In order to figure out the speed of the train, we need to have two important variables. Those being distance and time, since the formula for speed is distance/time. Fortunately, these two are quite easy to figure out, since Four states that the distance from Somewhere Else on Earth to Yellow Face's Warehouse is 2,763 miles. Since the metric system is a lot easier to work with, I will be converting that over to kilometres, which ends up to be about 4,447 kilometres. First of all, that's a HUGE distance, being just under the distance from Los Angeles to New York, that being 2,775 miles, or just over 4450 kilometre

Next, we need to figure out the time it took the train to get there. Since there is no relative timekeeping device on the train, we can only assume that the few seconds between them getting on the train and arriving is the total amount of time spent on the train. In order to find this, I slowed the video down to 0.25x playback speed, just to get a more accurate reading. Then, I took the time and divided it by 4, which comes out to be exactly 45 seconds, give or take. Also, watching BFB at quarter speed is the strangest thing eve

Now that we've got our two amounts, we can just slap them together, and get 4447km/45 s. Converting that to a rate, we get about 98.8km/s of speed. Um, that's a lot. Like, I was expecting it to be high. I was even going to try and calculate the amount of g forces they'd be experiencing. but 98.8km/s, that's insanity.

To pur that into perspective, the Earth orbits the sun at a mere 29.78kn/s. It takes only 42.1km/s to leave the solar system. The sun takes 200km/s to orbit the galaxy. And while that's more than double the speed of the train, keep in mind that there's probably a supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy.

To calculate its acceleration, I need the time it took from not moving at all to going at the ludicrous speed it ended up going at, or about o.75 seconds. After a quick YouTube lesson, I calculated that it has an average acceleration of 133km/s2, or 133000m/s2. Again, to put that into perspective, the sun has an acceleration due to gravity of 273.7m/s2. The train accelerates you at nearly 500 times the force of gravity on the sun, or over 13500x the gravity of the Earth, at 9.8m/s.

After all this, the only thing I can say is: Wow this is stupid. I mean, I know that this is the show where the characters literally stand on the sun and jump to reposition it, but these numbers are terrifying. If a human were to be put under these conditions, you would probably be instantly vaporized by the heat, and the force would tear molecules apart. This further strengthens my belief that objects are essentially invincible, and ignore all known laws of physic

If you want to see your question answered in the next edition of OAB, comment down below, and I'll choose the most upvoted one. So if you see one that you like, upvote it! We've already dove into the topics of economics and physics, what's next? Thanks again to u/mfc314 for today's amazing question.

But remember, that's just a hypothesis.

A cinema hypothesis!

Thanks for reading.

(And thanks to u/blappit3003 for the new outro)