If it took thousands of years for Kal El to get to earth from Krypton, then how old is superman?

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I'm referring to the first few minutes of the 1978 Superman movie with Marlon Brando. Jor El comments on the amount of time necessary to travel to earth but Clark arrives here and looks like a 3 or 4 year old.






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    I'm referring to the first few minutes of the 1978 Superman movie with Marlon Brando. Jor El comments on the amount of time necessary to travel to earth but Clark arrives here and looks like a 3 or 4 year old.






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      I'm referring to the first few minutes of the 1978 Superman movie with Marlon Brando. Jor El comments on the amount of time necessary to travel to earth but Clark arrives here and looks like a 3 or 4 year old.






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          The discrepancy between Kal - El's age and the 'thousands' of years that has past since Jor - El's demise is a nod to the relativistic effects of high speed long distance space travel.



          Einstein demonstrated that time is relative to the observer.




          Special relativity 'indicates that, for an observer in an inertial frame of reference, a clock that is moving relative to him will be measured to tick slower than a clock that is at rest in his frame of reference... Theoretically, time dilation would make it possible for passengers in a fast-moving vehicle to advance further into the future in a short period of their own time. For sufficiently high speeds, the effect is dramatic. For example, one year of travel might correspond to ten years on Earth.' (Wikipedia - Time Dilation).




          So, due to the incredible speed of the spacecraft he was in, only 2 or 3 years will have passed for Kal - El during his journey to earth while in relative terms, thousands of years will have passed within the (relatively) static locals of Krypton and Earth.






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          • This creates a "plot hole", though. While Kal-El is in the pod the voice of Jor-El teaches him stuff about Earth and at one point even mentions Einstein's Theory of Relativity. But if Krypton exploded thousands of years before Earth's 1978 then how could Jor-El know about Einstein?
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          • The voice of Jor-El only mentions Einstein's theory of relativity in its translation to the Earthly languages the film has been projected in. In the original (real) version, Jor-El's voice teaches Kal-El in a Kryptionian language and Einstein's theory of relativity has another name that may include the name of a Kryptonian scientist or not. In fact, before Kal-El landed in Kansas, all action happened in a Kriptonian language although being filmed in English for benefit of audience (or transcribed in English for convenience of comic readers).
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          The discrepancy between Kal - El's age and the 'thousands' of years that has past since Jor - El's demise is a nod to the relativistic effects of high speed long distance space travel.



          Einstein demonstrated that time is relative to the observer.




          Special relativity 'indicates that, for an observer in an inertial frame of reference, a clock that is moving relative to him will be measured to tick slower than a clock that is at rest in his frame of reference... Theoretically, time dilation would make it possible for passengers in a fast-moving vehicle to advance further into the future in a short period of their own time. For sufficiently high speeds, the effect is dramatic. For example, one year of travel might correspond to ten years on Earth.' (Wikipedia - Time Dilation).




          So, due to the incredible speed of the spacecraft he was in, only 2 or 3 years will have passed for Kal - El during his journey to earth while in relative terms, thousands of years will have passed within the (relatively) static locals of Krypton and Earth.






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          • This creates a "plot hole", though. While Kal-El is in the pod the voice of Jor-El teaches him stuff about Earth and at one point even mentions Einstein's Theory of Relativity. But if Krypton exploded thousands of years before Earth's 1978 then how could Jor-El know about Einstein?
            – Oliver_C
            1 hour ago










          • The voice of Jor-El only mentions Einstein's theory of relativity in its translation to the Earthly languages the film has been projected in. In the original (real) version, Jor-El's voice teaches Kal-El in a Kryptionian language and Einstein's theory of relativity has another name that may include the name of a Kryptonian scientist or not. In fact, before Kal-El landed in Kansas, all action happened in a Kriptonian language although being filmed in English for benefit of audience (or transcribed in English for convenience of comic readers).
            – Pere
            38 mins ago















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          The discrepancy between Kal - El's age and the 'thousands' of years that has past since Jor - El's demise is a nod to the relativistic effects of high speed long distance space travel.



          Einstein demonstrated that time is relative to the observer.




          Special relativity 'indicates that, for an observer in an inertial frame of reference, a clock that is moving relative to him will be measured to tick slower than a clock that is at rest in his frame of reference... Theoretically, time dilation would make it possible for passengers in a fast-moving vehicle to advance further into the future in a short period of their own time. For sufficiently high speeds, the effect is dramatic. For example, one year of travel might correspond to ten years on Earth.' (Wikipedia - Time Dilation).




          So, due to the incredible speed of the spacecraft he was in, only 2 or 3 years will have passed for Kal - El during his journey to earth while in relative terms, thousands of years will have passed within the (relatively) static locals of Krypton and Earth.






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          • This creates a "plot hole", though. While Kal-El is in the pod the voice of Jor-El teaches him stuff about Earth and at one point even mentions Einstein's Theory of Relativity. But if Krypton exploded thousands of years before Earth's 1978 then how could Jor-El know about Einstein?
            – Oliver_C
            1 hour ago










          • The voice of Jor-El only mentions Einstein's theory of relativity in its translation to the Earthly languages the film has been projected in. In the original (real) version, Jor-El's voice teaches Kal-El in a Kryptionian language and Einstein's theory of relativity has another name that may include the name of a Kryptonian scientist or not. In fact, before Kal-El landed in Kansas, all action happened in a Kriptonian language although being filmed in English for benefit of audience (or transcribed in English for convenience of comic readers).
            – Pere
            38 mins ago













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          The discrepancy between Kal - El's age and the 'thousands' of years that has past since Jor - El's demise is a nod to the relativistic effects of high speed long distance space travel.



          Einstein demonstrated that time is relative to the observer.




          Special relativity 'indicates that, for an observer in an inertial frame of reference, a clock that is moving relative to him will be measured to tick slower than a clock that is at rest in his frame of reference... Theoretically, time dilation would make it possible for passengers in a fast-moving vehicle to advance further into the future in a short period of their own time. For sufficiently high speeds, the effect is dramatic. For example, one year of travel might correspond to ten years on Earth.' (Wikipedia - Time Dilation).




          So, due to the incredible speed of the spacecraft he was in, only 2 or 3 years will have passed for Kal - El during his journey to earth while in relative terms, thousands of years will have passed within the (relatively) static locals of Krypton and Earth.






          share|improve this answer














          The discrepancy between Kal - El's age and the 'thousands' of years that has past since Jor - El's demise is a nod to the relativistic effects of high speed long distance space travel.



          Einstein demonstrated that time is relative to the observer.




          Special relativity 'indicates that, for an observer in an inertial frame of reference, a clock that is moving relative to him will be measured to tick slower than a clock that is at rest in his frame of reference... Theoretically, time dilation would make it possible for passengers in a fast-moving vehicle to advance further into the future in a short period of their own time. For sufficiently high speeds, the effect is dramatic. For example, one year of travel might correspond to ten years on Earth.' (Wikipedia - Time Dilation).




          So, due to the incredible speed of the spacecraft he was in, only 2 or 3 years will have passed for Kal - El during his journey to earth while in relative terms, thousands of years will have passed within the (relatively) static locals of Krypton and Earth.







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          • This creates a "plot hole", though. While Kal-El is in the pod the voice of Jor-El teaches him stuff about Earth and at one point even mentions Einstein's Theory of Relativity. But if Krypton exploded thousands of years before Earth's 1978 then how could Jor-El know about Einstein?
            – Oliver_C
            1 hour ago










          • The voice of Jor-El only mentions Einstein's theory of relativity in its translation to the Earthly languages the film has been projected in. In the original (real) version, Jor-El's voice teaches Kal-El in a Kryptionian language and Einstein's theory of relativity has another name that may include the name of a Kryptonian scientist or not. In fact, before Kal-El landed in Kansas, all action happened in a Kriptonian language although being filmed in English for benefit of audience (or transcribed in English for convenience of comic readers).
            – Pere
            38 mins ago

















          • This creates a "plot hole", though. While Kal-El is in the pod the voice of Jor-El teaches him stuff about Earth and at one point even mentions Einstein's Theory of Relativity. But if Krypton exploded thousands of years before Earth's 1978 then how could Jor-El know about Einstein?
            – Oliver_C
            1 hour ago










          • The voice of Jor-El only mentions Einstein's theory of relativity in its translation to the Earthly languages the film has been projected in. In the original (real) version, Jor-El's voice teaches Kal-El in a Kryptionian language and Einstein's theory of relativity has another name that may include the name of a Kryptonian scientist or not. In fact, before Kal-El landed in Kansas, all action happened in a Kriptonian language although being filmed in English for benefit of audience (or transcribed in English for convenience of comic readers).
            – Pere
            38 mins ago
















          This creates a "plot hole", though. While Kal-El is in the pod the voice of Jor-El teaches him stuff about Earth and at one point even mentions Einstein's Theory of Relativity. But if Krypton exploded thousands of years before Earth's 1978 then how could Jor-El know about Einstein?
          – Oliver_C
          1 hour ago




          This creates a "plot hole", though. While Kal-El is in the pod the voice of Jor-El teaches him stuff about Earth and at one point even mentions Einstein's Theory of Relativity. But if Krypton exploded thousands of years before Earth's 1978 then how could Jor-El know about Einstein?
          – Oliver_C
          1 hour ago












          The voice of Jor-El only mentions Einstein's theory of relativity in its translation to the Earthly languages the film has been projected in. In the original (real) version, Jor-El's voice teaches Kal-El in a Kryptionian language and Einstein's theory of relativity has another name that may include the name of a Kryptonian scientist or not. In fact, before Kal-El landed in Kansas, all action happened in a Kriptonian language although being filmed in English for benefit of audience (or transcribed in English for convenience of comic readers).
          – Pere
          38 mins ago





          The voice of Jor-El only mentions Einstein's theory of relativity in its translation to the Earthly languages the film has been projected in. In the original (real) version, Jor-El's voice teaches Kal-El in a Kryptionian language and Einstein's theory of relativity has another name that may include the name of a Kryptonian scientist or not. In fact, before Kal-El landed in Kansas, all action happened in a Kriptonian language although being filmed in English for benefit of audience (or transcribed in English for convenience of comic readers).
          – Pere
          38 mins ago



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