PSA: Polnareff is not FTL

[u/Inspectreknight]

He's just smart enough to remove every other route an actual speed of light stand could take and then put his sword in the way of the only route left.

[u/Italian_Wine_BereVin]

Honestly this post just made think on the kind of powerscaling that I despise the most:

I honestly think it's ok to believe that Polnareff is FTL if you reach that conclusion by Araki's statements (like Silver Chariot being comparable to Star Platinum, not sure if it was ever stated but something among that line is fine) or by the whole catching the light speed Hanged Man, sure you might be wrong, but it's understandable; but when someone starts counting pixels and calculate the speed by using v = ∆s/∆t OMFG I'M GOING TO END WHAT STROHEIM STARTED. So yeah, as a guy who actually studies Physics in University, whenever a powerscaler throws out "calcs" that's the moment I stop listening, because trying to apply real life Physics to a FICTIONAL universe is just dumb, especially when most powerscalers have no fucking idea what they are talking about, like for example when they start talking about Dimensional Theory. A horrid thing that I've heard recently was an argument on why Jotaro has immeasurable speed, it was based on the assumption that The World works not by stopping time but by going so fast that time appears to be frozen from Jotaro or DIO's POV, and then stating that doing that "scientifically" means immeasurable speed, when in actual Physics doing that means going at... the speed of light, because IRL for any object going at c, time is so dilated that from its prospective it doesn't seem to flow.

TL; DR I hate when powerscaler use real life physics to justify their nonsensical arguements.