13 Incredibly Stupid Moments From Superman Movies

2. Albert Einstein Was A Time Traveller - Superman

Einstein Superman The issue of time in Superman is definitely up for debate: it is very obvious from the end of the first film that Superman can affect time by turning the world back on its axis, in a scene that definitely wasn't checked for scientific accuracy, but there's a confusing sequence right at the beginning of the film that further complicates matters. When Kal-El is making his initial trip to Earth, he is listening to an audiobook of his father's wisdom, telling him all about the known universe, matter and humanity, as well as more complex things like theories of relative time and space, which Kal's infant superbrain is somehow able to absorb. Presumably this trip takes a long time; after all, he travels through 28 galaxies, which is nothing to be super-sneezed at. The fact that he arrives at Earth still a small child suggests either that he was in stasis, which is reflected in his father's later statement that he will have been dead for thousands of years by the time his son reaches Earth, or that Kryptonian years pass by in the blink of a human eye. Since 12 Earth years advance in the time that Superman spends in the Fortress Of Solitude, that implies that Kryptonian time actually moves slower than Earth time, which makes the whole travelling from Krypton thing even more confusing. That suggests that tiny Superbaby is in a form of stasis as he flies to Earth, but none of that explains how Jor-El is able to teach him the works of Einstein despite the fact that he will have been dead for thousands of years in Earth-terms when Kal-El makes it to Earth. Was he privy to Einstein's works in another life? Was Einstein an outcast Kryptonian on Earth who Jor-El had met? Or is the script just incredibly dumb?
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