10 TV Shows That Got Science Completely Wrong
1. Super Speed - The Flash
Analyzing the problems with various superpowers is such an exercise in futility as to be rendered a sucker's game, and god knows CW's Flash has so much more wrong with it than this, but one may as well start here.
Super speed sounds like the perfect superpower. I mean who needs super strength or super invulnerability or super hearing when you can just run at the speed of light?
The answer? You would, bucko.
In fact you would need all of those things all at once in order to not just IMMEDIATELY die the second you take off. Look up anyone who has ever endured G-forces and you will learn exactly what happens to the human body when it goes even a fraction of the speed Barry Allen goes in this show.
Dude's brain should have been liquified and his bones shattered just from the strain being put on his body. And unless his brainpower and reflexes were also given a juice up, he would die from being atomized by a brick wall from running into it at top speed, or even from tripping and being reduced to a mile long stain on the pavement.
It doesn't take a scientific genius to find problems with the CW Flash show, but even when it WASN'T eye-meltingly terrible from a storytelling perspective, it was still doing horrible, unspeakable things to the very concept of science itself.