Whats faster than a lightning bolt? How bout a Solar Flare?
Isn’t it amazing how the professional athletes can run so fast? What about the fastest, but what’s faster than the fastest athlete?
12/27/20232 min read
Can anyone run faster than Bolt?
Tough questions deserve simple answers. So, the answer to the question is Yes! It is possible for an athlete, or anyone to run faster than Usain Bolt. But we have to really identify what we mean, when we say faster. For example, are we talking about in a race, or are we talking about just flat out speed? Either avenue is a tough one to beat. But let’s look at the world record 100m race.
It’s fairly simple to see that all a person would need to do is run 9.57, and that would surely beat the record, for that race. But let’s take a look at the other record that is a little more hard to digest. During this world record race, a speed of 27.8mph was reached between the 60 and 80m portions of the race.
This is important! Between these intervals this is when the speed of 27.8mph was obtained. Now in my humble opinion, I greatly respect 9.58 in the 100m, but I believe the more impressive accomplishment is reaching a raw speed of 27.8mph. Maybe that’s why the 100m World record hasn’t been broken? Maybe it’s because there aren’t many or any athletes running 26 or 27mph. It’s hard to say for sure, but what’s interesting is that it’s possible. Yes it may seem out of this world but it’s definitely possible to run faster than 27.8mph.
If you agree with the idea that it’s possible, then you have to decide what form of proof would you accept as real. In the context of someone just coming to you and saying “hello I can run 27.9 mph”, what would you say to such a statement? Would it be a joke, and is so that’s okay, but what if it wasn’t. And it was completely real. What form of proof would you accept as reality? Now, we have to stay in the real of Tough questions, deserve simple answers, so would you accept fit file data would such a reading? If so how many, maybe 20? What if it was captured by an Apple Watch Ultra, and Under Armour Sonic 5 Shoes, would that give the data any credibility. Maybe if the data was check rigorously by both Claude and ChatGPT and the results came out as such reading 27.9. Tough questions, tough Answers.
In Closing, What’s faster than a lightning Bolt? Yes of Course a Solar Flare 27.9 is faster than 27.8, it doesn’t take a rocket scientist, sport scientist, data scientist to figure that one out.., but maybe it does lol. One more thing for your notes, for when Bolt reached the speed of 27.8mph. The big question is how long did he hold the speed? And after much math questions to Bard, it seems to a fraction of a second. Which is pretty remarkable. Wouldn’t it be cool if someone had fit file data of 27.9mph for seconds at a time? One can dream right?

