User blog:Morning Star TM/Zanki Zero Last Beginning - Dodging A Light Beam

In the game Zanki Zero Last Beginning, Extend Terashima fires off a laser beam from his chest. I'm gonna try and calc it.

In the game, characters can move one floor tile every time you hit the moving arrow once.

The length of a tile is around 12 inches, or 0.3048 m.

Distance between Extend Terashima and the heroes = 0.3048 m.

Speed of laser = Speed of light in vacuum = 3e8 m/s.

Timeframe = 0.3048/3e8 = 1.016e-9 seconds.

I will use two methods of distance: the width of a floor tile, and Mamoru's height.

First Method: Width of Floor Tile:

Distance the characters moved = 0.3048 m.

Speed = 0.3048/1.016e-9 = 3e8 m/s (Speed of Light)

Second Method: Mamoru's Height:

There is also the logic that the distance that the characters covered to dodge the beam is the same as their height, so i will calculate it based on that.

I will scale it to Mamoru's height, since he is the tallest, where he is 1.935 m.

Distance the characters moved = 1.935 m.

Speed = 1.935/1.016e-9 = 1904527559.055 m/s = 635.3 the speed of light (Massively FTL+)

Personally, i would go with the second one.