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dc - Is Green Lantern faster than Flash and Superman?


I am having a dilemma... Flash and Superman are supposed to be fastest superheros in DC universe but I think Green Lantern should be faster than them, and I mean a lot faster. I did some digging and according to Green Lantern Wiki his Flight is about Mach 10 and 80% of light speed in space...



Flight: By the manipulation of anti-gravitons and directed molecular movement, the ring allows the user to fly at incredible speeds. In atmosphere, a Green Lantern has been known to fly as fast as Mach 10 in atmosphere by creating an aerodynamic envelope around his body. Towing others, usually within a bubble, his speed is limited to the twice the speed of sound or 1440 mph. In space, Green Lantern's speed can be significantly greater and has been known to approach 80% of lightspeed in normal space. Flight is possible at velocities exceeding light speed. In atmospheres, air friction is not a hindrance, since heat is either absorbed or reflected by the ring's field.



Now they say speed faster than lightspeed is possible but not explained how. In every comicbook depiction he just fly trough space. So if GL can go to Oa which is in Galactic Center and by wiki Galactic Center range from 7.6 to 8.7 kiloparsecs (about 25 000 to 28 000 lightyears) from Earth and it doesn't take him thousands of years to go there why cant he use just fraction of that speed and beat Superman and Flash in race?




Answer



I'm not clear on what the limits of Superman's speed are, but with The Flash, at least, there doesn't seem to be any limit to how fast he can run if needed. He has absolutely been shown to run faster than light speed, and uses that ability to time travel on occasion. However fast The Green Lantern's ring allows him to go, The Flash can go faster.


The key here is that The Flash has access to the Speed Force, which almost by definition means he can go faster than anyone else. If someone tries to outrun him, the Speed Force just "magically" makes him faster, and he wins. The amount of hand-waving involved in explaining how the Speed Force really works is astounding, but the upshot is, The Flash has pretty consistently been identified as the faster person in the DC Universe.


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