Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-34954086-20120922085545/@comment-34954086-20121111134622

Ok this is for me mostly, an explanation of Superman's powers from Alexandra Luthor, I actually did some diagrams on my interpretation, it does actually make sense, and actually fills a large glaring hole which I hadn't even realised existed in the "Super absorbs power from the Yellow Sun radiation" thing. All that's really different betwen red and yello suns is the chemical composition, helium and hydrogen, this gives the fusion different emission spectra, which is responisble for different frequencies and wavelengths and that is what gives it the different colored appearance.

Frequency and wavelength, DONT CHANGE regardlesss of distance though (relativistic speeds non outstanding). The exact same frequencies would reeach Krypton as those which would reach Earth. Sure they'd be mingled with other Frequencies, even that of the main star of Krypton (we'll call this Sun One). Someone must have told this to DC cause this newest book gives a perfect explanation for how this is allowed. Sun One has a higher intensity to Sun Two (Earth), intensity gives amplitude on the wave function. Intensity DOES decrease with distance. This means that the standard intensity light from Sun Two would reach the the frequency of Sun One at Krypton as a very minute amplitude. Interference occurs and there is almost no change in the combined wave form, mean that there's no grandious effect of Sun Two on the resident kryptonians. Which abides by what we know.

Now on the reverse side, the larger intensity from Sun One would decrease proportionally to the square of the distance as with that of Sun Two, however, it's larger scale and intensity would persist, meaning that when it reaches Earth's Sun, it could well have a now typical intensity wave, meaning that when interference occurs, it actually has a full effect, the wave becoming a completely different function to that of the Sun Two's emission alone. Superman absorbing this specific frequency, avoids the pitfall of the previous belief.

Now I won't lie, that is a roundabout explanation, it makes sense, but it's not as though it'd by any means be the first port of call. Then again this is Lex2 we're talking about, so maybe. I wouldn't have thought of it though, so I have the utmost respect right now :P