Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-34954086-20120922085545/@comment-34954086-20120923083948

Hydor211 wrote: Kid Flash got his powers from a chemically induced explosion theoretically how could this give him and the other speedsters the ability to move extremely fast?

Chemicals inducing an increased metabolism. Increase in metabolism leads to increased energy production. Energy tranforms from chemical to kinetic, k=1/2mv^2. v=velocity/ speed. This accounts fully for Kid Flash and Jay, although with Impulse & Barry's faster reaction time etc are more complex. give it some time, ill come back to it.