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Superman is "able to leap tall buildings in a single bound." There is something about our yellow sun, which gives him super powers. His home planet did not have a yellow sun. But he flies. He is not just jumping, in those cartoons, TV series, and movies. As far as I know, no explanation was ever given for his flying ability.
Superman can move so fast (sometimes back and forth) that he can become invisible. This makes some sense, except that he would generate a huge amount of noise and wind.
A friend of mine says that the correct way to get Superman's attention is to cry, "Help!" But, he admits that this method is more reliable if you happen to be Lois Lane.
I was thinking that Superman came from a planet with very strong gravity. I thought that his allowed him to jump huge distances in earth's weak gravity. But, I guess it is our yellow sun.
In the movie Superman, he made time go backward by making the earth spin backward. The earth's spin helps us measure time. But, it has no influence on the direction of time's flow.