Vampires do not exceed the speed of sound. They are not even as fast as ordinary airplanes or really fast cars, or they’d have no reason to use either barring subterfuge purposes and a fondness for vehicles. So no, no sonic boom. But over short distances, even going 100 mph would mean crossing a football field in a third of a second, if my back-of-envelope bad-at-math calculation is right. Bit quick for a human to follow. (They don’t take any appreciable time to start up and slow down when they aren’t trying to.)
Vampires that don’t care much about looking human often go barefoot; this is mentioned with James’s coven. Cullens do wear shoes. However, they not only move very quickly and strongly: they move precisely. Bella’s shown jumping out a high window in book 4 of canon in high heels and finding it as easy as taking a step on a normal floor. (Easier, probably, because human!Bella can find excuses to trip on ordinary floors and no vampire would ever trip on anything.) I imagine they can wear out shoes like nobody’s business, but if they care about them (which they may or may not, depending on how annoying it is to get new ones, since money is no object) they can probably arrange to plant their feet in shoe-preserving ways.
I specified that the tree wasn’t rotted when Alice picked it out. Wood can take a fair amount of knocking about. She could leave prints in it if she didn’t take care in her handling, but that would have interrupted her show. Note also that this is Alice in particular, who, if she cared about not breaking the tree, could see where it would be best to grab and catch it.
In canon, vampires are not described as leaving remarkable footprints or kicking up soil even when they’re running all-out playing baseball. This does seem odd. I don’t have a good explanation for it unless they’re doing something like the way Jesus lizards walk on water. I’m not planning to explore it in the story, though.
Do you regard math as difficult? If so, one trick I’ve learned is to restate any math problem you see as one about paperclips instead, but make sure you know the mapping to the original problem. This will make it a lot easier to find the answer!
It occurred to me even as I asked the question that just by asking it I would be locking myself in to hearing the answer. I suspect Bella would have deleted the question rather than post it were she in my shoes. ;)
Vampires do not exceed the speed of sound. They are not even as fast as ordinary airplanes or really fast cars, or they’d have no reason to use either barring subterfuge purposes and a fondness for vehicles. So no, no sonic boom. But over short distances, even going 100 mph would mean crossing a football field in a third of a second, if my back-of-envelope bad-at-math calculation is right. Bit quick for a human to follow. (They don’t take any appreciable time to start up and slow down when they aren’t trying to.)
Vampires that don’t care much about looking human often go barefoot; this is mentioned with James’s coven. Cullens do wear shoes. However, they not only move very quickly and strongly: they move precisely. Bella’s shown jumping out a high window in book 4 of canon in high heels and finding it as easy as taking a step on a normal floor. (Easier, probably, because human!Bella can find excuses to trip on ordinary floors and no vampire would ever trip on anything.) I imagine they can wear out shoes like nobody’s business, but if they care about them (which they may or may not, depending on how annoying it is to get new ones, since money is no object) they can probably arrange to plant their feet in shoe-preserving ways.
I specified that the tree wasn’t rotted when Alice picked it out. Wood can take a fair amount of knocking about. She could leave prints in it if she didn’t take care in her handling, but that would have interrupted her show. Note also that this is Alice in particular, who, if she cared about not breaking the tree, could see where it would be best to grab and catch it.
In canon, vampires are not described as leaving remarkable footprints or kicking up soil even when they’re running all-out playing baseball. This does seem odd. I don’t have a good explanation for it unless they’re doing something like the way Jesus lizards walk on water. I’m not planning to explore it in the story, though.
Do you regard math as difficult? If so, one trick I’ve learned is to restate any math problem you see as one about paperclips instead, but make sure you know the mapping to the original problem. This will make it a lot easier to find the answer!
It occurred to me even as I asked the question that just by asking it I would be locking myself in to hearing the answer. I suspect Bella would have deleted the question rather than post it were she in my shoes. ;)