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I found that generally comic book writers aren't great mathematicians and tend to screw up when it comes to things like that.

There's a fairly famous flash page where he rescues a whole bunch of people from a burning building and the author just casually threw in and he did it all in a nanosecond or something like that, because all the author was thinking about was communicating gee that was fast. Then somebody did the math and found that they had, probably accidentally, made flash move like a dozen times faster than the speed of light.

The short answer, is speed force. Whatever question you have around how speedsters work when it doesn't make sense, just say speed force out loud and then move on. That's how DC does it.