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Comic book authors revise back stories all of the time. So in Barry's case, a lightning strike and chemical dousing were the original origin (per Peter Parker and Bruce Banner, "anything that should kill you, but doesn't, gives you superpowers"). Later, the writers introduced the Speed Force...

The comics usually imply that the Speed Force is a non-living source of speedsters' powers, in the same way that yellow Suns are a source of Kryptonians' powers. However, there have been occasional cases of speedsters running into, and getting lost in, the Speed Force. These descriptions seem...