Date: Sat, 23 Mar 1996 15:32:14 -0800
From: Daniel Glasner (dglasner@escape4tag.com)
Subject: Maya and the law of conservation of matter

How is it possible for Maya to transform to creaturs of different masses 
without apparantly discharging energy? Doesn't this conflict with the law 
of conservation of mass and energy?



Date: Sat, 23 Mar 1996 19:14:58 -0800
From: jflmgcnp@capital44net.com (John Fleming @ COLD NORTH Publishing)

Hey Daniel,

     I touched on this last year. Unfortunately, I didn't have any of the
posts. Does anyone have them?? And can they repost some of it??

     Anyway, what my solution was this, 'Transdimensional'. The extra mass
goes into another dimension for awhile. This accounted for the appearent 1
hour transforming limit. She could only maintain the link between dimensions
for a brief time.

     I hope someone out there has them, I can't remember everything I said.

Later...



Date: Sat, 23 Mar 1996 21:07:35 -0800
From: logan@pop.erols4tag.com

        This same explanation was offered in the editorial pages of "The
Incredible Hulk", an American comic magazine.  Essentially, the editors
(admittedly non scientists) stated that the extra few hundred pounds of
muscle mass that Bruce Banner gains when turning into the Hulk are derived
from an alternate universe or "pocket dimension" parallel to ours.  This
dimension can be accessed through several gateways or "tapping points", and
can manifest in different forms, according to its user.  When Hulk reverts
to Banner, the mass returns to the dimension until it is tapped again by the
Hulk, She-Hulk, Maya, your local werewolf, etc.



Date: Sun, 24 Mar 1996 05:41:47 -0800
From: Daniel Glasner (dglasner@escape4tag.com)

If all this is true how come Maya dosen't use this ability to store mass 
elseware to become mass 0 . This way she could disapeare completly and 
maybe walk through walls etc. In nighther of the Maya episoed does she 
ever do such a thing.



Date: Sun, 24 Mar 1996 10:04:54 -0800
From: logan@pop.erols4tag.com

        Because there is a finite limit to the degree of mass each
individual can control.  If Maya's abilities to control her gateway were so
great that she could become 0 mass, she could probably also be able to
assume the mass of the entire moon itself, if need be.  All of this makes
for poor drama, you see.

        If anyone remembers that episode of "Buck Rogers", where a band of
intergalactic criminals wanted to take over Earth; there was a character who
due to his exposure to radiation, had his own gateway to the other dimension
(in the context of this conversation).  This guy *could* indeed walk through
walls.  However, his control over the gateway did not seemingly extend to
drawing additional mass.  

        Incidentally, in the Incredible Hulk comic book (which is the
original sourse for this explanation), there has yet to be a discovered
upper limit to how much mass the Hulk can draw.  The past has shown that the
angrier he gets, the stronger (and bigger) he becomes.