There are many physics conundrums within the story line of the Incredible Hulk, such as the fact that being exposed to huge amounts of gamma radiation would probably induce cancer, not superpowers. But the main physics problem is to do with the law of conservation of mass. How can a 6ft man with a weight of 180 lbs suddenly grow to 10ft with a weight of 830 lbs? Well, the first theory is that using e=mc^2, you can somehow reverse convert the energy into mass. However, this would require 400,000 times the amount of energy to create the approx. 300kg needed for this transformation, and there is no technology in the known universe that can do this. So you can cross this one off. The next is photosynthesis. This is based on how trees can extract carbon via photosynthesis, and use it to grow bigger. This could be a possible means if he did do it over years, but Hulk can change in seconds. So, this can’t be right either. Finally, there is the idea of another dimension. What if there was another dimension, the fourth dimension, in which Hulk exists, but then swaps places with Bruce Banner (the guy who plays Hulk in the movies)? This is linked to string theory, which states that there may be other, currently inaccessible dimensions coexisting with our three dimensions. There have been mentions of this in other Marvel movies, where tesseracts act as portals which transport them to other dimensions via wormholes. So, technically, to satisfy the law of conservation of mass, this could be a possible theory, but why never mention it? And why does Bruce have to get angry? I guess we’ll never know.
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