A seemingly throwaway line at the conclusion of a confrontation between the Freedom Fighters from Earth-Two, while battling their world's Baron Blitzkrieg on the hero-less Earth-X, was that the cosmic balance was jeapordized due to the All-Stars' presence on a world not their own.
The three who remained behind on Earth-X were Uncle Sam, Black Condor and the Ray; after three Nazi troopers returned with the Baron to Earth-Two. Months earlier, Sam had brought other heroes to Earth-X, all of whom (save for Hourman and Sam) remained until their premature deaths:
According to the law of conservation of mass, also known as the principle of mass/matter conservation, is that the mass of a closed system will remain constant over time. The mass of an isolated system cannot be changed as a result of processes acting inside the system. A similar statement is that mass cannot be created/destroyed, although it may be rearranged in space, and changed into different types of particles.
So the mass of these metahumans was removed from one closed system, or universe, and transferred into another. How did the multiverse compensate for this unauthorized transfer? Well another incursion happened shortly thereafter when several Nazi troops followed Midnight and Dollman back from the Nazi's Earth-X to the heroes' Earth-Two:
In the third panel, if you squint you can make out ten soldiers on the opposite rooftop from Midnight, and four falling presumably to a rough landing. That's fourteen, so five of these would cancel out the five late heroes Red Torpedo, Magno, Miss America, Neon the Unknown and the Invisible Hood. The remaining Nazi troopers correlated with All-Stars Doll Man, Midnight, Plastic Man, Human Bomb, Phantom Lady, Red Bee, Manhunter, Jester and Quicksilver who moved to Earth-X shortly thereafter. the Blackhawk Squadron accompanying the Freedom Fighters to Earth-X, although they would within two years return to Earth-Two (or perhaps those Blackhawks were stand-ins for the originals, While the Blackhawks also journeyed to Earth-X in spring of 1942, they had returned to Earth-Two in September 1944 when they teamed up with the golden age Batman. Likewise, Manhunter returned to Earth-Two.. bringing with him Captain Triumph, who soon after returned to his homeworld of Earth-X with Rod Reilly aka the original Firebrand.
So the total number of Nazi soldiers and Fighters who permanently moved Earth balanced out, thus compensating for the transfer of mass.
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