morphing heals all wounds.....or does it????????

[bizarrocarlos]

we all know when the animorphs get messed up in morph they morph back to themselves and heal.

let's say while they are human, they get an arm chopped off. then they morph to whatever and back to human. their arm should be back in one piece right?

i don't think so. when you morph all your mass goes to z-space,then you get that same amount of mass back. so if you morph without an arm then theoretically you should'nt have enough mass to grow back an arm since you morphed with less mass than usual. but morphing heals all wounds unless they are genetic.

so theoretically this is a loophole that screws the morpher over.
anybody else think so or not?
yes i have considered how mass for morphing larger things comes out of nowhere. 

[MoppingBear]

we all know when the animorphs get messed up in morph they morph back to themselves and heal.

let's say while they are human, they get an arm chopped off. then they morph to whatever and back to human. their arm should be back in one piece right?

i don't think so. when you morph all your mass goes to z-space,then you get that same amount of mass back. so if you morph without an arm then theoretically you should'nt have enough mass to grow back an arm since you morphed with less mass than usual. but morphing heals all wounds unless they are genetic.

so theoretically this is a loophole that screws the morpher over.
anybody else think so or not?
yes i have considered how mass for morphing larger things comes out of nowhere. 

have you? rachel gets her arm chopped off, admitedly while in bear morph and is ok.  she also gets chopped in half as a starfish, and both half demorph.  there is seemingly extra mass floating around in z space for just such occasions.

[VisserZer0]

I seem to remember something from book 4 where someone gets dismembered and Cassie was busy wondering whether the morph would heal it. It did. I think all of the extra mass in Z-space comes from other morphs and the like some of the mass that the Animorphs used for a big morph may have been the mass that some random Andalite sent into Z-space while morphing something smaller.

[Gumby]

Poor random Andalite. Re-morphs oen day and has no eyes or lung or something.

[VisserZer0]

But then he just takes the mass from another morph and so on and so on. I'm sure there's plenty of extra mass to go around.

[merchant]

So you just have to make sure that there is always someone in morph with lesser mass than they bear in normal form, otherwise it'll screw everything up and someone will be missing parts of himself.

[VisserZer0]

Well, I said morphing and the like. Not all of it has to come from a morph but I'm sure that's where some of it comes from.

[MoppingBear]

yeah, poor andalite family on their shuttle ends up missing a bulkhead.

[itw2009]

i like to think that this apparent breach of the conservation of mass has been taken care of with some advanced alien technology. or the physical properties of z-space, or some other, previously unknown dimension.

or, as a last resort, i fall back on my sunday school animorphs answer:

it was all the ellimist.



otherwise, the animorphs would have been filleted three ways from sunday before tobias would ever have had to worry about that pesky two-hour time limit.

[Phoenix004]

I always assumed that Z-space somehow contained potential mass, which the morphing technology uses when morphing larger creatures. I highly doubt the extra mass is borrowed from the spare mass of other morphers, or else there's no way they'd be able to morph something as large as a whale.

[musicman88]

I always figured that there was a large collection of background mass (or energy) that was stored in Z-space either by the Andalites themselves, or just naturally there for such an occasion.

[Phoenix004]

Yeah that's pretty much my thinking too musicman.

[itw2009]

or z-space has mass.

and morphing is simply eating away at the mass of z-space, and replacing it when necessary.

*shrug* does the universe have mass? maybe the andalites have hooked us all up to the largest planet in their known universe. we can clearly reconstruct the chemical properties of this "mass", so no worries as to the source...

or it's a conversion of dark matter to.... not-dark matter. it wouldn't surprise me to know that the andalites have stumbled across the answers to the origins of the universe.

[BaronConall]

This one topic just bought my Escafil Device theory crashing down like house of cards. Made of lead.

I don't know how to feel about this.

[MoppingBear]

or z-space has mass.

and morphing is simply eating away at the mass of z-space, and replacing it when necessary.

which would explain z space shifting rather nicely...