Quote Originally Posted by Carnage View Post
Alchemy is the rearranging of molecules. You take away or add some protons, and bam you have a different element. I see no reason why Al could not have changed the earth into metal if this entire show revolves around alchemy.
In that case there's no reason why transmuting a person would require the gathering of exactly the same amounts of the various chemicals in the human body (sulphur, carbon... the list goes on). It's obvious that they could not just make every single element under the sun from whatever they could find.

And the "rearranging of molecules" stops you from interfering at the subatomic level already, by definition.