Quote Originally Posted by depthcharge View Post
What if the first human transmutation that the alchemist attempt is solely for the purpose of seeing the Truth gate.

You try to sacrifice your own life, to be reborn. Since it is a equivalent trade, you dont lose anything and gain the Truth gate.

Then proceed to sacrifice your Truth gate for another life.

As far as the Gates are concerned, are they simply information stores, or a doorway between 2 places?

Truth Gate seems to store transmutation information.
I'm not quite understanding the idea of this "reborn" theory.
However as Yukimura mentioned, you need a Gate to go back to real world?
That seems to be the case, and it's necessary for the trade to remain equivalent.

In essence, right now Al's got augmented alchemy powers while Ed lost off of his.