Theory:Age shifting

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Theory	Citations	Notes
Age shifting is related to shape shifting.	None	+ Both abilities allow the user to mimic people who are older or younger than themselves by physically altering the body.
Age shifting allows immortality.	None	+ Age shifters can control their physical age; it seems likely that they could always just make themselves younger. • It isn't known if they just appear to be younger or if they actually become younger. + If age shifting didn't change your physical age, then it would be a very poorly named ability. - Even if it does, cells can't divide indefinitely, at some point it would reach the Hayflick limit. Regenerators apart, people's bodies can't keep on. • The whole point of abilities is that they defy the laws of biology, chemistry and physics. • No, they don't. They are simply part of a different set of biology that results in chemical differences. Their gene allows them to manipulate not defy the laws of physics. • If you manipulate something, then it is not as it should be, ie. you are defying its true nature. + Certain organisms (such as hydras) are biologically immortal; they do not experience any degradation due to age. Also, a certain species of jellyfish (which is also biologically immortal) is capable of intentionally reverting to a sexually immature state after reaching adulthood. The Russian's DNA may have possessed similar qualities.