What happens if you stop tending to a matured Bonsai tree and transplant it outdoors?

[carl]

If you transplant a fully-matured Bonsai tree into the earth, will it become a regular tree? Assume that it will survive the transplantation and becomes established enough to survive without constant attention, watering, feeding, etc. Also assume that all pestilences, fires, animal damage, lawnmowers, children with magnifying glasses, lightning bolts, peons from Warcraft, droughts, diseases, meteors, farm runoff, bombs, Godzilla, too much shade, too little shade, miniature cookie elves, floods, asian beetles, supernovae, whittlers, anything from the Matrix, plagues and loggers avoid this little bugger altogether, and it never encounters anything for the rest of its life that would be considered a danger to its health. Assume lastly that every season passes without any abnormalities and every day is a day that is absolutely perfect for growing trees; the soil is perfect, the rainfall is perfect, the breeze is perfect, the carbon dioxide level is perfect and old ladies from the local flower arranging club come out every other day to talk to it in an encouraging manner ... everything is perfect. There is no need to comment on any potential incidentals that could prevent the tree from remaining alive, thereby eliminating all possibility that the tree will grow normally. At least be funny if you do it intentionally. If you do it accidentally or because you are illiterate, and this question was read to you by someone who is only semi-literate, who you also dictated your answer to, prepare yourself for a ruthless verbal thrashing. Anyway, once the constant careful pruning and shaping that has stunted the tree's growth (or expansion, anyway) all its life is stopped, will normal growth characteristics return? Could a 24" tall, 50 year-old giant redwood Bonsai tree theoretically grow to be an actual giant redwood over the hundreds of years to follow if freed from the shackles that once imprisoned it, or will the tree never recover from the life of careful manipulation it endured before it was released into the wild? I'm actually interested to learn the correct answer to this, but haven't found a forum yet online where this has already been discussed. I expect that the Bonsai process is merely a temporary restriction of the natural growth habits written in the tree DNA. Once that restriction is lifted, reason tells me that normal growth patterns will resume, if the tree survives transplantation and acclimation into its new environment. If anyone has an example (minus the utopian plant paradise part) of a successful transplantation of this nature, I'd like to know what the findings were. Did the tree regain its shape? Did leaf sizes return to normal? How long did it take for each stage? How long was it before the tree was no longer recognizable as the Bonsai tree it once was? If you have any other anecdotes or interesting observations, I'd really like to hear them. I actually edited this. It was a lot longer. Thanks for sticking with me long enough to get to the end.