No, this isn't my Lost theory...

But it is wicked cool to see that most of the science in Lost stands up to real-life scrutiny (the sat phone being a significant exception). Turns out that Popular Mechanics goes through each episode and and fact-checks all the scientific stuff.

And just because they needed another venue to promote Lost's return, Darlton gave an interview to PM that revealed a few tidbits, and the accompanying article hinted at a few interesting plot developments that are way too academic for me...

The creators did let slip that the rest of this season will revolve around some
very real—and very big—physics: the Large Hadron Collider, the much delayed European particle accelerator that could reveal information about the Higgs boson and dark energy. Some physicists believe the LHC will produce mini black holes, which might actually be able to open a one-way portal to another universe—a gateway that can only be kept open by a force of energy as strong as Jupiter ... or an electromagnet inside a desert island.

And . . .

Michio Kaku, author of Physics of the Impossible, thinks the Lost creators are using
cutting-edge science to lay the groundwork for a transversible wormhole to another point in space and time—a trip foreshadowed in an off-season video about the so-called Orchid station, which Lindelhof and Cuse promised would be a key to the next few episodes. "They're amping up the energy to the point where space and time begin to tear, and the fabric begins to rip," Kaku tells PM. "When the fabric of space and time begin to rip, things that we consider impossible become possible again."

Yeah, what he said.

And sorry, boss, but Lindelof says that Smokey is not made up of nanobots.