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Dear Sir, Your Shirt is Ajar

Indeed Desmond is taking some notes on Eddie Veddar's saucy coif. However, his look as a whole, that, he is clearly stealing from the stallions of harlequin romance novels.

Really, Fabio better watch out, because Desmond is stealing his look, AND taking it down a button. He'll see your northern european accent and raise you a scottish one! He'll travel through time and steal your scantily clad woman!

Desmond, my dear, have you noticed that there are buttons located above the six pack? Seriously, I think LOST has met it's chest hair quota for the remainder of the series.

Desmond rules.

And another thing...

If Henry Cusick had to cut his hair for this episode, how exactly do they plan on making it long again? I hope they have a good wig in store. Maybe they could ask Eddie Vedder to donate.

Great Scott!!

Straight up flux-capacitor status...

So I'm watching LOST right now.

You guys were right.

Time travel.

Yup.

Bend It Like Desmond

Tonight's Episode:
The Constant
Sayid and Desmond hit a bit of turbulence on the way to the freighter, which causes Desmond to experience some unexpected side effects.

Is Time Travel Possible?

Crazy Smart Peops Tell You About Time Travel

Official Season 4 schedule

ABC has released their official schedule for the remainder of the LOST season…

Episode 5: Feb. 28
Episode 6: March 6
Episode 7: March 13
Episode 8: March 20
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BREAK
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Episode 9: April 24
Episode 10: May 1
Episode 11: May 8
Episode 12: May 15
Episode 13: May 22 (Season Finale)

Clariely Not Alive

According to our most recent poll, it's relatively agreed upon that Claire of the future is DEAD! Not our kind, sweet, young, australian mommy! 2 to 1 we seem to think she's a goner. Poor little Aaron. I hope they at least gave her a jar of peanut butter for her last meal!

In the name of all that is ridiculous…

Alena found this, and seeing as how LOST is everyone's favorite show, I was compelled to share. Use it while watching LOST with a chatty loved one. It's the polite, feline way to say "Shut up, I'm trying to absorb everything that's going on! and NO! I don't want to talk about that toothpaste commercial that just came on any more!" Enjoy.

PS I never said this wasn't completely stupid.

CS Lewis

Ok, seriously, so I had posted my theory about Charlotte being Annie on lostpedia and someone deleted it because they don't think it's a viable theory, however, after reading the following from that article I posted earlier:

DAMON LINDELOF: Charlotte Lewis was an obvious reference to C.S. Lewis and an important clue to places we're going at the end of the season.

CARLTON CUSE: And an important clue to Charlotte's own, as-yet-untold important backstory.

I'm sticking to my theory. In the chronicles of Narnia, not only do the main characters enter new worlds, but exit their current timelines. The Pevensies go into the wardrobe as children but live in Narnia into adulthood, only to return to England as the children they once were. This leads me to believe that Charlotte/Annie could be any age!

Anyway, that article is a fantastic read.

Damarlton Gives Up Answers

In this article from Entertainment Weekly, producers Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse answer some questions that are sort of hot-button issues around our office. Most notably, they destroy the myth that the Oceanic 6 have to on the manifest, citing that Ben could've easily changed assumed the identity (an easy feat after the discovery of his evil genius secret costume lair) of a family-less, friend-less passenger (*cough cough* John Locke maybe? *cough*). Enjoy…

Okay, since you brought it up, Damon: Is Ben a member of the Oceanic 6?

''Nothing precludes him from being a member of the Oceanic 6 — other than he wasn't on the plane,'' says Lindelof. ''But he does have a room full of documents and passports. He could have just, you know, done some research and doctored some records and adopted the identity of someone on the plane — someone with no family or friends who would know otherwise. So who's to say he isn't?''

So...when will we know for certain?

''By the end of the seventh episode, the audience will now know who the Oceanic 6 are.''

Read the Full Article

Tired of Aging

If you're like me (and certainly you are) then you're sick and tired of all these slightly aging characters, Jack with his bits of greying hair and Aaron with his grotesquely full head of hair. Well, tire no more.

Due to the official cancellation of the CBS show "Cane", starring Nestor Carbonell, his character, the dashing, debonaire Richard Alpert with his frozen-in-time good looks will undoubtedly be back at the island any moment now.

In the podcasts, Damon and Carleton revealed that though they would've liked to cram a little more Richard in the series thus far, he was unavailable due to contractual obligations with his new show. Now he's all freed-up.

It's all about makin' that GTA

Mmkay, so......Kate has Claire's baby. That's weird. Murder, arson, grand theft auto, larceny, f-f-f-fornication with Sawyer, and now....grand theft Aaron? Kate is pretty drama if you ask me. Here's what probably most likely definitely happened:

1.) Kate shoots Claire
2.) Kate steals baby
3.) Kate shoots Locke
4.) Kate sleeps with Sawyer again
5.) Kate shoots Sawyer
6.) Kate leaves island with said baby


Also, I think Locke was in the casket.

$3.2 Million Dollars

Heres a small excerpt from a theory explaining the true meaning of the $3.2 Million Dollars:

"3.2 million dollars is Miles way of telling Ben that our rescue crew knows the bearing to get on the island; 3-2-5 (3.2 and 5 zeroes). Ben then asks Miles why not 3.3 or 3.5 and Miles says no, 3.2 million dollars—reinforcing that they are sure of the correct bearing."

Read the rest of that theory HERE.

Eggtown Recap

Well, last night's episode was yet another powerhouse, chock-full of demi-answers and puzzle pieces that still don't quite yield the big picture.

1. We discovered our dear little Katey has added the title of baby-napper to her growing, yet ultimately acquitted list of criminal names.

2. Aaron, apparently just has that something special that makes people want to kidnap him, in the womb or out.

3. Jack, looking dapper with a hint of salt and pepper, proved to us that the Oceanic 6 are maintaining the illusion that 8 people survived the crash and only 6 made it home. So that's what was eating him in last season's finale. He also had some deep-routed issues with baby Aaron. What happened there? This better not be another one of his daddy issues.

4.Kate's mother, showed us where Kate gets her endurance and determination to disprove what sometimes seems so certain, I think we all assumed she had kicked the bucket shortly after Kate's encounter with her in the hospital.

5. Miles continues thicken the mystery surrounding the freighties, with his plan to mercifully blackmail Ben. I think it's safe to say, he has no idea who he's dealing with.

6. Locke seems to slowly be losing his grip on leadership and his connection to the island. Does anyone else want to take him aside and explain that when he loudly smashes things a few feet away from Ben, that he can hear him, and is thereby made aware of just how "under his skin" he's gotten? I sure do.

7. And my favorite budding mystery of all, Daniel Faraday… so he has some short-term memory issues. I guess this explains his sometimes excessively frazzled behavior, like when Jack and Kate found him and he didn't seem to have any answers, nor the savvy to play it off. I guess that's why the voice on the phone had to remind him not to use the speaker phone. More of my Faraday theories later.

Eggtown

It is believed that last night's episode "Eggtown" is an anagram for "Egg to Own". This is interesting because we find out about Kate having a "son" named Aaron (just like Claire's son). Obviously, if it does mean "Egg to Own" then maybe this is a reference to the Island and Pregnancy issue, (pregnant women on the Island dying), but then other questions still abound. Did Kate take Aaron from Claire, is Claire now dead, did Kate just adopt Aaron, or did Claire sacrifice herself for Aaron to live? Any thoughts?

New Theory. Fast.

Ok, so I've been retroactively listening the official Lost podcasts (which, let me tell you, if you don't already, you need to listen to it, Damon and Carlton are vastly entertaining). Based on this, I have formulated two theories.

1. Oceanic #5 is Sawyer
According to a podcast, a listener called in, asking if we'd know the status of a Kate/Sawyer baby, and if so, how soon. They gave the impression that this information would be revealed in the fourth episode of season 4 (tonight's episode). Since they've promised (based on last week's preview of this week) that we'd get a another piece of the Oceanic 6 puzzle tonight. In those preview, we see Kate coming out of a limo, and since we already know Kate is one of the O6 (from Jack's flashforward last season), she must be in the flash forward of this new reveal. Who could it be, but Sawyer? Even though he didn't want to leave the island, he would surely leave it for the good of his baby and his baby mama?

2. Oceanic #6 is Locke
As I've shown, by process of pair elimination, Sawyer and Locke become a pair. I believe something transpires on the island and Locke gets put on the rescue chopper while out-cold. Perhaps Ben manipulates someone to take him down, who knows? However it happens, I think Locke mistakenly gets taken against his will. When he returns, he will be in a wheelchair again and due to that the depression of being away from the island, he will commit suicide, in his swank New York loft (courtesy of his oceanic settlement) and be the man in the coffin.

Economist, Cut Scene

Well, a famous fan, named DocArtz, has some fancy pants connection and gets to see the episodes in advance. One perk to the rest of us, is that any editing that happens after this prerelease, DocArtz kindly fills in the gaps.

In The Economist, an entire scene was cut, featuring Kate, Miles and Sayid coming up on the sonic fence. Something pretty interesting happens. I'll let y'all read his transcript of the cut scene and conjure your own conclusions:

The Economist cut scene transcript

Oceanic Six, Pairs

As I began to do the newest poll, I noticed something quite interesting. The remaining candidates for the Oceanic Six are all pairs, except two. Here is our pool of living survivors on the island:
Claire and Aaron
Sun and Jin
Rose and Bernard
Michael and Walt (iffy)
Locke
Sawyer














So, if we run with the idea that those pairs would not be separated, then, I would say, unless our last two are Locke and Sawyer, we just might get a double reveal come this Thursday. Being as how the previews for next episode didn't say there would be two revealed, this could mean it is, in fact, Locke and Sawyer.

Of course, we should all keep in mind that bending the rules and playing mind games are what they do best. There's just a bit of simple logic for you. Also, we all know that I think it's Claire and Aaron.

PS There are three more unlikely candidates, Cindy (stewardess), Emma and Zack (two kids in the tail), all who have defected to the Others camp.

Love is in the Air

Tell Someone You Love that You Love Lost

Visual Tour of the Island & Dharma Stations

This is a rad article covering in some detail the Island and the Dharma Stations. A little warning : its slightly long and you'll need access to youtube, so save it for when you have some time to spare. Pretty cool!

Article Here

More on Lost's Future

Just read an interview with Carlton Cuse on TV Guide's web site, and he clarified Lost's situation for the rest of the season.

The highlights:

• Yes, they are cutting down from 16 total episodes to 13.
• The three episodes that have been cut will be made up down the line. As Cuse puts it, "You will get those three episodes downstream."

Not much else revealing (the interview was done Tuesday, before the writers went back to work), but you can read the rest here. Thank you for reading.

How the Strike Will Affect Us…

“Lost” showrunner Carlton Cuse says the fourth season of his acclaimed sci-fi drama will be no more than 13 episodes this season, cut down from an order of 16 due to the writers’ strike expected to end today.
Eight episodes were scripted before the strike. Cuse hopes to produce five more to air this spring.

It sounds like Cuse and the rest of the “Lost” writing staff will end the fourth season at the same story point they always intended, cramming eight episodes of plot into the season’s final five installments.

“We will have to condense some stories,” Cuse tells The Hollywood Reporter.

The third episode of the fourth season airs this Thursday. Sources say all 13 fourth-season episodes could conceivably run between now and the end of the season without a break.

Taken from Ain't It Cool

Ok, so they're telling me they can't scrape together 3 more episodes during that giant gaping hole of an 8 month hiatus between seasons??? The WGA strike officially, fully sucks.

Hurley Blog

This post is not a theory but something to make you laugh. It is Jorge Garcia's blog, aka Hurley! He has some funny little entries and my favorite is Hurley as a pearl in an oyster!

If you want more then check out his blog here.

more on time travelocity

Ok well here is a little more to add to Dirk's time travel theories. This could either explain a lot of stuff or is just way off. You decide... 

New Oceanic Flights; Connection to Losties

On Friday, several of us called the phone number listed on the Oceanic Airlines press release, (it was an actual number, but it didn't really contain any good info and was kind of a let down). Anyways, Oceanic announced they were resuming flights to 9 markets. So the question is why now? Up until the press release all operations were cancelled due to financial difficulties. Also why are they flying to only 9 specific markets, some of which they didn't previously fly to as noted on their old website: oceanic-air.com? Is there some correlation of flights being resumed because flight 815 has finally been found? Does it have something to do with some of our Losties getting off the island? I'm not sure but I did some research and found some interesting connections to the destinations that Oceanic Airlines will be flying to. They all have a link to where some of the characters are from/lived, take a look below to see who:

Los Angeles– Jack and Hurley

Miami– Juliet (yea!!!)

New York– Michael

Ames, Iowa– Kate

Tustin, California– Locke

Knoxville, Tennessee– Sawyer

Portland, Oregon– Ben

Seoul, South Korea– Jin and Sun

Sydney, Australia– Claire and Walt

All of these I verified and researched on Lostpedia.

Ben's Love Story?

After reviewing the episode on Lostpedia and talking with my lostpadres, I have these observations/theories.

Ok, here is my crazy theory. Obviously, it does not encompass everything on the show, just a few select pieces of the overall puzzle.

I believe that Charlotte Staples Lewis is not only Ben's "man" on the freighter, but I also think she might be Annie. Annie was the childhood friend of Ben, who gave him the wooden doll and remembered his b-day. It is unknown what became of Annie. I believe the island exists back in time, many years (not sure). I also believe (as seen in a few theories) that the dharma initiative has access to either a time machine or some sort of tear in time, through which they are able to leave the island and the time it exists in. I don't know how much control they have over it though. I believe that Annie travelled to present day and Ben somehow contacted her to tell her the location of a polar bear he left (wear he was in the past) and she found it, completely decomposed in the time she is in. Perhaps this was an extremely important test that would somehow help her return to the island, or maybe it's Ben's message to her, through time. When she drops in the water, she is visibly thrilled to be there, just as she is when she discovers the dharma collar from the polar bear. Charlotte is also careful to show no reaction to seeing Ben, as her main objective is to get him to safety.

So Ben creates the diversion by shooting her and they all but it and move on.
Ben knew an extensive amount of information on Charlotte because he made it up. Ben also knew that she was wearing a bulletproof vest, allowing him to shoot her, and thereby making the group believe he intended to kill her, and putting her the furthest from suspicion. When Ben is listing off facts on Charlotte, we see Claire make a really suspicious face, because, perhaps she detects Ben's deception.

Free on iTunes…

For those of you who are out of your minds and don't watch Lost AND who are incredibly impatient and unable to sit through the 44 (give or take a couple) blissful hours of Lost, iTunes in all it's generosity is offering a season 1–3, 40 min. recap for FREE (even though it's truly priceless). So, if you really want to rob yourself of the greatest 44 hours of television that you will ever watch, then download it. Of course, it's always a nice refresher course for the true Lost fan.

Download it!

Confirmed Dead Wrap-Up

Ok, so first of all, I would just like to say that I was TOTALLY right about Abaddon's unknown affiliation being with Naomi (whoever she is working for). We should've done a pool! Heh, just kidding, gambling is bad.

Ok, pretty much that whole episode blew my mind apart. Every single piece of that episode was absolutely CRAMMED with new, exciting, theory-hatching information. So, I will wait until break time to go into all that my brain tried to say before it leapt out of my head and ran away screaming.

Also, apparently the WGA strike is not officially over. Pin and needles.

WGA STRIKE OVER

"Will we see the true end of Lost, or will it all come to a unfortunate and unfinished end due to the WGA stirke?" There's one less LOST mystery we'll have to pore over!

It's Over.

How many grams of fat in 1 tub of Dharma ranch dressing?

After being asked by multiple people, "How is it that Hurley is actually gaining weight on a deserted island?" I began to wonder myself "What the heck is going on? How many ranch tubs did this guy have stashed?!" So I began an investigation on the life of Hugo as we know it. Is there a reason he has grown bigger... or is that even true? I have pulled a photo of him from each season to see if this fact is an actual fact. Please check out these photos in order from season 1 to 4 and you be the judge!

Confirmed Dead

Tonight's episode, "Confirmed Dead," was written by Drew Goddard (Genius McMastermind behind Cloverfield) and Brian K. Vaughan, and was directed by Stephen Williams. ABC described the episode this way: The survivors begin to question the intentions of their supposed rescuers when four strangers arrive on the island.

Confirmed Dead… sounds like they might shed a little light on the big secret between the Oceanic Six, that everyone else on the plane, though still alive and kickin' on weirdo island, are perhaps, confirmed dead?

Hurley's Painting

So according to Jorge Garcia, aka Hurley, he was interview on Jay & Jack's Lost Podcast (www.jayandjack.com). He said that he actually painted it. He got no directive from the script or director/producers. He simply said that Hugo would fantasize about the extreme opposite of a hot jungle.

There's no intrinsic, hidden meaning in this painting.

…What!!! You mean to tell me theres no relation to the two guys in the Arctic that call Penny in the Season 2 finale??? DANG IT!!!!…

Who are you, really?

You don't know, until everybody's favorite marooned bad boy, John "Sawyer" Ford hath bestowed upon yee a nickname. So, find out your Sawyer-ized nickname!




(I'm "Freebird", by the way)

Oceanic Airlines announces return to the airways

Below you can read the Oceanic Airlines press release, which surfaced several weeks ago:

For Those with Boatloads of Time

There's a 50 question Lost quiz from Parade Magazine. Pretty extensive. Post your results if you take it.

Posting

Don't be afraid to post! Post anything and everything about LOST that you deem worthy. The more posts, the more lawstsome this blog will be.

PS If you're an onlooker who is interested in joining this blog as a contributor, please show us your stuff by commenting and offering up some sound LOST linkery and you too can be "lawstsome".

Rad Theory

Just a shot of Michael in a room right?
Or does anyone else see the Dharma logo?




Whats most rad about this theory is that it provides actual show screen shots and moments in history to explain the theory. Even if this theory isnt true it still interesting.

Highlights from the theory:
Electromagnetism plays a large role. So does collective consciousness. Dharma was initially created for world peace. 108 minutes was the time it took Yuri Alexeyevich Gagarin to orbit the earth

Updated Theory:
http://www.4815162342.com/forum/viewtopic2.php?t=15038

Original Theory:
http://www.4815162342.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3377

One More Slammin' Theory

I just started reading this theory:

Casimir Theory

It's really good, goes along with some sort of time issue. It also addresses some interesting characters we've seen, such as the old woman in Desmonds time-crazy flashback and Edmond, who lived with Desmond in the hatch.

Matthew Abaddon

Oh snap. I do believe Dirk was onto something.

Matthew Abaddon, AKA the ultra scary man who visits Hurley in the mental hospital, while claiming to be a representative of Oceanic Airlines, has QUITE the interesting last name.

Abaddon (according to wikipedia) Many Biblical scholars believe Abaddon to be Satan or the antichrist. Others have stated that he may be one of the lesser demons of hell, or even a dark angel. One source… stated that Abaddon was powerful enough to be used by Moses as a way of invoking the terrible rains of the Plagues of Egypt. in many places, Abaddon is pictured as a human sized locust, and is known as the lord of pestilence. Jehovah's Witnesses originally also considered Abaddon a demon, but now identify him with Jesus.

In Biblical poetry (Job 26:6; Proverbs 15:11), it comes to mean "place of destruction", or the realm of the dead, and is associated with Sheol. Abaddon is also one of the compartments of Gehenna. By extension, it can mean an underworld abode of lost souls, or hell.

Lastly, someone discovered that an anagram of "Matthew Abaddon" is "a what Tom nabbed". Now, that extra "a" sucks, but that could also refer to Walt, as Tom AKA Mr. Friendly did kidnap him at one point. What if Matthew Abaddon is Walt in the distant future?! Oh snap!

Theory Snippet

So I was reading some theories at lunch, I found one, which though not a whole theory, had this totally dead-on idea. In the season 3 finale, when Jack is talking about his dad as though he's alive (which I assumed Jack was crazy, and it also served as a great ploy to throw the viewer off of the flash forward), he probably actually saw him, the same way Hurley saw Charlie in the season four opener. That was what sent Hurley over the edge, seeing dead people. So it makes sense that after Hurley went all crazy-pants, then Jack followed suit a bit later.

Original Theory from which I stole this.

Any Similarities?

I just thought these 2 images look quite similar, what do you guys think?:



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The Great Gendanken Experiment

Ok, so I found this amazing theory on Dark UFO. I figured I'd repost it here, in it's entirety. Here is a link to it's original location (there are some cool comments to read as well). It's starts out little over-my-head, but stick with it, it's REALLY good.

Let's go back to shortly after the turn of the Twentieth century, the days of Einstein and other early theoretical physicists. This was the dawn of the age of quantum mechanics, which provided new understanding and insight into physics at the sub-atomic level. New mathematics described the behavior of the tiny particles that make up all of matter in the universe. The math was clearly described in terms of numbers, symbols, formulas... however the application to nature as we know it was strange, weird, bizarre.

It was very difficult to wrap the human brain around many of the concepts of quantum mechanics, and the math alone was inadequate to explain the problems. Thus, physicists and mathematicians turned to "Gedanken Experiments," German for Thought Experiments. Applying the known concepts of quantum mechanics to situations in the "real world" allowed a conversation to take place in a way most anybody could (sort of) understand.

Before I lose you, here is an example. In the mathematics of quantum physics, time travel is THEORETICALLY possible. One of the most famous Gedanken Experiments is the Grandfather Paradox. If you could travel back in time, could you kill your grandfather? Logic tells you that no, you could not, for if you did, you would not exist. (Pause here and consider why Locke insists that "he can't" kill his father, he needs somebody else to do it.) The beautiful thing about Gedanken Experiments is that they are both scientific and philosophical, perfect fodder for a creative writer. In the case of the Grandfather Paradox, while they logic is clear, the actual experience of it is a mystery. Imagine actually standing there in the past, holding a loaded gun to the head of your grandfather... what would actually prevent you? "Something" would, some unknown mechanism of physics... and that is where the writers of "Lost" imagine for us.

"Lost" is a grand Gedanken Experiment, a test of science and philosophy. It asks the question, What if time travel were not only possible, but real, with technology developed in a manner as realistic and consistent with known theoretical physics as possible? And to make it even more dramatic, What if you could travel back in time, AND NOT KNOW IT? The passengers of Flight 815 have done exactly that, and the writers have made the audience go along with them, sharing the same sense of confusion and mystery.

Let's talk about what we know about time travel today. We are not talking about cheesy movies of the past, where one can travel back to the age of dinosaurs or the middle ages. In fact, in the "real" science of time travel, a few things are known by the constraints of physics and quantum mechanics.
There is a conceptual model of a real time machine, and it works something like this:

A time machine must have two parts, essentially two portals, connected by a wormhole (or black hole or whatever you want to call it). Door #1 is built alongside Door #2. Door #1 is allowed to continue along the "present"
timeline, while Door #2 is encapsulated in a bubble within space-time, thus separated from the present timeline. This would require a great amount of energy and technology obviously unknown today... but thanks to the writers of "Lost," it has been solved by Dharma Industries. The amount of separation would be only slight to begin with... say, 108 minutes. Since Door #1 exists in the present timeline, it can safely be located anywhere (Dharma headquarters?). Door #2, now operating in a different place in space-time, in the past, must be safely located in a remote location, for any type of interaction with it from the outside could be catastrophic.

There is a very important concept in time travel here, which is that you can NEVER travel back further in time than the creation of your time machine; Hence the impossibility of visiting the dinosaurs, etc. Now, if the two doors of your time machine were separated by only 108 minutes at the initial "event", but then allowed to just sit there, then both timelines would progress at the same pace, forever separated by only 108 minutes. Traveling to the past, but only by 108 minutes, would not be very interesting. Much more exciting would be to keep Door #2 back at the original time of its inception, while Door #1 continues to move forward in time. You could do this by continually "resetting" the clock on Door #2. Over time, the separation between the two doors would grow and grow, from minutes, to hours, to days, to years.

If you actually had the technology to achieve time travel in this manner, there are MANY profound questions you would have to test and answer in order to be confident that you could safely operate the time machine without catastrophically altering the future. The Grandfather Paradox is the most obvious, but actually only one of many questions.

ANSWER #1: What is the Dharma Initiative? It is the building and testing of a time machine, as described above. Door #1 is at the Dharma Headquarters, Door #2 is on the Island in the remote South Pacific.

The question isn't, Where is the Island? The question is, When is the Island? The answer to that depends on how long ago, in the present timeline, the time machine was created... approximately 14 years ago, I believe.

ANSWER #2: Why must the button be pushed every 108 minutes? This "resets"
the clock of Door #2 of the time machine, essentially holding it at the time of its inception in the relative past. If allowed to pass 108 minutes on the clock, then the time machine will lose the ability to reset itself. Why, then, must it be pressed by a person, and not just programmed to reset itself? This is because the controllers at Door #1 do not have control over Door #2 in the past, and should disaster strike, and nobody is left alive in the past at Door #2, it should be allowed to pass 108 minutes and no longer reset. ANSWER #3: What happened when the clock was allowed to pass 108 minutes? Door #2 of the time machine lost the ability to reset, and will now continue to progress along a timeline into the future, locked at approximately 14 years separation from Door #1.

What are some of the other critical questions, like the Grandfather Paradox, that must be answered when considering time travel? Here is a great one:

What if a childless woman travels back in time and conceives a child? ANSWER
#4: A childless woman cannot travel to the past and conceive a child, because if she did, she would not have been a childless woman. In "Lost", both mother and child die before the birth, thus preserving the timeline and laws of nature. Perhaps the Others do not fully understand this, and brought in fertility doctor Juliet to see if they can overcome this obstacle.

Consider another:

What if a child travels back to a time before he or she was born? Perhaps nothing... but what if the child dies in the past, before being born? Again, impossible. ANSWER #5: The Others abduct children on the Island to protect them at all costs, for they cannot allow the catastrophic violation of the laws of nature of a child dying before being conceived.

And yet another:

If you travel to the past, will you be the "you" of the present timeline when you arrive, or the younger "you" of the past, or some combination of the two? I do not know, but I believe this offers insight into why John Locke can walk on the Island despite being paralyzed. ANSWER #6: Locke can walk not because the Island has powers to cure, but because he has traveled back to a time BEFORE he was ever paralyzed. He is somehow a blend of the Locke of the present and the Locke of the past.

Who is Ben? I believe he is the creator of the time machine. The Others are his associates living in the time-space bubble around the Island and Door #2 of the time machine in the "past." They are managing it and testing the effects of time travel, and strictly controlling who exits this bubble into the outside world.

How does one arrive at the Island? There are two methods of traveling to the site (and time) of the Island. First is the controlled method via Door #1 at Dharma Headquarters. It is not via plane, submarine, or any other traditional method of transportation.

The other method is in the accidental collision with the time-space bubble that surrounds the Island, as happened with Oceanic Flight 815, the Portuguese woman's helicopter, etc. Despite the many theories that abound in online forums, the Others did not know that Flight 815 was coming or going to crash at the Island. It was a chance encounter. It was a disaster that created a paradox... what happens to a plane that crashes in the present, while entering the past? This leads to the question of whether the passengers are alive or dead, answered by talking about a cat.

Schrodinger's cat, to be specific. Again, quantum mechanics can be very strange. One of the strangest behaviors in particle physics is known as Superposition, which is the ability of a particle to occupy two different states simultaneously (like up and down, left and right, here and there, etc.). In the world we know, you cannot be both here and there, but in particle physics, a world of probability, chance, and duality, you can. How can one imagine this? Another great Gedanken Experiment was conceived, as follows:

Place a cat in a sealed, steel box, along with a bottle of poison. In addition, a radioactive element is placed within the steel box. The decay of this radioactive element triggers a hammer, which breaks the bottle, releasing the poison and killing the cat. For the observer, outside of the box, you do not know when this radioactive decay happens. Because of the laws of Superposition, the radioactive element can occupy both states simultaneously, for the briefest moment. For that blink in time, the bottle is both broken and intact... the cat is both dead and alive, at the same time. This is a puzzle of science, but more important perhaps is the philosophical question of what does it mean to be both dead and alive?

ANSWER #7: The passengers of Oceanic Flight 815 are dead at the bottom of the ocean. AND they are ALIVE on the Island. They are both dead and alive. I told you that you would love this one. Since they are alive in the "past" of the Island's timeline, can they return to the present in which they are dead? I guess that is the ultimate question that we will have to watch the show to find out.

A suggestion of an answer is found in Locke's/Sawyer's father. We were led to believe that he died in a car accident, and finds himself here on the Island. Of course he would think he's in hell! We believe that somehow Locke "willed" him here, but that was actually never said on the show. In fact, Ben said to Locke, "you brought him here." Perhaps what he means is this:

ANSWER #8: Locke's father did not die in the accident. I believe that we will find soon that Locke is going to leave the Island. The question that nobody asked Locke's father was when did the accident happen? See, Locke is going to return to the "present" timeline, and is going to pursue his father. He is going to find him, perhaps he is even going to cause his accident. He is going to drug and kidnap him, unable or unwilling to kill him by himself. He is somehow going to get him to Door #1 of the time machine and send him to the Island, where he already knows that Sawyer will kill him. Locke is going to "bring him here" to the Island... he just hasn't done it yet. When he is on the "outside" in the present, why is he going to do this? Because he has to, because it is destiny... for on the Island, it has already happened. You know Locke loves destiny.

I could go on and on. Why is there a zoo with polar bears? ANSWER #9: The animals are on the Island for testing the effects of the various paradoxes associated with time travel. Perhaps another reason is that by keeping and preserving endangered animals, like polar bears, within this bubble in the past, there is a resource for their recovery should they become extinct in the future. Consider it a Noah's Ark.

How do the Others know so much about the passengers of Flight 815? ANSWER
#10: The Others have had perhaps years, with Dharma Industries in the present timeline at Door #1, to research each of the individuals, and transmit this information to the Island. To the audience and the survivors of 815, it seemed like the Others instantly knew about them. However, it likely required years of research to compile the files.

There are still mysteries that remain, and stories that we do not know how they will play out. With this explanation, though, the behavior of the Others is understood. They must protect the timeline AT ALL COSTS. That makes them seem evil to the survivors of 815, but in reality their intentions are to prevent catastrophe.

There are many other stories I haven't touched, but they are all consistent with this basic theory. This includes Desmond's apparent "time loop" he is experiencing, and many others.

So there it is. Or, I'm out of my mind. Time will tell.

Steve

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