OK. I never posted a follow up to the Lost season premier a few weeks ago, mostly because I'm busy, but also because I've been trying to formulate a counter-point to my friend Dave's theory that the secret of the island involves a parallel Earth.
Basically, I thought that it's the electromagnetic properties that make the island special. Everything going on is tied to the island's extraordinary physical properties. From super fast healing to an inability of people to find it or leave it, to the primary reason of the Dharma Initiative - they're all tied to the island's off-the-charts activity.
Tonight's episode seemed to be a convergence of our two theories with quantum physics as the link. While I'm still not convinced that the island exists on a totally different planet or plane I think that our two theories moved one step towards each other during Desmond's adventure. It seems to me that the properties of the island are so powerful that they can really mess you up on a quantum level if you don't use the right channels to come and go - it's worse to just get the bearing wrong a little and be able to get off the island than it is to sail or fly aimlessly around and never be able to escape the magnetic effects on instruments. People's consciousnesses bounce back and forth between spaces in time like quantum particles and would probably do so indefinitely if the human brain could handle the strain. The quantum explanation is solidified by Faraday, the physicist, being the go to guy to solve Desmond's problem.
I have some more general predictions regarding some things we've seen.
1. Dharma has set up other facilities around the world to try and harness this type of phenomenon in the past. This is what I think they were showing with the polar bear fossil in the desert.
2. The Others are a counter-foundation/conglomerate dedicated to the preservation of these spots. Remember that Hanso, Paik and Widmore formed Dharma. Just who formed the group that Ben works for is unclear but the conflict between the two that exists below the public consciousness is clear from Sayid's episode last week. A good place to start is to figure out exactly who Richard, the guy that recruited Ben as a child, is and look out for his company, Mittelos Bioscience (the company that recruited Juliet).
I'll think of more I'm sure - we're watching tons of old episodes to pick up stuff we missed. Whatever happens, however the season turns out, we're going to be fucking blown away and no one will have seen it coming.
UPDATE: I must be totally addled - Dave is right. Widmore and Paik so far have nothing to do (that we know of) with Dharma. I have no idea what episode I thought I saw that in. If I could do one of those strikethroughs I would, but I don't know how. Crap.
DOUBLE UPDATE: In your face, Dave! Did you see last night's episode? Widmore! Boo-ya!
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I'm so happy to be right about the idea that electromagnetism and some form of time travel are central to the plot. I'm even happier to find out that
I feel safe in saying that I have a better understanding of quantum mechanics than 99% of the population (which isn't saying much), and I still have no idea what's going on.
I disagree that the polar bear fossil in Tunisia was from another DHARMA station. I believe it was from the Hydra - phased from the dark planet to our planet, or sent through time.
Also, we don't know that Paik and Widmore had anything to do with DHARMA, do we? That's always been my theory (which is buttressed by the Widmore purchase of the Black Rock's log). It makes sense that they're behind the freighter folks...but it's also possible that they're behind the Others, and thus Ben and crew. I have a feeling we'll learn plenty next week, which appears from the preview to be Juliet-focused.
Whoa dude, it's not my face things should be shoved in. My argument was that we don't know that Widmore/Paik were involved in Dharma -- but that I think they are. Just that the show hasn't told us that.
IN YOUR FACE, FACEBUTT!
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