Since now we know variables in the world of LOST = people,
Think of x + 1 = 4. 'x' (the variable) obviously equals 3. But the solution, 4, doesn't change.
In this sense, they can change things, but only certain things. In other words, they can change the means to an end but not the end itself;
x + y + 1 = 4, x = 1, y = 2
Think of Desmond's flashes of the different scenarios of Charlie's death. He changed how he died, but he still died. So, if Daniel were to have succeeded in "uncrashing" flight 815, the survivors would still end up on the island somehow.
Unless...
There's a different variable ('y') introduced to the solution, in which case the two amounts (or things/people) can vary and the ultimate product/solution can be anything, depending on what the variables represent.
Like so: x + 1 = 4y
So now we have to consider Locke, Sun, Ben, etc. in 2007.
Is this why they weren't sent to the 70's? To allow the possibility of actually 'varying' the past? Jack and company = x? Locke and company = y?
x(Jack) + (constant) = ???y(Locke)
Sounds like free will might still be possible... thanks to the late Daniel Faraday.
Think of x + 1 = 4. 'x' (the variable) obviously equals 3. But the solution, 4, doesn't change.
In this sense, they can change things, but only certain things. In other words, they can change the means to an end but not the end itself;
x + y + 1 = 4, x = 1, y = 2
Think of Desmond's flashes of the different scenarios of Charlie's death. He changed how he died, but he still died. So, if Daniel were to have succeeded in "uncrashing" flight 815, the survivors would still end up on the island somehow.
Unless...
There's a different variable ('y') introduced to the solution, in which case the two amounts (or things/people) can vary and the ultimate product/solution can be anything, depending on what the variables represent.
Like so: x + 1 = 4y
So now we have to consider Locke, Sun, Ben, etc. in 2007.
Is this why they weren't sent to the 70's? To allow the possibility of actually 'varying' the past? Jack and company = x? Locke and company = y?
x(Jack) + (constant) = ???y(Locke)
Sounds like free will might still be possible... thanks to the late Daniel Faraday.
