Flight 815 crossed through an extremely rare but not unheard of point in the physical-chronological universe. It's the fifth direction on the four point magnetic compass, the fifth dimension even. It's where ancient explorers found Atlantis, Lemuria, Avalon and Shangri-La. It's True West.
When the DeGroots were experimenting with electromagnetism, they made a major discovery (in quantum physics) and also an accidental one. The eureka moment was when they created a portal to a pocket universe in space-time where something, even a living thing, could go, vanish from the visible universe, and then return or be retrieved. First they sent objects, then animals, like the USA's and USSR's space programs. Then came time to send humans. A couple was chosen, just in case they were trapped and unable to return. The DeGroots themselves chose to go. Eventually others followed and survived in the separate but co-existant reality pocket in space/time.
The accidental discovery they made with electromagnetism was that their device that created the portal also collected the synaptic electricity from those who died within it's field. So the very consciousnesses of the DeGroots and a few animals became entrapped in a force (a la Star Wars) that has quirkly volition but recognizable consciousness. Whether there is just a single collection of consciousnesses or lots of individuals independent of one another remains to be seen. The manifestaton of this force is multifold: the smokey moster that kills like an animal, that can kill like a man (such as the Oceanic 815 pilot, who knew something about the plane's actual location), and can manifest apparitions and illusions in the physical world and possibly inside the minds of those it chooses. Notice how long it takes John Locke to see inside the room in The Man from Tallahassee? He turns, turns, turns and then sees his father. That's a manifestation of the force.
The machine the DeGroots invented was deployed and created the opening to the pocket universe. An anomaly ripped open space-time at the moment Oceanic 815 was near the origin of the machine that suspends the single created opening to pocket universe. Oceanic 815 disappeared into the separate world that contains a few islands and a small spherical ocean.
The anomaly of September, 2004 wasn't as bad as a prior incident referred to by Dr. Marvin Candle, the one that resulted in a human operated machine being required to manage. That first incident sucked stuff into the pocket universe, whereas the anomaly of 9/04 allowed stuff to fall in. Sucked into the pocket universe was a foot of the statue of liberty, minus a toe, and a ship carrying the Rousseaus and their team. A second incident recently resulted in the portal to the pocket universe being closed, possibly permanently, cutting off the pocket universe from it's one known entry and exit, the one created by the DeGroots based on data collected in the 1880s by Magnus Hanso's sailors. The second incident registered on a special device built to detect it at the South Pole by those on the outside wishing to reopen the portal. It's unclear if a character like Ben Linus wants the portal reopened.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dipole
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_mechanics
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everett_many-worlds_interpretation
True West Part 2:
The Blast Door Map designation AH/MDG stands for: Alvar Hanso/Mittelwek Dharma Group. According to the Sri Lanka video obtained by Rachel Blake, Mittelwerk took over DHARMA by what seem to be nefarious means for the beneficial end, thwarting the probability of fulfillment of the Valenzetti Equation. The real reason is explained in Part Three of my theory, which deals with the Life Initiative, the DHARMANS quest for inevitably prolonged life.
The Cadaseus/Staff (sic) Station fell victim to something labelled with the Latin warning Aegrscit Mendendo -- "the disease worsens with treatment; the remedy is worse than the disease".
Radzinsky or Inman (or Desmond?) learned that DHARMA was wiped out by disease, presumably by the one Mittelwerk intended to kill off only 30 percent of the Dharma participants. (See Sri Lanka video on lostpedia.com.)
What Radzinsky and/or Inman found was that whatever treatment the Dharmans were using was not only not working, it was taking a heavy toll itself. My guess is that they were working on how to cure the cancer that the Island caused due to either it's innate unusual magnetism or the power supply built by DHARMA to power the many machines they required, including the one that creates the portal to the pocket universe they have concealed themselves inside.
Further, my notion is that the two islands are a giant battery, one with a positive charge, the other with a negative charge. The pocket ocean turns two enormous subterranean turbines (the "hamsters" Ben jokes about).
When the Swan station collapsed, it probably ruined this set-up, forcing the Others to leave the second island and return to the less dangerous larger island.
True West Part 3:
The accidental discovery the DeGroots made was the Life Initiative, which had benign intentions -- to give the DHARMA participants extraordinarily long lives to further their experiments and advance the human race. After all, death is a waste of intelligence, education, creativity, and curiosity. Everything a person does and learns in life must be written down or lost. But as new things are learned, the original person who has died cannot incoporate new knowledge into their experince, education, creativity and curiosity. We can only guess at how Einstein would approach new theories in Quantum Theory. We can only guess what famous philosophers would make of the modern world.
The Life Initiative sought to lengthen life in two ways:
First by lengthening the age of the physical body. See the orangutan experiment.
Second, more radically and much more secretly, by capturing the synapses of the human mind upon the death of the body. Not just a Farraday cage containing the valences of the electricity inside people's minds, but an organized structure that allowed for persistence of consciousness after physical death.
They accomplished both objectives with dubious consequences. They enabled the orangutan to live decades beyond what any normal member of it's kind could. This probably has to do with cellular regeneration at the molecular level.
The second objective was accomplished, perhaps by sheer accident. The first two people through the portal, likely the DeGroots, to the island pocket universe died and were confirmed dead from the outside. Yet, remarkably, when the first survivors through the portal arrived in the island pocket universe, they found that the conciousness of the first two (the DeGroots) managed to manifest themselves somehow from beyond the grave! Their concsiousness was bound up in the electromagnetic force of the islands.
Also, however, there were darker beings caught up in this force field. Wild, vicious animals...and evil, angry humans.
Around 1979, frenzied experiments began to try to transfer the disembodied conciousnesses of the dead Dharmans into new living vessels. There was much debate about how to ethically do this. The first trial involved trying to reanimate dead bodies. This failed. A group formed around the idea that consciousness transferrence to animals like apes (and the Hurley bird!) was the only ethical way.
But a rebel group of scientists took the cruel view that children were like empty lumps of clay and the ideal vessels for the disembodied minds of their dead adult comrades.
A third group arose eventually, including some of the physically dead themselves, who merely wanted the freedom to finally die away from the world. They wanted the entire project destroyed. Some of them who started with good intentions in the between life became so weary of being disembodied that they slipped into hateful souls themselves, ravaging any perceived threat to the destruction of their cage of disembodied life.
The second group killed off the first group. This played out in the real world as well, as Alvar Hanso and Thomas Mittelwerk clashed over the ethical issues of transference of dead minds into living bodies. Mittelwerk overthrew and imprisoned Hanso.
On the islands, children were needed, yet ironically for them, the electromagnetism fields around the islands made all inabitants there impotent. Children had to be acquired at as young an age as possible for the initial phase of transference of consciouness. And worse, the radiation fields of the islands continued to cause spinal tumors.
They needed the world's most brilliant spinal surgeon. They needed many other people as well, particularly people with strong parapsychological abilities.
This second group, the Mittelwerk group, led on the islands by Ben Linus (possibly someone above named "Him" or "Joshua"), also sought to bring to the islands several genetically ideal children, resistant to cancer and resilient against mental illnesses. These were children they created in the outside world, by hiring women with ads saying things like "Do you want to help save the world?" These children were born from around 1980-1988.
Theory by bongzilla
When the DeGroots were experimenting with electromagnetism, they made a major discovery (in quantum physics) and also an accidental one. The eureka moment was when they created a portal to a pocket universe in space-time where something, even a living thing, could go, vanish from the visible universe, and then return or be retrieved. First they sent objects, then animals, like the USA's and USSR's space programs. Then came time to send humans. A couple was chosen, just in case they were trapped and unable to return. The DeGroots themselves chose to go. Eventually others followed and survived in the separate but co-existant reality pocket in space/time.
The accidental discovery they made with electromagnetism was that their device that created the portal also collected the synaptic electricity from those who died within it's field. So the very consciousnesses of the DeGroots and a few animals became entrapped in a force (a la Star Wars) that has quirkly volition but recognizable consciousness. Whether there is just a single collection of consciousnesses or lots of individuals independent of one another remains to be seen. The manifestaton of this force is multifold: the smokey moster that kills like an animal, that can kill like a man (such as the Oceanic 815 pilot, who knew something about the plane's actual location), and can manifest apparitions and illusions in the physical world and possibly inside the minds of those it chooses. Notice how long it takes John Locke to see inside the room in The Man from Tallahassee? He turns, turns, turns and then sees his father. That's a manifestation of the force.
The machine the DeGroots invented was deployed and created the opening to the pocket universe. An anomaly ripped open space-time at the moment Oceanic 815 was near the origin of the machine that suspends the single created opening to pocket universe. Oceanic 815 disappeared into the separate world that contains a few islands and a small spherical ocean.
The anomaly of September, 2004 wasn't as bad as a prior incident referred to by Dr. Marvin Candle, the one that resulted in a human operated machine being required to manage. That first incident sucked stuff into the pocket universe, whereas the anomaly of 9/04 allowed stuff to fall in. Sucked into the pocket universe was a foot of the statue of liberty, minus a toe, and a ship carrying the Rousseaus and their team. A second incident recently resulted in the portal to the pocket universe being closed, possibly permanently, cutting off the pocket universe from it's one known entry and exit, the one created by the DeGroots based on data collected in the 1880s by Magnus Hanso's sailors. The second incident registered on a special device built to detect it at the South Pole by those on the outside wishing to reopen the portal. It's unclear if a character like Ben Linus wants the portal reopened.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dipole
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_mechanics
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everett_many-worlds_interpretation
True West Part 2:
The Blast Door Map designation AH/MDG stands for: Alvar Hanso/Mittelwek Dharma Group. According to the Sri Lanka video obtained by Rachel Blake, Mittelwerk took over DHARMA by what seem to be nefarious means for the beneficial end, thwarting the probability of fulfillment of the Valenzetti Equation. The real reason is explained in Part Three of my theory, which deals with the Life Initiative, the DHARMANS quest for inevitably prolonged life.
The Cadaseus/Staff (sic) Station fell victim to something labelled with the Latin warning Aegrscit Mendendo -- "the disease worsens with treatment; the remedy is worse than the disease".
Radzinsky or Inman (or Desmond?) learned that DHARMA was wiped out by disease, presumably by the one Mittelwerk intended to kill off only 30 percent of the Dharma participants. (See Sri Lanka video on lostpedia.com.)
What Radzinsky and/or Inman found was that whatever treatment the Dharmans were using was not only not working, it was taking a heavy toll itself. My guess is that they were working on how to cure the cancer that the Island caused due to either it's innate unusual magnetism or the power supply built by DHARMA to power the many machines they required, including the one that creates the portal to the pocket universe they have concealed themselves inside.
Further, my notion is that the two islands are a giant battery, one with a positive charge, the other with a negative charge. The pocket ocean turns two enormous subterranean turbines (the "hamsters" Ben jokes about).
When the Swan station collapsed, it probably ruined this set-up, forcing the Others to leave the second island and return to the less dangerous larger island.
True West Part 3:
The accidental discovery the DeGroots made was the Life Initiative, which had benign intentions -- to give the DHARMA participants extraordinarily long lives to further their experiments and advance the human race. After all, death is a waste of intelligence, education, creativity, and curiosity. Everything a person does and learns in life must be written down or lost. But as new things are learned, the original person who has died cannot incoporate new knowledge into their experince, education, creativity and curiosity. We can only guess at how Einstein would approach new theories in Quantum Theory. We can only guess what famous philosophers would make of the modern world.
The Life Initiative sought to lengthen life in two ways:
First by lengthening the age of the physical body. See the orangutan experiment.
Second, more radically and much more secretly, by capturing the synapses of the human mind upon the death of the body. Not just a Farraday cage containing the valences of the electricity inside people's minds, but an organized structure that allowed for persistence of consciousness after physical death.
They accomplished both objectives with dubious consequences. They enabled the orangutan to live decades beyond what any normal member of it's kind could. This probably has to do with cellular regeneration at the molecular level.
The second objective was accomplished, perhaps by sheer accident. The first two people through the portal, likely the DeGroots, to the island pocket universe died and were confirmed dead from the outside. Yet, remarkably, when the first survivors through the portal arrived in the island pocket universe, they found that the conciousness of the first two (the DeGroots) managed to manifest themselves somehow from beyond the grave! Their concsiousness was bound up in the electromagnetic force of the islands.
Also, however, there were darker beings caught up in this force field. Wild, vicious animals...and evil, angry humans.
Around 1979, frenzied experiments began to try to transfer the disembodied conciousnesses of the dead Dharmans into new living vessels. There was much debate about how to ethically do this. The first trial involved trying to reanimate dead bodies. This failed. A group formed around the idea that consciousness transferrence to animals like apes (and the Hurley bird!) was the only ethical way.
But a rebel group of scientists took the cruel view that children were like empty lumps of clay and the ideal vessels for the disembodied minds of their dead adult comrades.
A third group arose eventually, including some of the physically dead themselves, who merely wanted the freedom to finally die away from the world. They wanted the entire project destroyed. Some of them who started with good intentions in the between life became so weary of being disembodied that they slipped into hateful souls themselves, ravaging any perceived threat to the destruction of their cage of disembodied life.
The second group killed off the first group. This played out in the real world as well, as Alvar Hanso and Thomas Mittelwerk clashed over the ethical issues of transference of dead minds into living bodies. Mittelwerk overthrew and imprisoned Hanso.
On the islands, children were needed, yet ironically for them, the electromagnetism fields around the islands made all inabitants there impotent. Children had to be acquired at as young an age as possible for the initial phase of transference of consciouness. And worse, the radiation fields of the islands continued to cause spinal tumors.
They needed the world's most brilliant spinal surgeon. They needed many other people as well, particularly people with strong parapsychological abilities.
This second group, the Mittelwerk group, led on the islands by Ben Linus (possibly someone above named "Him" or "Joshua"), also sought to bring to the islands several genetically ideal children, resistant to cancer and resilient against mental illnesses. These were children they created in the outside world, by hiring women with ads saying things like "Do you want to help save the world?" These children were born from around 1980-1988.
Theory by bongzilla
