This may have already been suggested, apologies if it has.
My theory on the black smoke is connected to the fact that pregnant mothers die on the island if they conceived on the Island and it's all to do with course correction.
The black smoke has been described as the island's 'defense mechanism'. Perhaps this means that it is nature's way of preventing the grandfather paradox', i.e. whenever something happens that could cause a paradox, the black smoke appears to rectify the situation. For example, in the first season, we saw the smoke take the body of the dead pilot from the wreckage of the plane and then this season we saw the body of the pilot clearly in the submersed wreckage of the plane.
Similarly, if the island exists in a time bubble, then being conceived and born on the island would mean your time line has to start on the island. That would mean that your time line doesn't exist in the world outside of the bubble. Not sure how that creates a paradox, but I reckon there's something in it.
Stretching this a little further, perhaps Jacob was actually born on the island and so only exists in the time line of the island - hence why so few people can see him....
Theory by Greg Turner
My theory on the black smoke is connected to the fact that pregnant mothers die on the island if they conceived on the Island and it's all to do with course correction.
The black smoke has been described as the island's 'defense mechanism'. Perhaps this means that it is nature's way of preventing the grandfather paradox', i.e. whenever something happens that could cause a paradox, the black smoke appears to rectify the situation. For example, in the first season, we saw the smoke take the body of the dead pilot from the wreckage of the plane and then this season we saw the body of the pilot clearly in the submersed wreckage of the plane.
Similarly, if the island exists in a time bubble, then being conceived and born on the island would mean your time line has to start on the island. That would mean that your time line doesn't exist in the world outside of the bubble. Not sure how that creates a paradox, but I reckon there's something in it.
Stretching this a little further, perhaps Jacob was actually born on the island and so only exists in the time line of the island - hence why so few people can see him....
Theory by Greg Turner
