There is a very tell-tell clue with Locke's assertion in the season 4 finale that the island "is not an island". I personally believe that it's a spaceship!
The idea of a biosphere that travels the galaxy and appears as of magic on compatible planets, by bending space and time with the use of exotic matter (as seen at the Orchid) is not a new one among physicists. You don't need a traditional-looking spaceship to explore the galaxy if you can control exotic matter and you are a Type-III civilization. This would explain why the whole island can "move" itself and why it's such a different place: because it's from another world. It also explains why the island has surrounding "walls" (aka invisible force fields) that Desmond could not escape with his boat, unless he was to take a very specific route and why the island can not be seen.
The four toe statue, which is a remnant of that old human-like civilization ("original inhabitants") that built the island/spaceship, is another sign that we are not dealing with earthly humans. When they arrived to Earth, some stayed in the island (e.g. the ageless Richard), but others scattered around the planet and had children and took a taste of our civilization. Maybe getting assimilated to other cultures is their way of diversifying their genes and their knowledge of the cosmos. The hybrid descendants of these aliens, that carry some of their genes, are some of the "special" people in the show, e.g. Walt, Locke, maybe even Jack. And now, the island "demands then back" after some thousands or hundreds of years. It seems that their whatever they came to do on Earth is now reaching its end and some of these hybrids must go back to their original place. Their work is done.
Maybe this is what Charlotte meant when she said that the island is her birthplace. Maybe this is why the island *feels* like a purgatory even if it's not one, and why the keeper of the island, the artificial intelligence computer named Jacob, creates lists: because only the worthy will be allowed back.
So the idea is that deep under the island, there is one big powerful computer, the keeper of the island. The "intelligence" and "soul" of the island, is just artificial intelligence driven by that computer. The computer is able to harness the special properties of the spaceship's technologies and affect matter in order to create or manipulate things. Hence, the existence of the smoke monster and its various manifestations (which is nothing but the physical representation of the computer's security measures in the island through some pseudo-science physics), and the ability to affect the health of people. That alien civilization has harnessed quantum physics to the level of creating things out of the thin air, manipulating matter, even reading the minds of people and recreating their appearance (e.g. the smoke monster reading the corpse of Jack's father and others', and then having their memory & emulating their likeness). The computer can manifest outside of the island t! oo, but its powers are limited far away from it.
Dharma simply came much later and tried to analyze, understand, and take over all this power for its own (commercial) needs. Dharma did bad things to the island while trying to understand how it works. For example, the magnetic instability that the Swan's computer was taking care of did not exist prior to Dharma's arrival and their "messing up" with the island. This is why some of the original inhabitants revolted against Dharma and their ways, with the help of Ben. When the Swan blew up, critical systems of the spaceship/island were damaged, which is why the island is currently living in borrowed time. As for the Losties, some of them were carefully made to board that plane in order to end up there, and eventually the few that will survive will make it back to their original birthplace. They were never suppose to leave the island. They were exactly where they supposed to be.
Eugenia Loli-Queru
eloli-AT-hotmail-DOT-com
June 4th 2008
Theory by Eugenia Loli-Queru
The idea of a biosphere that travels the galaxy and appears as of magic on compatible planets, by bending space and time with the use of exotic matter (as seen at the Orchid) is not a new one among physicists. You don't need a traditional-looking spaceship to explore the galaxy if you can control exotic matter and you are a Type-III civilization. This would explain why the whole island can "move" itself and why it's such a different place: because it's from another world. It also explains why the island has surrounding "walls" (aka invisible force fields) that Desmond could not escape with his boat, unless he was to take a very specific route and why the island can not be seen.
The four toe statue, which is a remnant of that old human-like civilization ("original inhabitants") that built the island/spaceship, is another sign that we are not dealing with earthly humans. When they arrived to Earth, some stayed in the island (e.g. the ageless Richard), but others scattered around the planet and had children and took a taste of our civilization. Maybe getting assimilated to other cultures is their way of diversifying their genes and their knowledge of the cosmos. The hybrid descendants of these aliens, that carry some of their genes, are some of the "special" people in the show, e.g. Walt, Locke, maybe even Jack. And now, the island "demands then back" after some thousands or hundreds of years. It seems that their whatever they came to do on Earth is now reaching its end and some of these hybrids must go back to their original place. Their work is done.
Maybe this is what Charlotte meant when she said that the island is her birthplace. Maybe this is why the island *feels* like a purgatory even if it's not one, and why the keeper of the island, the artificial intelligence computer named Jacob, creates lists: because only the worthy will be allowed back.
So the idea is that deep under the island, there is one big powerful computer, the keeper of the island. The "intelligence" and "soul" of the island, is just artificial intelligence driven by that computer. The computer is able to harness the special properties of the spaceship's technologies and affect matter in order to create or manipulate things. Hence, the existence of the smoke monster and its various manifestations (which is nothing but the physical representation of the computer's security measures in the island through some pseudo-science physics), and the ability to affect the health of people. That alien civilization has harnessed quantum physics to the level of creating things out of the thin air, manipulating matter, even reading the minds of people and recreating their appearance (e.g. the smoke monster reading the corpse of Jack's father and others', and then having their memory & emulating their likeness). The computer can manifest outside of the island t! oo, but its powers are limited far away from it.
Dharma simply came much later and tried to analyze, understand, and take over all this power for its own (commercial) needs. Dharma did bad things to the island while trying to understand how it works. For example, the magnetic instability that the Swan's computer was taking care of did not exist prior to Dharma's arrival and their "messing up" with the island. This is why some of the original inhabitants revolted against Dharma and their ways, with the help of Ben. When the Swan blew up, critical systems of the spaceship/island were damaged, which is why the island is currently living in borrowed time. As for the Losties, some of them were carefully made to board that plane in order to end up there, and eventually the few that will survive will make it back to their original birthplace. They were never suppose to leave the island. They were exactly where they supposed to be.
Eugenia Loli-Queru
eloli-AT-hotmail-DOT-com
June 4th 2008
Theory by Eugenia Loli-Queru
