To start us off, many people thought of Daniel Faraday as Pierre Chang’s reliable and efficient source of information regarding the 21st century. I would like to propose a theory on why I think Daniel Faraday is his very “credible source”.
You’ve all heard of the Kerr Metric solution Pierre Chang mentions in the Dharma Booth Video? Here is some background information for your viewing pleasure:
“In general relativity, the Kerr metric (or Kerr vacuum) describes the geometry of spacetime around a rotating massive body. According to this metric, such rotating bodies should exhibit frame dragging, an unusual prediction of general relativity; measurement of this frame dragging effect is a major goal of the Gravity Probe B experiment.
Roughly speaking, this effect predicts that objects coming close to a rotating mass will be entrained to participate in its rotation, not because of any applied force or torque that can be felt, but rather because the curvature of spacetime associated with rotating bodies. At close enough distances, all objects — even light itself — must rotate with the body; the region where this holds is called the ergosphere.
The Kerr metric is often used to describe rotating black holes, which exhibit even more exotic phenomena. Such black holes have two surfaces where the metric appears to have a singularity; the size and shape of these surfaces depends on the black hole’s mass and angular momentum. The outer surface encloses the ergosphere and has a shape similar to a flattened sphere. The inner surface is spherical and marks the “radius of no return”; objects passing through this radius can never again communicate with the world outside that radius. However, neither surface is a true singularity, since their apparent singularity can be eliminated in a different coordinate system. Objects between these two horizons must co-rotate with the rotating body, as noted above; this feature can be used to extract energy from a rotating black hole, up to its invariant mass energy, Mc2. Even stranger phenomena can be observed within the innermost region of this spacetime, such as some forms of time! travel. For example, the Kerr metric permits closed, time-like loops in which a band of travelers returns to the same place after moving for a finite time by their own clock; however, they return to the same place and time, as seen by an outside observer.”
Kerr Black Holes as Wormholes “The region beyond permits closed, time-like curves. Since the trajectory of observers and particles in general relativity are described by time-like curves, it is possible for observers in this region to return to their past.”
If you read the last five lines in the first quote you will notice some information about time travelers. I would like to propose that Daniel Faraday returned to the “past” for a finite amount of time before returning to the new location of the island; this is of course considering he moved with the island or may have headed out to The Orchid to perform his “work” (why else would he have been considered for this mission). In this amount of finite time I think he and Pierre Chang opened a wormhole in which he and Daniel Faraday could communicate to thirty years into the future to let people know of the events to come.
I hope this has shown relevance to the cameraman, and possibly the whereabouts of Daniel Faraday. I think that this is the exact reason Charles Widmore recruited Daniel Faraday for this “mission in unstable territory”.
Theory by Joe
You’ve all heard of the Kerr Metric solution Pierre Chang mentions in the Dharma Booth Video? Here is some background information for your viewing pleasure:
“In general relativity, the Kerr metric (or Kerr vacuum) describes the geometry of spacetime around a rotating massive body. According to this metric, such rotating bodies should exhibit frame dragging, an unusual prediction of general relativity; measurement of this frame dragging effect is a major goal of the Gravity Probe B experiment.
Roughly speaking, this effect predicts that objects coming close to a rotating mass will be entrained to participate in its rotation, not because of any applied force or torque that can be felt, but rather because the curvature of spacetime associated with rotating bodies. At close enough distances, all objects — even light itself — must rotate with the body; the region where this holds is called the ergosphere.
The Kerr metric is often used to describe rotating black holes, which exhibit even more exotic phenomena. Such black holes have two surfaces where the metric appears to have a singularity; the size and shape of these surfaces depends on the black hole’s mass and angular momentum. The outer surface encloses the ergosphere and has a shape similar to a flattened sphere. The inner surface is spherical and marks the “radius of no return”; objects passing through this radius can never again communicate with the world outside that radius. However, neither surface is a true singularity, since their apparent singularity can be eliminated in a different coordinate system. Objects between these two horizons must co-rotate with the rotating body, as noted above; this feature can be used to extract energy from a rotating black hole, up to its invariant mass energy, Mc2. Even stranger phenomena can be observed within the innermost region of this spacetime, such as some forms of time! travel. For example, the Kerr metric permits closed, time-like loops in which a band of travelers returns to the same place after moving for a finite time by their own clock; however, they return to the same place and time, as seen by an outside observer.”
Kerr Black Holes as Wormholes “The region beyond permits closed, time-like curves. Since the trajectory of observers and particles in general relativity are described by time-like curves, it is possible for observers in this region to return to their past.”
If you read the last five lines in the first quote you will notice some information about time travelers. I would like to propose that Daniel Faraday returned to the “past” for a finite amount of time before returning to the new location of the island; this is of course considering he moved with the island or may have headed out to The Orchid to perform his “work” (why else would he have been considered for this mission). In this amount of finite time I think he and Pierre Chang opened a wormhole in which he and Daniel Faraday could communicate to thirty years into the future to let people know of the events to come.
I hope this has shown relevance to the cameraman, and possibly the whereabouts of Daniel Faraday. I think that this is the exact reason Charles Widmore recruited Daniel Faraday for this “mission in unstable territory”.
Theory by Joe
