I dont know whether these theories have been mentioned before so I apologise if this is the case - although they are not so much theories but explanations for the mysteries of LOST.
Much of them do however constitute toward a theory that has not yet been explored within the show.... the theory that one of DHARMA's main experiments was the development of a wormhole on the island.
I believe that the Initiative created a wormhole, either by accident or deliberately... and it got unstable, a main reason for the creation of the number protocol in The Swan. I am sure that the Incident talked about on the show was the eratic bahaviour of the newly developed wormhole which may have threatened the world as we know it and the reason the wormhole's energy has to be released safely by inputting the numbers every 108 minutes.
The existence of a wormhole on the island would therefore create an ergosphere - a type of sphere around the island - which would cause a number of effects.
Light as well as time and space would be manipulated by the massive rotating force of the wormhole. The bending of light around the island would cause it to become invisible to those looking from outside the ergosphere. Also, space/time would bend around the ergosphere making getting to the island difficult.
An example of this is imagine a small village on a motorway. One could drive along the motorway and reach the village, but if the motorway was rebuilt to go around the village one could never reach it... eventhough the village is still in the same place - this would be the case with the island.
Also, the large rotating force of the wormhole causes an effect known as Frame-Dragging. Einstein predicted that the rotation of an object would alter space and time, dragging a nearby object out of position compared to the predictions of Newtonian physics. This also means that light traveling in the direction of rotation of the object will move around the object faster than light moving against the rotation as seen by a distant observer. Also, within the ergosphere spacetime is dragged along in the direction of the rotation of the black hole at a speed greater than the speed of light in relation to the rest of the universe. This process is known as the Lense-Thirring effect or frame-dragging. Because of this dragging effect objects within the ergosphere are not stationary with respect to the rest of the universe, unless they travel faster than the speed of light, which is impossible based on the laws of physics.
Another result of this dragging of space is the existence of negative energies within the ergosphere. This explains the existence of the exotic matter at The Orchid.
These facts are clear evidence of what is occuring on the island. I believe this frame-dragging in turn explains why whatever bearing and direction one leaves the island, they end up at a different time, because, the distance and speed at which one travels effects how one passes through the 'dragging' and warped space/time. (See the doctor arriving in the past and Sayid and Desmond arriving in the future).
Imagine the island as an onion with its endless layers, and each layer (a layer of space/time) is rotating differently and in different directions, If one tried to pass from the centre to the outer layer of the onion, it is unpredictable where one would pass through and end up. I believe this will be explained in Season 5 as I theorise that the island - the centre of the onion - moved to 2005 as did Ben, but Daniel Faraday, who was out at sea and in a different layer of space time (caused by the frame-dragging effect) was sent to the past and the days of the DHARMA Initiative - hence him being present at the video feed by Pierre Chang (as seen at Comic-Con).
Feel free to comment and leave your thoughts.
Theory by RH
Much of them do however constitute toward a theory that has not yet been explored within the show.... the theory that one of DHARMA's main experiments was the development of a wormhole on the island.
I believe that the Initiative created a wormhole, either by accident or deliberately... and it got unstable, a main reason for the creation of the number protocol in The Swan. I am sure that the Incident talked about on the show was the eratic bahaviour of the newly developed wormhole which may have threatened the world as we know it and the reason the wormhole's energy has to be released safely by inputting the numbers every 108 minutes.
The existence of a wormhole on the island would therefore create an ergosphere - a type of sphere around the island - which would cause a number of effects.
Light as well as time and space would be manipulated by the massive rotating force of the wormhole. The bending of light around the island would cause it to become invisible to those looking from outside the ergosphere. Also, space/time would bend around the ergosphere making getting to the island difficult.
An example of this is imagine a small village on a motorway. One could drive along the motorway and reach the village, but if the motorway was rebuilt to go around the village one could never reach it... eventhough the village is still in the same place - this would be the case with the island.
Also, the large rotating force of the wormhole causes an effect known as Frame-Dragging. Einstein predicted that the rotation of an object would alter space and time, dragging a nearby object out of position compared to the predictions of Newtonian physics. This also means that light traveling in the direction of rotation of the object will move around the object faster than light moving against the rotation as seen by a distant observer. Also, within the ergosphere spacetime is dragged along in the direction of the rotation of the black hole at a speed greater than the speed of light in relation to the rest of the universe. This process is known as the Lense-Thirring effect or frame-dragging. Because of this dragging effect objects within the ergosphere are not stationary with respect to the rest of the universe, unless they travel faster than the speed of light, which is impossible based on the laws of physics.
Another result of this dragging of space is the existence of negative energies within the ergosphere. This explains the existence of the exotic matter at The Orchid.
These facts are clear evidence of what is occuring on the island. I believe this frame-dragging in turn explains why whatever bearing and direction one leaves the island, they end up at a different time, because, the distance and speed at which one travels effects how one passes through the 'dragging' and warped space/time. (See the doctor arriving in the past and Sayid and Desmond arriving in the future).
Imagine the island as an onion with its endless layers, and each layer (a layer of space/time) is rotating differently and in different directions, If one tried to pass from the centre to the outer layer of the onion, it is unpredictable where one would pass through and end up. I believe this will be explained in Season 5 as I theorise that the island - the centre of the onion - moved to 2005 as did Ben, but Daniel Faraday, who was out at sea and in a different layer of space time (caused by the frame-dragging effect) was sent to the past and the days of the DHARMA Initiative - hence him being present at the video feed by Pierre Chang (as seen at Comic-Con).
Feel free to comment and leave your thoughts.
Theory by RH
