Has anyone heard of parallel universes? Well of course you have, especially if you're reading LOST theories. But to what extent have you thought of them. Do you think you may have thought more about them in another life, brotha?
For a quick background check, search for some stuff in google about multi-verses, the many-worlds interpretation a Hugh Everett. I’ve been trying to think of the best ways for the writers of LOST to handle time travel while still avoiding paradoxes. Now I know some of this has been talked about before, but bear with me, because I’ve never found it linked this way before.
Have you ever heard of the grandfather paradox, you know, like if you go back in time and you kill you grandfather, then you never would have been born and couldn’t go back in time to kill you grandfather. It’s all a catch-22 and a heck of a mind trip. Well some physicists theorize that one would in fact be able to travel back in time, kill his grandfather and still exist, paradox free. If this person returned to the exact same universe and time they began in, they would find their grandfather would have the same history as he always had. This non-paradox version is drawn from an idea that if someone goes back in time and kills their grandfather, they did so in another universe than the one they were created and lived in and just prevented their own existence in the other universe that they travelled to.
Think of an infinite number of universes all existing at the same time. There is one universe from you branching left instead of right. There is one in which life wasn’t created during the expansion of the universe. There is one for a whole different life on another planet. There’s even an alternate universe where dinosaurs never died and still rule the earth. There is every possible outcome and universe that exists, at least theoretically. As you live your life, there is another universe of you living through your life after getting out of a different side of the bed. Each universe has at least 1 key difference from all of the others. There may or may not be certain events that are inevitable fate, events that occur in every single universe.
Now assume that a persons “consciousness” could travel to a different time or universe, like if you went to the universe in which you live yesterday, but put on different pants. This consciousness travelling might be caused by exposure to certain magnetic anomalies. There would normally be a natural “course correction” that would force your consciousness to be restored with the memories of you in that particular universe. So if you were to travel to another universe or time, it would be like you didn’t travel at all. Are you still following me?
So what if there was a way to be immune to the consciousness course correction if you travel to another universe? What if you could travel to another universe and hold on to your consciousness that developed from the universe it was formed. It would be like you noticing that you travelled and are wearing different pants and living a day earlier. Well I think that in LOST, we have found a way to do this. If someone is exposed to the right electromagnetic radiation wave ray, say, set to 2.342 and oscillating at 11 Hz, it would allow their consciousness to remain unchanged when travelling to another universe. This exposure would have some side effects, but ultimately it allows the subject to withstand changes in the brain that are caused in the consciousness course correction effort. Having this knowledge, however, can cause brain aneurisms and nosebleeds as it is not natural for the human brain to be aware of certain concepts of travelling time and space. These concepts! should only be understood on very microscopic and macroscopic scales, but not in our reality.
When the Swan station exploded/imploded at the end of season 2, everyone on the island was exposed to that 11 Hz electromagnetic radiation wave, making them immune to any consciousness course correction that would occur as a result of travelling to other times/universes. When Ben turned the frozen donkey wheel and moved the island at the end of season 4, he stirred up such a magnetic anomaly below the island that it caused it to move to another universe. Since the island and everyone on it was exposed to the radioactive ray, it is not doing the natural course correction that it would normally do. The island will now continue to jump between universes until it has everyone back on the island that was there when the Swan hatch exploded. If the island was not exposed to the radioactive magnetic wave ray, it wouldn’t have taken all of the inhabitants with it on the time travelling, but the island needs them as constants so that IT can survive now.
So what about other people from these different universes and times? Well let’s take Miles and Charlotte for instance, they were on the island when it moved but they were not on the island when the Swan station released the radioactive magnetic ray. I think that they will have some side effects that will be similar to Minkowski soon, unless they can get exposure to the ray or settled back into their universe. I think that everyone else on the island will eventually start having these types of side effects unless the O6 get back and the island can settle to a single time/space/universe. So what about people that weren’t exposed to the ray or on the island when it moved? I think that these people will continue on in their own universe. There will be a universe in which Radzinsky will meet some of out O6 and there will be some which he doesn’t. This allows the people who were on the island when the Swan exploded and when it moved to interact with people from Dharma! or any past inhabitants of the island without directly affecting the universe in which they came from. They can interact with people and change the future, but they are changing the future of an entirely different universe from which they came.
Now we know that Ben is a very possessive and obsessive person. He lost Alex and only has the island left, or at least the joy he can get from keeping it from Widmore. Ben knows that Widmore knew where the island was, so I think Ben intentionally manipulated to get the O6 off the island because he knew it would send the island on a random and unpredictable trip through time, space and different universes, making it nearly impossible to find by Widmore. This would also make it so that the O6 are basically keys that will be necessary to find the island. Ben will now work to manipulate his keys and re-acquire the island. As for him telling Locke he couldn’t go back because he moved the island, probably just another one of Ben’s lies.
Theory by Lost Dbutz
For a quick background check, search for some stuff in google about multi-verses, the many-worlds interpretation a Hugh Everett. I’ve been trying to think of the best ways for the writers of LOST to handle time travel while still avoiding paradoxes. Now I know some of this has been talked about before, but bear with me, because I’ve never found it linked this way before.
Have you ever heard of the grandfather paradox, you know, like if you go back in time and you kill you grandfather, then you never would have been born and couldn’t go back in time to kill you grandfather. It’s all a catch-22 and a heck of a mind trip. Well some physicists theorize that one would in fact be able to travel back in time, kill his grandfather and still exist, paradox free. If this person returned to the exact same universe and time they began in, they would find their grandfather would have the same history as he always had. This non-paradox version is drawn from an idea that if someone goes back in time and kills their grandfather, they did so in another universe than the one they were created and lived in and just prevented their own existence in the other universe that they travelled to.
Think of an infinite number of universes all existing at the same time. There is one universe from you branching left instead of right. There is one in which life wasn’t created during the expansion of the universe. There is one for a whole different life on another planet. There’s even an alternate universe where dinosaurs never died and still rule the earth. There is every possible outcome and universe that exists, at least theoretically. As you live your life, there is another universe of you living through your life after getting out of a different side of the bed. Each universe has at least 1 key difference from all of the others. There may or may not be certain events that are inevitable fate, events that occur in every single universe.
Now assume that a persons “consciousness” could travel to a different time or universe, like if you went to the universe in which you live yesterday, but put on different pants. This consciousness travelling might be caused by exposure to certain magnetic anomalies. There would normally be a natural “course correction” that would force your consciousness to be restored with the memories of you in that particular universe. So if you were to travel to another universe or time, it would be like you didn’t travel at all. Are you still following me?
So what if there was a way to be immune to the consciousness course correction if you travel to another universe? What if you could travel to another universe and hold on to your consciousness that developed from the universe it was formed. It would be like you noticing that you travelled and are wearing different pants and living a day earlier. Well I think that in LOST, we have found a way to do this. If someone is exposed to the right electromagnetic radiation wave ray, say, set to 2.342 and oscillating at 11 Hz, it would allow their consciousness to remain unchanged when travelling to another universe. This exposure would have some side effects, but ultimately it allows the subject to withstand changes in the brain that are caused in the consciousness course correction effort. Having this knowledge, however, can cause brain aneurisms and nosebleeds as it is not natural for the human brain to be aware of certain concepts of travelling time and space. These concepts! should only be understood on very microscopic and macroscopic scales, but not in our reality.
When the Swan station exploded/imploded at the end of season 2, everyone on the island was exposed to that 11 Hz electromagnetic radiation wave, making them immune to any consciousness course correction that would occur as a result of travelling to other times/universes. When Ben turned the frozen donkey wheel and moved the island at the end of season 4, he stirred up such a magnetic anomaly below the island that it caused it to move to another universe. Since the island and everyone on it was exposed to the radioactive ray, it is not doing the natural course correction that it would normally do. The island will now continue to jump between universes until it has everyone back on the island that was there when the Swan hatch exploded. If the island was not exposed to the radioactive magnetic wave ray, it wouldn’t have taken all of the inhabitants with it on the time travelling, but the island needs them as constants so that IT can survive now.
So what about other people from these different universes and times? Well let’s take Miles and Charlotte for instance, they were on the island when it moved but they were not on the island when the Swan station released the radioactive magnetic ray. I think that they will have some side effects that will be similar to Minkowski soon, unless they can get exposure to the ray or settled back into their universe. I think that everyone else on the island will eventually start having these types of side effects unless the O6 get back and the island can settle to a single time/space/universe. So what about people that weren’t exposed to the ray or on the island when it moved? I think that these people will continue on in their own universe. There will be a universe in which Radzinsky will meet some of out O6 and there will be some which he doesn’t. This allows the people who were on the island when the Swan exploded and when it moved to interact with people from Dharma! or any past inhabitants of the island without directly affecting the universe in which they came from. They can interact with people and change the future, but they are changing the future of an entirely different universe from which they came.
Now we know that Ben is a very possessive and obsessive person. He lost Alex and only has the island left, or at least the joy he can get from keeping it from Widmore. Ben knows that Widmore knew where the island was, so I think Ben intentionally manipulated to get the O6 off the island because he knew it would send the island on a random and unpredictable trip through time, space and different universes, making it nearly impossible to find by Widmore. This would also make it so that the O6 are basically keys that will be necessary to find the island. Ben will now work to manipulate his keys and re-acquire the island. As for him telling Locke he couldn’t go back because he moved the island, probably just another one of Ben’s lies.
Theory by Lost Dbutz
