I theorized a while back that the Island contains many times, all overlapping in strange ways. Human perception only allows us to see a little of it, but the "extra" stuff appears as odd apparitions as the mind struggles to comprehend. (And I think I used Edwin Abbott's Flatland as an example; see Wikipedia.)
So check it out. Way back in Season 1, Locke had a "flash" of the Beechcraft (the drug plane) crashing on the Island. In Season 5, he actually time-travels to the moment that happened and sees it for himself.
When Locke and Boone arrived at the Beechcraft in Season 1, Locke inexplicably fell lame and couldn't climb up the cliff. In Season 5, Locke gets shot in the leg at the same space coordinate (but a different time).
I also believe the writers give clues in the show's narrative structure. Look at the last season, #4. At the beginning of the season the flash-forwards are three years ahead of the Island present. As the season goes on, the Island progresses forward in time, while the flash-forwards keep creeping steadily backwards until finally, at the end, we learn how they got off the Island. Past and present collide.
SO...the assumption of just about everyone is that time is a river, or a street, and would be diagrammed like so:
PAST----->>------->>---------->>PRESENT>>-------->>----->>----FUTURE
But I say no. I say time is a sphere, all of it happening in the same instant, and our perceptions only let us see a tiny portion of it, which we call the "present." The present is created by the collision of the past with the future. Diagrammed like so:
PAST----->>------->>---------->>PRESENT<<--------<<-----<<----FUTURE
In this scheme, the past and the future constantly exert forces on each other. Maybe those are even the two "sides" in this grand "game" that's being played. Widmore and his crew represent the past, and Ben/Others/Ms. Hawking represent the future.
What do you think?
Theory by Cutter XXIII
So check it out. Way back in Season 1, Locke had a "flash" of the Beechcraft (the drug plane) crashing on the Island. In Season 5, he actually time-travels to the moment that happened and sees it for himself.
When Locke and Boone arrived at the Beechcraft in Season 1, Locke inexplicably fell lame and couldn't climb up the cliff. In Season 5, Locke gets shot in the leg at the same space coordinate (but a different time).
I also believe the writers give clues in the show's narrative structure. Look at the last season, #4. At the beginning of the season the flash-forwards are three years ahead of the Island present. As the season goes on, the Island progresses forward in time, while the flash-forwards keep creeping steadily backwards until finally, at the end, we learn how they got off the Island. Past and present collide.
SO...the assumption of just about everyone is that time is a river, or a street, and would be diagrammed like so:
PAST----->>------->>---------->>PRESENT>>-------->>----->>----FUTURE
But I say no. I say time is a sphere, all of it happening in the same instant, and our perceptions only let us see a tiny portion of it, which we call the "present." The present is created by the collision of the past with the future. Diagrammed like so:
PAST----->>------->>---------->>PRESENT<<--------<<-----<<----FUTURE
In this scheme, the past and the future constantly exert forces on each other. Maybe those are even the two "sides" in this grand "game" that's being played. Widmore and his crew represent the past, and Ben/Others/Ms. Hawking represent the future.
What do you think?
Theory by Cutter XXIII
