What if we're misinterpreting the idea of "moving" The Island? What if "moving" it does not mean re-locating it, but instead TURNING it?
And what if The Island is a prism into time (or another dimension or something we haven't thought of)?
At the end of Season 2, Ben provided Michael and Walt a boat with which to escape The Island. He said to follow a compass bearing of 305 degrees and if he did EXACTLY that, he and Walt would find rescue. That specific compass bearing is the only way into or out of The Island. Unless you follow it exactly, The Island is invisible. Why? Because The Island is a prism through which light (time?) shines through. If you're facing it from one angle, you see red lig
ht shine through. If you're facing it from a different angle, green light. At another angle, you might not see ANY light at all. When you shine light into a prism (see the album cover to Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon" - which is what caused me to think of this whole theory in the first place!), many colors come out. But, VIOLET is the color that refracts closest to the prism itself. (I'm sure there's some physicist out there that could explain wavelengths of visible light and would be able to explain why ! that color is violet.) So, if The Island is the prism into time, it makes sense that the sky *there* would turn purple when light is shown through it (that "light" being the energy stored up inside the Swan Station or the Orchid Station, or both) since violet is the color you see when you're standing ON the prism. More on this in a second.
Michael and Walt escaped by following Ben's 305 degree direction.
A moment later, Locke decided to NOT push the button and Desmond had to turn the key and completely release the energy stored up in the Swan Station. Electromagnetic energy pulsed through The Island and the sky above The Island turned Violet.
My theory is that when the Swan Station turned Violet, The Island moved. I know that Darlton have emphatically said this is not the case, but I think they were meaning that The Island didn't change locations on Planet Earth. Instead, I surmise that The Island did in fact ROTATE. This rotation released radiation through the prism (The Island itself) and to those on The Island, that light was purple. But to the people in Penny's listening station, the wavelength of radiation that shone through could have been red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet, or a wavelength outside of visible light. For the short few seconds that The Island turned, it was visible to the outside world, just like a lighthouse is visible when it flips on it's rotating beacon light. Once the energy was expelled, The Island went invisible again, except to people looking at it from it's new compass bearing - 325 degrees. The Freighter people knew to come in at 325 degrees because Charles Widmore figu! red out the new compass bearing from the information obtained from Penny's people. Perhaps the Swan Station failsafe key turns the island exactly 20 degrees and knowing that the radiation coming from The Island started at 305 degrees, he now knew what the new compass bearing would be.
Now, to the Orchid Station and Benjamin Linus... When Ben turned the Frozen Donkey Wheel, he was again TURNING The Island. His intent was to once again make it invisible to the Freighter and to Charles Widmore. Again, the sky turned Violet. Think about this: you know those Sit and Spin toys by Playskool that children sit on and spin? What's in the center? A WHEEL. And when they turn the wheel, what happens? THEY (The Island!) rotates. When Ben turned the Wheel, he rotated The Island again. But unlike the Swan Station, Ben turned The Island an unknown number of degrees - perhaps even unknown to Ben himself! And that's why Mrs. Hawking had to do all of her research with the old Apple Computers and the Pendulum to figure out every possible compass heading that could be used to get onto and off of The Island. Now that she figured out what it is, she found an airline that would be flying at that exact compass bearing and OVER The Island and the "70 hours" is how long ! Ben has to get the Oceanic 6 boarded on that plane so that they can return to The Island.
So, to summarize, when Jacob told Locke that The Island had to be moved, he wasn't referring to another location on Earth, but *turned* to a different angle to keep outsiders from being able to figure out (accidentally or purposefully) how to find/see it. Theory by r3mdh
And what if The Island is a prism into time (or another dimension or something we haven't thought of)?
At the end of Season 2, Ben provided Michael and Walt a boat with which to escape The Island. He said to follow a compass bearing of 305 degrees and if he did EXACTLY that, he and Walt would find rescue. That specific compass bearing is the only way into or out of The Island. Unless you follow it exactly, The Island is invisible. Why? Because The Island is a prism through which light (time?) shines through. If you're facing it from one angle, you see red lig
ht shine through. If you're facing it from a different angle, green light. At another angle, you might not see ANY light at all. When you shine light into a prism (see the album cover to Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon" - which is what caused me to think of this whole theory in the first place!), many colors come out. But, VIOLET is the color that refracts closest to the prism itself. (I'm sure there's some physicist out there that could explain wavelengths of visible light and would be able to explain why ! that color is violet.) So, if The Island is the prism into time, it makes sense that the sky *there* would turn purple when light is shown through it (that "light" being the energy stored up inside the Swan Station or the Orchid Station, or both) since violet is the color you see when you're standing ON the prism. More on this in a second.
Michael and Walt escaped by following Ben's 305 degree direction.
A moment later, Locke decided to NOT push the button and Desmond had to turn the key and completely release the energy stored up in the Swan Station. Electromagnetic energy pulsed through The Island and the sky above The Island turned Violet.
My theory is that when the Swan Station turned Violet, The Island moved. I know that Darlton have emphatically said this is not the case, but I think they were meaning that The Island didn't change locations on Planet Earth. Instead, I surmise that The Island did in fact ROTATE. This rotation released radiation through the prism (The Island itself) and to those on The Island, that light was purple. But to the people in Penny's listening station, the wavelength of radiation that shone through could have been red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet, or a wavelength outside of visible light. For the short few seconds that The Island turned, it was visible to the outside world, just like a lighthouse is visible when it flips on it's rotating beacon light. Once the energy was expelled, The Island went invisible again, except to people looking at it from it's new compass bearing - 325 degrees. The Freighter people knew to come in at 325 degrees because Charles Widmore figu! red out the new compass bearing from the information obtained from Penny's people. Perhaps the Swan Station failsafe key turns the island exactly 20 degrees and knowing that the radiation coming from The Island started at 305 degrees, he now knew what the new compass bearing would be.
Now, to the Orchid Station and Benjamin Linus... When Ben turned the Frozen Donkey Wheel, he was again TURNING The Island. His intent was to once again make it invisible to the Freighter and to Charles Widmore. Again, the sky turned Violet. Think about this: you know those Sit and Spin toys by Playskool that children sit on and spin? What's in the center? A WHEEL. And when they turn the wheel, what happens? THEY (The Island!) rotates. When Ben turned the Wheel, he rotated The Island again. But unlike the Swan Station, Ben turned The Island an unknown number of degrees - perhaps even unknown to Ben himself! And that's why Mrs. Hawking had to do all of her research with the old Apple Computers and the Pendulum to figure out every possible compass heading that could be used to get onto and off of The Island. Now that she figured out what it is, she found an airline that would be flying at that exact compass bearing and OVER The Island and the "70 hours" is how long ! Ben has to get the Oceanic 6 boarded on that plane so that they can return to The Island.
So, to summarize, when Jacob told Locke that The Island had to be moved, he wasn't referring to another location on Earth, but *turned* to a different angle to keep outsiders from being able to figure out (accidentally or purposefully) how to find/see it. Theory by r3mdh
