Lost “Record” Theory
Picture a record spinning on a record player. Now imagine that the groove on the record is the timeline of existence as we know it. The very first point of the record is what we know as “The Big Bang”, it is the start of the universe, the beginning of everything. The end of the record is just the opposite, the end of existence. Everything on this timeline is pre-written, destiny is a fact and everything that happens was meant to happen. Nothing can be done to change this timeline and the destiny of everything in the universe is predetermined. 3 out of 5 seasons of Lost started with music being physically put on by someone (season 2 Desmond puts on record, season 3 Juliet puts on a cd, season 5 Dr. Marvin Candle puts on a record), both times the record was played, it skipped. There are also many accounts of records and record players throughout the Lost seasons.
The following was taken from The Lost Experience, an online alternate reality game designed by the writers and producers of Lost to engage fans and expand the storyline that is played in between the seasons: Enzo Valenzetti is the reclusive Princeton University mathematician who was commissioned by the UN in 1962 to investigate the threat of mankind extinguishing itself. The result of his research was the Valenzetti Equation. According to the 1975 orientation film in the Sri Lanka Video (part of The Lost Experience), the Valenzetti Equation "predicts the exact number of years and months until humanity extinguishes itself." During the video, Alvar Hanso also states that the radio transmitter on the Island will "broadcast the core numerical values of the Valenzetti Equation." The numbers, 4, 8, 15, 16, 23 and 42, are explained in the Sri Lanka Video, as the numerical values to the core environmental and human factors of the Valenzetti Equation. Alvar Hanso also state! s in the video that the purpose of the DHARMA Initiative is to change the numerical values of any one of the core factors in the equation in order to give humanity a chance to survive by, effectively, changing doomsday. This is a fact that the writers have put into this story.
The DHARMA Initiative tirelessly tried to change fate and the unstoppable end of existence by experimenting with time and space. They found an island that had the right “properties” to attempt these experiments of quantum physics and thought (Gedanken experiments). They figured that if they can even change the smallest degree of the future that it might be possible to stop the end of existence. Anytime they did “change” anything, destiny course corrected itself and the end result was always the same. Something went wrong during these experiments and the “incident” happened.
The Incident was an electromagnetic anomaly that apparently caused a catastrophic event on the island. This event was time “skipping” backwards decades, possibly centuries. Think back to the record and picture one revolution being a century, the record skips and the century is “replayed”. All the events that we witness on Lost are after “the incident” and are the “replay” of time. Certain people in the lost world are aware of this and this is why they seem so clairvoyant (Ben, Richard Alpert, Mrs. Hawkings, Widmore, Brother Campbell, Alvar Hanso, Richard Malkin, Mr. Piak). They know the events that will happen and even if something changes, destiny will course correct this and the end result will always be the same. There are now clearly three groups of people (at least) vying for control of the island. These groups are Alvar Hanso and the Dharma Initiative, Charles Widmore, and Ben and the others.
Remember, “you can’t change the rules”, the rules are the rules of fate and destiny and you can’t change the timeline. It is possible to change certain aspects of fate but the end result will always be the same. Cause and effect can happen but destiny and fate will win out. Going back to the record, every time a record is played it sounds a little different. The record can collect dust, scratches, and the normal changes that the needle makes but the end result will always be the same - the music will play no matter how distorted it may sound. Some things have changed in the second or possible third rotation of the same timeline groove but the end result will always be the same. For example: if I go back in time and tell my fat friend to eat salad for dinner and he does and in the first timeline he ate a cheeseburger, he will still end up my fat friend. This is also why some people can have unimaginable wealth, enough money to buy anything or anyone even! if they didn’t the first time around. Things can change but the end will remain the same. The rules for time travel in the show were explained in "Flashes Before Your Eyes" by Ms. Hawking who told Desmond that "the universe has a way of course correcting" or fate may intervene to any changes. When Daniel Faraday was questioned by Sawyer and Juliet about how time travel works, he stated: “You can not change anything, you can’t, even if you try to, it wouldn’t work. Time is like a street, we can go forward on it, we can move in reverse but we cannot ever create a new street. If we try to do anything different we will fail every time. Whatever happened, happened.”
In the first original timeline Oceanic 815 did crash and was lost at sea, no one on board was ever heard from again. Ben didn’t develop cancer. Locke was the leader of the island (not via airplane crash, he was recruited because he was “special”) and Alex Rousseau didn’t die. The end result in the 2nd timeline must be the same. The cause of Bens cancer is unknown but the effect was a spinal surgeon had to come to the island so he ultimately wouldn’t have cancer. The destiny of the people on Oceanic 815 is to be never heard from again and this is why the Oceanic six must go back to the island because, at the end of the day, no one should ever have seen them again. Locke’s destiny is to lead the island and is unaware of the original time skip but does have inclinations that he is special. Being unable to recruit Locke in the 2nd timeline, fate needed to get him to the island by some means. Alex Rousseau did die in the 2nd timeline and not the 1st an! d Ben believes the rules changed, but fate can’t be cheated so the record will have to “skip” again so Alex doesn’t die. Alex’s death is the action that led to the reaction of the island having to “move”. The Island moving in time will save her life because she is meant to live past that moment. Fate also determined that the other people beside Jack and Locke needed to come to the island, whether it was to push a button or for other reasons, to keep the ultimate destiny of the universe on course. Fate and destiny led all the passengers and crew aboard Flight 815. Fate will do anything to keep destiny on course.
When Ben turned the donkey wheel he caused the 2nd “incident” to occur. The end result being the moving of the island through space and time, but this time it wasn’t one big skip it is many short skips. During this time Alex Rousseau’s life will be spared proving that fate can’t be changed and thus proving the end of existence is inevitable.
The big question is can fate and destiny be changed by human intervention to stop doomsday? If Alex Rousseau is dead, then the world can be saved. If Alex Rousseau’s life is saved then the world is doomed. When Alex is saved the end will come. Cutting to black would be a better ending to Lost than it was for the Sopranos Theory by Brian Duffy
Picture a record spinning on a record player. Now imagine that the groove on the record is the timeline of existence as we know it. The very first point of the record is what we know as “The Big Bang”, it is the start of the universe, the beginning of everything. The end of the record is just the opposite, the end of existence. Everything on this timeline is pre-written, destiny is a fact and everything that happens was meant to happen. Nothing can be done to change this timeline and the destiny of everything in the universe is predetermined. 3 out of 5 seasons of Lost started with music being physically put on by someone (season 2 Desmond puts on record, season 3 Juliet puts on a cd, season 5 Dr. Marvin Candle puts on a record), both times the record was played, it skipped. There are also many accounts of records and record players throughout the Lost seasons.
The following was taken from The Lost Experience, an online alternate reality game designed by the writers and producers of Lost to engage fans and expand the storyline that is played in between the seasons: Enzo Valenzetti is the reclusive Princeton University mathematician who was commissioned by the UN in 1962 to investigate the threat of mankind extinguishing itself. The result of his research was the Valenzetti Equation. According to the 1975 orientation film in the Sri Lanka Video (part of The Lost Experience), the Valenzetti Equation "predicts the exact number of years and months until humanity extinguishes itself." During the video, Alvar Hanso also states that the radio transmitter on the Island will "broadcast the core numerical values of the Valenzetti Equation." The numbers, 4, 8, 15, 16, 23 and 42, are explained in the Sri Lanka Video, as the numerical values to the core environmental and human factors of the Valenzetti Equation. Alvar Hanso also state! s in the video that the purpose of the DHARMA Initiative is to change the numerical values of any one of the core factors in the equation in order to give humanity a chance to survive by, effectively, changing doomsday. This is a fact that the writers have put into this story.
The DHARMA Initiative tirelessly tried to change fate and the unstoppable end of existence by experimenting with time and space. They found an island that had the right “properties” to attempt these experiments of quantum physics and thought (Gedanken experiments). They figured that if they can even change the smallest degree of the future that it might be possible to stop the end of existence. Anytime they did “change” anything, destiny course corrected itself and the end result was always the same. Something went wrong during these experiments and the “incident” happened.
The Incident was an electromagnetic anomaly that apparently caused a catastrophic event on the island. This event was time “skipping” backwards decades, possibly centuries. Think back to the record and picture one revolution being a century, the record skips and the century is “replayed”. All the events that we witness on Lost are after “the incident” and are the “replay” of time. Certain people in the lost world are aware of this and this is why they seem so clairvoyant (Ben, Richard Alpert, Mrs. Hawkings, Widmore, Brother Campbell, Alvar Hanso, Richard Malkin, Mr. Piak). They know the events that will happen and even if something changes, destiny will course correct this and the end result will always be the same. There are now clearly three groups of people (at least) vying for control of the island. These groups are Alvar Hanso and the Dharma Initiative, Charles Widmore, and Ben and the others.
Remember, “you can’t change the rules”, the rules are the rules of fate and destiny and you can’t change the timeline. It is possible to change certain aspects of fate but the end result will always be the same. Cause and effect can happen but destiny and fate will win out. Going back to the record, every time a record is played it sounds a little different. The record can collect dust, scratches, and the normal changes that the needle makes but the end result will always be the same - the music will play no matter how distorted it may sound. Some things have changed in the second or possible third rotation of the same timeline groove but the end result will always be the same. For example: if I go back in time and tell my fat friend to eat salad for dinner and he does and in the first timeline he ate a cheeseburger, he will still end up my fat friend. This is also why some people can have unimaginable wealth, enough money to buy anything or anyone even! if they didn’t the first time around. Things can change but the end will remain the same. The rules for time travel in the show were explained in "Flashes Before Your Eyes" by Ms. Hawking who told Desmond that "the universe has a way of course correcting" or fate may intervene to any changes. When Daniel Faraday was questioned by Sawyer and Juliet about how time travel works, he stated: “You can not change anything, you can’t, even if you try to, it wouldn’t work. Time is like a street, we can go forward on it, we can move in reverse but we cannot ever create a new street. If we try to do anything different we will fail every time. Whatever happened, happened.”
In the first original timeline Oceanic 815 did crash and was lost at sea, no one on board was ever heard from again. Ben didn’t develop cancer. Locke was the leader of the island (not via airplane crash, he was recruited because he was “special”) and Alex Rousseau didn’t die. The end result in the 2nd timeline must be the same. The cause of Bens cancer is unknown but the effect was a spinal surgeon had to come to the island so he ultimately wouldn’t have cancer. The destiny of the people on Oceanic 815 is to be never heard from again and this is why the Oceanic six must go back to the island because, at the end of the day, no one should ever have seen them again. Locke’s destiny is to lead the island and is unaware of the original time skip but does have inclinations that he is special. Being unable to recruit Locke in the 2nd timeline, fate needed to get him to the island by some means. Alex Rousseau did die in the 2nd timeline and not the 1st an! d Ben believes the rules changed, but fate can’t be cheated so the record will have to “skip” again so Alex doesn’t die. Alex’s death is the action that led to the reaction of the island having to “move”. The Island moving in time will save her life because she is meant to live past that moment. Fate also determined that the other people beside Jack and Locke needed to come to the island, whether it was to push a button or for other reasons, to keep the ultimate destiny of the universe on course. Fate and destiny led all the passengers and crew aboard Flight 815. Fate will do anything to keep destiny on course.
When Ben turned the donkey wheel he caused the 2nd “incident” to occur. The end result being the moving of the island through space and time, but this time it wasn’t one big skip it is many short skips. During this time Alex Rousseau’s life will be spared proving that fate can’t be changed and thus proving the end of existence is inevitable.
The big question is can fate and destiny be changed by human intervention to stop doomsday? If Alex Rousseau is dead, then the world can be saved. If Alex Rousseau’s life is saved then the world is doomed. When Alex is saved the end will come. Cutting to black would be a better ending to Lost than it was for the Sopranos Theory by Brian Duffy
