I've been puzzling about Reiko Aylesworth's (Amy, new character intro'd last night) statement to TV Guide that there was a "game-changing" moment in LaFleur. As most theories populating DarkUFO Theories the day after LaFleur aired, that was quite obviously the birth of Horace and Amy's son. Who that child becomes is a distraction from the main point. Conception and birth was possible on the island in 1977. By 2004 that was not the case. In "Not in Portland," taking place c. 2002, Richard showed Juliet a scan of a woman who's uterus appeared to belong to a woman in her seventies. The woman who died in childbirth was in her 20s. Her death happened in the second trimester, or at about the midpoint of pregnancy.
Then I snapped back to the record metaphor used by Daniel and the season's opening scene of Dr. Pierre Chang of DHARMA playing "Shotgun Willie" by Willie Nelson from the LP of the same name (other songs include "Local Memory," "She's Not For You," and "Slow Down Old World").
What if the island is moving BACKWARD, second by second, through time starting in 2004?
Wanna hear where I'm going with this psychedelic theory? If not, stop reading now.
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Okay. In 1977 and before, presumably, children were born successfully on the island. If my backward-record premise is true, that because of the Casimir Effect used to stabilize the wormhole that exits in Tunisia -- remember the Orchid Video? -- the island is slowly ticking backward in time, then there is the potential for a Shrödinger's Cat paradox. Listen to the video as Dr. Halliwax, nee Chang, screams about the twin Bunny 15's "Don't let them get near each other!"
So, here we go down the Rabbit Hole. Hint: We're gonna exit at the Looking Glass. Still wanna keep reading?
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Now, what if someone born on the island c. 1977-78-79 arrives back on the island as it ticks backward through time, second by second, in 2004-2005? Further, what if that person dies in 2004-2005?
The Bunny 15 paradox, a.k.a. Shrödinger's Cat! The two versions of this person are near enough to each other to cause a catastrophe in time-space.
That person is both alive and dead at the same time and place. It's a paradox that cannot be reconciled. Yet one or the other has to be true; the person is either alive or dead.
Who fits the bill for being born in that time frame? Charlotte? Obvious guess and a good one. But Ben said she was born in 1979. So unless Ben is lying for some dastardly reason or just plain wrong, then that little girl in LaFleur isn't Girl Charlotte. Maybe an older sister. I can't rule out Charlotte, however, because she mostly fits the criteria for the paradox, except the birth year discrepancy.
A better choice for who would be about 26 in 2004 who we know dies?
That's right. Our Looking Glass savior, and Hurley's spectral visitor, Charlie Heironymous Pace.
Whe Charlie arrives because of Desmond's crashing of 815, the backward time begins. When he dies he creates the paradox because the island is going backward through time -- so he's simultaneously alive and dead -- a condition that the fabric of time-space cannot abide.
Desmond's vision was exactly 180 degrees wrong. He was blinded by the purple light with false second sight, or rather seeing two visions at once and trying to change the more painful one -- Charlie's death. Desmond's heart blinded him to the less painful future: that he himself dies so that Charlie can live.
The Lostaways must go forward/back in time to save Charlie before time-space collapses because of the rift in space-time caused by the Looking Glass paradox.
Okay, tear it apart.Theory by bongzilla
Then I snapped back to the record metaphor used by Daniel and the season's opening scene of Dr. Pierre Chang of DHARMA playing "Shotgun Willie" by Willie Nelson from the LP of the same name (other songs include "Local Memory," "She's Not For You," and "Slow Down Old World").
What if the island is moving BACKWARD, second by second, through time starting in 2004?
Wanna hear where I'm going with this psychedelic theory? If not, stop reading now.
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Okay. In 1977 and before, presumably, children were born successfully on the island. If my backward-record premise is true, that because of the Casimir Effect used to stabilize the wormhole that exits in Tunisia -- remember the Orchid Video? -- the island is slowly ticking backward in time, then there is the potential for a Shrödinger's Cat paradox. Listen to the video as Dr. Halliwax, nee Chang, screams about the twin Bunny 15's "Don't let them get near each other!"
So, here we go down the Rabbit Hole. Hint: We're gonna exit at the Looking Glass. Still wanna keep reading?
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Now, what if someone born on the island c. 1977-78-79 arrives back on the island as it ticks backward through time, second by second, in 2004-2005? Further, what if that person dies in 2004-2005?
The Bunny 15 paradox, a.k.a. Shrödinger's Cat! The two versions of this person are near enough to each other to cause a catastrophe in time-space.
That person is both alive and dead at the same time and place. It's a paradox that cannot be reconciled. Yet one or the other has to be true; the person is either alive or dead.
Who fits the bill for being born in that time frame? Charlotte? Obvious guess and a good one. But Ben said she was born in 1979. So unless Ben is lying for some dastardly reason or just plain wrong, then that little girl in LaFleur isn't Girl Charlotte. Maybe an older sister. I can't rule out Charlotte, however, because she mostly fits the criteria for the paradox, except the birth year discrepancy.
A better choice for who would be about 26 in 2004 who we know dies?
That's right. Our Looking Glass savior, and Hurley's spectral visitor, Charlie Heironymous Pace.
Whe Charlie arrives because of Desmond's crashing of 815, the backward time begins. When he dies he creates the paradox because the island is going backward through time -- so he's simultaneously alive and dead -- a condition that the fabric of time-space cannot abide.
Desmond's vision was exactly 180 degrees wrong. He was blinded by the purple light with false second sight, or rather seeing two visions at once and trying to change the more painful one -- Charlie's death. Desmond's heart blinded him to the less painful future: that he himself dies so that Charlie can live.
The Lostaways must go forward/back in time to save Charlie before time-space collapses because of the rift in space-time caused by the Looking Glass paradox.
Okay, tear it apart.Theory by bongzilla
