Let us start at the very beginning of everything.
- The 'Lamp-post' was the first Dharma Station ever built. Scientist(s) worked out a way and made a series of equations to create the pendulum which was able to track the position of where the island is going to be - in time.
- 'Hotspots' all over the world offer a way to the island. The energy 'stored' on the island affects the hotspots spread around the world. This would explain the concept of Desmond's mistake not typing in the numbers and pulling down the aircraft from the sky. The effect was that the electromagnetic field, released some of the energy, allowing it to open a new hotspot (which can be tracked by the lamp-post as we experienced in Season 5).
- According to Daniel Faraday's theory of the 'spinning record', let us take the island as the record. The needle (present) of the player which is placed on the record to read the track (time) runs along the different tracks - in order. This side represents one dimension of space time.
- What Faraday did not mention was that there is a second needle, also placed on the record - but on the other side. (Maybe he did not know or could not explain it properly so he just didn't bother). This side of the record a represents another dimension - which is having its own time and space.
- So the same record (the island?) consists of 2 needles (representing - present), reading the two different sides (dimensions) in order from one track to another (as it runs along time passes by).
- Desmond allows 815 to be pulled towards the EM field when dealing w/ Kelvin.
- This flash did release a lot of energy (not only a little as it happened to open the gate for 815) which started the process of 'merging' the two dimensions (two sides of the record).
- 815 crashes, time passes and we experience that only certain paths lead off the island (bearings which are calculated once for Michael to get off and once for the Freighter / Helicopter). These bearings may be presented as 'sideways' between the tracks which allow to skip tracks (get into a different timezone) or even change the side of the record (dimension).
- Desmond is able to SEE THE FUTURE after turning the key. Is he truly seeing the future, or just an ALTERNATE REALITY? I think its BOTH, as since he is able to see it, he can change it, if only for a short amount of time. However, by even making a small change, HUGE consequences occur (Charlie lives another day or two…but this allows the o6 to exist and get off the island, which Locke says ‘isn’t supposed to happen’)
- As finally Ben turned the wheel, again energy was released. Yet let me suggest that the wheel is like a generator or amplifier which can generate or amplify the energy. Because there was no electromagnetic field anymore (Swan Station did not exist anymore), even more energy was released and made the record's needle jump (only one side - the side the Losties are on). Again this matches up with Faraday's theory that the record skips tracks (skips time). If you notice, the cavern is COLD, yet FLAMES lap the DW from the ‘other side’ showing there are TWO SIDES to the record!
- The concentrated energy opened another gate (hotspot) which through Ben to another part of the world (also every time someone / something turns the wheel, they ‘move the needle.) But Ben wasn’t supposed to turn it, so the needle starts to SKIP. When Locke corrects this, he is told to give the wheel a push, and instead PULLS it in the same direction Ben pushed initially. By doing this, did he FLIP the record our losties are on??
- The remaining ones on the island therefore skipped time and jumped back to the past and end up at 1977. The Oceanic 6 and later including Ben and Locke are now on the other side of the record and do not experience the time jumps because on there side the needle follows the track of time as it should be. Remember, they are now on a different reality of the island based on the dharma barracks now showing damage from the bus fire AND the recruit pictures.
- As the Oceanic 6 including Ben and Locke fly with flight 316 and cross the hotspot, they change the side of the record again. But what happens is that not all entered the other side correctly and are thrown back to the original side. Ben, because he is already on the island. Sun does not yet exist, therefore MUST go to a time she is alive in, as for frank…time will tell I suppose.
-which brings us to why Desmond is special. I suggest he is not only able to see what happened on BOTH SIDES of the record, but also AT ANY TIME he can ‘update’ memories of what happened to his OTHER SELF!!!!! (not at will though, just AS IT HAPPENS) I believe JOHN is special in the same way. He died, but on the side of the record he is NOW on, he is alive, yet REMEMBERS his past/other self!!
This IS kinda a mix of theories ive seen, hints I think the show is giving (like the book ben gave sayid as a child) and my own personal ideas. Please pick apart as much as possible because I would like to make it ‘better’ Theory by ATOMSK
- The 'Lamp-post' was the first Dharma Station ever built. Scientist(s) worked out a way and made a series of equations to create the pendulum which was able to track the position of where the island is going to be - in time.
- 'Hotspots' all over the world offer a way to the island. The energy 'stored' on the island affects the hotspots spread around the world. This would explain the concept of Desmond's mistake not typing in the numbers and pulling down the aircraft from the sky. The effect was that the electromagnetic field, released some of the energy, allowing it to open a new hotspot (which can be tracked by the lamp-post as we experienced in Season 5).
- According to Daniel Faraday's theory of the 'spinning record', let us take the island as the record. The needle (present) of the player which is placed on the record to read the track (time) runs along the different tracks - in order. This side represents one dimension of space time.
- What Faraday did not mention was that there is a second needle, also placed on the record - but on the other side. (Maybe he did not know or could not explain it properly so he just didn't bother). This side of the record a represents another dimension - which is having its own time and space.
- So the same record (the island?) consists of 2 needles (representing - present), reading the two different sides (dimensions) in order from one track to another (as it runs along time passes by).
- Desmond allows 815 to be pulled towards the EM field when dealing w/ Kelvin.
- This flash did release a lot of energy (not only a little as it happened to open the gate for 815) which started the process of 'merging' the two dimensions (two sides of the record).
- 815 crashes, time passes and we experience that only certain paths lead off the island (bearings which are calculated once for Michael to get off and once for the Freighter / Helicopter). These bearings may be presented as 'sideways' between the tracks which allow to skip tracks (get into a different timezone) or even change the side of the record (dimension).
- Desmond is able to SEE THE FUTURE after turning the key. Is he truly seeing the future, or just an ALTERNATE REALITY? I think its BOTH, as since he is able to see it, he can change it, if only for a short amount of time. However, by even making a small change, HUGE consequences occur (Charlie lives another day or two…but this allows the o6 to exist and get off the island, which Locke says ‘isn’t supposed to happen’)
- As finally Ben turned the wheel, again energy was released. Yet let me suggest that the wheel is like a generator or amplifier which can generate or amplify the energy. Because there was no electromagnetic field anymore (Swan Station did not exist anymore), even more energy was released and made the record's needle jump (only one side - the side the Losties are on). Again this matches up with Faraday's theory that the record skips tracks (skips time). If you notice, the cavern is COLD, yet FLAMES lap the DW from the ‘other side’ showing there are TWO SIDES to the record!
- The concentrated energy opened another gate (hotspot) which through Ben to another part of the world (also every time someone / something turns the wheel, they ‘move the needle.) But Ben wasn’t supposed to turn it, so the needle starts to SKIP. When Locke corrects this, he is told to give the wheel a push, and instead PULLS it in the same direction Ben pushed initially. By doing this, did he FLIP the record our losties are on??
- The remaining ones on the island therefore skipped time and jumped back to the past and end up at 1977. The Oceanic 6 and later including Ben and Locke are now on the other side of the record and do not experience the time jumps because on there side the needle follows the track of time as it should be. Remember, they are now on a different reality of the island based on the dharma barracks now showing damage from the bus fire AND the recruit pictures.
- As the Oceanic 6 including Ben and Locke fly with flight 316 and cross the hotspot, they change the side of the record again. But what happens is that not all entered the other side correctly and are thrown back to the original side. Ben, because he is already on the island. Sun does not yet exist, therefore MUST go to a time she is alive in, as for frank…time will tell I suppose.
-which brings us to why Desmond is special. I suggest he is not only able to see what happened on BOTH SIDES of the record, but also AT ANY TIME he can ‘update’ memories of what happened to his OTHER SELF!!!!! (not at will though, just AS IT HAPPENS) I believe JOHN is special in the same way. He died, but on the side of the record he is NOW on, he is alive, yet REMEMBERS his past/other self!!
This IS kinda a mix of theories ive seen, hints I think the show is giving (like the book ben gave sayid as a child) and my own personal ideas. Please pick apart as much as possible because I would like to make it ‘better’ Theory by ATOMSK
