I wrote a theory a few days ago called "It's Impossible to Change Anything" where I went over my idea about Lost time travel. I felt like I didn't do it justice so I'm gonna take another shot at it.
First of all I'd like to remind everyone that the producers have said that they didn't want paradoxes like Heroes has. Being able to change the past causes a wild amount of paradoxes, so it makes sense that the producers do not take this route.
On with the theory. I like to think of everything we are seeing now in the Dharma days as one big flashback because it all happened already. There is one past and one past only. However, this doesn't mean that Sayid couldn't kill Ben because he's not supposed to, it means that he couldn't kill Ben because we know Ben is alive in 2008. As we all know, things in the past have consequences in the future. Example: your parents had sex and here you are reading this theory. Therefore, if Ben had been killed in the past by Sayid, we never would have met Ben in the future because he would be very dead. This is why it's impossible to change the past because we know what already happens in the past because it's the past. Sorry, but this is difficult to explain but it's so simple, doesn't create paradoxes, and fits in with everything that's happened in the show so far that I'm pretty sure it's right. So I hope you all understand. Comment away. Theory by Pat
First of all I'd like to remind everyone that the producers have said that they didn't want paradoxes like Heroes has. Being able to change the past causes a wild amount of paradoxes, so it makes sense that the producers do not take this route.
On with the theory. I like to think of everything we are seeing now in the Dharma days as one big flashback because it all happened already. There is one past and one past only. However, this doesn't mean that Sayid couldn't kill Ben because he's not supposed to, it means that he couldn't kill Ben because we know Ben is alive in 2008. As we all know, things in the past have consequences in the future. Example: your parents had sex and here you are reading this theory. Therefore, if Ben had been killed in the past by Sayid, we never would have met Ben in the future because he would be very dead. This is why it's impossible to change the past because we know what already happens in the past because it's the past. Sorry, but this is difficult to explain but it's so simple, doesn't create paradoxes, and fits in with everything that's happened in the show so far that I'm pretty sure it's right. So I hope you all understand. Comment away. Theory by Pat
