The answer to the islands' 'cloaking device' was given to us in Season 4 episode "The Economist": the 31 minute delay. Now, this 31 minute delay may be a little confusing when considering that the 31 minutes may be only 31 minutes, or 2 days and 31 minutes, as could be deduced by the fact that it took Dr Ray's body 2 days to float to the island. Regardless of whether or not it's 48 hrs, 31 minutes or just 31 minutes, the island seems to be a bit delayed.
This delay is what makes the island invisible to anyone trying to see it at the current time. Anyone trying to find the island in their present has to look at least 31 minutes back in order to see it. Essentially, my theory posits that the island only exists during its own present, which, for part of season 4, was atleast 31 minutes. This means that when the plane crashed on Sept 22, 04 at approximately 4 am EST relative for all of the passengers, the island was really existing at 3:29 am EST earlier that day (or 2 days prior, depending on which possible time the island actually does exist in).
SO, the only way to see the island would be to go into your past, which would mean the immediate past is being rewritten even as we speak, because right now, as I'm writing this, the island is not in the middle of the Pacific, but in 31 minutes, when someone is reading this, the island will be there when I am writing even though it wasn't there when I wrote. Confusing? Maybe, maybe not. What it does mean is that the island is special or unique according to Faraday's description. If the island can change the past by simply coming into a delayed present and putting soemthing there that wasn't there before, characters like Walt, Locke, Desmond and probably some others can do the same. Theory by Fourstringthing
This delay is what makes the island invisible to anyone trying to see it at the current time. Anyone trying to find the island in their present has to look at least 31 minutes back in order to see it. Essentially, my theory posits that the island only exists during its own present, which, for part of season 4, was atleast 31 minutes. This means that when the plane crashed on Sept 22, 04 at approximately 4 am EST relative for all of the passengers, the island was really existing at 3:29 am EST earlier that day (or 2 days prior, depending on which possible time the island actually does exist in).
SO, the only way to see the island would be to go into your past, which would mean the immediate past is being rewritten even as we speak, because right now, as I'm writing this, the island is not in the middle of the Pacific, but in 31 minutes, when someone is reading this, the island will be there when I am writing even though it wasn't there when I wrote. Confusing? Maybe, maybe not. What it does mean is that the island is special or unique according to Faraday's description. If the island can change the past by simply coming into a delayed present and putting soemthing there that wasn't there before, characters like Walt, Locke, Desmond and probably some others can do the same. Theory by Fourstringthing
