In the Variable it seemed clear that Faraday and Hawking had very different views on how events should take place for pretty much every event. Back to when Dan was a kid: Faraday believed he could study and play music, thus choosing his own path; Hawking believed his path was chosen and that was to focus on his studies... Desmond: Faraday thought Desmond could miraculously go against the Laws of the Universe and choose to change events; Hawking held to the belief that Desmond's path had been chosen, and so he had to go to the Island and press the button ect... Jack: Faraday believed he didn't have to go back he could pick his Destiny, Hawking was sure he had to go back because he always goes back.... In regards to Faraday himself well he didn't feel he had to die, but Hawking believed otherwise.
On a grander scale, I believe this once again comes down to Destiny vs. Fate. Micheal Faraday believed in God and that by doing experimental science we may be able to find the Purpose behind God's actions. Whereas Stephen Hawking shared the seemingly Atheist views as Einstein, who believed God is Nature. Hawking is known for his work with String theory which gives us the Time Loop. Interestingly, Nature would conspire against changing causality, something Stephen Hawking has called the "chronology protection conjecture": For example, if you tried to shoot your father before you were born, somehow the gun would fail to go off. In opposition is the side our Daniel Faraday agrees with being, Causality can be changed, sending the universe down different forks in the road. You could go back and shoot your father, creating a universe where you were never born. But it wouldn't be the same universe you came from. You'd just be an alien visitor from a different reality, living out a ! scenario that's called the "many-worlds interpretation." So which do you side with?
Hawking is right that there is a Time Loop. Yet instead of trying to change it she continues to preserve the Time-line. Why? Like she said to Desmond, "Or else everyone of us dies.." She believes the Universe will not allow the Time-line to be altered, everything that happens must happen or they cease to exist. In the Time Loop Theory, there is a small chance that something or someone can Change the Loop, opening it up for a new course, or purpose. Faraday is right that they are the Variables, but they can't change everything. The Universe will not allow it. I think they have to get to a certain point in the Time-line, a specific year after particular events have occurred that must occur. A year that everyone from the future can be in on the Island without there being a paradox. Then, once they have reached that time they can End/Open the Loop.
On a grander scale, I believe this once again comes down to Destiny vs. Fate. Micheal Faraday believed in God and that by doing experimental science we may be able to find the Purpose behind God's actions. Whereas Stephen Hawking shared the seemingly Atheist views as Einstein, who believed God is Nature. Hawking is known for his work with String theory which gives us the Time Loop. Interestingly, Nature would conspire against changing causality, something Stephen Hawking has called the "chronology protection conjecture": For example, if you tried to shoot your father before you were born, somehow the gun would fail to go off. In opposition is the side our Daniel Faraday agrees with being, Causality can be changed, sending the universe down different forks in the road. You could go back and shoot your father, creating a universe where you were never born. But it wouldn't be the same universe you came from. You'd just be an alien visitor from a different reality, living out a ! scenario that's called the "many-worlds interpretation." So which do you side with?
Hawking is right that there is a Time Loop. Yet instead of trying to change it she continues to preserve the Time-line. Why? Like she said to Desmond, "Or else everyone of us dies.." She believes the Universe will not allow the Time-line to be altered, everything that happens must happen or they cease to exist. In the Time Loop Theory, there is a small chance that something or someone can Change the Loop, opening it up for a new course, or purpose. Faraday is right that they are the Variables, but they can't change everything. The Universe will not allow it. I think they have to get to a certain point in the Time-line, a specific year after particular events have occurred that must occur. A year that everyone from the future can be in on the Island without there being a paradox. Then, once they have reached that time they can End/Open the Loop.
