Imagine that events in time happen upon a straight line. Now, imagine that even if you could travel to the past the timeline would correct itself and go back to the original. This is the principal design of time travel within Lost and I really have to say that I like the concept because it combines an additional principal that attempts to keep paradoxes from happening.
Let us look at a scenario:
1st pass – 1977, Darhma recruits arrive at the station, perhaps one Christian Sheppard and he brings about the events that cause the crash in 2004.
2nd pass – Oceanic 6 go back in time and replace the originals but cause the same events in the timeline to occur.
So Whatever Happened Happened applies and so does course correction with the Darhma crew getting canceled an thereby never arriving. If the team ventured too far off course then theoretically it would be possible to cause a paradox,by Oceanic 6 differing from the predetermined course.
Now, if you don’t believe that a paradox is even possible then the concept of course correction would have to be thrown out because everything would have had to happen exactly the way it did before or else there are variables.
Now with this in mind, let us take a look at why Faraday was so adamant about the future and why it could change (not that he was right) and something I think will be a connection to something even bigger.
The photograph of the new recruits, this is what made him think that the future could be changed. Why? Because the photograph should not exist or at least not with the new recruits. The photograph could not have existed on the first pass but only on subsequent passes and this made him question just how much could be changed.
The bigger picture: the rescue of Oceanic 6 and the earlier photograph. I am thinking that someone who has access to the Darhma archives, was wondering just how the recruits of 1977 just happened to flash across the screen 30 years later.
Let us look at a scenario:
1st pass – 1977, Darhma recruits arrive at the station, perhaps one Christian Sheppard and he brings about the events that cause the crash in 2004.
2nd pass – Oceanic 6 go back in time and replace the originals but cause the same events in the timeline to occur.
So Whatever Happened Happened applies and so does course correction with the Darhma crew getting canceled an thereby never arriving. If the team ventured too far off course then theoretically it would be possible to cause a paradox,by Oceanic 6 differing from the predetermined course.
Now, if you don’t believe that a paradox is even possible then the concept of course correction would have to be thrown out because everything would have had to happen exactly the way it did before or else there are variables.
Now with this in mind, let us take a look at why Faraday was so adamant about the future and why it could change (not that he was right) and something I think will be a connection to something even bigger.
The photograph of the new recruits, this is what made him think that the future could be changed. Why? Because the photograph should not exist or at least not with the new recruits. The photograph could not have existed on the first pass but only on subsequent passes and this made him question just how much could be changed.
The bigger picture: the rescue of Oceanic 6 and the earlier photograph. I am thinking that someone who has access to the Darhma archives, was wondering just how the recruits of 1977 just happened to flash across the screen 30 years later.
