This theory is an attempt to understand how time travel is possible on the island through the use of the Wired magazine issue that Widmore removes from the chair when visiting Daniel in the episode “The Variable”.
The issue is August 2003 which deals with with X-ray vision, invisibility, The Antigravity Underground and A user's guide to time travel.
The article on “A User’s Guide to Time Travel” has several different theories for how time travel is possible but I will only use the Kerr Ring because it seems the most likely for the island and it was also one of the equations found on Daniel’s chalk board at Oxford.
“When Karl Schwarzschild solved Einstein's equations in 1917, he found that stars can collapse into infinitesimally small points in space - what we now call black holes. Four decades later, physicist Roy Kerr discovered that some stars are saved from total collapse and become rotating rings. Kerr didn't regard these rings as time machines. However, because their intense gravity distorts space-time, and because they permit large objects to enter on one side and exit on the other in one piece, Kerr-type black holes can serve as portals to the past or the future. If finding one with the proper dimensions is too much trouble, you can always build one yourself:
•Gather enough matter to equal Jupiter's mass.
•Compress it into a ring about 5 feet in diameter. This can put a lot of stress on mechanical tools, so a high-energy electromagnetic field is recommended.
- Sounds like the one at the Swan (hatch) that Daniel explains is 30,000 times greater than the one Dr. Chang is at
•As you compress the ring, set it spinning. Increase its velocity to nearly the speed of light. A black hole will form at its center.
- Frozen donkey Wheel to start the spinning at its center?
•Step through the hole and you'll be transported instantly to another time (and, possibly, place), potentially as far back as the big bang or as far forward as the end of the universe as we know it. Bon voyage!
- Those who turn the wheel and enter the hole are transported to Tunisia between 2005 and 2007 where Widmore has a camera monitoring the exit location.
Fine print: The Kerr ring is a one-way ticket. The black hole's gravity is so great that, once you step through it, you won't be able to return.”
- Sounds like Widmore’s understanding of the island- “once you leave, you can never return”
Unexplained
- How the sub can also transport people to and from the island.
- How planes can transport certain people to the island – read Wired Magazine’s theory on Throne Plates. Sounds similar to how Oceanic 815 and Ajira Airways landed on the island
The issue is August 2003 which deals with with X-ray vision, invisibility, The Antigravity Underground and A user's guide to time travel.
The article on “A User’s Guide to Time Travel” has several different theories for how time travel is possible but I will only use the Kerr Ring because it seems the most likely for the island and it was also one of the equations found on Daniel’s chalk board at Oxford.
“When Karl Schwarzschild solved Einstein's equations in 1917, he found that stars can collapse into infinitesimally small points in space - what we now call black holes. Four decades later, physicist Roy Kerr discovered that some stars are saved from total collapse and become rotating rings. Kerr didn't regard these rings as time machines. However, because their intense gravity distorts space-time, and because they permit large objects to enter on one side and exit on the other in one piece, Kerr-type black holes can serve as portals to the past or the future. If finding one with the proper dimensions is too much trouble, you can always build one yourself:
•Gather enough matter to equal Jupiter's mass.
•Compress it into a ring about 5 feet in diameter. This can put a lot of stress on mechanical tools, so a high-energy electromagnetic field is recommended.
- Sounds like the one at the Swan (hatch) that Daniel explains is 30,000 times greater than the one Dr. Chang is at
•As you compress the ring, set it spinning. Increase its velocity to nearly the speed of light. A black hole will form at its center.
- Frozen donkey Wheel to start the spinning at its center?
•Step through the hole and you'll be transported instantly to another time (and, possibly, place), potentially as far back as the big bang or as far forward as the end of the universe as we know it. Bon voyage!
- Those who turn the wheel and enter the hole are transported to Tunisia between 2005 and 2007 where Widmore has a camera monitoring the exit location.
Fine print: The Kerr ring is a one-way ticket. The black hole's gravity is so great that, once you step through it, you won't be able to return.”
- Sounds like Widmore’s understanding of the island- “once you leave, you can never return”
Unexplained
- How the sub can also transport people to and from the island.
- How planes can transport certain people to the island – read Wired Magazine’s theory on Throne Plates. Sounds similar to how Oceanic 815 and Ajira Airways landed on the island
