This theory is a compiled collection of my thoughts taken from the ongoing WHH v ALT conversations throughout this forum.... hope you enjoy.
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Desmond, as Faraday said, is "miraculously special".
This is due to his turning the failsafe key and the hatch imploding.
Further, desmond is basically a closed time curve himself, thats how he can time flash, see glimpses, act on the past and not cause any paradoxes but effect the past to suit his needs in the future as well.
This uniqueness stems from the island.
The island allows you to manipulate time (dr chang), exactly how we dont know, but at the same time no paradoxes can occur with the variables on the island (people). think of the island like a a giant timeline computer that is fixed on the edge of a black hole, effectively becoming a nexus for all possible time line scenarios... extending the known laws of physics on time travel and perhaps opening the door to other dimensions of time, or possibly even other "worlds" like in the Many Worlds timeline scenario in quantum physics. The Many Worlds scenario may explain via quantum physics how the losties all survived the plane crash to begin with, for example.
if you have no idea what im talking about, go to wikipedia.
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First question: as soon as daniel comes to the island his memory becomes healed because... why? And further, how does Widmore know the island will heal Faraday's memory?
Because of the new ALT timeline started in 1996 by desmond time flashing from '04 to '96 with new information from future Faraday to be used in past Faradays experiments in his lab at Oxford -- this series of events between desmond and faraday across time initiated a CHANGE in Faradays actual mental state, both in a new past timeline and therefor in a hypothetical future that has been actuated on the island.
So let's go a bit further here to illustrate what i mean -- and i will explain how ALT has happened due to the actions of faraday and desmond, how it benefited both of them in the past and future... and of course it ultimately gets the losties saved.
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ask yourself how daniel faraday, after years and years of testing his time flashing device at 20 times a day (as he said in The Constant) with his head unprotected... effectively RUINING his memory over the years......
how when he came to the island did he magically regain his ability to think clearly? how exactly was daniel healed... island magic?
in a way... but it has to do with ALT as well.
I submit that faraday getting healed by coming to the island is not due to "magic" per se, its that he was able to give himself a shortcut across time from the island... the shortcut was his conclusive research that he sent via desmond to his past self. this would create a new hypothetical timeline (in invisible space possibly) that would not exist anywhere and not be accessible from anywhere but from the island.
isn't it possible that the automatic 'course correcting' nature of the island allows for the rebooting of consciousness of the people on the island after a change to their timeline has occurred? we have seen that exact rebooting scenario happen with desmond -- who is himself now a closed timeline curve. the specific scene where we see this happen is when faraday implanted a NEW memory in him at the swan hatch while faraday and crew were time flashing around on the island... faraday flashed into ~2002 and told desmond they needed help, that he was the only one that could help, and that he had to find eloise hawking... the sky flashed and instantly across time, in 2007 desmond got the message.
So back to faraday -- consider his mind healing a side effect, and evidence that the past has changed due to desmond acting upon events differently in 1996 while time flashing, changing the way the events originally went down.
Here is the timeline change for Faraday from The Constant:
in 2004, Faraday from the island gave 'unstuck' desmond instructions to go see faraday at oxford back in 1996 with the new settings of 2.342 @11 to make his experiments work at that time...
right here -- that is what creates a new timeline of events for faraday... and that conclusion can be supported in several logical ways:
1) it eliminates the need for faraday to continue testing eloise the rat at various frequencies, searching for the right combination over a long series of experiments that have been since proven to destroy his brain and memory... the shortcut future Fardady gives himself in the past basically saves his brain back in 1996. a new and improved consciousness has just been created for Faraday due to desmonds abilities.
so instead of searching for the right combination of numbers, doing more and more trials... the NEW information from the future frees faraday from that old chain of events, fixing his memory in the future on the island where that new timeline has been accessed.
quote: "faraday cant even save himself" (doc - the constant)
actually he can, although he needed to come to the island and meet desmond to help him do it... and Widmore knew that somehow (back to this in a minute)
2) eloise the rat -- she ran the maze when faraday unstuck her using the data Desmond told him to use, data he could not have ever known unless it came from future Faraday himself... and the experiment worked. so what? here's what -- the rat died from temporal displacement about an hour later. so why did the rat die if everything worked? The reason eloise the rat died after she ran the maze is simply this -- Faraday said he was going to teach her to run the maze in about an hour.... but once desmond came into the picture in 1996 he altered that course of events, and Faraday never did teach her to run the maze. when desmond woke up 75 minutes later after passing out (flashing back to 2004) the rat was dead. The simple fact is eloise never completed the timeline of events she was 'supposed to' because Faraday never never DID teach her to run the course and complete that loop... all due to desmond passing out for 75 minutes and daniels been busy on the chalk board fired up by ! the working experiment -- so faraday never completed the original event loop so the rat dies from a paradoxical hemorage. It's not random in this case you see -- the rat was never able to come back to the timeline she departed from due to desmond changing the way events unfolded in 1996 -- and because of that she died.
The same rationale can extended and used to explain Minkowski's death from temporal displacement -- the present he departed from was not the same as the one he was trying to flash back into because of desmond making changes to the past at the very same time. and because they were outside the sphere of the island and were not unique like desmond -- the rat and minkowski were not able to stop the displacement and ultimately their demise.
But what about The Constant? you need the constant right?
3) Penny -- desmond never ever had penny's new phone number -- so when she moved to get away from desmond in 1996 after they broke up and make a clean break, desmond had to track her down and get her new phone number. why? per faraday's instructions, he had to be able to contact someone in both 1996 and 2004 to stop his displacement and save his own life. Think about this -- unless desmond is special and able to change the events of the past and retain that information in the future on the freighter, he doesn't survive the temporal displacement. so by tracking penny down and demanding her number and telling her he will call in 8 years -- he is able to set a course for change to be actualized in the future in 2004 and is able to save his own life with that new information. but more than his own life it turns out, getting in touch with penny is also what lets her know to come looking for him to attempt a rescue. so not only do the events of the constant heal daniels memory, it! heals desmond in that he finally gets to be with penny, escaping what he thought was his fate being bound to that island.... and it gets the oceanic 6 saved and off the island. that is a major change all initiated in 1996 via desmond's time flashing and actualized on the island in 2004.
4) Eloise Hawking -- the last time we see her she comments that for the first time in a long time she has no idea what will happen next. This could mean many things but one possible explanation is that a change to the fated course of events has happened because of desmond and her ability to see the future has been cut short. It could also mean that she was using Faraday's journal to predict the future all along, although that would not explain how she knew about the man with red shoes dying, or other things of that nature. so barring any further explanation that might expound upon the nature of Hawkings ability to see the future -- we are left to believe that a change has occurred and Hawking is left scratching her head about what is to come next.
////////// conclusions //////////
Taking all this into consideration should atleast re-ignite your curiosity about the writing of this show, how ALT has likely been a key ingredient all along carefully disguised in ambiguity, and the plot has been masterfully crafted to cover up any clear answers about whether what we are being presented constitutes as WHH or whether ALT is indeed possible and has been happening all along. I believe the myriad manipulations by people in power on and off the island throughout the plot of Lost indicates a motive for change of certain outcomes, and the loophole to get around the natural laws of earthly physics resides on and around the island itself.
Desmond's absorption of the island's electromagnetic properties when he turned that fail-safe key did indeed make him 'miraculously special' -- and his uniqueness has been critical to introducing ALT timelines from within a base framework of WHH, time lines that are accessible specifically from the island.... and the fallout of conflicts inherent to course correction is what he have been witnessing ever since.
i hope you have enjoyed this post, and no matter what happens or what the truth may be, Lost rules.
cheers!
/////////////////////////////////////
Desmond, as Faraday said, is "miraculously special".
This is due to his turning the failsafe key and the hatch imploding.
Further, desmond is basically a closed time curve himself, thats how he can time flash, see glimpses, act on the past and not cause any paradoxes but effect the past to suit his needs in the future as well.
This uniqueness stems from the island.
The island allows you to manipulate time (dr chang), exactly how we dont know, but at the same time no paradoxes can occur with the variables on the island (people). think of the island like a a giant timeline computer that is fixed on the edge of a black hole, effectively becoming a nexus for all possible time line scenarios... extending the known laws of physics on time travel and perhaps opening the door to other dimensions of time, or possibly even other "worlds" like in the Many Worlds timeline scenario in quantum physics. The Many Worlds scenario may explain via quantum physics how the losties all survived the plane crash to begin with, for example.
if you have no idea what im talking about, go to wikipedia.
/////////// now ///////////
First question: as soon as daniel comes to the island his memory becomes healed because... why? And further, how does Widmore know the island will heal Faraday's memory?
Because of the new ALT timeline started in 1996 by desmond time flashing from '04 to '96 with new information from future Faraday to be used in past Faradays experiments in his lab at Oxford -- this series of events between desmond and faraday across time initiated a CHANGE in Faradays actual mental state, both in a new past timeline and therefor in a hypothetical future that has been actuated on the island.
So let's go a bit further here to illustrate what i mean -- and i will explain how ALT has happened due to the actions of faraday and desmond, how it benefited both of them in the past and future... and of course it ultimately gets the losties saved.
//////// so ////////
ask yourself how daniel faraday, after years and years of testing his time flashing device at 20 times a day (as he said in The Constant) with his head unprotected... effectively RUINING his memory over the years......
how when he came to the island did he magically regain his ability to think clearly? how exactly was daniel healed... island magic?
in a way... but it has to do with ALT as well.
I submit that faraday getting healed by coming to the island is not due to "magic" per se, its that he was able to give himself a shortcut across time from the island... the shortcut was his conclusive research that he sent via desmond to his past self. this would create a new hypothetical timeline (in invisible space possibly) that would not exist anywhere and not be accessible from anywhere but from the island.
isn't it possible that the automatic 'course correcting' nature of the island allows for the rebooting of consciousness of the people on the island after a change to their timeline has occurred? we have seen that exact rebooting scenario happen with desmond -- who is himself now a closed timeline curve. the specific scene where we see this happen is when faraday implanted a NEW memory in him at the swan hatch while faraday and crew were time flashing around on the island... faraday flashed into ~2002 and told desmond they needed help, that he was the only one that could help, and that he had to find eloise hawking... the sky flashed and instantly across time, in 2007 desmond got the message.
So back to faraday -- consider his mind healing a side effect, and evidence that the past has changed due to desmond acting upon events differently in 1996 while time flashing, changing the way the events originally went down.
Here is the timeline change for Faraday from The Constant:
in 2004, Faraday from the island gave 'unstuck' desmond instructions to go see faraday at oxford back in 1996 with the new settings of 2.342 @11 to make his experiments work at that time...
right here -- that is what creates a new timeline of events for faraday... and that conclusion can be supported in several logical ways:
1) it eliminates the need for faraday to continue testing eloise the rat at various frequencies, searching for the right combination over a long series of experiments that have been since proven to destroy his brain and memory... the shortcut future Fardady gives himself in the past basically saves his brain back in 1996. a new and improved consciousness has just been created for Faraday due to desmonds abilities.
so instead of searching for the right combination of numbers, doing more and more trials... the NEW information from the future frees faraday from that old chain of events, fixing his memory in the future on the island where that new timeline has been accessed.
quote: "faraday cant even save himself" (doc - the constant)
actually he can, although he needed to come to the island and meet desmond to help him do it... and Widmore knew that somehow (back to this in a minute)
2) eloise the rat -- she ran the maze when faraday unstuck her using the data Desmond told him to use, data he could not have ever known unless it came from future Faraday himself... and the experiment worked. so what? here's what -- the rat died from temporal displacement about an hour later. so why did the rat die if everything worked? The reason eloise the rat died after she ran the maze is simply this -- Faraday said he was going to teach her to run the maze in about an hour.... but once desmond came into the picture in 1996 he altered that course of events, and Faraday never did teach her to run the maze. when desmond woke up 75 minutes later after passing out (flashing back to 2004) the rat was dead. The simple fact is eloise never completed the timeline of events she was 'supposed to' because Faraday never never DID teach her to run the course and complete that loop... all due to desmond passing out for 75 minutes and daniels been busy on the chalk board fired up by ! the working experiment -- so faraday never completed the original event loop so the rat dies from a paradoxical hemorage. It's not random in this case you see -- the rat was never able to come back to the timeline she departed from due to desmond changing the way events unfolded in 1996 -- and because of that she died.
The same rationale can extended and used to explain Minkowski's death from temporal displacement -- the present he departed from was not the same as the one he was trying to flash back into because of desmond making changes to the past at the very same time. and because they were outside the sphere of the island and were not unique like desmond -- the rat and minkowski were not able to stop the displacement and ultimately their demise.
But what about The Constant? you need the constant right?
3) Penny -- desmond never ever had penny's new phone number -- so when she moved to get away from desmond in 1996 after they broke up and make a clean break, desmond had to track her down and get her new phone number. why? per faraday's instructions, he had to be able to contact someone in both 1996 and 2004 to stop his displacement and save his own life. Think about this -- unless desmond is special and able to change the events of the past and retain that information in the future on the freighter, he doesn't survive the temporal displacement. so by tracking penny down and demanding her number and telling her he will call in 8 years -- he is able to set a course for change to be actualized in the future in 2004 and is able to save his own life with that new information. but more than his own life it turns out, getting in touch with penny is also what lets her know to come looking for him to attempt a rescue. so not only do the events of the constant heal daniels memory, it! heals desmond in that he finally gets to be with penny, escaping what he thought was his fate being bound to that island.... and it gets the oceanic 6 saved and off the island. that is a major change all initiated in 1996 via desmond's time flashing and actualized on the island in 2004.
4) Eloise Hawking -- the last time we see her she comments that for the first time in a long time she has no idea what will happen next. This could mean many things but one possible explanation is that a change to the fated course of events has happened because of desmond and her ability to see the future has been cut short. It could also mean that she was using Faraday's journal to predict the future all along, although that would not explain how she knew about the man with red shoes dying, or other things of that nature. so barring any further explanation that might expound upon the nature of Hawkings ability to see the future -- we are left to believe that a change has occurred and Hawking is left scratching her head about what is to come next.
////////// conclusions //////////
Taking all this into consideration should atleast re-ignite your curiosity about the writing of this show, how ALT has likely been a key ingredient all along carefully disguised in ambiguity, and the plot has been masterfully crafted to cover up any clear answers about whether what we are being presented constitutes as WHH or whether ALT is indeed possible and has been happening all along. I believe the myriad manipulations by people in power on and off the island throughout the plot of Lost indicates a motive for change of certain outcomes, and the loophole to get around the natural laws of earthly physics resides on and around the island itself.
Desmond's absorption of the island's electromagnetic properties when he turned that fail-safe key did indeed make him 'miraculously special' -- and his uniqueness has been critical to introducing ALT timelines from within a base framework of WHH, time lines that are accessible specifically from the island.... and the fallout of conflicts inherent to course correction is what he have been witnessing ever since.
i hope you have enjoyed this post, and no matter what happens or what the truth may be, Lost rules.
cheers!
