MIB and Jacob have quantum immortality due to their experiments with time travel that have taken them beyond the normal realms of human existence. In fact I bet one of them was originally Radzinsky and the other possibly Chang/Horace. In Locke’s dream Horace was building the cabin and Jacob lived there so maybe Horace became Jacob. I don’t like the MIB and I don’t like Radzinsky so they are one in the same – no evidence for that statement, or any of this theory. Just a lot of hard research and gut feelings. They have been assuming other people’s identity for many years now in the same way that MIB posed as Christian and then Locke. They do exist out of normal time and may or may not need a body to survive. I still don’t know exactly what this loop hole was but I don’t think anyone has figured that out yet. I don’t think that his loop hole is assuming Locke identity and I don’t think that it is t! hat he’s killed Jacob because I think that’s part of the game they’ve been playing over the years. I’m also considering the idea that Frank may be the next body that Jacob will inhabit. MIB became Locke by manipulating the laws of time travel. He did this because the island is in an ever repeating time loop. MIB sent Locke off island and because of the difference between island time from off island time and the fact that the island is a giant time travel machine MIB is able to create 2 Locke and assume one of his bodies. Sounds fanciful? Maybe but I have worked it all out using theoretical ideas from quantum physics. I am certain we have some sci fi writers who are clever chaps who are looking at these sorts of theoretical ideas from quantum physics and have come up with some incredible fiction. Hence the Lost reading list. There is no magic, no Gods or anything mystical in Lost. It is all scientifically explainable. The only thing I believe is inherent to the myste! ry of the island is the EM and why it is there and exactly how! Dharma are able to harness its energy to create the things they have done.
Time is being reset to the start of creation every time a paradox occurs. This is as a result of someone physically time travelling and trying to make a difference in the time line which prevents them from time travelling in the first place. These paradoxes occurred as the incident first in 1980, then the failsafe in 2004 (since the end of the world was held off by entering the numbers which also has something to do with the island being in a time loop) and now Faraday has initiated another in 1977. The incident is earlier than in a previous time iterations because the next stage of the Dharma experiments was to progress to mind time travel not physical time travel. People from the future look their future knowledge back into their past consciousnesses and were able to conduct the experiments in time travel faster than dharma originally conceived them. Faraday also used this method to speed up his study of (and experiments with) EM and time travel.
1) He studied how to mind time travel, with Eloise and his research assistant, Teresa.
2) Having Des come back in time and give him the correct setting he was to then spend the rest of his life’s work studying about constants and not figuring out the correct setting like he did in the last iteration of the time line. As a result when time passed again and Faraday got to the other end of Des’ jumps through time (i.e. 2004 on the island) Faraday was able to save Des by telling him to get a constant.
3) Now Faraday intends to study variables in the new time line he has created.
The story of Lost will not focus on explaining this all to us. It is all there to be discovered in numerous re-watches of the whole show. This is quite ironic considering the shows content! If we see any alternate time lines, my guess is they will be past ones, since series 1-5 have been a mix of the various resets/time lines/time iterations already. I think it will take only a few scenes to prove what I’m saying (and others before me – because this is not a new idea) is more or less true. A quick look to see Teresa is not comatose in one of the possible time lines perhaps and of course weird scenes with our dead favourite characters that won’t make sense.
Quote from Wiki -
“QUANTUM SUICIDE
In quantum mechanics, quantum suicide was a thought experiment. It was independently published in 1987 by Hans Moravec and in 1988 by Bruno Marchal, and further developed by Max Tegmark in 1998.[1] It attempts to distinguish between the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics and the Everett many-worlds interpretation by means of a variation of the Schrödinger's cat thought experiment. The experiment involves looking at the Schrödinger's cat experiment from the point of view of the cat.
Quantum immortality is a metaphysical speculation derived from the quantum suicide thought experiment. It states that the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics implies that conscious beings are immortal. Hugh Everett is reported to have believed in quantum immortality, although he never published on either quantum suicide or quantum immortality
EXPLANATION OF THE THOUGHT EXPERIMENT
For example, a man sits down before a gun, which is pointed at his head. The gun is rigged to a machine that measures the spin of a quantum particle. Each time the trigger is pulled, the spin of the quantum particle is measured. Depending on the measurement, the gun will either fire, or it won't. If the quantum particle is measured as spinning in a clockwise motion, the gun will fire. If the particle is spinning counterclockwise, the gun won't discharge; there will only be a click.
The man now pulls the trigger. The gun clicks. He pulls the trigger again, with the same result. And again; the gun does not fire. The man will continue to pull the trigger again and again with the same result: The gun won't fire. Although it's functioning properly and loaded with bullets, no matter how many times he pulls the trigger, the gun will never seem to fire.
Go back in time to the beginning of the experiment. The man pulls the trigger for the very first time, and the particle is now measured as spinning clockwise. The gun fires. The man is dead.
But the problem arises; the man already pulled the trigger the first time—and an infinite amount of times following that—and we already know the gun didn't fire. How can the man be dead? The man is unaware, but he's both alive and dead. Each time he pulls the trigger, the universe is split in two. It will continue to split, again and again, each time the trigger is pulled. ¬ This thought experiment is called 'quantum suicide'. It was first posed by theorist Max Tegmark in 1997. However, science fiction author Larry Niven originally proposed a fictional variant of quantum suicide in his short story All the Myriad Ways in which the protagonist's final action in the story kills/fails to kill him in a myriad of alternate realities.
QUANTUM IMMORTALITY
The idea behind quantum immortality is that the experimenter will remain alive in, and thus remain able to experience, at least one of the universes in this set, even though these universes form a tiny subset of all possible universes. Over time, the experimenter would therefore never perceive his or her own death”
Time is being reset to the start of creation every time a paradox occurs. This is as a result of someone physically time travelling and trying to make a difference in the time line which prevents them from time travelling in the first place. These paradoxes occurred as the incident first in 1980, then the failsafe in 2004 (since the end of the world was held off by entering the numbers which also has something to do with the island being in a time loop) and now Faraday has initiated another in 1977. The incident is earlier than in a previous time iterations because the next stage of the Dharma experiments was to progress to mind time travel not physical time travel. People from the future look their future knowledge back into their past consciousnesses and were able to conduct the experiments in time travel faster than dharma originally conceived them. Faraday also used this method to speed up his study of (and experiments with) EM and time travel.
1) He studied how to mind time travel, with Eloise and his research assistant, Teresa.
2) Having Des come back in time and give him the correct setting he was to then spend the rest of his life’s work studying about constants and not figuring out the correct setting like he did in the last iteration of the time line. As a result when time passed again and Faraday got to the other end of Des’ jumps through time (i.e. 2004 on the island) Faraday was able to save Des by telling him to get a constant.
3) Now Faraday intends to study variables in the new time line he has created.
The story of Lost will not focus on explaining this all to us. It is all there to be discovered in numerous re-watches of the whole show. This is quite ironic considering the shows content! If we see any alternate time lines, my guess is they will be past ones, since series 1-5 have been a mix of the various resets/time lines/time iterations already. I think it will take only a few scenes to prove what I’m saying (and others before me – because this is not a new idea) is more or less true. A quick look to see Teresa is not comatose in one of the possible time lines perhaps and of course weird scenes with our dead favourite characters that won’t make sense.
Quote from Wiki -
“QUANTUM SUICIDE
In quantum mechanics, quantum suicide was a thought experiment. It was independently published in 1987 by Hans Moravec and in 1988 by Bruno Marchal, and further developed by Max Tegmark in 1998.[1] It attempts to distinguish between the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics and the Everett many-worlds interpretation by means of a variation of the Schrödinger's cat thought experiment. The experiment involves looking at the Schrödinger's cat experiment from the point of view of the cat.
Quantum immortality is a metaphysical speculation derived from the quantum suicide thought experiment. It states that the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics implies that conscious beings are immortal. Hugh Everett is reported to have believed in quantum immortality, although he never published on either quantum suicide or quantum immortality
EXPLANATION OF THE THOUGHT EXPERIMENT
For example, a man sits down before a gun, which is pointed at his head. The gun is rigged to a machine that measures the spin of a quantum particle. Each time the trigger is pulled, the spin of the quantum particle is measured. Depending on the measurement, the gun will either fire, or it won't. If the quantum particle is measured as spinning in a clockwise motion, the gun will fire. If the particle is spinning counterclockwise, the gun won't discharge; there will only be a click.
The man now pulls the trigger. The gun clicks. He pulls the trigger again, with the same result. And again; the gun does not fire. The man will continue to pull the trigger again and again with the same result: The gun won't fire. Although it's functioning properly and loaded with bullets, no matter how many times he pulls the trigger, the gun will never seem to fire.
Go back in time to the beginning of the experiment. The man pulls the trigger for the very first time, and the particle is now measured as spinning clockwise. The gun fires. The man is dead.
But the problem arises; the man already pulled the trigger the first time—and an infinite amount of times following that—and we already know the gun didn't fire. How can the man be dead? The man is unaware, but he's both alive and dead. Each time he pulls the trigger, the universe is split in two. It will continue to split, again and again, each time the trigger is pulled. ¬ This thought experiment is called 'quantum suicide'. It was first posed by theorist Max Tegmark in 1997. However, science fiction author Larry Niven originally proposed a fictional variant of quantum suicide in his short story All the Myriad Ways in which the protagonist's final action in the story kills/fails to kill him in a myriad of alternate realities.
QUANTUM IMMORTALITY
The idea behind quantum immortality is that the experimenter will remain alive in, and thus remain able to experience, at least one of the universes in this set, even though these universes form a tiny subset of all possible universes. Over time, the experimenter would therefore never perceive his or her own death”
