Fabric Of LOST by Monika

This is going to be long. But it will be simple. I want to talk about time, paradoxes. Possible ways of avoiding them. What we have in the show. And the possible ways of unfolding the general idea of the show. I read a book and I wanted to share elements of the book with you. Mixing it with the show. The book talks about time travel. Possibilities and general idea. So here we go.

Time is one of the great mysteries of the universe. We are all swept up in the river of time against our will.

Around AD 400, Saint Augustine wrote extensively about the paradoxical nature of time: "How can the past and future be, when the past no longer is, and the future is not yet? As for the present, if it were always present and never moved on to become the past, it would not be time, but eternity.
If we take Saint Augustine's logic further, we see that time is not possible, since the past is gone, the future does not exist, and the present exists only for an instant. (Saint Augustine then asked profound theological questions about how time must influence God, questions that are relevant even today. If God is omnipotent and all-powerful, he wrote, then is He bound by the passing of time? In other words, does God, like the rest of us mortals, have to rush because He is late for an appointment? Saint Augustine eventually concluded that God is omnipotent and hence cannot be constrained by time and would therefore have to exist "outside of time." Although the concept of being outside of time seems absurd, it's one idea that is recurring in modern physics.)
Outside of time. Richard. Jacob. MiB. And perhaps Desmond all sort of exist OUTSIDE OF TIME.

If we could journey back into the past, history would be impossible to write. As soon as a historian recorded the history of the past, someone could go back into the past and rewrite it. Not only would time machines put historians out of business, but they would enable us to alter the course of time at will. If, for example, we were to go back to the era of the dinosaurs and accidentally step on a mammal that happens to be our ancestor, perhaps we would accidentally wipe out the entire human race. History would become an unending, madcap Monty Python episode, as tourists from the future trampled over historic events while trying to get the best camera angle.

Time travel poses all sorts of problems, both technical as well as social.

Should a time traveler who punches his younger self (or vice versa) be charged with assault?

Should the time traveler who murders someone and then flees into the past for sanctuary be tried in the past for crimes he committed in the future?

If he marries in the past can he be tried for bigamy even though his other wife will not be born for almost 5,000 years?

But perhaps the thorniest problems are the logical paradoxes raised by time travel. For example, what happens if we kill our parents before we are born? This is a logical impossibility. It is sometimes called the "grandfather paradox."

There are three ways to resolve these paradoxes.

First, perhaps you simply repeat past history when you go back in time, therefore fulfilling the past. In this case, you have no free will. You are forced to complete the past as it was written. (This is what I meant when I said that a destiny is a part of a free will March, keep reading :))
Whatever Happened, Happened.
Thus, if you go back into the past to give the secret of time travel to your younger self, then it was meant to happen that way. The secret of time travel came from the future. It was destiny. (But this does not tell us where the original idea came from.)
This is Desmond-Daniel relation. Daniel from the future gives Desmond from the future instructions and secret to mind time traveling which is then passed via Future Desmond to Past Daniel. Same goes for Richard-Locke relation. Locke-Locke relation. The compass. The journal. We do not know where the original idea came from.

Second, you have free will, so you can change the past, but within limits. Your free will is not allowed to create a time paradox. Whenever you try to kill your parents before you are born, a mysterious force prevents you from pulling the trigger. This position has been advocated by the Russian physicist Igor Novikov. (He argues that there is a law preventing us from walking on the ceiling, gravitation force, although we might want to. Hence there might be a law preventing us from killing our parents before we are born. Some strange law prevents us from pulling the trigger.)
Sounds familiar? Michael. Jack. Yes it is their present but they cannot do something that is not meant to be. Ever. Both tried to kill themselves but a mysterious force called - THE ISLAND prevented them from pulling the trigger, jumping from the bridge. One can argue about Sawyer who was trying to be relived.. who was “either a hero or trying to get killed”. What was it that kept him alive so many times? The island. Preventing him from leaving. Keeping him alive on multiple occasions. Why? Because he had work to do. Same goes for Michael. Same goes for Jack. But when Michael was no longer needed the island sort of via Christian set him free. "You can go now, Michael."
I am not suggesting that MiB is the island but I am not throwing the idea away either. Because once Ben was saved (that is something that always happened – Sayid pulling the trigger) in the Temple by either Richard, Smoke Monster or MiB, Widmore said that the island saved his life.
Ben also mentioned the island as the one who saved his life within the Temple walls. So the island itself is a force. Just like gravity, just like electromagnetism. But this force is more unique and perhaps it has a will.

Third, the universe splits into two universes. On one time line the people whom you killed look just like your parents, but they are different, because you are now in a parallel universe. This latter possibility seems to be the one consistent with the quantum theory.

The second possibility is explored in the movie Terminator 3, in which Arnold Schwarzenegger plays a robot from the future where murderous machines have taken over. The few remaining humans, hunted down like animals by the machines, are led by a great leader whom the machines have been unable to kill. Frustrated, the machines send a series of killer robots back to the past, before the great leader was born, to kill off his mother. But after epic battles, human civilization is eventually destroyed at the end of the movie, as it was meant to be.

Back to the Future explored the third possibility. Dr. Brown invents a plutonium-fired DeLorean car, actually a time machine for traveling to the past. Michael J. Fox (Marty McFly) enters the machine and goes back and meets his teenage mother, who then falls in love with him. This poses a sticky problem. If Marty McFly's teenage mother spurns his future father, then they never would have married, and Michael J. Fox's character would never have been born.
The problem is clarified a bit by Doc Brown. He goes to the blackboard and draws a horizontal line, representing the time line of our universe. Then he draws a second line, which branches off the first line, representing a parallel universe that opens up when you change the past Thus, whenever we go back into the river of time, the river forks into two rivers, and one time line becomes two time lines, or what is called the "many worlds" approach.

This means that all time travel paradoxes can be solved. If you have killed your parents before you were born, it simply means you have killed some people who are genetically identical to your parents, with the same memories and personalities, but they are not your true parents. The "many worlds" idea solves at least one main problem with time travel.

To a physicist, the number one criticism of time travel (besides finding negative energy) is that radiation effects will build up until either you are killed the instant you enter the machine or the wormhole collapses on you. Radiation effects build up because any radiation entering the time portal will be sent back into the past, where it will eventually wander around the universe until it reaches the present day, and then it will fall into the wormhole again. Since radiation can enter the mouth of the wormhole an infinite number of times, the radiation inside the wormhole can become incredibly strong-strong enough to kill you. But the "many worlds" interpretation solves this problem. If the radiation goes into the time machine and is sent into the past, it then enters a new universe; it cannot reenter the time machine again, and again, and again. This simply means that there are an infinite number of universes, one for each cycle, and each cycle contains just one photon of! radiation, not an infinite amount of radiation.

This is the third possibility. Parallel Universe. And it is also used in this show. WH,H people can argue and disagree as long as they want but this is the fact. And this solution will be fabricated too in to the show. Follow me please. All evidence point in that direction.
But what does this mean?
It doesn’t mean that everything we saw so far is a waste of time. This time line will not be disrupted. Lets call this timeline we followed PRESENT TIMELINE or PT. So lets look at the PT.
815ers crashed on the island in 2004. September 22nd 2004. They spent 108 days on the island. Ben pushed the wheel. One group was out and the other was sent back in time. 3 years later off group decided to go back. They were sent back in time too. Now two groups merged in 1977. Except for Sun and Locke who are now in 2007 in the same PT line. 77 group decided to destroy EM by detonating the Jughead. This is the event that caused the river of time to split. Once the White Light appeared (the source still remains unknown, is it the Jughead or the drill in the pocket of energy or both) the timeline splits into two timelines but nothing is changed. PT is still untarnished. It is going just like it always have. So less then 30 years from this event the Oceanic 815 will crash again in PT line. But now we have another timeline, created by this event and in this new timeline (NT) the plane never lands. In that timeline Daniel never gets on the freighter and he never dies. They ha! ve succeeded in changing the course of events but not their course of events. It can never be changed. It will always go in circle. How sad.

PT-------------------====================---------------PT

You see? PT is linear. The NT line goes parallel with the PT. There is only one way, well two possible ways how this can be solved, the merging of two timelines I mean, if it ever happens, and it will, it will merge.
Either we will see consciousness of fantastic trio jump to their Parallel them just to experience what if… And when they realize that it is much better if they crashed (Like they have) they will be switched back just like Des. This is one way of things unfolding.
Or another way is simply the idea itself..the idea of time travel in practice. Something Darlton wanted to show us. What if they never crashed. But that would be the waste of time.
So basically they will show us the parallel universe too. Everything in that parallel universe is the same except they are not on the island. People who died will die. Claire will give birth to Aaron, keep him. Kate will escape. Eko will die. Jack will save people. Sawyer will con but then love for others will change him. Hurley will start believing in luck. Sun and Jin will eventually be ok. And so on.

So my idea about Lost is that they took every possible way known in theory regarding Time travel and they fabricated these elements into the show. So at the end we will have WH,H. We will have the mysterious force (the Island) and we will have a parallel universe. They will show us all.
And I think it is ridiculous to fight over that. I think it is done. We have both. But it is true that our timeline is the same. Always was always will be.

So at the end of the show, LOST can really end up being an ongoing circle that has no end. Because whenever they try to destroy the EM pocket of energy the river of time will fork into two rivers creating a new universe without Swan hatch. But this is not their universe. In their universe, the one we followed, they have always crashed and they always will. Because the reason why they were sent into the past in the first place is because they crashed. The reason why Sun and Locke are on the island in 2007 is because they crashed 3 years ago. So nothing will ever be changed in this reality. It was their destiny.

Unless Darlton prepared something else for us to stop the circle.