Sentient Idea Monsters and Faraday Cages 101! by Robert Lee

I’d like to present a seemingly random chain of events and show how we can relate “The first murder” to the chemical-electric thought processes of the human brain and Daniel Faraday’s namesake:

The first murder, according to the Bible, was committed by Adam and Eve’s son Cain. The victim was his brother Abel. This was a premeditated crime brought on by avarice. Some say this was the moment that evil was let loose on the world. Logically then, Evil was a concept that mankind had not yet encountered. Up to that point man was happy with his/her close connection to god, the earth, family, etc. This was a new concept for man. It was a new thought.

Thoughts are electrochemical responses to stimuli in our brains and bodies. Another way to say it is; thoughts are energy. So, when that first murder was committed, a new energy was created or accessed for the first time by a man. In this way, one could theorize that, by thinking about evil we sort of create it. We feed it by giving it the energy of our thoughts.

Now, lets delve deeper.

I really enjoyed the whole “Cork in the bottle” analogy, and I’d like to take this whole thought is electric energy idea and add to it. Lets say for a moment that MIB/ Flocke/ Smokey is an ancient deity and embodiment of EVILLLLLL!!!!!! He is an abstract concept with sentience that has but one purpose, to do EVILLLLLLLL!!!!! He is an idea, and he got out once. He got out and let a teeny tiny part of himself loose in the world corrupting mankind forever. That small part, was the idea for ‘murder.’

So, if he is a self-aware idea, then it is safe to say that he is a pure energy being. This energy is pure and concentrated and he can/ will invade our minds and infect us, like a disease, like what is wrong with Claire and Sayid…..? Hmmm? I’m just making this up as I go along, and even I’m surprised by that revelation.

What if the actual Smokey creature, when freed from his island prison, was able to infect billions of people? What if the whole world was suddenly irreparably corrupted and EVIL?!

This freight train of an idea leads straight towards a problem though. How do you trap an Evil Energy being on an island?!

“Easy!” I say. You build a humongous Faraday Cage of course!

From Wikipedia:

Michael Faraday, FRS (22 September 1791 – 25 August 1867) was an English chemist and physicist (or natural philosopher, in the terminology of the time) who contributed to the fields of electromagnetism and electrochemistry.
And…
Faraday built two devices to produce what he called electromagnetic rotation: a continuous circular motion from the circular magnetic force around a wire and a wire extending into a pool of mercury with a magnet placed inside would rotate around the magnet if supplied with current from a chemical battery. The latter device is known as a homopolar motor. These experiments and inventions form the foundation of modern electromagnetic technology.-

hmmmmm? Sounds familiar doesn't it?

And the cage: (from wiki)
A Faraday cage, or Faraday shield, is an enclosure formed by conducting material or by a mesh of such material. Such an enclosure blocks out external static electric fields.

Also…(from wiki)
The metal layers are grounded to dissipate any electric currents generated from the external electromagnetic fields and thus block a large amount of the electromagnetic interference.

So, the cage would dissipate any energy that touched it to keep the items within safe from any outer energy. It stands to reason that it would keep energy ‘out’ or ‘in.’ Perhaps it could keep an evil energy creature trapped on an island?

And…(from wiki)
Note that the reception of external radio signals, a form of electromagnetic radiation, through an antenna within a cage can be severely reduced or even totally blocked by the cage itself.

Sounds just like the French transmission being kept from transmitting off the island.

So I’ll sum up. If the island is a Faraday Cage containing a murderous sentient Idea in an eternal prison so it can’t infect the human race with pure evil, then maybe I’m onto something here.

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