Pretty short and simple.

The logic is if they blow up the bomb, the incident never happens, the hatch is never built, the button is never not pressed by Desmond, and 815 never lands on The Island.

However...

If 815 never lands on the Island then Jack and Kate never end up leaving the Island, returning on 316, landing in 77, and blowing up the hydrogen bomb.

Hence...

The hydrogen bomb is never exploded, the incident occurs, the hatch is built, the button is pressed, Desmond doesn't press the button, 815 crashes, and so on and so forth.

Ultimately...

This is a time paradox. Thus the only way that the could possibly detonate the bomb is if the bomb does not solve the incident.

Mhm.

I think that Daniel wanted to believe this so that he could save Charlotte but the fact that he dies in the end kind of works into the whole WHH way of thinking. Everything we've been shown fits into this theory.
At the beginning of the season Daniel states that if you try to alter something in the past then you will fail. It certainly looks like he's going to fail in his attempt to blow up the bomb.

Indeed it would be a paradox.

Which is why a plan to detonate the Hydrogen bomb would be doomed to fail.

Pretty short and simple.

The logic is if they blow up the bomb, the incident never happens, the hatch is never built, the button is never not pressed by Desmond, and 815 never lands on The Island.

However...

If 815 never lands on the Island then Jack and Kate never end up leaving the Island, returning on 316, landing in 77, and blowing up the hydrogen bomb.

Hence...

The hydrogen bomb is never exploded, the incident occurs, the hatch is built, the button is pressed, Desmond doesn't press the button, 815 crashes, and so on and so forth.

Ultimately...

This is a time paradox. Thus the only way that the could possibly detonate the bomb is if the bomb does not solve the incident.

Mhm.

I think things can't be changed. Simple like that.

What ever our losties do, it already has happened in the past. For them it is just now.

I agree DarkTemple but they sure are leading us down a path that makes us think that it can be. All of the references to creating time and such is probably going to be a massive red herring but man is this show good with it's wordplay.

This is a time paradox. Thus the only way that the could possibly detonate the bomb is if the bomb does not solve the incident.


Or if, even worse, detonating the bomb creates the incident, which would be very classically tragic.