Simini
02-04-2008, 01:24 AM
Hopefully I'm not double posting... feel free to move things accordingly if I've erred. So... a few thoughts, observations and questions for your perusal...
1) It's already been observed that John Clerk Maxwell was a physicist who revolutionized electromagnetic theory, but I haven't seen much more than that casual mention. In fact, his work included studies of displacement currents, molecular vortices and light. Sounds a lot like our Island, doesn’t it?
Further attempts to find out what Maxwell studied led to web pages full of discussions of quantum physics; “the translation of charge through the 4th physical dimension” via mini wormholes (there are "black holes" and "white holes", hmmm). In other words – time travel. These are all way way wayyyyy beyond my ken, but… sound fascinating, no?
Oh… he was also a professor at King’s College (Queen’s College Physics Department, anyone?) and was known as a man of science and a man of faith. This MIT paper James Clerk Maxwell and the Christian Proposition (http://silas.psfc.mit.edu/Maxwell/maxwell.html) (by Ian Hutchinson in 1998) attempts to “outline how the faith of James Clerk Maxwell and his science were combined and how they may have influenced one another.”
2) As we know, the map to Henry Gale’s balloon was drawn on a page from Ben's copy of The Brothers Karamazov. This novel by Dostoyevsky is about brothers in the circus – acrobats. Oscar Talbot is an anagram of “LOST acrobat”. Don't know what that means, if anything... anyone have an anagram of Peter Talbot?
3) We know Hurley owns the box company that John Locke worked for. Presumably, it's the same box company which has now burned down and given Sam Thomas a significant insurance settlement. J Not sure what all of that means, but it’s interesting.
4) Did anyone else notice weird discrepancies in the Clue Hunt photo slideshows? I noticed a few, but haven't had time to cross-check to see if these discrepancies were part of the original broadcasts, or were done only as part of the montage.
I think they were in fact part of the original broadcasts, but are being used as a way of highlighting certain clues to the overall theme of the show. I think Lucidity's Sewing Kit theory is definitely part of this, as sudden wardrobe changes were one of the discrepancies I noticed.
Here's another: the rocking chair in Jacob's cabin. In the Clue Hunt photos for Chapter 1, Season 3 there are several photos of rocking chairs from Jacob's cabin. They are all of the same rocking chair... except one. One photo is of a distinctly different rocking chair than the one in all of the other photos. Was it like that in the broadcast? And what in the world does it mean?
We know that two different people have been sitting in the cabin... did they have different chairs?
1) It's already been observed that John Clerk Maxwell was a physicist who revolutionized electromagnetic theory, but I haven't seen much more than that casual mention. In fact, his work included studies of displacement currents, molecular vortices and light. Sounds a lot like our Island, doesn’t it?
Further attempts to find out what Maxwell studied led to web pages full of discussions of quantum physics; “the translation of charge through the 4th physical dimension” via mini wormholes (there are "black holes" and "white holes", hmmm). In other words – time travel. These are all way way wayyyyy beyond my ken, but… sound fascinating, no?
Oh… he was also a professor at King’s College (Queen’s College Physics Department, anyone?) and was known as a man of science and a man of faith. This MIT paper James Clerk Maxwell and the Christian Proposition (http://silas.psfc.mit.edu/Maxwell/maxwell.html) (by Ian Hutchinson in 1998) attempts to “outline how the faith of James Clerk Maxwell and his science were combined and how they may have influenced one another.”
2) As we know, the map to Henry Gale’s balloon was drawn on a page from Ben's copy of The Brothers Karamazov. This novel by Dostoyevsky is about brothers in the circus – acrobats. Oscar Talbot is an anagram of “LOST acrobat”. Don't know what that means, if anything... anyone have an anagram of Peter Talbot?
3) We know Hurley owns the box company that John Locke worked for. Presumably, it's the same box company which has now burned down and given Sam Thomas a significant insurance settlement. J Not sure what all of that means, but it’s interesting.
4) Did anyone else notice weird discrepancies in the Clue Hunt photo slideshows? I noticed a few, but haven't had time to cross-check to see if these discrepancies were part of the original broadcasts, or were done only as part of the montage.
I think they were in fact part of the original broadcasts, but are being used as a way of highlighting certain clues to the overall theme of the show. I think Lucidity's Sewing Kit theory is definitely part of this, as sudden wardrobe changes were one of the discrepancies I noticed.
Here's another: the rocking chair in Jacob's cabin. In the Clue Hunt photos for Chapter 1, Season 3 there are several photos of rocking chairs from Jacob's cabin. They are all of the same rocking chair... except one. One photo is of a distinctly different rocking chair than the one in all of the other photos. Was it like that in the broadcast? And what in the world does it mean?
We know that two different people have been sitting in the cabin... did they have different chairs?