gutsdozer
06-03-2008, 03:00 PM
To grasp this theory, think of what happens when you drop an object into a glass of water. The water gets displaced and rushes in all directions other than the object itself. Now think about what would happen if you could drop an object into time instead of space. In the same way, time would flow outward in every direction but the present (into the past and future).
There is apparently some sort of time-space anomaly that people must go through to get to and from the island. Let's call it a "bubble", since it seems to be a shell that surrounds the island in every direction, including up and down.
Now, let's say that the last time the island was moved was a long time ago. The previous location could've been anywhere "special", like Ayers Rock in Australia, or the Bermuda triangle, or a polar region.
Sometime in the distant past, the island was moved, and appeared in the South Pacific Ocean. The earliest time that we know of something affecting the South Pacific was the 1800s, in the Black Rock era, and Ben moved it in early 2005. So let's say the island was first moved to the Pacific sometime between the 1800s and early 2005. Just for the purpose of example, let's say it arrived in 1905 and displaced time 100 years in each direction. This would mean that although it was moved in 1905, the bubble leading to and from the island "existed" in that spot from 1805 to 2005. Everything that was in that exact spot during that span of 200 years suddenly ends up on the island (displaced). Two things we can speculate happened in this scenario:
1) This would explain how the Black Rock got so far inland.
2) Whoever moved it was cast out of the island, and probably drowned in the Pacific.
Now, apply this logic to Ben turning the wheel in the finale. Only this time, the bubble surrounding the island relocates to Tunisia instead of the Pacific. It's "moved" in early 2005, but is displaced in time for let's say another 100 years in each direction, meaning it now "exists" in Tunisia from 1905 to 2105. And for 100 of those years, the bubble leading to and from the island actually exists in two places at once (think about the rabbit in the Orchid ComicCon video last year that appears before it was sent back, or doctor Ray from the freighter who washed up before he even died). But like the previous example, once again everything in that exact spot during those 200 years is displaced in time. During that time period, three things we can speculate happened:
1) A polar bear was swimming off the island, and ended up in the Sahara desert, cast backward in time a certain number of years.
2) A Nigerian drug smuggling plane flew over it, and ended up on the island several years before it even appeared there.
3) Ben was cast out of the island, thrown about 9-10 months into the future.
Now, I'm not saying the bubble has to exist for 200 years in that location every time it's moved, in fact I think the South Pacific location was there for several hundred (maybe thousand) years before the 1800s, but for the sake of example it explains my theory of how the island moves, and how things are ending up in Tunisia and the South Pacific without ever being anywhere near those locations.
There is apparently some sort of time-space anomaly that people must go through to get to and from the island. Let's call it a "bubble", since it seems to be a shell that surrounds the island in every direction, including up and down.
Now, let's say that the last time the island was moved was a long time ago. The previous location could've been anywhere "special", like Ayers Rock in Australia, or the Bermuda triangle, or a polar region.
Sometime in the distant past, the island was moved, and appeared in the South Pacific Ocean. The earliest time that we know of something affecting the South Pacific was the 1800s, in the Black Rock era, and Ben moved it in early 2005. So let's say the island was first moved to the Pacific sometime between the 1800s and early 2005. Just for the purpose of example, let's say it arrived in 1905 and displaced time 100 years in each direction. This would mean that although it was moved in 1905, the bubble leading to and from the island "existed" in that spot from 1805 to 2005. Everything that was in that exact spot during that span of 200 years suddenly ends up on the island (displaced). Two things we can speculate happened in this scenario:
1) This would explain how the Black Rock got so far inland.
2) Whoever moved it was cast out of the island, and probably drowned in the Pacific.
Now, apply this logic to Ben turning the wheel in the finale. Only this time, the bubble surrounding the island relocates to Tunisia instead of the Pacific. It's "moved" in early 2005, but is displaced in time for let's say another 100 years in each direction, meaning it now "exists" in Tunisia from 1905 to 2105. And for 100 of those years, the bubble leading to and from the island actually exists in two places at once (think about the rabbit in the Orchid ComicCon video last year that appears before it was sent back, or doctor Ray from the freighter who washed up before he even died). But like the previous example, once again everything in that exact spot during those 200 years is displaced in time. During that time period, three things we can speculate happened:
1) A polar bear was swimming off the island, and ended up in the Sahara desert, cast backward in time a certain number of years.
2) A Nigerian drug smuggling plane flew over it, and ended up on the island several years before it even appeared there.
3) Ben was cast out of the island, thrown about 9-10 months into the future.
Now, I'm not saying the bubble has to exist for 200 years in that location every time it's moved, in fact I think the South Pacific location was there for several hundred (maybe thousand) years before the 1800s, but for the sake of example it explains my theory of how the island moves, and how things are ending up in Tunisia and the South Pacific without ever being anywhere near those locations.