Crazy New Theory

[Mr Light]

So after watching Horton Hears a Who, which is about an entire civilization living in a speck of dust, I was reading about how Brainiac shrunk the city of Kandor into a tiny little bottle in the comic books... and suddenly it hit me!

What if The Island is a bottle city? What if it's been miniaturized into a speck of dust?

This would explain why no-one can find it.
This would explain why if you leave it on the wrong heading, you just arrive back at the Island.

Also, the polar comic book in S1, didn't it show a city encased in a dome?

Have there been any throwaway comments/jokes in the show about this?

 

[label]

What if The Island is a bottle city? What if it's been miniaturized into a speck of dust?

So where does it exist geographically? I mean, a frieghter/airplane would need to traverse the boundary in such a way that it didn't appear to change size which means that the island would have to be in ocean after all....

 

[Mr Light]

The Island is still somewhere in the South Pacific I suppose. And there's a single entry vector where if you sail into it, you get miniaturized into the bottle. If you try to leave the bottle at the wrong vector, you either get turned around (Des' sailboat) or you get unstuck in time. This would also explain why there's a time lag going through the barrier; your molecules are being shrunk or embiggened by weird fanastical forces!!!

Here's an even crazier take: maybe the bottle isn't in the South Pacific, but it's sitting on someone's desk like Alvar Hanso's! And when you go through the entry vector in the South Pacific, you get shrunken AND teleported to the bottle. This would explain the polar bear in Tunisia!

This would also bring more light on the final scene of S2, where it first looks like the snowscape is being looked at through a snowglobe.

I'm not saying I believe this is the truth, it's just an interesting thought.

 

[Temis the Vorta]

I'm going back to my Alien Spaceship Zoo theory.

 

[The Nth Doctor]

Complete with invisible jump jets, right?

 

[Temis the Vorta]

Complete with invisible jump jets, right?

No it was entirely separate but it did have something to do with the Island being under the Antarctic...

 

[auntiehill]

To quote Homer Simpson:

"What the Who now?"

 

[Temis the Vorta]

Hold the phone, I've got it now. Dharma was experimenting with evolving animals (polar bears, sharks, etc) into humans and giving them false memories to see if they could pass as human beings.

Mr. Friendly is obviously an evolved polar bear. That explains his rude comments to Sawyer regarding the fish biscuits.

Ben was originally an iguana.

 

[The Nth Doctor]

And people thought TNG's "Genesis" was bad...

 

[Gertch]

A coworker, who loves to make fun of us crazies talking about Lost at work, sent me a link from his group-think site Digg, that held a new theory.

I started reading it and closed it down. I found it too plausible and didn't want to get too spoiled.

http://timelooptheory.com//the_timeline.htm

 

[Mistral]

A coworker, who loves to make fun of us crazies talking about Lost at work, sent me a link from his group-think site Digg, that held a new theory.

I started reading it and closed it down. I found it too plausible and didn't want to get too spoiled.

http://timelooptheory.com//the_timeline.htm

Holy Crap! What a theory! I think its BS but it was very interesting. It might even be right-but I don't think so. Its too complicated and I'm a Sherlock Holmes fan and follow his advice. The TRUTH will be far stranger-and simpler. IMO- but what a site!

 

[Temis the Vorta]

A coworker, who loves to make fun of us crazies talking about Lost at work, sent me a link from his group-think site Digg, that held a new theory.

I started reading it and closed it down. I found it too plausible and didn't want to get too spoiled.

http://timelooptheory.com//the_timeline.htm

Holy Crap! What a theory! I think its BS but it was very interesting. It might even be right-but I don't think so. Its too complicated and I'm a Sherlock Holmes fan and follow his advice. The TRUTH will be far stranger-and simpler. IMO- but what a site!

If you combine time travel and continental drift, you can explain how polar bears got both in the jungle and in the desert.

I think the time travel will stick to the "mental-only" variety already established, which limits the ability of a person to jump only into their past or future selves. It doesn't eliminate time paradoxes but keeps things constrained enough that the storyline won't just seem arbitrary and insane. Letting people bop around anywhere and anywhen would just get out of control. There's no story when anything is possible.

There's no "time machine" per se, only some sort of radiation field generated by the Island (perhaps enhanced by Dharma) that causes the unstuckness-in-time. Unless you have another piece of the puzzle, you won't know how to control it and it will kill you. I suspect Ben and perhaps Inman (we haven't seen the last of him) know how to control it.

A couple of thoughts based on that website:

-Danielle's group might not have been innocent marine biologists who just happened to blunder across the Island. They may have been part of an ongoing "war" over control of the Island, tho who's side they were on (and whose side Danielle is on now) is an open question.

-It may be possible to time-jump before or after your own lifespan. But you would not inhabit a body. Instead, you would be an immaterial consciousness. This could explain the whispers, the apparent sentience of the Island (just a group consciousness of time travellers?) and even Miles' ability to communicate with spirits - which I've never much liked as a literal notion, too supernatural for this show.

 

[Starbreaker]

That theory is certainly interesting, but way too convoluted. It will probably be something much simpler.

 

[Mitty]

Theorising that one could time travel within his own lifetime, Desmond Hume stepped into the Lost Island Accelerator and VANISHED!!!

 

[Campe]

A coworker, who loves to make fun of us crazies talking about Lost at work, sent me a link from his group-think site Digg, that held a new theory.

I started reading it and closed it down. I found it too plausible and didn't want to get too spoiled.

http://timelooptheory.com//the_timeline.htm

Holy Crap! What a theory! I think its BS but it was very interesting. It might even be right-but I don't think so. Its too complicated and I'm a Sherlock Holmes fan and follow his advice. The TRUTH will be far stranger-and simpler. IMO- but what a site!

I agree about the Sherlock Holmes thought. This theory is a little too fanboyish in my opinion to even consider to be close to the truth. Interesting, yes, but also really fanboyish.