My theory about Lost

[tailhook]

is that the island is meant to be a literal translation of The Twilight Zone. A dimension not of sight and sound.. but of mind. Tying into science.. string theory states that there should be 10 dimensions.. not just 4. The island, it turns out is one of those remaining 6. A dimensional fold inside of a magnetic anomaly in the middle of the Pacific Ocean first discovered by one Magnus Hanzo while travelling the world in the Black Rock.

Search parties were sent to look for him funded by his children and eventually his final resting place, including the island was found. In an attempt to understand the workings of this dimension better, the Dharma Initiative was founded and funded by Alvar Hanzo in order to explore the various ways that the island interacts with human beings. One of the side effects is that when a human is in this space, his/her mind becomes more attuned to those around them.

If they are normal.. this can cause them to start hearing low level incoherent thoughts of others, causing them to go mad. In an event to stop the madness, they may end up killing in order to keep from hearing the thoughts. To prevent this, the Dharma Initiative has issued medicine designed to block telepathic abilities. It is especially critical that newborns recieve this in order to ensure normal childhood progression free of the effects exerted by the dimensional fold.

However, if a person allready exhibits psychic or telepathic ability.. being exposed to the island has an extremly different effect. Trained, a person can manipulate the dimensional fold and be able to not only read others minds but in turn cause changes to occur on the island.

In order to further study this dimension.. the Dharma Initiative has decided to expose a wide range of personalities and races to it to see how they react. In order to accomplish that a plane full of passengers will be flown into the anamoly. The entry may be rough but best data shows that a good number of passengers should survive. In advance, Dharma has placed people on the island, including psychics and remote vierwers to be able to keep tabs of everything that is going on. If possible, shortly after the start of this experiment some of the people will be abducted in order to experiment and determine what physical changes are manifesting themselves in the passengers. Preferably, this will occur with passengers not part of the main body of survivors.

Furthermore, on the island the Dharma Initiative has constructed 6 underground laboratories connected as one to a reactor designed to take advantage of the natural power generated in this dimension. All scientific work will be performed underground. Due to fluctuations in the magnetic anomaly, the accumulated data can only be sent out of it every 108 minutes. In order to take advantage of this a specially designed computer inside of the Swan lab has been designed to keep track of time independent of magnetic interference. At the end of every 108 minutes, a code representing a file needs to be input into that computer. Doing so will initiate transmission and allow the outside stations to receive the data. Should this window of opportunity be missed, the clock is reset and the person must wait another 108 minutes to transmit. All safeguards should be implemented to ensure data is always sent on time.

[AVREY97]

WOW!!!!!!! I love it!

Originally Posted by tailhook

Furthermore, on the island the Dharma Initiative has constructed 6 underground laboratories connected as one to a reactor designed to take advantage of the natural power generated in this dimension. All scientific work will be performed underground. Due to fluctuations in the magnetic anomaly, the accumulated data can only be sent out of it every 108 minutes. In order to take advantage of this a specially designed computer inside of the Swan lab has been designed to keep track of time independent of magnetic interference. At the end of every 108 minutes, a code representing a file needs to be input into that computer. Doing so will initiate transmission and allow the outside stations to receive the data. Should this window of opportunity be missed, the clock is reset and the person must wait another 108 minutes to transmit. All safeguards should be implemented to ensure data is always sent on time.

I saw another "theory" on another of the half-zillion Lost discussion boards out there that the counter is simply a "monitor" of the other hatches. When the counter hit zero, you saw three "white" glyphs and two "red" glyphs. The postulation was that it was simply nothing more than how many of the different hatches are "operational" (have somebody "pushing the button" every 108 minutes????).

That was interesting speculation.

I strongly suspect that we're going to learn more about the other hatches, and the big old "?" in the middle of the map (since that's the name of one of the last episodes this season).

Steve

PS: It's stupefying how much time you can waste watching, analyzing and commenting on this show!!!!

pretty cool theory

(heyy steve i agree; me n my friend spent like 3 hours looking at the blast door map lol!!!)

dharma must be pretty cold-hearted in order to crash a plane, killing innocent people. but wouldn't there be certain ones that were supposed to survive? eg locke, who plays an important role. there must be some way that they could be sure of some people's survival! but what you said made sooooo much sense

[tailhook]

Originally Posted by the_french_chick

pretty cool theory

(heyy steve i agree; me n my friend spent like 3 hours looking at the blast door map lol!!!)

dharma must be pretty cold-hearted in order to crash a plane, killing innocent people. but wouldn't there be certain ones that were supposed to survive? eg locke, who plays an important role. there must be some way that they could be sure of some people's survival! but what you said made sooooo much sense

Not necessarily. The experiment is to determine how these people react to the magnetic anomaly. The only overall management should be in a selection based on the likelihood of acclimating to the new enviornment and not wanting to leave. As few outside connections as possible. For those with children.. children are to be abducted if possible to not only innoculate them but to refocus the parents from a strategy of rescue from the island to a strategy of getting their kids back.

A big question you have to ask yourself is that if this does constitute another dimension if time works the same way outside of it as in. What may have been 44 days for our survivors might only be 11 or less in the outside world. And since the entire dimension exhibits regenerative effects that prevent death from curable effects(i.e. gunshot, cancer, paralyzation)... normal human age.. even from those who have been on the island a long time becomes incredibly difficult to determine.

[ALTplanb27]

Wow, that really is amazing, i mean you practically cover everything, and I loooovve your theory about the button transmitting info, although my only doubt would be not henry smiling when locke is screaming at him to tell him if he pressed the button or not. The only thing not explained would be the polar bear, and why sooo many other things just so happen to crash here.....Thanks a lot though for the great great theory, and I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of it is true.

[rickyd]

pretty good theory, but ive seen better

[MarcusM]

Originally Posted by rickyd

pretty good theory, but ive seen better

I think that everything that will happen this season has been correctly predicted. It's just a case of mixing and matching all the theories.

[theactordavid]

Originally Posted by tailhook

What may have been 44 days for our survivors might only be 11 or less in the outside world.

And for Vincent, it's been months!!!!

[love_the_lost]

Although your theory covers almost everything (and I personally think it's a great theory) there's still a few blanks. Like what about Hurley's numbers? And what about the Black Rock? How does Rousseu tie in with this? And Desmond? And the drug plane from Nigeria? And the real Henry Gale? And do the passengers' pasts just happen to coincide with each other?

But even though those questions are still unanswered in your theory, I think you also answered a lot of questions, too. Good Job