Rich Pundit's Forbidden Planet Theory

[RichPundit]

TTSers:
if I may, have a few thoughts about our buddy Smokie as well as a few recent LOST quickies that I would like to share as part of my much needed LOST therapy.

Key speculation & canon facts:
· By technical definition, smoke is airborne particles
· Special ancient volcanic ash particles; Jacob's cabin ring of ash
· Special psyche connections with ash, particularly Ben
· Ben & Freighters covered in soot
· Ben losing power + Smokie seemingly weak against Keamy et al
· Ben summons Smokie from double secret ancient room; evolving ancient capability + Dharma technology
· Ash senses (Juliet flashes, Ecko images), analyzes, and may act (manifestations, Ecko death, pull Locke)
· Cerebus manual/automatic security system: Blast Door Map, Rousseau
· Volcano: Teacher Olivia Goodspeed, Geothermal Dharma Island power technology system
· Craters: Rousseau maps, black rocks, Barrack location, visual formations: Island, coastline
· Gemologist Casey [NB: TTSer Gemologist TalonTBo] for ash research
· Mycologist Doris for ash research: Mycology is the study of fungi and their use to humans as medicinals (e.g., penicillin), food (e.g., beer, wine, cheese, edible mushrooms) and psychoactive substances.

Smokie: Psyche-directed/powered volcanic ash. As I've speculatively posted b4 on our thread, our Island was formed via volcanic activity including cooking geological material forming ash with incredibly special properties, perhaps with alien materials, realizing access to almost limitless power that can manifest as: 1) psyche sensing, analyzing, and acting connection with human lifeforms, 2) the bending, twisting, and flattening of space-time (Casimir Effect/Wormholes/Vile Vortices) enabling both physical and consciousness space-time travel, and 3) combinations of both 1 & 2. This capability continues to evolve symbiotically with available and connected psyches since ancient times, thus a limited gene pool.

Ben is genetically connected with our Island via evolutionary processes as indicated above. Also, perhaps our Island is a sentient entity. Ben has the capability to enter the double-secret ancient "Summoning" room, psyche-ly connect with, release, and direct the special Island ash, and manifest Smokie according to his personal psyche connection and capability. Since Ben has recently repeatedly failed our Island as determined thru Jacob, his psyche connection/capability may have progressively diminished, perhaps why Keamy et al survived Smokie's attack. Alternatively, Keamy was already prepared to defend against Smokie via Island knowledge from Widmore and/or Ben's psyche directed non-lethal defense against Keamy et al as part of some other Ben plan ... Ben always has a plan.

· Implant technology facilitate psyche connection for "act" control
Ben rabbit heart · Activate Claire’s
· Jack sick; Juliet 2" too high; kick out Kate
· Locke kidney removal; walk on Island
· Tracking: Juliet see Alex/Kate/Sawyer remote jungle escape
· Control: reveal nothing, obey bizarre orders
· Superhero capabilities [Ethan; Juliet; Ben; Mikhail]
· Healing

Miscellaneous:

Implant Technology. Think that implant technology has been innovated by Dharma, perhaps others, that facilitate psyche Island connection, enhancement, and control of individuals. It is canon that Ben conned Sawyer with his rabbit implant and Ben tells Juliet that Claire's implant will be activate to help Juliet gain 815er credibility. Perhaps Jack has an implant that triggered his apparent appendix crisis, and Juliet either removed or deactivated it as evidenced by Jack's clear mistrust of Juliet by demanding Kate's presence, Jack's comment that Juliet is shaving 2 inches too high, Juliet forcefully causing Jack to be knocked out by Bernard, and Kate's removal from viewing the operation. Also think that Locke's kidney donation via Cooper was orchestrated to: 1) facilitate Island psyche connection enabling Locke to walk immediately post-815 crash via an implant & special Island communicated visions, and 2) enable Locke's survival from Ben's typically fatal gunshot over the open Dharma grave, i.e., patient overt course correction.

Multiple Languages. We have observed several Island characters except 815ers who conceal that they speak multiple languages including Blaugh, Naomi, Mikhail, and most recently Ben & Charlotte. Perhaps they are members of our Island's "collective psyche" in which the talents of all such as knowledge of multiple languages is shared by all members ... "We All Everybody", perhaps coupled with space-time travel and manipulation. My sense is that Ben entered the ancient double secret "Summoning" room facilitated with Dharma technology, actually spent considerable time in there summoning/releasing /directing Smokie, but seemed to be gone for only moments as perceived by Locke, Sawyer, Hurley, Claire, and Miles et al.

Raising Aaron. Also as a LOST thought, think it is possible that the couple in L.A. that Aussie Claire says has agreed to raise her Bah-bay as arranged by unknown others and why she is traveling on our 815 to L.A. may be ... Jack & Kate! Again, patient overt "course correction".

Ben's Special Baton Weapon. Think Ben's cool, effective baton weapon/tool slows or freezes space-time, i.e., "a kind of" mobile Orchid device, for nearby others while Ben gains the advantage such as moving to a better position to easily win and escape.

Thanks for your time, consideration, and fun therapy!


Namaste - RichPundit (I ... Am ... Iron Man)

[RichPundit]

TTSers: some Memorial Weekend thoughts about some of our Island's possible psyche operation:

Smokie Fence. As I previously posted, think Smokie may be manifested from special Island volcanic ash particles via an Island-connected psyche, such as Ben's recent raging psyche when Keamy ruthlessly murdered Alex in violation of the understood Ben/Chucky rules. Therefore, perhaps the odd sonic fence is the only effective barrier force against Smokie's particles versus other more typical energy fence forms. For example, electrical zapping may not work cuz Smokie is manifested from uncharged volcanic particles or electrical energy absorbing particles. Or, heat decomposition may not work cuz Smokie's volcanic particles are naturally thermally resistant. And, Smokie can simply move over physical barriers since they are physically connected to our Island.

Also, it is odd that the sonic fence is effective at a fixed height. Perhaps Smokie's particles need to be psyche-connected close to the ground to manifest, particularly if Smokie is psyche-created from below the Island's surface, i.e., underground. Thus, the sonic fence may need not be high to be an effective barrier, plus non-Smokie entities can safely cross over the fence such as Kate, Locke, Sayid, and Rousseau.

Barefooting. If a collective psyche force exists on our Island and it originates underground operating upward thru our Island surface, physical contact with our Island may be important. This may explain why many are barefooted such as the kids and Others, and in particular, including Sawyer when Locke coerced him barefooted thru the jungle to kill Bad Dad Cooper in the Black Rock. Also, perhaps why Christian Shephard wears sneakers, i.e., to insulate from the Island ground connection for psyche independence. Perhaps barefooting allows better connection with our Island's "Collective Psyche".

Whew ... need another brat and beer!

Namaste - RichPundit

[RichPundit]

fyi, just saw this Casimir Effect article in British "The Economist" newspaper (est 1843), and plan to weave it into our thread along with our previous Casimir Effect posts - RichPundit



The Casimir effect

Much ado about nothing

May 22nd 2008
From The Economist print edition


The Casimir effect, a curious consequence of quantum theory, may yet have practical applications

CAN something come of nothing? Philosophers debated that question for millennia before physics came up with the answer—and that answer is yes. For quantum theory has shown that a vacuum (ie, nothing) only appears to be empty space. Actually, it is full of virtual particles of matter and their anti-matter equivalents, which, in obedience to Werner Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, flit in and out of existence so fast that they cannot usually be seen.

Alamy

Virtual percussion

However, in 1948, a Dutch physicist called Hendrik Casimir realised that in certain circumstances these particles would create an effect detectable in the macroscopic world that people inhabit. He imagined two metal plates so close together that the distance between them was comparable with the wavelengths of the virtual particles. (Another consequence of quantum theory is that all particles are simultaneously waves.) In these circumstances, he realised, the plates would be pushed together. That is because only particles with a wavelength smaller than the gap between the plates could appear in that gap, whereas particles of any wavelength could appear on the other sides of the plates. There would thus be more particles pushing in than pushing out, and the plates would clash together like a pair of tiny cymbals.
A neat idea. And in 1996, it was shown experimentally to be true. But so what? The answer is that now things in the computing industry have become so small that the Casimir force is starting to affect them. Computer engineers talk of “stiction”—the phenomenon of microscopic components sticking together—and spend a lot of time trying to figure out ways to avoid it. The Casimir effect is not the only cause of stiction, but it is an important one.
Engineers are now beginning to understand how Casimir forces depend on a device's design—an essential starting point if Casimir-related stiction is to be eliminated. A forthcoming paper in Physical Review Letters by Ho Bun Chan of the University of Florida, Gainesville, shows how the force changes when one of the flat metal plates imagined by Casimir is replaced with a corrugated silicon one. Dr Chan found that the effect's size depends on the spacing of the trenches. This suggests that if you designed microelectronic components carefully, you could reduce stiction.
Stiction is not, however, always a problem, and work is also going on to turn the Casimir effect from a liability to an asset, by using it in what are known as microelectromechanical systems (MEMS). In 2001 Dr Chan and his collaborator Federico Capasso, who were then working at Bell Labs, published a paper showing one way to exploit the effect in MEMS. They made a tiny, gold-plated seesaw and slowly lowered a gold-plated ball towards it. At a distance of about 300 nanometres (a nanometre is a billionth of a metre), the seesaw began to tilt towards the ball. The effect was particularly strong at distances less than 150 nanometres. What Dr Chan and Dr Capasso had shown was that the Casimir force could be used to make a simple lever that might act as a tiny but accurate stress sensor in nanoscale machines.
What really excites researchers, though, is the idea that the Casimir effect may sometimes be repulsive. That would knock the problem of stiction firmly on the head and, according to Dr Capasso, would open up the possibility of making things like frictionless ball-bearings.
According to calculations made several decades ago by Evgeny Lif****z, a Russian physicist, Casimir repulsion should be possible—but you have to replace the vacuum with a fluid. The maths suggest that in order for this to happen, both liquid and plates must be made of carefully chosen substances. This is because the repulsion is caused by electromagnetic charges induced in the plates and the liquid by the virtual particles, and the forces produced by these charges depend on the materials you use.
As with Casimir's original suggestion, the gap between the theory and its practical demonstration has been a long one. But Dr Capasso, who is now at Harvard, and his student Jeremy Munday, have started investigating Lif****z's ideas.
They recently performed an experiment in which they looked at what happens when the plates are made of gold and the fluid is ethanol. Although they did not succeed in reversing the attractive Casimir effect completely, they did reduce it by 80%—a reduction in line with Lif****z's predictions. The right combination of materials, if it can be found, should therefore produce the desired reversal. That would be very good news for MEMS indeed.

Copyright © 2008 The Economist Newspaper and The Economist Group. All rights reserved.

[RichPundit]

Happy "4th of July"!

If I may, I would like to begin another building phase of our Forbidden Planet theory thread by posting some recent Dilbert comic strips about "anti-Matter/World". My 2hr drive back home from another great Summerfest party in Milwaukee ["World's Largest Music Festival"] helped to crystallize some recent posts and thoughts. As usual for me, my plan is to post a framework then expand and support thru multiple dated edits ... hopefully not too annoying to " You All Everybody". Please always enjoy!


Wiki, LOSTpedia, and other sources have much info about Dirac's anti-world/particles and their properties, particularly space-time wormhole stabilization that enables space-time travel.
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Am thinking that the Casimir Effect involving virtual particles/antiparticles which can serve as the insulation material to keep various space-time threads apart, thus stable.

Think it is important to note that while the Casimir Effect can manifest as attraction, repulsion, and space-time wormhole stability applications, its fundamental concept is about virtual particles ... perhaps Dr. Halliwax's aka et al "negatively charged exotic particles" that "create a kind of Casimir Effect". [Analagous to Harvard's Clayton Christensen's "disruptive innovations" which even according to him is really only the "Christensen Effect" cuz DI is a much broader and important concept (ref: JPIMS, Jan07)].

Not sure whether our Island "exotic matter" emits virtual particles and/or emits the electromagnetic frequency necessary to either purge the virtual particles between two space-time worlds causing them to interact and/or causing a consciousness to "get unstuck" from a particular space-time thread like Desmond. Perhaps emitting virtual particles explains our observed phenomenal healing and prescience.
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Some characters are reckless in their behaviours such as extracting virtual particles resulting in bad happenings requiring Swan button pushing to contain. My continuing thought is that an ancient, alien meteor deposited "exotic material" deep inside the earth which was partially released thru volcanic eruption(s) that formed our special Island. Our Island may be a bubble between two or more worlds, black & white. Reckless individuals have risked our demise by extracting, exposing, and releasing it. The Swan station button pushing became critical to the temporary survival of humanity ... the button controlled the release of Island exotic matter. Perhaps if the exotic matter removes the insulating virtual matter between two worlds, the worlds cease to exist. Perhaps the frozen donkey wheel releases or exposes enough exotic matter to "unstuck" and "move" our Island along its space-time continuum.
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Perhaps there are two distinct methods of space-time travel: consciousness and physical. Think someone physically brought Island exotic matter to our space-time world, and Daniel Faraday obtained it for his experiments plus his own consciousness space-time travel. Perhaps turning the frozen donkey wheel causes physical space-time travel which prohibits Island return like Ben. Perhaps our buddy Miles is psyche-connected with those who have consciousness space-time travel.

Whew, more to cum ... I'll be back!

Namaste - RichPundit