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ABC TV. "Lost" has been broadcast to the fourth season. In the last episode of the previous season, the protagonists Jack and Kate returned to the real world, but the episode did not explain how they returned to reality. The theme of this season is about how people on the island returned to the real world. It is worth noting that only 6 people returned to the real world. Same as the previous seasons, this season "Lost" still shakes countless burdens, leaving the audience with infinite suspense. In S4EP5 "The Constant", the new concept of "space-time shuttle" was introduced. Netizens took this episode to the sky, and hated that their university physics was not deep enough. Six more episodes of season 4 will be finished. How the screenwriters "fudge" the audience will be revealed in May.
Jason Hunter is a big fan of "Lost". He used his knowledge of physics and other natural sciences to develop a set of "Lost" time travel theory. In Jason's view, "Lost" is a story about defeating destiny. Are we able to control our own destiny, and can we change what has happened in the future?
"The development of the "Lost" story involves a concept similar to a time machine. Don't think it is the kind of cliché time machine story that has been told thousands of times. "Lost" created a new concept of time travel." Jason Hunter said so.
The following is Jason Hunter’s guess on the time travel theory of "Lost". It is basically based on the stories that have already happened. Most of the plots in the play can be explained reasonably. Of course, some of them don’t seem so credible. The stories broadcast later may also completely overthrow this theory, but for the present, this theory does have a lot of points in line with Lost's story. This guess will run through from the very beginning to explain to you all the unexplainable things that happened on the island.
You don’t need to believe the following, and please don’t be true. Our purpose of publishing this article is to communicate and discuss with fans of "Lost". When the official (that is, the creators of this show) did not come out to explain these mysteries, we might as well entertain ourselves.
1800's
Blackstone (The Black Rock)
Blackstone (The Black Rock) is a cargo ship used to transport slaves on the road across the Pacific. The ship contains a large number of various types of minerals, which have a strong response to magnetic fields. Unfortunately, the ship encountered an island in Lost. Because the island itself has a very unique magnetic field, which reacts with the metal magnetic field on the ship, the ship is constantly being transferred to the island. At the same time, the magnetic field of the minerals on the ship is very strong, creating an invisible hole around the island, and this hole is on coordinate 325, which is called "special coordinate". Daniel's team came to the island through this hole. .
The crew on Black Rock, including Alvar Hanso, after learning about the magic of the island, formed an organization called DHARMA, and brought more researchers to the island to explore the secrets of the island. The slaves on Black Rock, called The Others, ran to the depths of the island and hid. Richard is the descendant of this group.
1960's
time machine?
The DHARMA organization was established and used to study humans. With the advancement of research, the study of humans has been transformed from the beginning to be designed as a huge test project of destiny. At the same time, within the DHARMA organization, someone plans to create a time machine.
The time machine was launched in 1960. After the time machine had been running for a year, someone planned to use the machine. This time machine can only go back to the past, and only one year ago, when the time machine first started operating in 1960. When you travel back in time and space, you stay in the past, and you cannot go back to 1961, because you are now in 1960. Suppose you will contract a fatal disease in 1965, but you go back to 1960, that is, before you contracted the disease, when you step out of the time machine, you will not get the disease because you were in the past.
Polar bears are guinea pigs
so DHARMA station solution to this powerful time machine, decided to look for a remote island, you can isolate the test the time machine. Before DHARMA started testing the time machine with humans, they decided to experiment with animals first, so they found a polar bear that could not survive on this tropical island. They sent a polar bear back to a few years ago, and then to see if it could survive, and they found that when they sent the polar bear back a few years ago, the polar bear lived a lot on a remote island. good. DHARMA found that if this polar bear can live in a tropical environment long before it is sent back, it means that they can make the creatures invincible.
After DHARMA experimented with polar bears for a period of time, they began to send humans back to the past. After several years of research on time machines, DHARMA began to wonder what would happen if the people sent back to the past changed history. Out of curiosity about whether it can change the history that has happened, DHARMA began to try to change history by going back to the past. Unfortunately, those who were sent back to the past and tried to change history failed.
DHARMA is eager to prove that this time machine is profitable, and intends to use The Others as an experiment, so they use a rather despicable method. First they released a virus on the island, which infected part of The Others, and then DHARMA claimed to have an instrument to treat this disease, and the actual instrument was a time machine. What DHARMA wants to prove is that if people who have been infected with the virus are sent back before the virus is released, will the virus on these people disappear? The Others, who was infected with the virus, had no idea about it, thinking that it would be cured just by raising the seedlings.
The person killed by the virus?
The final result is that The Others sent back to the past did heal and no longer suffer from the virus, but later it was all wiped out by the black smoke, and the black smoke is the product of the timeline correcting history. It was also the first time that DHARMA saw black smoke. Out of fear of black smoke, they had to stop the time machine research. The only result of this incident DHARMA was to anger all the residents of the island.
The others who survived from
1970 to 1985,
Ben's mother was recruited by DHARMA to study the time machine on this island. After several years of research, she finally gave up the research. Later, she also met Richard, the future leader of The Others. He told her all the horrific actions that Dharma had done to his people, which directly led to the deaths of many people. After learning the truth, Ben's mother began to hate what DHARMA had done and believed that scientific research could not be based on losing morality and harming innocent people.
Ben's mother
Ben's mother feels that instead of leaving the island angrily and wasting 15 years, it is better to use the time machine to go back to when she came to this island 15 years ago, and then leave immediately. In this case, in the outside world It seems that she has never been on this island. So she did. She used the time machine to go back 15 years ago to make up for the lost time of 15 years.
1970s
Ben's mother traveled back to 1970 for about 15 years, and returned to Oregon. She met someone she liked, married him, and became pregnant. However, in the future she has experienced on the island, she is actually childless, and she now lives off the island. Unfortunately, DHARMA had not discovered any connection between the dead child/mother and time travel. (Juliet used X-rays to see a 26-year-old woman who has a 70-year-old uterus. It seems that the side effect of time shuttle is that although your body can become younger in the past, your uterus will always be the same age. .)
Ben's father
when Ben Ben's mother to give birth, she dies, but before his death or the birth of Ben down. As for the reason for her death, it was because the timeline was correcting history, replacing his mother with Ben's survival. In other words, Ben is the incarnation of his mother, was born to inherit her will, become an unhappy DHARMA engineer, and eventually destroy the organization. Ben's mission is to figure out how to control fate and find a way to control the time machine without DHARMA. Not long after the death of Ben's mother in 1980 from the
Dharma organization , their good friend Horace recommended them to the island. Horace is a person associated with the DHARMA organization, and his task is to investigate Ben's mother. After he discovered the death of Ben's mother, he recommended Ben's father and Ben to the island. In fact, Ben's father is just a hard labor. Their real goal is not Ben's father, but Ben. They can monitor how Ben is affected by the timeline in this way and observe how Ben inherits his mother's fate. But at that time, Ben didn't know that his destiny was like this. He only knew how to live each day well and avoid being bullied by the bastard father. 1981
After living on the island for a while, Ben began to hear and see his dead mother on the island. The reason why he saw his dead mother is because he and his mother experienced the same future. His mother actually lived on this island and worked for the Dharma organization. She appeared in half-dead form because her soul was designed to help Ben understand her mission so that Ben could inherit her mother's will. Therefore, the appearance of the soul of Ben's mother is also a way for the timeline to correct history.
Ben's mother's soul
after seeing his dead mother in Ben shortly after he met in the jungle of Richard, Richard said to him:. "You are not ready to" Richard is a time shuttling people, and very Hate DHARMA. When Ben met Richard in the jungle for the first time, Richard had just crossed from 2005 to 1981, which is why he stayed with Ben without getting old. Why does Richard travel time to find Ben? He is here to help and train Ben. Richard knows that Ben's mother and Ben are in alternate time and space, so he also knows that Ben is the incarnation of his mother, and Ben is a spectacle on this island. Since then, Richard and Ben have spent several years researching how to finally take down DHARMA, so that they can study the time machine without killing people.
In 1988
Rousseau
Rousseau's team became an anti-DHARMA force. They did not have any contact with The Others at the time. They went to the small island to investigate Dharma's ugly business practices, mainly referring to the release of the virus to the locals on the island and then using it for experimentation. Unfortunately, at that time, Ben and The Others hadn't gotten DHARMA down. Rousseau didn't want DHARMA to use her child to do experiments. When the child was snatched by DHARMA, she set up on the island a cyclic signal to be broadcast outside the island for help. Although the signal had been broadcast for decades, all the signals were blocked and not sent to the outside of the island at all.
From 1981 to 2007,
Ben grew up from 10 to 37, during which time he had been working with Richard to develop the ultimate plan to destroy the entire DHARMA. At the same time, DHARMA is continuing to study the special abilities of other aspects of the island, to see if it can use the time machine to do other things. During the research, DHARMA found that an unusual magnetic force on the island passes through the SWAN, which covers the entire island. Unfortunately, DHARMA only did some basic research on this magnetic force, and they also figured out what can be done with this force. At the same time, both The Others and DHARMA are studying how time machines can be used to achieve incredible things.
Time travel is not clearly defined in the Lost play, but is just a concept in the play. When some strange things that cannot be explained in the play happen, the play explains that fate is like this on the surface, but in fact it is in the play. Correct history and ensure that what has happened will not be changed.
The following are what DHARMA and The Others have discovered from time travel:
1. People who enter the time machine can only go back to the era when the time machine was running.
2. When you go back to the past, you will not become younger. For example, if you are now 50 years old, you have entered the time machine and returned to 10 years ago. You will not regain your 40-year-old appearance. What you get is to live again for these 10 years. You will not grow old until you have passed these 10 years. It's 50 years old again when you enter the time machine.
3. When you go back to the past, you will still keep the hairstyle, tattoos and memories that you had when you entered the time machine. Suppose you are paralyzed when you enter the time machine, but fate will find a way to make you able to be yourself and spend this time in the past. Therefore, the time machine can temporarily cure any disease that you had before you entered the time machine. However, destiny will find a way to restore your normal timeline. Suppose you were paralyzed because you were pushed out of the window. After entering the time machine, you became better, but destiny will find a way to correct this when the time is up. Mistakes, such as making you paralyzed by a car.
4. When you go back to the past, you can only change some insignificant things that will not change your destiny. For example, you once went to church to worship on a certain day, and then you went back in time. You don't have to go to church on that day to keep the timeline correct. However, if you went to church that day because you changed your faith and began to believe in religion, then fate will find ways to make you believe in religion again, such as letting you have a near-death experience, or a mysterious person in a jewelry store persuading you to believe in religion, etc. , And even if necessary, fate will kill you if there is no way to make you believe in religion.
5. If you go back to the past and die, in fact you are not completely dead, because you are actually alive in the future, so you will become half-dead until destiny needs you. In other words, you only exist for some people, but others are not. You will appear when you need to change the destiny of some people.
6. If you have never had a child, you cannot go back to the past and have a child in the past. Fate does not allow new physical life to be produced in the past that has already happened. Otherwise, fate will kill the mother, or the child, or all together. Unless destiny decides to replace someone else in the timeline with this mother or child.
7. Basically, the operating rules of the time machine do not conform to any physical laws of time travel. Any rule is determined by fate on the timeline. So if you have something that must be achieved in the future, destiny will do everything possible to help you achieve it. We have seen ghosts and black smoke in Lost. According to this drama’s understanding of time travel, destiny has its own time to correct time. Fun way to wire.
2007
Driven by hatred, Ben, Richard and Jacob returned to 1996 and killed all the members of the DHARMA organization on the island. Then they discovered that some members of the DHARMA organization were not on the island (Penny's father), and The Others had to find a way to prevent other members from returning to the island and destroying them. Therefore, based on the purpose of hiding the island from being discovered and found by the outside world, Ben put the island into a time cycle. This time cycle will allow the island to stay in the past (1996) to enable other members of the DHARMA organization Can't come to this island. After realizing this time cycle, Ben and Richard gathered the remaining residents of the island together to form the organization "The Others" against DHARMA.
Ben once said to Richard: "Remember we once celebrated a birthday?"
In order to create this time loop, Ben and Richard secretly transferred the time machine from the ARROW workstation to the SWAN workstation. With the help of engineer Mikhail, they were able to transfer the time machine. Hidden deep in the deepest part of the SWAN workstation with cement. Then, Mikhail adjusted the time machine and the magnetic field surrounding the island, realizing the possibility of putting the entire island into the time machine. In a hurry, they completed a computer system that maintains a time loop. This computer system needs to be activated every 108 minutes, and each activation is equivalent to activating the time machine. Therefore, the real world time outside is still passing as usual, while the time on the island stayed in 1996 until the plane crash in 2004. The only way to enter the island’s time from real-world time is through the special coordinates that appeared in season 4. In season 3, Ben once said to Richard: "Remember we once celebrated a birthday?", so if The Others's time always cycled between 108 minutes, then there is no possibility for them to celebrate the birthday.
1996-1996 (8 years of stay on the island)
The time on the island stayed within 108 minutes. The Others and the island are equivalent to invisible in this world. The Others continues to study the time machine. The Others want to build a new world on this small island. They want this small island to stay in this time cycle forever. They believe that as long as time stays the same forever, the rules of fate will not work. However, there is a problem. As time stands still, all pregnant women and children on the island will be killed by fate. The Others needs to find a way to create life on the island. So they invited Juliet to the island to solve this problem, and at the same time they found an officer, Kelvin, to activate the time machine, and convinced him that he was saving the world, and everyone on the island would not get old.
Juliet,
because the small island does not exist in the real world, Ben and Richard must strictly control all personnel entering and leaving the island. In addition, you must pass through a special passage created by Black Rock hundreds of years ago to leave and enter the island. If you did not leave the island through that special coordinate, then you have entered the present world from the past world. You must find an unchanging constant that exists in both worlds to survive (Desmond finds Penny). Similarly, if you enter the island from outside the island without passing through special coordinates, your mind will stay between the current time and the past time on the island. If you want to survive, you must find that. constant.
Jacob also traveled through time like Ben and Richard, but we have not seen his entity. In the process of the three people traveling back to the past through time and looping through time, Jacob died for some reason, but in fact at this time on the island until 2007, they traveled in time and space before 1996, Jacob They are all alive, so Jacob is not completely dead, his soul is still alive, and he can communicate with Ben and Richard.
1996-2004 (original timeline)
Because the time on the island stays in 1996, the lives of all the main characters of Lost are revealed through memories. We learned about these characters through these life clips between 1996 and 2004. Once these characters are rescued from the island, they will experience the 8 years of life again, just like Jack's future we saw in the third season finale.
In 1996 (the time on the island, about 2001 in the current world)
Juliet was hired on the island to help solve the problem of pregnant women giving birth. Juliet is a sincere and good person, so she will do anything to save her sister. After arriving on the island, she did not notice that the time on the island would not change, and Ben also tried to keep her on the island. Richard and Ethan left the island through special coordinates and returned to about 5 years ago (that is, 1996) to complete the task of enlistment. Because Ben is from the future, he knew the exact time when Juliet's husband was hit and killed by a car, so he asked Richard and Ethan to contact Juliet a few days before the incident, because that would persuade Juliet to come to the island. The best time. In addition, Ben also knows that Juliet's sister's cancer will eventually be cured, which is why Ben can be so sure that he can cure her sister as long as she comes to the island.
1996 (time on the island, about 2001 in the present world)
Witmore
Libby
Witmore, Penny’s father, one of the main members of DHARMA, obtained Black Rock’s logbook at an auction, and thus obtained Special coordinates for safe entry and exit of the island. Witmore hired Libby’s husband as the first experiment to go to the island. He gave Libby’s husband a boat and the coordinates to reach the island. As a result, Libby’s husband died unexpectedly. Later Desmond got the ship and the coordinates, but it is not certain whether Witmore estimated that he wanted to get him away and gave it to him, or Desmond got it by chance.
In 2004 (the present world) the
plane crashed on the small island.
Oceanic 815 crashed on the small island. Because Desmond did not press the button and did not activate the machine that can balance the magnetic force on the island within 108 minutes, the result was a huge magnetic field that tore the Oceanic 815 into two halves, half of which was in the magnetic field, eight years ago in 1996. Half of it was outside the magnetic field in 2004. There are two huge questions here: whether it was fate that arranged the Oceanic 815 to crash on this small island to make Locke the person who continued to press the button, or did the DHARMA organization deliberately arranged this to happen when the plane approached the small island. Thing, because they know that the survivors of this plane will stop the time machine on the island? This is also the first question of Lost. Did the survivors of the crash be arranged on the island by fate, or was Dharma orchestrated to bring these people to the island? Or is there part of these two possibilities?
Rose's cancer may also be cured
Locke's leg was healed
after the crash, our survivors from 2004 to 1996, their bodies returned to the state in 1996, so Locke was healed because in 1996 he had not paralyzed , Rose’s cancer was also cured.
1996 (time on the island)
The first two seasons of Lost occurred during this period of time when time stopped. Locke found the underground workstation and stopped pressing the button, which was tantamount to stopping the time machine from continuing to work, so Desmond activated the safety device. As a result, the safety device destroyed the entire time machine. After that, the time on the island began to go on normally. It was no longer in the previously stopped state. In fact, the real function of the safety device was to reset the time to its initial value, which is 1996. The time on the island is about 8-9 years later than the current world. When Desmond used the key to activate the device, his entire life flashed before his eyes, and he was equivalent to living another 9 years. He saw Charlie's death, he saw him start life again after leaving the island, met Penny, and after a lot of incidents, he finally came to this island again, returned to 1996, and then restarted these 9 years. The cycle of the story.
Desmond turned the key, saving everyone’s lives, and at the same time it had a serious impact.
Desmond couldn’t escape his fate. The reason Desmond wanted to live again for these 9 years was because he was the one who turned the key, or he was in the time machine. His heart is so he has the ability to see his own life, which is why he can foresee Charlie's death. Who knows how many 9 years Desmond has lived again, and every time he lives, he can see how Charlie sent the signal off the island and how the survivors of the crash left the island.
In 2007 (the present world) the crashed debris of
Naomi
Oceanic 815 was found on the bottom of the original world. After the DHARMA organization and Naomi knew that the plane had disappeared in 2004, they sent Naomi back to 2004 with a time machine off the island. Naomi formed a team on the island to find Ben in 2004. Her team’s mission also included taking the crash. The survivors of the plane were transferred to a boat on the sea so that they could be found in 2007.
1996 (time on the island)
After the survivors destroyed the equipment that shielded the signal on the island, and Desmond successfully helped Charlie complete the mission to send the signal off the island, Jack could use Naomi's equipment to talk to the cargo ship. Her device is a special device specially made by Dharma. This device allows Naomi to talk to Dharma in the future. Even Sayid noticed how advanced this device is because it is used to talk to different times.
Daniel asked his team to activate a load test device on the cargo ship, which was used to test the special coordinates that allowed free access to the island. If the device deviates far from the special coordinates, it may take eight years for his signal to be received by Daniel on the island. In fact, the signal from this device was received by Daniel in only 31 minutes, indicating that they were very close to that special coordinate. Regarding the motivation of the Naomi team, they are working for the DHARMA organization. They are very unhappy. They came to arrest Ben because they want to know how the DHARMA organization on the island disappeared.
In 1996 (Desmond's timeline)
Sayid and Desmond successfully left the island. They crossed the time barrier between the island and the current world. In other words, they actually came from 1996 to 2004. Only Desmond was affected by the changes in time, as he had been exposed to high-intensity radiation in the SWAN workstation for 3-4 years. When Desmond traveled through time and space, he returned to the original 1996 timeline, and Daniel knew very well what happened to Desmond, so he used his phone device to talk to Desmond in 2004 and asked him to find one. Unchanging constants can finally save themselves. When Desmond met with Daniel in 1996, Desmond became a constant constant for Daniel to travel through time and space. This is why when Daniel revisited his log on the island and found something new, the content was "Desmond is His constant". Daniel did not change history by calling Desmond in 1996 to find him, he was just figuring out how he left the island and returned to 2004.
Unfortunately, Daniel, Naomi and other team members were selected by the DHARMA organization as experimental subjects. We can also see from their memories that they may know a lot about DHARMA, and they can be Sacrificed.
As for the person on the cargo ship with the same symptoms as Desmond, he tried to come to the island, but did not go through special coordinates. As a result, he came to 1996 from 2004, and he did not have a constant constant to make his mind. Traversed in two timelines, and finally he died. Therefore, the only way to reach the island is through special coordinates, so that humans can cross the two timelines normally.
After
some equipment on the island was destroyed in 1996 (time on the island ) , the six survivors were finally able to leave the island. They were Jack, Kate, Hurley, Jin, Sun and Sayid (this list may eventually have Variety). The DHARMA organization left the island with these 6 people and returned to the real world in 2005 in the current world, while the remaining people continued to stay on the island in 1996. However, neither DHARMA nor Ben told these six people that they actually lived on the island in 1996. These 6 survivors returned to the present world in 2005, not 2007 when the wreckage of the plane was found, so in fact, 6 survivors appeared before the wreckage of the plane was found.
In 2005
in addition to six survivors, Ben left the island, do not forget Ben is from the 2007 space shuttle back to 1996. After Ben left the island, he used Sayid to help him ensure that things were going according to his plan by 200. We don't know why Sayid wants to help Ben kill people, but it seems that Sayid wants to kill these 7 years in a specific order to ensure the normal progress of the new timeline. The people he killed should all be members of the DHARMA organization. And when Ben kills them all, he will destroy the DHARMA organization again and take away their time machine, so that he can travel through time and space again to 1996, return to the island again, and restart the time cycle system.
In 2008,
Jack lived on the new timeline for another 3-4 years after leaving the island in 2008. He knew that the people on the island had been living in 1996 (now around 1999), so he decided to do anything to test. Own destiny. He decided to jump off a bridge, just to see if fate would save him, or if fate wanted him to return to the island. Later he read in the newspaper that Ben was dead, maybe this is a very good opportunity to return to the island, assuming that Ben never wanted Jack to return to the island. It’s worth noting that when Jack and other survivors lived on the island, they didn’t know that they had traveled through time and lived in the past, but they were still alive to test their fate. In fact, they should have been in the Oceanic 815 crash a few years ago. Die in.
The show may end with whether the survivors can overcome the impossible obstacles to control their own destiny according to their own wishes. What is this obstacle? Only time will tell.
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