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My ‘Lost’ Duplicates Theory Lives!

Lost Theories — July 30, 2007 at 7:31 pm by TabulaRasa

It’s okay folks, I will definitely accept the apologies from all of you who said my duplicate theory was nuts - without too much of an ‘I told you so sneer.’  Of course, the joke could be on me, you never know, but I take the Orchid Orientation film as canon.  Hey, after all, Carlton and Damon said so.  So what does this imply?  For a round of speculation, that may be mildly spoilerish, click on through.


Here’s the first idea.  The bunnies can’t touch each other.  Anybody who ever watched Back to the Future knows why that is.  Second, Casimir effect, which we already established will stabilize a wormhole.  But, why is that significant?  Without getting too deep, lets just say this dovetails with my duplicate theory that brought me so much ridicule.  A wormhole can be a nice place to hide from changes in time and space.

So once more, with feeling, here is my theory of what has gone on so far, and what season four might be presenting us with, based on the new clues of the Orchid outtakes:

The Speculation

Shortly after Ben’s takeover of Dharma, the Others shield the island by bending time space.  Kelvin and Radzinsky are aware of what has happened.  Realizing they are stranded, and not willing to fill the Others in on the instability of the Swan hatch for fear the lunatics will use it, Radzinsky succumbs to the no-win situation and kills himself.  (Remember, the producers have admitted that the Others did not know what was going on with the Swan hatch.)  Years pass, Kelvin dutifully continues to press the button, but sleep deprivation, alcoholism, and general poor health take its toll and he dies.

Without anyone to push the button, the Swan melts down.  It turns out the swan is controlling a work hole with an infinite field effect.  Without discharging excess energy, the field continues to grow, creating a localized time loop.  Read Amos Ori for a little more detail on how/why this is possible.

For whatever reason, if the time loop continues it will result in the collapse of the universe.  Particularly if the meltdown happens again.  Enter, the time cops. Aka, Brother Campbell and Mrs. Hawking.

We can assume Brother C and Mrs. Hawking are some sort of multidimensional being (aren’t we all?  Read “The Holographic Universe”) with the ability to see the cataclysms  that await.  With their ability to see time as a whole, they seek out someone whose time line they can nudge in such a way that this person will wind up on the island before Kelvin dies and by fate (or by “making their own luck”) deliver on the island a supply of people who can, in theory, continue to push the button until they are able to figure out a more permanent solution.  Enter Desmond and his first encounter with this time cops, Brother Campbell.

Avoid the meltdown, alter the time line, destroy the loop.

The problem is, this not only did not happen, but the results of John Locke losing faith caused Desmond to initiate the failsafe, which is itself a controlled meltdown creating yet another loop.   His second time through life, Desmond is confronted by Mrs. Hawking, who again nudges him off his timeline and towards the island yet again.   He is only aware that he is repeating his life up to the point where events in his history differ.

Evidence?  Is there an explanation for why Desmond felt he did something wrong when he first came to after his flash experience?  Was his woe over missing the opportunity to remain with Penny, or for turning the key and failing to save the universe?

So, in simple terms, here is where I’m at so far.  In the original timeline, Oceanic 815 crashes in the ocean, Kelvin dies, Swan melts down, wash, rinse, repeat.

Brother C and Mrs. M look at time and say, hmm, if we nudge this guy’s time line like so, he winds up in the hatch, and instead of these people dying in vain, they wind up on the island as much needed backup.

The consequences come into play when the execution of the failsafe creates another cycle.  The island being a privileged frame, you know have a mixture of two worlds.  Because in the third loop, Desmond is on the island pushing the button so 815 crashes.  We have dealt with Desmond’s visions of the future as a result of him traveling through the loop, and we have dealt slightly with his memory of a changed past, but not what impact that had on the grand scale.  The plane crash, which was originally fatal, was going to happen either way because of course correction.

With this theory, what we have been watching, since season one, is the second iteration of the time loop.  We might have seen some parts of the original linear events in the on-island flashbacks.   Further more, since the finale, we are seeing in linear island time, but without their knowledge, the world outside the privileged field has gone through a third cycle and Oceanic 815 has again crashed in the ocean.

Judging by the level of Hollowax’s panic over the rabbits touching each other, I’m guessing Dharma’s fear of the Oceanic 815 survivors exiting the privileged field and bumping about would be pretty large.  Murderously large.

The question is, was the Swan the only way of manipulating the field.  Is there a natural force on the island?   Could this explain why Richard ‘apparently’ had not aged?  It is very possible that even though Ben and company were not aware of the Swan’s capabilities to control the field, that they were aware of what was going on outside the island and their mission to ‘The Temple’ was an attempt to correct it.  New allegiances? Doubles?  Hit squads?  Ancient races?  Can you feel the possibilities?

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