Interesting Primer on Time Travel

[thelawgiver]

This link explains the scientific theories on time travel. It's long, but well stated. Lot's of parrallels to what we are seeing on LOST.

http://www.lifesci.sussex.ac.uk/home/John_Gribbin/timetrav.htm

[bunnydixon]

i had to give up halfway - am too tired to take in all that information!

[thelawgiver]

I thought this was interesting and may explain things at the Hatch:

[It] consists of two chambers, each containing two parallel metal plates. The intense electric fields created between each pair of plates (larger than anything possible with today's technology) rips the fabric of space-time, creating a hole in space that links the two chambers.

Taking advantage of Einstein's special theory of relativity, which says that time runs slow for a moving object, one of the chambers is then taken on a long, fast journey and brought back: Time would pass at different rates at the two ends of the wormhole, [and] anyone falling into one end of the wormhole would be instantly hurled into the past or the future [as they emerge from the other end].

[Dzbabykel]

Oh I liked that Patchy thanks :)

[bunnydixon]

as in the crash?

[thelawgiver]

Partially. I think Dharma was using the intense electromagnetic power as the source for testing time travel. The button needed to be pressed as a control of the pent up power. When Desmond failed to press the button the first time, the magnetic power was so intense that it broke up 815 over the island.