Lost University Clue?

rachelskid · #1 01-19-2010, 03:35 PM

so semester two started. not much going on in semester two. the class with Jeremy Davies was just a really short interview. weird.

but, in advanced physics of time travel there is one thing that could be a clue here.

it says that of course there is WHH and multiverse theory. those are the only two described. but, it says that once you go to another branch in the multiverse you can never go back to the one you originally came from.

see here, 2 pages of notes from class as written by those who created lost u. : http://lostuniversity.org/lostu/down...ass2_notes.pdf

so, does that really IN ANY WAY comport with our story? is it really possible that they will be in a new universe and never come back to the old one? really? i still have faith but this sounds scary.

LissaMarie · #2 01-19-2010, 03:40 PM

I don't like it at all, Rach! Thanks for updating us on the LU stuff. It's interesting but extremely scary. I don't like anything about it at all.

ortrules · #3 01-19-2010, 03:43 PM

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Once you travel to an alternate branch or universe, you cannot go back to the original one from which you came.

False. We could argue that Desmond has already done this very thing in the episode "Flashes Before Your Eyes".

LissaMarie · #4 01-19-2010, 03:45 PM

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Originally Posted by ortrules

False. We could argue that Desmond has already done this very thing in the episode "Flashes Before Your Eyes".

False! We could argue that Dezzie was just traveling back in time in the current timeline, not an alt universe, right?

ortrules · #5 01-19-2010, 03:51 PM

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Originally Posted by LissaMarie

False! We could argue that Dezzie was just traveling back in time in the current timeline, not an alt universe, right?

I don't think so. But I do think this may be what makes Desmond "special". He is the only person who can return.

LissaMarie · #6 01-19-2010, 03:56 PM

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Originally Posted by ortrules

I don't think so. But I do think this may be what makes Desmond "special". He is the only person who can return.

You might be right about that. Desmond being special certainly allows for things to change in my estimation but I can't wait to find out what "rules" don't apply to him. Quantum Mechanics?!

Why would the past that Dezzie traveled to have to be an alt universe though? I'm not following.

ortrules · #7 01-19-2010, 04:08 PM

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Originally Posted by LissaMarie

Why would the past that Dezzie traveled to have to be an alt universe though? I'm not following.

Because I doubt Desmond in 1996 had a conversation with Mrs. Hawking about the island, yet Desmond from 2004 did. According to the notes from Lost University, you can't change the past, so Desmond wouldn't have been able to do that. It would suggest that he actually traveled to a alt. universe, albeit a very similar alt. universe to the original, where he did talk to Mrs. Hawking in 1996.

losttime · #8 01-19-2010, 04:17 PM

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Quantum Mechanics allows you to imagine that if you want to go back in time and
experience a different past than what you know,

Sorry but how does this apply to the Losties?

They arent going back in time to something they previously had known.

This is their present.

they didnt physically go back in time to 1977 where they are 30 yrs younger or to a past they already knew.

I think this is a huge issue I am having with this train of thought with this debate.

The Island is new to them in 1977 times and they havent been there before from what I am seeing.

I am seeing it as this is the only 1977 the island has been to and the only way it occured is how we saw it.

What else would explain, Alpert visiting Locke in 1956 or everything else we saw during the time-skips.

Darlton already said that the time-skips were not randon skips but were intentional for the Losties within the realm of the story.

So the statement made by the QP may very well be true but I do not think it pertains to the Losties.

Also from what I am reading is that the person going back in time really goes back in time not only on the time line but to the actual age they were in that time line.

The whole statement is about experiencing a different past.

Seems that they would physically have to be younger to that same age and then live out their lives that allows them to have a whole new past that will be made by it.

Unbridled Pageantry · #9 01-19-2010, 04:12 PM

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Originally Posted by LissaMarie

False! We could argue that Dezzie was just traveling back in time in the current timeline, not an alt universe, right?

That's how I always took it.
Desmond had the option of creating a new branch by asking Penny to marry him, but went along with what he had already done.
If he had asked Penny to marry him and not gone on the boat race then that would have created an alt timeline.

LissaMarie · #10 01-19-2010, 04:17 PM

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Originally Posted by Unbridled Pageantry

That's how I always took it.
Desmond had the option of creating a new branch by asking Penny to marry him, but went along with what he had already done.
If he had asked Penny to marry him and not gone on the boat race then that would have created an alt timeline.

Hmmmm, that's a cool thought too, UP. So maybe Des is one of the only people who can change the course of time and create alt. universes?