I hope I can explain this so many can understand. Now that we have so many peices to the puzzle I have been able to put some things together. This is all based on real scientific theory.
The negative exotic matter is a scientific concept in physics. It is an idea that says any negative matter will repel gravity rather than being attracted by it. It is speculated that it could hold open a wormhole. So, this exotic matter in the ice caves has this power. So, it can hold open a wormhole. Great! Now, this is not just any wormhole. It is a Closed Timelike Curve wormhole. What this means is that the wormhole is like a closed loop of time. In this 4th dimension of spacetime, the CTC, you are in there in all times. So, you are in the past, present and future at the same time. Confused yet? I hope not. This explains many occurances on the island such as the time differences including the 30+ seconds and the two days, to the whispers, to Jacob. Yes, Jacob! I really am not sure if it was just a nod and a wink by the writers of the show but the first person to discover that a Closed Timelike Curve could exist was named Willem JACOB von Stockum. He was a Dutch pysicist. He actually worked with Einstein. He was also a pilot during WWII. And, oddly enough, he died in a plane crash when he was in his early 30's. Freaky, right? One more thing, his wifes name? Well, it was EMILY!
Okay, back to the science of it all. This exotic matter is also a black body. A black body is a theoretical object that is both a perfect absorber and a perfect radiator of electromagnetic radiation. A blackbody absorbs all the radiation that falls on it, converts it into internal energy (heat), and then re-radiates this energy into the surroundings. The re-radiated thermal energy, known as blackbody radiation, has a continuous spectrum governed solely by the body’s temperature. When the black body is COLD it doesn't emit any electromagnetic radiation. When it is hot, it emits enormous amounts of electromagnetic radiation in something called an ULTRAVIOLET CATASTROPHE. This sounds exactly like the Purple Sky Event that occured when the numbers were not input into the computer and when the wheel was turned in the ice caves. You know, the very cold cave where the exotic matter was kept. Cold cave...no problem. Expose to heat...big problem! So, possibly, by entering the numbers into the computer it may have been like operating a big thermostat. It took 108 minutes for the ice caves to get warm. During the 108 minutes the electromagetic radiation began to build. Each time the numbers were entered it released these smaller amounts of electromagnetic radiation and kept the caves cold. Great, enter the numbers and there's no problem. When the numbers were not entered the exotic matter (black body) got hot! Boom! When this happened it also opened the door to the Closed Timelike Curve. Maybe at that point, the whole island began to experience time changes.
When Ben turned the wheel, he also exposed the exotic matter (black body) to heat. But, I think by using the wheel it was a more controlled way of doing it. Even though, like he said, it was dangerous and you never quite knew what would happen. So, he ended up in Tunisia several months ahead.
I am going to make a real big leap here and guess that the exotic matter came from an extraterrestrial vehicle. I would guess that it powered it. Now, as for the smoke monster. Well, after a little background research on a few things I found that there is an alarm system, a very sophisticated alarm system, called a sonar Cerberus Moniter. If you think back to the blast door map, it showed several areas marked Cerberus Vents. One of the was marked the nexus of cerberus activity. I think that the smoke monster is a form of an organic nanocomputer alarm system from the "vehicle." Okay, I know I am really going out on a limb here. It kind of makes sense though. I think that there is something to when the exotic matter arrived on the island and the Black Rock that will connect them. On the blast door map the nexus of Cerberus activity, the final resting place of Alvar Hanso and the Black Rock, and the experiments on polar bears were in the same general area. Right, the polar bears. I think they were an experiment in not just spacetime travel using the exotic matter but also in how to make the environmental changes needed. The one that ended up in Tunisia? Well, an experiment gone astray I'd guess. Maybe due to the metal tag on the DI collar it was wearing. Afterall, never put metal in the pod!!!
Thought I would throw my thoughts out there since now they seemed to come together and make sense. I hope it makes sense to you too!
Great post NotSoLost. It makes so much sense that it's hard to imagine this not being very close to the answer.The only thing that seems a bit of a leap is the UFO tie-in. I tend to lean toward the Atlantis theory. Not that the Island is Atlantis but that the technology is Atlantean. (To borrow a phrase from another poster.)
Great theory. The smoke monster part is something Ive thought for awhile now.
Ive been thinking about how complex some of the answers to the islands mysterys can be. At first I thought the writers would come up with a simple solution that EVERYONE, not just science nerds like us, could understand. Now im starting to think I was wrong. I think there is a way that the answers can be complex and and still mysterious, so everyone can get something out of the series.
Your theory is very complex and Im sure that there will be a million people that wont understand a word of it. But on the tv screen I think the writers could pull it off. It reminds me of Star Wars. Many people can understand the fact the the force is actually microscopian organisms that talk to you (midi-cholrians) that are much like your conscience. Others just say, eh its just the force.
Great post NotSoLost. It makes so much sense that it's hard to imagine this not being very close to the answer.The only thing that seems a bit of a leap is the UFO tie-in. I tend to lean toward the Atlantis theory. Not that the Island is Atlantis but that the technology is Atlantean. (To borrow a phrase from another poster.)
Thanks Boutte. The only reason I said a space ship was because things that I read about exotic matter pointed to something like that to power one. It was the fact that it could repel gravity I think. I think a UFO would be a complete cop-out myself. I would be disappointed if it turned out to be that. Unfortunately, that was what made sense out of it all!
The more I think about this, with sci-fi in mind, the more I am coming to believe that Jacob is actually the artificial intelligence (computer) from the space craft! If the exotic matter can be what powered the vehicle and the smoke monster can be the security, I think that this would be plausible, too. Now, that would make it kinda interesting. That's why Jacob knows all, sees all. He's no God, he's a computer.
Maybe I just have Dr. Who on the brain from last Friday! But then again, maybe not so much!!!!
This is a really great writeup of a seminar about Jacob Bekenstein and Stephen Hawking and their disagreemants and the laws of thermodynamics.
I just finished reading that! Thanks for the link. It was really very interesting. By the way, did you notice the date it was published? Funny! Just a few weeks after the plane crash on the island! Laughed at that coincidence!
The more I think about this, with sci-fi in mind, the more I am coming to believe that Jacob is actually the artificial intelligence (computer) from the space craft! If the exotic matter can be what powered the vehicle and the smoke monster can be the security, I think that this would be plausible, too. Now, that would make it kinda interesting. That's why Jacob knows all, sees all. He's no God, he's a computer.
Maybe I just have Dr. Who on the brain from last Friday! But then again, maybe not so much!!!!
***"We’re still trying to be ... firmly ensconced in the world of science fact. I don’t think we’ve shown anything on the show yet... that has no rational explanation in the real world that we all function within. We certainly hint at psychic phenomena, happenstance and ... things being in a place where they probably shouldn’t be. But nothing is flat-out impossible. There are no spaceships. There isn’t any time travel." - Damon Lindelof
Of course he is! Why would the writers and producers, etc. tell the truth when they can continue all of the hype with the Lost fans? What pays his bills is the advertisers on the show. Without a show following, there are no advertisers. The show had lost a serious part of its fan base after so many questions and no answers a while back. He has to create a lot of interest, speculation, etc. to get people going. I don't really believe a word he says!
Besides - hasn't he now admitted to time travel? I thought he did say something about it.
The Exotic Matter, Time and Purple Sky Event,
I'm going to miss the island.
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