LOST S4.5 'The Constant'

Faraday's 'Side Effects" on Desmond

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In Lost's season four, episode five, 'The Constant', Frank the helicopter pilot says, " ... they have been flying for over a day ... "

There is no unifying grand theory of everything than joins gravity with electromagnetic forces into one formula. The LOST television series can only give glimpses of counter intuitive concepts. Light has dual properties of a particle and a wave and needs to be thought of as a particle/wave as a step towards being 'island savvy'.

The best visualization of Minkowski spacetime is the video called, 'Visualization of Einstein's special relativity' from udiprod. The spacetime shearing can be imagined as the Coriolis Effect on spactime.

For a quick and easy overview of ideas, read "The Little Book of Scientific Principle, Theories, & Things" by Surendra Verma. The six by seven inch paperback has one page per idea such as "Zeno's Paradox" that is based on 'motion as an illusion', (instead of time.) The answer to "why does the universe look dark?", is Olber's Paradox and is resolved with an expanding universe.

Why is it that people and vehicles can enter the lost island's time zone but appears it is harder to leave? In episode 'Live Together, Die Alone', Desmond bewailed, "We live in a bloody snow globe." and Ben told Michael to take a bearing of 325 to leave the island. In episode 'Eggtown', Miles wants 3.2 million from Ben, an obvious tell that Miles is Ben's spy from the freighter. Refer to image links at end of this article for visualizations of the island's spacetime.

In 1905, Albert Einstein wrote 'On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies,' on the "very nature of human observation of physical facts." [1] There are two things that change spacetime.

The speed of the observer, such as Langevin's twin paradox, when one twin travels at nearly the speed of light, comes back to earth after three years only to find her twin on earth has aged seventeen years.

The other cause of spacetime dilation is gravity. In the tiny tome entitled, "How To Build a Time Machine', If an observer was able to stand on a collapsed star that had shrunk down into a tiny size by it's own gravity and then looked at Earth, you would see, "events speeded up like a fast -forward video show." [2]

In a difficult book full of hard math formulas called, 'Complex Relativity, Unifying All Four Physical interactions', there is one easy to understand presumption, the one doing the observing, "chooses himself as the center of coordinates ...[but] cannot decide that he represents time zero." [3]

Alternate universes and times upon leaving the island would make it difficult to 'go home' to the same exact place & time, concepts and paradoxes explored in numerous sci-fi productions is a timeless theme.

A written explanation for wikipedia describing a closed time like curve (CTC) is hard to imagine unless some sort of visualization is invoked. The following links are miscellaneous images to help imagine where or when this lost island is.

CauchyRiemann,
Casimir Sphere
Godel lambda dust
Cauchy horizon
LOST island spacetime?

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