What's Hot: First New Image of Season 6
What's Hot: First New Image of Season 6
If Dan's Journal didn't give you enough information to break your mind, maybe his chalkboard is up to the task. The creator's of LOST went full force into Time Travel with "The Constant". A time traveling rodent named Eloise gave us a glimpse into what might be happening with Desmond. Maybe. Right? But, what about Minkowski? Did he travel through time? I'm not sure, but if you want to be even more confused, I have some images of Dan's chalkboard uploaded. Just click the Continue Reading link to complete your mind's destruction. Or... maybe it's not really all that complicated. Take a look and find out!
An interesting note on Dan's Chalkboard says, "Kerr might work! Can it pass Hawking's chronology protection conjecture?" Of course, as we all know, this is referring to Steven Hawking's Chronology Protection Conjecture. Which, basically says time travel is impossible, unless you are really tiny. So, it looks like Daniel has found a way around this problem. Interesting. The solution? A Flux Capacitor. Who knew!? The board also contains a Minkoswki diagram, as we saw in the journal.
Another note mentions the time cone theory. We all understand what that is, so let's move right along. Under that, it says "combining trinity" and under that "to infinity". I'm not sure if that is part of the surrounding formulas, or... something else.
Another note on the chalkboard(s) seems to read: "Relative Quantum Mechanis. Temporal Sloshing. Temporal Double-Well". Yup.
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Shiny.
Sometimes with big equitions words are substituted for numbers.
Didn't come out again
open arrow bracket t6Ho close arrow bracket
looks like
(sorry it didn't come out on comment below).
Oh yeah, Well spotted grogahn, looks like ?????
...and the word 'there' is lower case on top pic and capital in 2nd pic. Plus what he wrote was: symbol 't'or'h', 'l', then t7-L or < lol ?
Doesn't mean jack to me!
Did anyone notice the characters between the two graphs disappeared between the middle and bottom pictures and the word there is rewritten?
Steve, staggerlee is right. Daniel noticed the light wasn't quite right, and Hugo listened to old timey music on the radio..
This whole thing about time travel has me asking questions as to why, if, Faraday completed the machine to control time travel in lab rats back in 1996, why in 2004 is he on a research boat as a lab rat himself?
If he had found out how the thing works would Widmore or Hanso get heir grubby hands on him and have Farady work for them BEFORE 2004?
Could he really keep it hidden for that long? And if he did succeed did he continue to improve the machine or did he give it up to hide in Essex MA?
will there be a Faraday Cage?
The Bermuda Triangle is just on of the Earth's vile vortices. Another is in the south Pacific near Papua New Guinea...
For every entrance, there is an exit...
remember daniel? the light looks "scattered"?
I don't think the bermuda triangle, although it may get compared to one. I think this place is a lot like a prism. Light bends in a prism. Here, it's time that is bending. No sure why light or radio is not affected, though. It seems pretty specific only to time...
I still go back to my original thought from season one - this is going to involve the Bermuda Triangle. Just wait and see ...
I love this stuff. :)
The only thing that worries me are all those simple lost fans that have been annoyed with no answers... This will just push them over the edge.
lol.
Seems like everything is following the basic laws of time-travel.... at least from whatever i've seen in other movies/show.
if not a major time distortion... which is possible with lots of magnitism.
oh no... drifting to an event horizon effect.
I love how Desmond-centered episodes always deliver in big big big ways. I wonder why he is such a big focus.
did any one watch Eli? the good doctor with the needle was the researcher on Eli Stone...( Eckley (sp?) from CSI.....
oooooooooh a connection....
now it they bring in the head Wiggle, I am OUT OF HERE!!!!
definatly the best episode of the season. confusing but good! Kinda reminded me of Eli Stone (which I think is also made by the same people)
I could comment in this, but, I really have no idea what I would say. Ooh, how about, I like shiny things!! Yeah, Shiny things are awesome, and Shiny.
yep, the ubiquitous artful nod to the fleet of mind yet not fleet of foot smarty pants guy....
Wasn't Hawking's the name of the older lady in the future in the episode with Desmond after the hatch blew up?
The Question
(Submitted November 30, 2004)
Can you explain the Kerr Black Hole in detail please? Also, how can it cause time travel?
The Answer
Thanks for your question. Kerr black holes were postulated by the theorist, Roy Kerr in the 1960s. He postulated that a rotating star could collapse into a black hole with a rotating ring of neutrons at its center rather than the usual singularity. Kerr believed that since there wasn't a singularity at the center, one might be able to travel through the black hole without being crushed by the singularity. Another theoretically possible scenario is that a person could enter the Kerr black hole and exit through a white hole on the other side (a white hole would actually push everything away from it using some form of exotic matter with negative energy), and, in this way, one could travel through spacetime.
While white holes may be theoretically possible, there is absolutely no evidence to support their existence. Many theorists do not believe there is any way to pass through a black hole and that even if it were possible, one would be torn apart by the enormous tidal forces well before reaching the singularity. You can read more about Kerr black holes at the following website:
http://www.astronomical.org/astbook/blkhole.html
Hope this helps,
Georgia & Dirk
For "Ask an Astrophysicist"
I like the phrase Hawking uses: "Chronology Protection Agency "...is this what Dharma / Hanso see themselves as?
really tiny? as maybe one's "self" without the body, ones essence, are those tiny electrical impulses that make up the self maybe small enough?