Thanks to Matt the Online Editor for Popular Mechanics who has just sent me this email with some links to some excellent articles. Hope you enjoy them.
MythBuster: Lost Finale's Bombs Were Crap, but I Get Big Picture
In an instant expert analysis for PM's Digital Hollywood, Lost geek Adam Savage traces the chemistry of those 500 pounds of C4, and explains why the space-time continuum from last night's Season Four finale changed his theories on the future of our favorite sci-fi show.
http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/research/4266333.html?series=6
Physicist: Einstein Would Approve of Moving the Island on Lost
How did Ben make the island "disappear" in last night's season finale? It's all relativity, argues a top professor who even uses Lost in his classes. Wormholes, 305-degree bearings, the Casimir effect—it all checks out with quantum mechanics, and could explain a lot for next season.
http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/research/4266329.html?series=6
Time-Travel Expert: Lost Finale Opens New Trap Door in Space
After last night's mind-bending episode, it's a question only this heady physicist could answer: How do you move an island, then show up halfway across the world? Let's just say the Looking Glass has nothin' on Ben.
http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/research/4266335.html?series=6
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Lost Finale: MythBuster, Physicist, Time-Travel Guru Break Down Science
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First! woot!
That Adam Savage one is really good...and makes me speculate about the Locke/Bentham shift...perhaps Locke becomes more of an overload after the island moves. Maybe he isn't really dead...maybe his head/psyche is preserved in there.
The entire C4 storyline almost ruined the entire episode, it was that stupid.
But other than that, nice to see some responses from top-notch guys.
I can't get over the fact that Adam held onto the "purgatory" theory for as long as he did! Otherwise, nice commentary, and other than the C-4 stupidity it's good to know the writers of Lost aren't completely talking out their asses...
I freakin' love the fact that one of my heroes from my second favourite TV show is so enthusiastic about my primary favourite.
I'd love to hear Jamie's theory :) Maybe they'll do a Lost special one of these days!
I loved the Physicist' explanation of how Ben moved the island. It was more along the lines of what I (and probably a lot of others) thought. The island itself didn't move but the path to the island has changed. The bearings they had don't mean squat anymore.
It's great that Adam is such a big fan of the show, but the purgatory statement was a bit ...sigh. Even with limited knowledge of how C4 works, they overdid that scene with all the 'failsafes' attached to that damned rig. The wormhole/Orchid was awesome, but I'm also worried that as the show goes on we might not get a satisfying explanation as to what the donkey wheel is, why someone cant return, and what the monster is. I mean.. did the Tunisian Polar Bear have to move the island in the not too distant past?! ...
Why didn't they do CPR on Keamy's dead body? Not to bring him back, but to keep the heart monitor happy. Jeez. Or just put it on one of their own arms!
Sharon Rose said... Why didn't they do CPR on Keamy's dead body? Not to bring him back, but to keep the heart monitor happy. Jeez. Or just put it on one of their own arms! Friday, May 30, 2008 10:39:00 PM
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CPR ain't gonna keep their heart beating. :)
I am not a fan of time travel but the scientists' articles made me a lot more comfortable with it use in LOST. There seems to be some plausibility, at least. A station built around a meteorite? Okay. I can deal with that.
@sharon rose
Thats exactly what I thought: Why didn´t Locke put the damn monitor somewhere on his own pulse. A little jump/blank in the heartbeat is normal and shouldn´d cause the thing to trigger.
locke became ben, after ben moved the island, then locke became cristian shepard by diying, i think cristian became jacob when they crash in the island
Everyone should check this out:
http://timelooptheory.com/the_timeline.html
This theory was created long before time travel was introduced on the show. It's hands down the best Lost theory I've ever read. EVER And after the season finale and the donkey wheel it seems to be on the right path.
I'm glad to see some science to back up what we've been seeing. The producers/writers have to have consultants to keep it close to believable. At the end of the day though, Lost is a television show that is meant to entertain, which they manage to do better than anybody else in my opinion.
Now I want to see a physisist explain what the hell Smokey is.
Great reads! Thanks! :D
Hi Kristin.
Claire I hope comes back even though I believe she's dead, but, I hope you don't come back. You ruin the show for so many people. I watched the finale a couple of times now and I found it so different from what you have been hyping about.
First, my reading:
Jack is the star of the show and we'll all see that at the end he will also be the hero of the show. I think the writers/producers have screwed up Kate's character and I now know the writers no matter what they say, they still have no clue where they are going with the show.
Have you watched the Philadelphia Experiment? I think this is what happened to the island for a little while. Not moved... Jack is correct.
I didn't see any "spectacular kiss”... com on Kirstin don't insult our intelligence.
I guess Kate also doesn't know that Aaron is Jack's nephew and that Jack is a blood relative and not Kate.
A favor for Sawyer? How can it be about Cassidy and her daughter. In one of last years of Kate’s flashbacks where Cassidy helps her talk to her mom, I don't know, but, where we watching the same show or you were tuned in something else?
Important: Jack: "Kate won't talk to me"
Ben: "I'll take care of that"
The dead people are dead and when we see them it's only hallucinations. Remember Hurley in season 2, claiming he was seeing Dave even in the hospital until the doctor took a picture and proved him wrong?
My favorite character is Juliette and I feel so bad why the producers have pushed her a little to the back? Too bad for Lost.
Having said all this, Lost isn't as complicated as most of you make it sound. Everything Jack has said is mostly correct and we will see this at the end. No miracle actually has taken place yet.
Kate's character is bad as the writers have made her, Juliette actually is good. Jack unfortunately is in love with the wrong person.
In order for Locke also to be dead on the mainland, he probably did something very bad on the island or “The Others" realized how phony he is....
The answer I would like to know is why Richard hasn't aged....But Kristin, cut your crap, please?
y'all understand that tv shows aren't allowed to depict accurate methods of bomb-making, rigging, etc., right? it's always fake and major steps are always left out. tv scripts are reviewed and approved by specialized research companies to ensure that audience members can't make explosives based on what they see on tv. even so, at least once when macguyver was on the air, two boys managed to follow his steps in a bomb-making scene and injure themselves in an explosion.
Thanks alot for those articles! I've been a little sceptic against this time travel thing but after reading these I feel alot better with the idea.
This is the best Lost theory Ive read and what makes it so good is that science can back it up. If Lost follows this theory I would have to say I would be happy. For a while there I thought the Darlton would just chalk it up to it just being "magical" island.
8 months and counting.
Does anyone know when in 2009 Lost will return?
I agree that the whole C4 thing almost spolit the finale but i think it was there for a reason and a scientific 1 at that. As some people have already mentioned in various places the freezing of the battery and the freezing cold enviroment below the orchid was no coincidence.
It was a subtle explination to the science behind the moving of the island :)