LOST on Earth's Mirror Matter Moon
or, Adventures in Wonderland Via Theoretical Physics — Not in Portland (name of an episode) In Starboardland
This theory proposes that the island is on a tiny moon of mirror matter.
The island is literally all there is except for the surrounding ocean.
-Given Desmond's report of always returning to the island, it's likely that only the islands we've seen exist on the moon. The rest is covered in water. Juliet: "So they have a boat — sailing in circles will keep them busy."
-The sun in the sky would be Nemesis or another mirror matter star at roughly the same location as our sun. In fact, there's a video by Speaker (a LOST insider) that features a dark sun.
Because the moon was trapped by Earth's gravitational field when Earth was forming, it continues to orbit the gravitational center of Earth (which is invisible and can be passed through without much friction).
Every 144 minutes, the moon slows near the ends of the elliptical orbit and gets within 0.2 miles of the surface of Earth (sea level). The rest of the time it is gliding through Earth beneath its crust.
The particle interactions of mirror matter are "right-handed," whereas the particle interactions of our matter are "left-handed."
In the words of Locke in Episode 1: "Two sides: One is light. One is dark." Note which hand each stone is in, and the messianic cross formed by the scars and his right eye. our world - left handed - light.
So the two types of matter don't talk too much, save for a couple of exceptions, the most interesting of which allows the electromagnetic force to be felt across the "worlds" through the sharing of photons.
The thrust of this theory is that through an electromagnetic storm and precarious timing, the passengers of Flight 815 (and others before and after them) have found themselves on an inhabitable moon of mirror matter that is orbiting Earth's center of gravity.
• Entry and Exit • The Orbit • Locations on Earth •
Whenever someone arrives on the island accidentally, they first endure some sort of electrical storm. So we'll assume that anomalous electromagnetic fluctuations while the moon is passing by on Earth are capable of shifting particles.
[To go from the Earth world to the island world, you need to change your matter's handedness from left-handed our world to right-handed the island. If you can pull that off somehow, you suddenly vanish from Earth and appear in the right-handed "mirror matter" world. Suppose this moon thing (although invisible to us on Earth) happens to be a few miles below your plane when you and the plane change to right-handed matter. Poof, you disappear from Earth and appear up in the sky above the island. -answer by MikeNY in comments]
The overall story here is that the moon has been "collecting" people, when their location and the natural fluctuations of the moon and Earth are just right, for a very long time. The people collected throughout history who have survived constitute the Others. We'll see that two of the locations fall on land, in Africa, one in Ethiopia at the southeast outskirts of the old Egyptian Empire, and one in Mozambique -- we can see these as "seed" locations for the Others.
• Locations on Earth that the Moon Slowly Brushes Every 144 Minutes •
Ethiopia & Mozambique as seed locations, Fuji as spot where flight 815 disappeared, and nearby: the destination of Amelia Earhart and Noonan when they disappeared. cool. also offers account for the 'catching' of Yemi's plane, the Black Rock (slave transport ship). -Desmond's sailboat? was also near Fuji, I think.
NOTE: The timeline indicates when and why Naomi arrived, Jack and Juliet were to leave by sub cool - to pass from island to earth, it needs to be when moon is near sea level (every 144 min), the failsafe was triggered, etc. wait what does the triggering of the failsafe have to do with (does it need to be when) the moon is nearing the ocean?
• Smoke Monster •
The island is literally all there is except for the surrounding ocean.
-Given Desmond's report of always returning to the island, it's likely that only the islands we've seen exist on the moon. The rest is covered in water. Juliet: "So they have a boat — sailing in circles will keep them busy."
-The sun in the sky would be Nemesis or another mirror matter star at roughly the same location as our sun. In fact, there's a video by Speaker (a LOST insider) that features a dark sun.
Because the moon was trapped by Earth's gravitational field when Earth was forming, it continues to orbit the gravitational center of Earth (which is invisible and can be passed through without much friction).
Every 144 minutes, the moon slows near the ends of the elliptical orbit and gets within 0.2 miles of the surface of Earth (sea level). The rest of the time it is gliding through Earth beneath its crust.
According to physicist R. Foot, 
"Mirror matter... would be completely invisible to us! If you had a rock made of mirror matter on your hand, it would simply fall through your hand and then through the Earth, and it would end up oscillating about Earth's centre."
(the giant foot? paying homage)
The book of theoretical physics from which I've borrowed this info and which seems to be the key source of info for the show: Shadowlands: Quest for Mirror Matter in the Universe - by Robert Foot .
Mirror matter (aka shadow matter or Alice matter, after Lewis Carroll's works) is a hypothetical form of matter that is not antimatter, though it may account for what we call "dark matter." It is thought to be distributed throughout the universe. While mirror stars and planets have been proposed, we would hardly be aware of their existence without the aid of careful measurements. The key is that "our" matter and mirror matter don't interact all that much, which allows mirror matter to exist in an almost parallel universe, and mirror matter is invisible (or dark or black) to the eye (unless the eye is composed of mirror matter).
"Mirror matter... would be completely invisible to us! If you had a rock made of mirror matter on your hand, it would simply fall through your hand and then through the Earth, and it would end up oscillating about Earth's centre."
(the giant foot? paying homage)
The book of theoretical physics from which I've borrowed this info and which seems to be the key source of info for the show: Shadowlands: Quest for Mirror Matter in the Universe - by Robert Foot .
The particle interactions of mirror matter are "right-handed," whereas the particle interactions of our matter are "left-handed."In the words of Locke in Episode 1: "Two sides: One is light. One is dark." Note which hand each stone is in, and the messianic cross formed by the scars and his right eye. our world - left handed - light.
So the two types of matter don't talk too much, save for a couple of exceptions, the most interesting of which allows the electromagnetic force to be felt across the "worlds" through the sharing of photons.
The thrust of this theory is that through an electromagnetic storm and precarious timing, the passengers of Flight 815 (and others before and after them) have found themselves on an inhabitable moon of mirror matter that is orbiting Earth's center of gravity.
• Entry and Exit • The Orbit • Locations on Earth •
Whenever someone arrives on the island accidentally, they first endure some sort of electrical storm. So we'll assume that anomalous electromagnetic fluctuations while the moon is passing by on Earth are capable of shifting particles.
[To go from the Earth world to the island world, you need to change your matter's handedness from left-handed our world to right-handed the island. If you can pull that off somehow, you suddenly vanish from Earth and appear in the right-handed "mirror matter" world. Suppose this moon thing (although invisible to us on Earth) happens to be a few miles below your plane when you and the plane change to right-handed matter. Poof, you disappear from Earth and appear up in the sky above the island. -answer by MikeNY in comments]
The overall story here is that the moon has been "collecting" people, when their location and the natural fluctuations of the moon and Earth are just right, for a very long time. The people collected throughout history who have survived constitute the Others. We'll see that two of the locations fall on land, in Africa, one in Ethiopia at the southeast outskirts of the old Egyptian Empire, and one in Mozambique -- we can see these as "seed" locations for the Others.
• Locations on Earth that the Moon Slowly Brushes Every 144 Minutes •
Ethiopia & Mozambique as seed locations, Fuji as spot where flight 815 disappeared, and nearby: the destination of Amelia Earhart and Noonan when they disappeared. cool. also offers account for the 'catching' of Yemi's plane, the Black Rock (slave transport ship). -Desmond's sailboat? was also near Fuji, I think.
NOTE: The timeline indicates when and why Naomi arrived, Jack and Juliet were to leave by sub cool - to pass from island to earth, it needs to be when moon is near sea level (every 144 min), the failsafe was triggered, etc. wait what does the triggering of the failsafe have to do with (does it need to be when) the moon is nearing the ocean?
• Smoke Monster •
The smoke is light from our world "kinetically mixing" with photons on the island.
Foot proposes a way for the two types of matter to interact... "kinetic mixing" via the exchange of photons:"If there is a photon-mirror photon transition force, then now an ordinary electron can actually interact with a mirror electron. ... The net effect of the transition force is to make mirror electrons interact slightly with ordinary electrons."
The smoke always takes the shape of clouds of light: faded at the edges and often drifting.
The smoke always takes the shape of clouds of light: faded at the edges and often drifting.
What would produce light at that depth in the ocean (or underground in Africa)?
Answer: Bioluminescent sea creatures, mining equipment in African mines, and subs and little robots like the ones Naomi mentioned. ROVs? = remote operated vehicles, eg mandmade robots on sea floor (?)
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Let's look at the position and orientation of the island at some moments when the smoke monster has appeared (this stuff and the remaining incidents are noted in the timeline above).
- The timeline says about the time the pilot was yanked out of the cockpit, the island was exactly upside down at the bottom of the ocean at the Americas South location. Deep sea subs routinely go on scientific missions to the ocean floor in this region of the ocean and they all have hydraulic arms at their bow that could grab the pilot. So the arm grabs the pilot and then drops him when the moon moves away from the area (taking the ability to interact with the island with it).
- Day 50, before noon. Eko is photographed while Charlie is in the tree. The island happens to be in exactly the same position as it was when the pilot was grabbed. So it makes sense that submersibles might show up again. Because the island is upside-down, a remotely operated vehicle (ROV) would be launched from the bow of a sub and then descend, breaking through the ground of the island.
- Eko's death on Day 72. The timeline says at 11:52 am the island was nearly upright (12°) and briefly overlapping with Earth 0.24 miles below ground in Ethiopia. So here's the best guess for what killed Eko: an excavator-like mining machine with lighting in the cabin and strung throughout its arm.
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