Island Location, Wormholes, and Magnetism

[jerseyguy]

There's a good handful of locations that do not fit into this theory whatsoever. Just a few....Tallahassee, Ayer's Rock in Australia, Sri Lanka. But really, because they are important points in the show, that doesn't mean they are teleport points.

I have thought about the Cooper situation though. It's a good question. How'd he get to the island? My guess is by sub. In "The Man from Tallahassee", we see Cooper on the island. Later in the epsiode, the sub blows up. So the sub is quite possible since it was operational at the time. For it to fit my theory, it would only require Mr Friendly or someone else to get Cooper to Portland.

[Dexter Stratton]

Originally Posted by jerseyguy

I have thought about the Cooper situation though. It's a good question. How'd he get to the island? My guess is by sub. In "The Man from Tallahassee", we see Cooper on the island. Later in the epsiode, the sub blows up. So the sub is quite possible since it was operational at the time. For it to fit my theory, it would only require Mr Friendly or someone else to get Cooper to Portland.

There's something up with Cooper. According to the Wiki timeline, he gets in his car crash "after the discovery of the 815 wreckage" which is between Day 74 and Day 78. Cooper is on the Island Day 81. That's a maximum of seven days, and a minimum of three. This suggests something other than ordinary submarine travel.

[igge]

Originally Posted by jerseyguy

In "The Man from Tallahassee", we see Cooper on the island. Later in the epsiode, the sub blows up. So the sub is quite possible since it was operational at the time. For it to fit my theory, it would only require Mr Friendly or someone else to get Cooper to Portland.

Havn't watched season 3 in a while, but I'm quite sure the sub is blown up before we are introduced to Cooper? Isn't blowing up the sub the reason Locke gets caught, when he's walking away from it? And after being captured, he's chained to some pipe, and then after a while, Ben leads him to a room where Cooper is held?

[jerseyguy]

Originally Posted by Dexter Stratton

There's something up with Cooper. According to the Wiki timeline, he gets in his car crash "after the discovery of the 815 wreckage" which is between Day 74 and Day 78. Cooper is on the Island Day 81. That's a maximum of seven days, and a minimum of three. This suggests something other than ordinary submarine travel.

exactly. It makes for a plausible situation where Cooper crashes (possibly in an attempt by Mr. Friendly to procure him?), is taken by force to Portland, then teleported (via the sub) to the island in only a few days.

Originally Posted by igge

Havn't watched season 3 in a while, but I'm quite sure the sub is blown up before we are introduced to Cooper? Isn't blowing up the sub the reason Locke gets caught, when he's walking away from it? And after being captured, he's chained to some pipe, and then after a while, Ben leads him to a room where Cooper is held?

It's all in the same episode. Reasonable to think Cooper was in the closet for a short while until they showed him to Locke.

[lostaddict12]

I definitely think that the island is at the antipodal location to Tunisia, and Ben ended up on the other end when he moved the island. As for the polar bear Charlotte found, I agree with the polar bears moving the island theory, for now at least.

My brother had this crazy theory about the Nigerian plane somehow ending up somewhere over Tunisia and that's how it got "teleported" to the island. I think that's a little far-fetched, but you never know.

I always thought the vile vortices idea was pretty cool. may have to do with where the island moves, or special locations. I looked at a map of them again though, and most of them don't seem to have much significance.

[Jamesz]

Possible major anagram, might be a stretch (& in french, which I'm not very familiar with):

Doctor Leslie Arzt...

Iles Crozet La Dort (sleeps)
or
Iles Crozet La Tord (twists)

the grammar seems off, but surely there are others in french I'm sure, just don't know the language well enough, anyone care to help? It seems like a weird enough name to merit an anagram...but this would be absolutely huge, and would seem to definitively confirm this straight line theory....

[jksl]

I like your theory a lot. I just read it right now. I was just wondering though, what is your take on what was displayed on Ms. Hawking's computer? It seemed like the pendulum marked off at least 9 points around the Indian and Pacific Oceans that don't lie on the magnetic highway. Any clue was to what those may indicate?

[jerseyguy]

Originally Posted by jksl

I like your theory a lot. I just read it right now. I was just wondering though, what is your take on what was displayed on Ms. Hawking's computer? It seemed like the pendulum marked off at least 9 points around the Indian and Pacific Oceans that don't lie on the magnetic highway. Any clue was to what those may indicate?

Thus far, I really don't have a take on them.

The marks on Mrs Hawking's terminal were sort of what I was waiting for (i.e., SOMETHING, ANYTHING to give us some geographic references). Unfortunately for this theory, the points don't seem to have any coorelation to a "magnetic axis".

I wouldn't yet call this theory "BUSTED", until we at least get some confirmation of 1 other guaranteed location that isn't on this axis. But it would appear my take on "the safe bearing" is at least partially wrong (since Faraday stated it was based on relative time, not island position). So all in all...it's not looking good.
For now, I've stopped editing the theory and will just let it lie for now, even though some of it no longer makes sense.

Back to Mrs Hawking's terminal....Because I had this theory hangin around, I did spend quite a bit of time examining her plotted points. I found a handful of intresting tidbits about specific points. But I really couldn't figure out anything substantial. And neither myself nor anyone else that I have seen has figured anything out that shows a common bond between those points.
For the moment, seems we're all stumped.