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Really, I think a lot of mysteries can be explained by electromagnetism. Large charges of electromagnetism can basically affect anything in some ways the human race has never even discovered.
So why does Jacob have powers? Why can MIB turn from darkness to dead people? Maybe we can attribute it to them having spent SO much time on the island...what, 2000 years?? It charges you up with this energy and creates powers that us viewers can't even begin to understand...it'd be like trying to understand technology from year 4000. Electromagnetism seems to have such a powerful and unique effect, and really, no one on the island never really knew everything it can do, which is why we weren't spoon-fed some of the big answers.
1- The Light and the Darkness = positively and negatively charged electromagnetic energy.
2- The Island Protector's Job = To keep positive and negative energy stable and balanced. Jacob didn't want MIB to leave the island because it would unbalance it, as he is made of negative energy.
Furthermore, Jack did its job as island protector by replacing the cork on the hole, which contains massive electromagnetic energy.
3- Time Travel = remember Chang in the Season 5 premiere, he talked about electromagnetism having unique properties to manipulate time. It's advanced technology that people who came to the island can't even understand themselves...so the Dharma Initiative was created to study those unique properties.
4- The Frozen Donkey Wheel = It's basically another cork. By turning it, you release some energy, which can allow you to do anything. We know that MIB digged the well and installed that wheel and we know that he lived with Claudia's boat crew for a long time. I suspect they're from egyptian descendance, discovered the island's unique properties and used them to their advantage to "warp" back to Tunisia.
Also, when the FDW was off its axis, after Ben turned it, that's why the island went crazy and kept warping people in time. It was just energy being released in little increments.
No idea why it's frozen though. :P
5- Jacob off the island = Maybe he used the Frozen Donkey Wheel to warp to Tunisia, and then head to America each time. All this constant release of positive energy (light) is probably what would make the island move ; it'd be attracted to NEGATIVE energy, somewhere else on Earth. Other pockets of it.
6- The incident = If you haven't figured it out by now, Miles was right. When they moved back in time, Jack & co. created the incident themselves, by releasing that bomb. Everything happened like it always happened. In the Dharma tapes, Dr. Chang talks about an incident that pursued the work on electromagnetism. Juliet setting off the bomb WAS the incident he was talking about. So the hatch was built on a pocket of energy to keep its charges the way they should be = perfectly balanced.
7- The Button & the Hatch = Easy. Pushing the button was probably keeping things stable electromagnetism-wise, aka keeping the positive and negative charges equal. When the counter fell to 0 the first time (when just Desmond was there I think), everything was attracted to one spot like a magnet because they were on a pocket of now unbalanced electroMAGNETIC energy. The plane fell apart because it was attracted to it.
8- The Failsafe Key = The Key was always meant to be a last resort for an occupant of the hatch. It basically blows up the hatch and "parachutes you out" of there. (not too clear on that). The hatch blowing up completely releases the energy that was trapped under it, thus making the sky light up. It's just high energy getting released.
9- Why people heal faster on the island = Electromagnetism messes up your "healing cells" and makes them reproduce much faster, thus curing Locke and Rose.
10- Why pregnancies become problematic on the island = I don't know how to explain it, but electromagnetic just isn't a good thing to be around when you're trying to sprout life inside of you. You wouldn't wanna be around, let's say, radiation when you're pregnant, or there could be birth defects. Well, electromagnetism is so powerful that it "defects" the whole pregnancy. Juliet was brought to the island to scientifically study this. She was brought here by Richard, who was influenced by Jacob. So Jacob wanted to know the answer to this question and didn't figure out it was just electromagnetism yet again.
Basically, the island is just a really unique place, charged up to the max with electromagnetic energy, both positive and negative. So everything in the waterfall cave had to do with that. The light is positively charged energy, the darkness is negatively charged energy, and that cork was just keeping them where they belonged. Unleashing the darkness (or negative energy) unbalances everything, in a scientific way, and attracts the entire island towards it. (like magnets or something) The whole island started to shake and fall apart for that reason.
I wish they would've stressed the importance of electromagnetism in the series finale, just to calm the mythology fans. I personally enjoyed the show from beginning to end. The character development was absolutely stellar all throughout, and the little questions that remain probably already were explained...
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Originally Posted by TeeCakes
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