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Daniel Faraday is a physicist and professor who parachuted onto the Island from a helicopter sent by the freighter.

In 1996, Daniel Faraday was a professor at Queen’s College, Oxford University. He was conducting unauthorized experiments involving time travel, and had created a machine that allowed a living creature’s consciousness to travel through time. When visited by Desmond Hume, who claimed to know about the machine, Daniel initially believed that a colleague was playing a practical joke on him, but when Desmond mentioned Eloise, Daniel’s lab rat, he believed Desmond.

In his lab, Daniel tested the numbers Desmond supplied to him. He used the machine on Eloise, enabling her to inerrantly complete a maze that she would not be taught how to run for another hour. Daniel’s blackboard revealed his interest in the Kerr metric as part of his theory of time-transported consciousness.

A being that undergoes time-transported consciousness, according to Daniel’s explanation to Desmond, must identify a constant, something existing in both periods of time travel that can serve as an anchor for the being’s consciousness; failure to find a constant results in instability of consciousness, and the resulting stress can lead to brain aneurysm and eventual death. At some point, Daniel identifies Desmond as his constant, noting so in his journal. (“The Constant”)

Eight years later, Daniel lived in Essex, Massachusetts under the watch of a caretaker. When he saw a news report covering the discovery of the Oceanic Flight 815 wreckage, he became visibly upset, but could not say the reason. (“Confirmed Dead”)

Shortly thereafter, he was recruited to a team, organized by Matthew Abaddon and led by Naomi Dorrit, that was sent to the Island aboard the freighter Kahana. (“Confirmed Dead”)

[from www.lostpedia.com]

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