Pauli Effect
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By dannyBOONE
- Pauli Effect
- Created: Apr 1, 2008
- Last updated: Aug 14, 2008
- After episode: 3.22: Through The Looking Glass
- Status: Current
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accidentally breaking experimental equipment.
— dannyBOONE
I’m currently reading a book on Sychronicity and came across the Pauli effect, which I thought may have some relevance to Lost. I’m only in the first chapter, so don’t expect too much, I’m barely following along now. My hope is one of you other Losties can run with this idea. (If this isn’t new, sorry, but the search function didn’t find anything about this.)
Anyway, the following is an excerpt from Wikipedia about the Pauli Effect:
“Lacking skill and experience in experimental work, many theorists have earned a reputation for accidentally breaking experimental equipment. Pauli was exceptional in this regard: it was said that he was such a good theorist that any experiments would self-destruct simply due to his presence. For fear of the Pauli effect, the German-American experimental physicist Otto Stern banned Pauli from his laboratory despite their friendship.
An incident occurred in a physics laboratory at the University of Göttingen. An expensive measuring device, for no apparent reason, suddenly stopped working. Obviously, the head of the research group concluded, they had fallen victim to the Pauli effect; but, as someone countered, Pauli was on his way to Zurich, so that was not possible. When this story was related to Pauli, though, Pauli recalled that at that moment he had indeed been in Göttingen — waiting for a connection at the train station.”
I have two thought that may relate to Lost (feel free to add your own). First was when Micheal tried to kill himself and the gun did not fire. I still don’t know enough about sychronicity to flesh this out, but it seems there may be a correlation.
The other possible connection was Jacob’s hatred of technology. Perhaps this hatred generates into a ‘macro-psychokinetic’ (again, from wikipedia) force that tampers with whatever technology he’s around? Perhaps this is why Ben seems to have trapped and isolated Jacob?
There are alot of inconsistencies with this, especially with the Jacob connection, but I thought it worth mentioning. Can you think of any connections that may involve the Pauli Effect?
Key characters
| Short Name | Full Name | Episodes | Theories |
|---|---|---|---|
| Michael | Michael Dawson | 2.22, 1.14, 4.8 | 301 |
my cousin too brakes everything he touches.. seriously.. but hes an idiot.. not a physicst
in lost the island is preventing any changes being made to the past…so that the “right” future might happen..
so thats why michael can’t kill himself…cos the island “needs” him in the future..
and Jacob…
jacob is some kind of ghost who obviously hates technology….
well… Miles is a ghostbuster and if you remember…hes busting ghosts with that “hitech” thing that looks like a vacuum cleaner…
so maybe thats why jacob hates technology… cos he knows he might get BUSTED with it
so +1 for effort but it doesn’t have to do with lost in my opinion
Maybe but Hurley in his flashbacks seemed to have a bit of a Pauli effect. He stands near his grandfather who then dies, he goes to see his financial adviser and someone falls off the building, even when he goes to the mental imstitute for a visit, he seems aware of his Pauli effect and freaks out about what could happen to the guy on the ladder just because he is in the building. Maybe the numbers are not cursed and that Hurley was suffering from the Pauli effect, or the Hurley effect!!!
+1 dB. Below are a couple of excellent theories on Synchronicity posted by ProfO
http://www.lost-theories.com/theories/2007/apr/27/even-more-synchronicity/
http://www.lost-theories.com/theories/2006/dec/01/b-f-skinner-and-carl-jung/
Great theory and story! +1
Synchronicity or coincidence? that is the question! (for me anyway)
If anyone were exhibiting a Pauli effect, flashback Hurley certainly fits that bill. For a while there he thought he was responsible for bringing down Oceanic 815!