The island could be in the past
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By JacksEyes
- The island could be in the past
- Created: Mar 18, 2008
- Last updated: Aug 14, 2008
- After episode: 3.22: Through The Looking Glass
- Status: Current
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The first peolpe on the island would have no way of knowing that they wer in the past.
— JacksEyes
Time on the island moves at the same rate as that off the island but it takes 31 minutes “extra” to travel to it. However, I have a feeling that the island is in the past.
When the first peolpe arrived there, there would be no way of knowing that. They would nail their calendar on a tree and and give it that days date and nobody would be any the wiser.
The significance would be that on the island you could time-shift forward, as long as you don’t overtake the present” of the outside world. This would be of great value for doing long timescale experiments. do the experiment, nip into the islands future to see the result. Very interesting for Widmore, Hanso and Paik.
On a tropical island that is cut off from the world I guess calendars and the past are pretty foreign ideas. I live in Australia and in the outback of our country, the notion of calendars and dates is one that loses most of its significance. It is timeless land.
In our cities the notion of time is important, time is measured and observed through the changing architectural styles, the cycle of building, demolishing and rebuilding structures allows us to have a sense of past, present and future. The changing of the guard in terms of the people and faces who lead us in all sorts of capacity also provides landmarks that allows us to pinpoint particular moments in time and history.
Let us assume that the island exists in the past, say it is exactly 100 years behind the rest of the world. In the Lost world the island is in 1904 and the rest of the world is 2004. Even if this were the case I can not see how going to the island (1904) would give you any ability to “time shift forward”. On the island the notion of calendars is the same as in the vast red deserts that make up most of Australia, it is irrelevant.
If you can explain how you arrive at your conclusion about how the island being in the past creates this amazing time shifting ability I would like to know.
Say I plant a small oak tree on the island (1904) and then I leave the island for 5 years. So is the tree 5 years old or 105 years old. Well if I then travel back to the island, it will be 1909 and that tree will be five years old. Nothing can be gained from this.
Please elaborate as I am curious as to what you mean.
I gathered from The Constant that there was two days difference. It was the 26th on the Island and the 24th on the Kahana. http://lostpedia.com/wiki/Timeline:December_2004