Only fools are enslaved by space and time

It was while reading about Frank Tipler and his well known physical hypothesis called ‘The Omega Point’ that I had some thoughts. The original idea was from a French guy called Pierre de Chardin (Slight similarity there also to Pierre Chang!), but it was Frank Tipler who has become more associated with it in cosmology. Tipler is also very well associated with time-travel.

The Omega point is synonymous with the ultimate fate of the universe. I could go into all the physics of it right now, but that won’t necessarily translate freely into discussions of LOST, and I don’t want to lose readers either! (feel free though to check it out, just type Omega point or Tipler or Chardin into Google).

A very basic summary of it is: Tipler describes a concerted effort to steer events in the universe, using an ever increasing energy source (the big-crunch-collapsing-universe scenario or conversely baryonic annihilation) to do UNLIMITED information processing.

He proposed that having limitless computational power could allow us to compute exponentially faster than the external universe time which would allow for a literal eternity and even resurrection of the dead. He also associates the concept of ‘God’ as being synonymous with the omega point. (For anyone really interested in this & more, get ‘The Never ending days of being dead’ by Marcus Chown (Science Editor The New Scientist. You won’t be able to put it down!)

Tipler calculated and figured out that the laws of physics permit a future universe where the energy available grows faster than the universe can shrink, so by thinking faster & faster, you can do more and more in less time. So for a civilisation which manages to merge it’s consciousness with such computers, not only could you live for a very very long time, but the world you lived in would be the equivalent of reaching Zen, or enlightenment (Namaste everybody!)because the consciousnesses/infinite information symbiosis would give you experiences far removed from lesser mortals. (Only fools are enslaved by time and space). It may not necessarily be a computer in LOST, but I have a feeling that some huge power was used to allow a civilisation to exist outside of the body. Some secret realm for the privileged. A kind of microcosm of the Island, itself a secret realm for the privileged.

So (finally! LOL!) my idea! (but not before an apt quote from T.S.Eliot! the love song of J.Alfred Prucock)

Time yet for a hundred decisions, indecisions, and for a hundred visions & revisions before the taking of toast and tea right! So my idea is that some civilisation (not sure if past or future yet) used the LIMITLESS energy that Dr.Chang spoke of in the Orchid, to facilitate entry to a Tipler-like Zen-existence.

The temple is the place where either the ‘hardware’ or some type of portal which was used to facilitate this transition and Smokey is the guardian and THIS is what it protects. It’s no good being all zen’d up in an environment if anyone can come along and interfere or even destroy it, so you would need security.

This also reminds me of the films Mission to Mars, where a huge swirling ‘sand-monster’ in the shape of a moving vortex kills what it perceives to be invaders, it was security system just like Cerberus, and in ‘Ghosts of Mars’ where the civilisation had disembodied their minds, and hidden their civilisation; when the people from earth came and started digging they unleashed these minds which took the form of red-smoke, then possessed the peoples minds and used their bodies to kill other humans. Another security system protecting something. What eludes me is the specific reason the security system uses in its decisions. In Mission to mars they trigger the security sand-monster by conducting a radar scan on the structure it protects, the monster took this as hostile and so killed them. The right thing they eventually found out was to input a coded message which showed their DNA. In ghost of mars, the security system is triggered when the humans dig to deep (like the orchid) and disturb the area where the disembodied minds are. Two different security systems, but both protecting ancient civilizations.

The fact that smoke is able to ‘download’ or read people’s minds and thoughts and further, act upon them, reinforces this all to me; I believe smokey is not just a guardian, but an interactive tool of this ancient civilisation, able to convey all necessary information to some head-figure (perhaps three!) inside their Zen-simulation, and is in turn guided by them. I believe the ‘island’ is powered by an Omnium-like substance (Omnium is a substance described in The Third Policeman, a book Desmond was reading in the hatch, as the ‘the fundamental energy of the universe’; a book which also includes an underground chamber called ‘Eternity,’ where time stands still and mysterious numbers which are devoutly recorded!), which allows the manipulation of mind over matter. I believe electromagentism and an omnium-like substance combine to create the entity known as smokey. It allows the thoughts of disemobied minds to create real solid objects for whetever purpose they desire.

In Ghosts of Mars, the human’s minds & bodies were possessed by the original inhabitants, & I think something like this is DEFINITELY going on with smokey, especially after what we saw with Robert & co. It’s almost Pet-cemetary-ish what happened to Robert, and no doubt to Brennan and Lacombe i.e. whatever comes back is NOT good.

One can’t just enter this place (the portal that is, not the temple building itself) unless one has become as truly ‘enlightened’ as is necessary. (I wonder if that room 23 video was like the other’s orientation video as a step on the path to enlightenment?) The island is the PERFECT place for this, as Damon Lindelof himself stated that ‘The Island is like the worst A.A meeting you could ever imagine as it makes you confront your past over and over’. Redemption is the key to Lost, for all our characters, we all know that.

I think the Island gives people a chance that if they repent enough, make good on their bads, that they have a chance of sharing in this ‘one true way’ of existing which is free from convention physical and temporal bounds.

Jacob is still a huge mystery to me, but I will take a guess here, based on my line of thinking in this theory that he is possibly either:

1) one of the ‘enlightened’ who has fallen from grace, or could even be
2) one of the ‘unenlightened’ (Jack for example) who somehow goes through the Zen portal or somehow interferes with the secret realm and pays for it.
3) one of the ‘enlightened’ who was disastrously affected by the incident and is now trapped in some nether-existence i.e. existing neither in the Zen-simulation nor in conventional time.

All comments welcomed.