The bomb didnt go off, here is why…
This is an atomic detonation below ground..
http://www.facebook.com/ext/share.php?sid=84649777633&h=543Zx&u=EegQn&ref=mf
This is what it would have looked like if ALL of jughead exploded…
http://www.facebook.com/ext/share.php?sid=95136529457&h=0lxGQ&u=yYJ2A&ref=mf
The videos speak for themselves, but if the bomb went off everyone is dead, and at the very least they never went back to The Swan to finish construction. If the bomb did somehow neutralise the EMP, and they cancelled each other out, I want a pretty good explanation otherwise I might as well just become a shipper and start rooting for Skate or some rubbish 🙁
If the bomb went off then it would set up the grandfather paradox in science fiction time travel. The grandfather paradox is about what would happen if you went back in time and tried to kill your grandfather before your father was born. Then you would not be born and could not then kill grandfather.
Their are two main ways to resolve the paradox. the first is whan Daniel was saying “whatever happened happended.” So if you tried to kill your grandfather something would happen to interfere with your plan.
The second way to deal with the paradox is the idea that if you kill your grandfather (or blow up the island before rhe island cauxed you to crash) you would be creating a parallel universe. So everyone would die on the island in the universe we were watching. But their would be an alternate universe in which the losties never crashed on the island in the first place. This is what Jack wants. He see’s it as a reset.
I think their is a good chance that this is what we will see next season. In the alternate universe Jacob would still be alive too because Locke nevefr came to the island. They will play out their manipulation of the losties again.
This may in fact mean a never ending time loop because the time line where the losties never go back in time will always lead to the island causing the plane to crash and the time line where the plane crashes will lead to their going back in time.
Maybe Jacob and his nemesis have been playing in this time loop over and over again. Thus “It always ends the same…”
the only problem I have with that concept is that if jacob and the nemesis are so used to the unending repetitiveness of this process, such that they’ve been witnessing if not causing this looping to occur and reoccur for such an extensive period of time, then why would we (and jacob and the nemesis) get caught up now in a loop with the flight 815 characters… why didn’t they get caught in one of the earlier “loops” (such as those they referred to during the apparently mid eighteenth century beach scene with the black rock’s arrival) and simply cause one of those earlier sets of people to keep rewinding so to speak? if they didn’t cause the earlier island visitors to continually go through hell, then travel back and revisit the same before traveling back again and again, then why would they now do so with the flight 815 characters? if anything, the familiarity that jacob and the nemesis have with the looping seems more to do with the pattern that the different island visitors during different historical periods all seem to adhere to (arrival, war, destruction, etc.).
My thought is that the bomb didn’t go off, but before Juliet could get it to explode (or before she died) someone turned the FDW and jumped time. Therefore, that bomb never triggered until Desmond turned the key under The Swan. It was still there and was wired in as the failsafe device in case the button press was missed. If the bomb did go off, it would enact that grandfather paradox meaning that the entire chain of events never happened, which would put them back on the island as though the bomb never went off in the first place. As far as a time loop, MIB was really commenting on how violent, hostile, and predictable we as human beings are more so than that it is just a repeating loop of the same events. Just to tie it in, it also explains why Richard is still alive: My guess is that he was the first one to keep peace when he came to the island. Notice how he is always trying to stop people from fighting? That’s his job now because he did it when he first came to the island on the Black Rock. His reward was eternal life, so that he could help keep peace on the island at all costs.